Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – August 26, 2025: Songs of August & Highway 61 Revisited – Revisited

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU, 93.1 FM, in Ottawa on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5 pm (Eastern time) and is also available 24/7 for on-demand streaming.

This episode of Stranger Songs was recorded and can be streamed on-demand, now or anytime, by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/71687.html

Themes: Part 1 – Songs of August; Part 2 – Highway 61 Revisited – Revisited.

Part 1 – Songs of August

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer with Chao Tran- August Flower

From China to Appalachia (Community Music)

Emily Triggs- Beautiful August

The Great Escape (Emily Triggs)

Jay Linden- August Night

Satchel (Jay Linden)

The Lucky Sisters- On an August Night

So Lucky (Patio)

Preservation Hall Jazz Band- August Nights

That’s It (Legacy)

Joan Baez- The 33rd of August

Blessed Are (Vanguard)

Jeanie Stahl- The August of Our Years

Mysteries (Daring)

Benny Carter- August Moon

Aspects (United Artists)

Part 2 – Highway 61 Revisited – Revisited.

It was 60 years ago, on August 30, 1965, that Bob Dylan released his monumental folk-rock album, Highway 61 Revisited.

Rory Block- Like a Rolling Stone

Positively 4th Street: A Tribute to Bob Dylan (Stony Plain)

Tim O’Brien- Tombstone Blues

Red On Blonde (Sugar Hill)

Ian Hanchet- It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry

Dealin’ from the Bottom (of My Heart) (Ian Hanchet)

Bob Dylan- From a Buick 6

Highway 61 Revisited (Columbia)

Ben Sidran- Ballad of a Thin Man

Dylan Different (Bonsai)

Emma Swift- Queen Jane Approximately

Blonde on the Tracks (Tiny Ghost/CRS)

Ray Benson- Highway 61 Revisited

Swingin’ and Skankin’ (Primary Wave Music)

Tom Russell & Joe Ely- Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues

Folk Hotel (Frontera)

Bill Camplin- Desolation Row

Bob Dylan Project One (Bill Camplin)

Bob Dylan recorded versions of the next three songs during the sessions for Highway 61 Revisited but did not include them on the album.

Lucinda Williams- Positively 4th Street

The Village: A Celebration of the Music of Greenwich Village (429)

Bob Dylan & The Hawks- Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window (single version)

Side Tracks (Columbia/Legacy)

Bob Dylan- Sitting On a Barbed Wire Fence

The Best of the Cutting Edge 1965-1966 (Columbia/Legacy)

Next week: Crazy Blues and Other Crazy Songs.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – March 25, 2025: Songs of Laura Nyro; Bringing It All Back Home Revisited

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU, 93.1 FM, in Ottawa on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5 pm (Eastern time) and is also available 24/7 for on-demand streaming.

This episode of Stranger Songs was recorded and can be streamed on-demand, now or anytime, by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/69511.html

Themes: Part 1 – Songs of Laura Nyro (1947-1997); Part 2 – Bringing It All Back Home Revisited.

Part 1 – Songs of Laura Nyro (1947-1997)

Laura Nyro – who died of ovarian cancer in 1997 at age 49 – was a singer-songwriter from New York City who made a number of fine albums and whose songs were also done by artists from a variety of genres of music.

Laura Nyro- Eli’s Comin ‘

Eli and the Thirteenth Confession (Columbia/Legacy)

Darol Anger & Emy Phelps- Stoney End

Music of Our People (Darol Anger & Emy Phelps)

Laura Love- Stoned Soul Picnic

Fourteen Days (Zoë)

Laura Nyro- Wedding Bell Blues

More Than a New Discovery (Columbia)

David Clayton-Thomas- And When I Die

In Concert: A Musical Biography (Justin Time)

Billy Childs, Esperanza Spalding & Wayne Shorter- Upstairs by a Chinese Lamp

Map to the Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro (Sony Masterworks)

Laura Nyro- Save the Country

New York Tendaberry (Columbia/Legacy)

Part 2 – Bringing It All Back Home Revisited

Bob Dylan’s Bringing It All Back Home was released 60 years ago this week on March 22, 1965. Even before Highway 61 Revisited, which came out later in 1965, Bringing It All Back Home marked Dylan’s first embrace of electric folk rock.

