Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday February 8, 2022: Boogie Men and Boogie Women

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/595/55121.html

Theme: Boogie Men and Boogie Women

Diana Braithwaite & Chris Whiteley- Boogie Train
Scrap Metal Blues (Electro-Fi)

Big Joe Turner- Boogie Woogie Country Girl
Flip, Flop and Fly 1951-1955 (Rev-Ola)
Willie Dixon- Big 3 Boogie
The Big Three Trio (Columbia)
Jay McShann- The Fish Fry Boogie
Goin’ to Kansas City (Stony Plain)
Jimmy Rushing- Boogie Woogie (I May Be Wrong)
Do You Wanna Jump, Children? 1937-1946 (Jasmine)
Louis Jordan- Choo Choo Ch’Boogie
The Rock ‘n’ Roll Years 1955-1958 (Jasmine)

Lawrence Lebo- Cowboy Swinging Boogie Woogie
Don’t Call Her Larry, Volume 3: American Roots (On the Air)
Driftin’ Doug- Alberta Boogie
A Legend in His Grime (Driftin’ Doug)
Brenda Lewis- Cow Cow Boogie
Far & Near (Brenda Lewis)

The Bebop Cowboys- Cadillac Boogie
Some Kind of Fantasy (Bebop Cowboys)

Mike Regenstreif & Jesse Winchester (2006)

Jesse Winchester- Never Forget to Boogie
A Reasonable Amount of Trouble (Appleseed)
The Andrews Sisters- Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
Ultimate Edition (Nostalgic Melody Music Production)
Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer with Bill Kirchen- Guitar Boogie
Voice on the Wind (Rounder)
Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen - The Boogie Man Boogie
Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen (Wounded Bird)

Stick McGhee- House Warmin’ Boogie
New York Blues and R&B (JSP)
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- You Bring Out the Boogie In Me
Sonny & Brownie (A&M)
Lil Hardin Armstrong- Boogie Me
Chicago: The Living Legends (Riverside)
Jesse Fuller- Memphis Boogie
Jazz, Folk Songs, Spirituals & Blues (Good Time Jazz)

Michael Jerome Browne- Boogie Chillen
Double (Borealis)
Susie Arioli Swing Band featuring Jordan Officer- Jordan’s Boogie
Pennies from Heaven (Justin Time)
Little Miss Higgins- Broadcast Boogie
Two Nights in March (L.M.H. Music)
Sue Foley- Boogie Real Low
Pinky’s Blues (Stony Plain)

Cab Calloway- The Calloway Boogie
Are You Hep to the Jive? (Columbia/Legacy)
Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers- Roll the Boogie
Everybody’s Talkin’ ‘Bout Miss Thing (Fat Note)
Brother John Sellers- Dorothea Boogie
Brother John Sellers Sings Blues and Folk Songs (Vanguard)
Big Mama Thornton- Mischievous Boogie
The Story of My Blues: The Complete Singles As and Bs 1951-1961 (Jasmine)

Little Brother Montgomery- Pinetop’s Boogie Woogie
Classic Piano Blues from Smithsonian Folkways (Smithsonian Folkways)

Next week: Part 1 – Remembering Norma Waterson and Tony Barrand; Part 2 – Love Songs

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--Mike Regenstreif

Deborah Robins – Lone Journey

DEBORAH ROBINS

Lone Journey

Zippety Whippet Music

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On Lone Journey, Deborah Robins offers a set of 23 lovingly performed traditional folksongs and composed songs that have mostly entered the folk tradition – sung and played front porch or kitchen table style – mostly solo or with occasional backup from Larry Hanks, her husband and usual performing partner.

Deborah has a lovely voice and accompanies herself solidly on nylon-string guitar and banjo-guitar (a banjo head with a guitar neck and strings so it essentially sounds like a banjo but plays like a guitar).