Dave Van Ronk- Subterranean Homesick Blues

To All My Friends in Far-Flung Places (Gazell)

The Flatlanders- She Belongs to Me

Treasure of Love (Rack ‘Em)

Ian Hanchet- Maggie’s Farm

Dealin’ from the Bottom (of My Heart) (Ian Hanchet)

Eliza Gilkyson- Love Minus Zero/No Limit

A Nod to Bob (Red House)

Queens of the Stone Age- Outlaw Blues

Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan (Amnesty International)

Ben Sidran- On the Road Again

Dylan Different (Bonsai)

Taj Mahal & The Phantom Blues Band- Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream

Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan (Amnesty International)

Jimmy LaFave- Mr. Tambourine Man

Trail Three (Music Road)

Julie Felix- Gates of Eden

Starry Eyed and Laughing… Songs by Bob Dylan (Remarkable)

The Duhks- It’s All Right, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)

The Village: A Celebration of the Music of Greenwich Village (429)

Crowes Pasture- It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue

Edge of America (Crowes Pasture)

An outtake from Bringing It All Back Home became the title song of an album released in 1965 by Joan Baez and one of her signature songs.

Joan Baez- Farewell, Angelina

Farewell, Angelina (Vanguard)

Next week: Part 1 – Remembering Jesse Colin Young (1941-2025); Part 2 – April Fools.

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday May 22, 2021

Saturday Morning is an eclectic roots-oriented program on CKCU in Ottawa heard live on Saturday mornings from 7 until 10 am (Eastern time) and then available for on-demand streaming. I am one of the four rotating hosts of Saturday Morning and base my programming on the Folk Roots/Folk Branches format I developed at CKUT in Montreal.

CKCU can be heard live at 93.1 FM in Ottawa and https://www.ckcufm.com/ on the web.

This episode of Saturday Morning was prerecorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/52060.html

Theme: The Times They Are A-Changin’: A Nod to Bob Dylan at 80, Part 2. Bob Dylan, arguably, the most important and influential songwriter ever, will turn 80 on May 24 and this is the second of three shows I will present on CKCU in the week surrounding Dylan’s 80th.

Part 1 aired on the May 18 edition of Stranger Songs and can be streamed on-demand at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/51999.html

Part 3 will be on the May 25 edition of Stranger Songs and can be streamed on-demand at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/52102.html

Visit https://frfb.blogspot.com/2021/05/bob-dylan-at-80.html to read my essay, “Bob Dylan at 80.”

Eric Bibb- The Times They Are A-Changin’
Deeper in the Well (Stony Plain)

Hans Theessink- Ballad of Hollis Brown
Wishing Well (Blue Groove)
Julian Fauth- Blowin’ in the Wind
The Weak and the Wicked, the Hard and the Strong (Electro-Fi)
Odetta- Paths of Victory
Odetta Sings Dylan (RCA)
Bob Dylan- Mr. Tambourine Man
The Real Royal Albert Hall 1966 Concert! (Columbia/Legacy)

Marc Nerenberg- Love Minus Zero/No Limit
Unreleased track – used with permission
Ken Tizzard & Friends- Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
All Together Now (Ken Tizzard) NR
Lucy Kaplansky- It Ain’t Me, Babe
A Nod to Bob (Red House)
Bob Jensen- Tomorrow is a Long Time
For the Sake of the Song (Bob Jensen) NR
Bob Dylan- To Ramona
Another Side of Bob Dylan (Columbia/Legacy)

Mike Regenstreif & Joan Baez (2003)

Joan Baez- Farewell, Angelina
Farewell, Angelina (Vanguard)
Andy Cohen- Bob Dylan’s Dream
Tryin’ to Get Home (Earwig)

Bob Dylan & Earl Scruggs- Nashville Skyline Rag
Travelin’ Thru: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 15, 1967-1969 (Columbia/Legacy)

Tom Russell- John Wesley Harding
Tom Russell EP (HighTone)
Bob Dylan- As I Went Out One Morning
John Wesley Harding (Columbia/Legacy)
Jessica Rhaye & The Ramshackle Parade- I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine
Just Like a Woman: Songs of Bob Dylan (Jessica Rhaye)
Stephen Barry & Andrew Cowan- All Along the Watchtower
Duo (Bros)
Jerry Garcia & David Grisman- The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest
Been All Around This World (Acoustic Disc)

Judy Collins- Farewell
Judy Collins 3 & 4 (Wildflower)
Jimmy LaFave- Red River Shore
Depending on the Distance (Music Road)