Among my favorite tracks on this generous set are a pretty version of “Tell Old Bill” (which I can’t listen to without remembering my late friend Dave Van Ronk); “Goodbye to My Stepstone,” a coming-of-age song sung from the perspective of a young person leaving home to make his or her own way in the world; “Take It Slow and Easy,” one of Jesse Fuller’s goodtime blues songs featuring Larry playing some fine Lead Belly-style 12-string guitar; and a sprightly version of “Dance, Boatman, Dance,” an infectious riverboat song learned from Bob Gibson.

Lone Journey is a nice reminder of the simple joys of traditional folk music.

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David Bromberg – Archive Recordings Volume One; David Bromberg in Canada

DAVID BROMBERG
Archive Recordings Volume One 
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After racking up some impressive credentials as an A-list sideman on stage and recordings for the likes of Bob Dylan, Jerry Jeff Walker, Tom Paxton, Rosalie Sorrels and countless others, David Bromberg first emerged as a solo artist and then a band leader right about the same time I started spending so much of my time in coffee houses listening to folk music. I recall seeing David play at the Back Door Coffee House in Montreal circa 1970 or ’71 and picking up his self-titled debut LP not too much later.

Through the ‘70s and into the ‘80s, David was one of the major touring and recording artists on the folk scene (and beyond) both as a solo artist and band leader with one of the most eclectic repertoires of the day. Eventually, he tired of touring and became a student of violin making and a musical instrument dealer while only rarely performing and recording. In 2007, he returned with his first new album in 17 years – Try Me One More Time (Appleseed) which I rated 4-stars in my Montreal Gazette review – and began to tour again.

With Archive Recordings Volume One, David has also begun to release some of the hundreds of live, radio show and demo recordings he’s kept from that prolific decade of 1969 to ’79. Half of the 12 tracks here are solo performances and half feature sidemen or versions of the David Bromberg Band. Some of them are alternate versions of songs from his albums of the time, a few, I think, he’s never before released. Almost all feature David’s often brilliant acoustic guitar playing.

The album begins with a solo version of “Cannonball” (AKA “Cannonball Blues” or “Solid Gone”) recorded in 1975 on FolkScene, the legendary Los Angeles radio show hosted by my friends Roz and (the late) Howard Larmon. It’s an absolute delight to hear David’s Watson-worthy flatpicking on the song.

Among the other solo highlights are his guitar arrangements of the fiddle tune “Salt Creek” and a five-tune medley that includes “Devil’s Dream”; and his wonderful arrangement of Blind Willie McTell’s “Statesboro Blues” that’s paired with Luke Jordan’s “Church Bell Blues.” “Statesboro” is one of my favorite blues songs and David’s official version on Wanted Dead or Alive was always one of my favorite versions.

Among my favorite band tracks is the hilarious “Jelly Jaw Joe,” a raggy tune on which David goes off on one of his legendary and very witty tangents while the band seems to be having tons of fun. The song seems like the kind of thing Pink Anderson or Jesse Fuller might have written but I don’t recognize it – so I’m guessing it might be something David himself came up with in the old medicine show style.

Other favorites among the band tracks are Bessie Smith’s “Send Me to the ‘Lectric Chair,” which features a great New Orleans-style horn arrangement, and a version of “Wheel Hoss,” the Bill Monroe tune, that has David and the always-incredible Andy Statman going crazy on twin mandolins while Peter Ecklund – who played trumpet on “‘Lectric Chair” and several other tracks – switches to guitar.

I’m looking forward to hearing more from David’s archives.

David Bromberg in Canada this coming week

David will be here in the area this coming week for some solo concerts on Thursday, October 30 at Hugh’s Room in Toronto; Friday, October 31 at the Neat Coffeeshop in Burnstown; Saturday, November 1 at Le Petit Campus in Montreal; and Sunday, November 2 at the Isabel in Kingston.

I haven’t seen David perform live in more than 30 years so I’m going to hightail it into Montreal to see the show there.

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