Sneezy Waters & His Very Fine Band- Visions of Johanna
Live (Sneezy Waters)
Cliff Eberhardt- I Want You
A Nod to Bob (Red House)
Bob Dylan- Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
Blonde on Blonde (Columbia/Legacy)
John Gorka- Just Like a Woman
A Nod to Bob 2 (Red House)

The Band- This Wheel’s On Fire
Music from Big Pink (Capitol)
Ian & Sylvia- Tears of Rage
Long Long Time (Vanguard)
Peter, Paul & Mary- Too Much of Nothing
Late Again (Warner Bros.)
Suzzy & Maggie Roche- Clothes Line Saga
A Nod to Bob (Red House)
Maria Muldaur- You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere
Heart of Mine: Love Songs of Bob Dylan (Telarc)

Ian Hanchet- If Not for You
Dealin’ from the Bottom (of My Heart) (Ian Hanchet)
Caroline Doctorow- Time Passes Slowly
Dreaming in Vinyl (Narrow Lane)
Dave's True Story- If Dogs Run Free
Simple Twist of Fate: DTS Does Dylan (BePop Records)
Bob Dylan- New Morning
New Morning (Columbia/Legacy)
Jennifer Warnes- Sign On the Window
Shot Through the Heart (Arista)

Martin Simpson- Blind Willie McTell
Vagrant Stanzas (Topic)
Happy Traum- Crash on the Levee (Down in the Flood)
Just for the Love of It (Lark’s Nest Music)
Joan Osborne- High Water (For Charlie Patton)
Songs of Bob Dylan (Womanly Hips Music)
Bob Dylan- The Levee’s Gonna Break
Modern Times (Columbia/Legacy)

Tom Northcott- Girl of the North Country
Sunny Goodge Street: The Warner Bros. Recordings (Wounded Bird)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on June 19. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

Find me on Twitter. www.twitter.com/mikeregenstreif

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--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday May 18, 2021

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU in Ottawa on Tuesday afternoons from 3:30 until 5 pm (Eastern time) and is also available 24/7 for on-demand streaming.

CKCU can be heard live at 93.1 FM in Ottawa and https://www.ckcufm.com/ on the web.

This episode of Stranger Songs was prerecorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/51999.html

Theme: The Times They Are A-Changin’: A Nod to Bob Dylan at 80, Part 1. Bob Dylan, arguably, the most important and influential songwriter ever, will turn 80 on May 24 and this is the first of three shows I will present on CKCU in the week surrounding Dylan’s 80th. 

Part 2 will air on the May 22 edition of the Saturday Morning show and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/52060.html

Part 3 will be on the May 25 edition of Stranger Songs and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/52102.html

Visit https://frfb.blogspot.com/2021/05/bob-dylan-at-80.html to read my essay, “Bob Dylan at 80.”

Finest KInd- The Times They Are A-Changin’
Silks & Spices (Fallen Angle)

Dave Van Ronk- Song to Woody
Somebody Else, Not Me (Philo)
Jenny Whiteley- Oxford Town
The Original Jenny Whiteley (Black Hen)
Sneezy Waters & His Very Fine Band- When the Ship Comes In
Live (Sneezy Waters)
Eliza Gilkyson- A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
2020 (Red House)
Bob Dylan- The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
The Times They Are A-Changin’ (Columbia/Legacy)

Bettye LaVette- Mama, You Been On My Mind
Things Have Changed (Verve)
Penny Lang- One Too Many Mornings
Stone + Sand + Sea + Sky (Borealis)
Bob Dylan- She Belongs to Me
Bringing It All Back Home (Columbia/Legacy)

Mike Regenstreif & Jimmy LaFave (2017)

Jane Lewis- I Shall Be Released
Stay with Me (Jane Lewis)
Jimmy LaFave- My Back Pages
Peace Town (Music Road)
The Brothers & Sisters- Chimes of Freedom
Dylan’s Gospel (Columbia)
Bob Dylan- Restless Farewell
The Times They Are A-Changin’ (Columbia/Legacy)

Ian Hanchet- Ballad of a Thin Man
Dealin’ from the Bottom (of My Heart) (Ian Hanchet)
Tom Russell & Joe Ely- Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
Folk Hotel (Frontera)
Bill Camplin- Desolation Row
Bob Dylan Project One (Bill Camplin)

Duke Ellington- Blowin’ in the Wind
Ellington ’65 (Reprise)

Next week – A Nod to Bob Dylan at 80, Part 3 (A Nod to Bob Dylan at 80, Part 2 will be heard on the Saturday Morning show on May 22)

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--Mike Regenstreif