Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday March 23, 2024

Saturday Morning is an eclectic roots-oriented program on CKCU, 93.1 FM, in Ottawa on Saturday mornings from 7 until 10 am (Eastern time) and available for on-demand streaming anytime. I am one of the four rotating hosts of the Saturday Morning show. 

This episode of Saturday Morning was recorded and can be streamed on-demand, now or anytime, by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/64437.html

Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin- March Winds Gonna Blow My Blues All Way

Songs of The Carter Family (Appleseed)

Stan Rogers- Paint Me a Picture

Songs of a Lifetime: Discoveries – Rare Live Recordings (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

David Essig- Albert’s Cove

A Stone in My Pocket (Peregrin)

Stan Rogers- Skyway

Songs of a Lifetime: Discoveries – Rare Live Recordings (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

Doug McArthur- The Lunenburg Shift

Letters from the Coast/Sisteron (Snow Goose Songs)

Stan Rogers- Jamie

Songs of a Lifetime: Discoveries – Rare Live Recordings (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

Stan Rogers- Love Can’t Be Bitter All the Time

Songs of a Lifetime: Discoveries – Rare Live Recordings (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

Bob Franke- A Healing in This Night

The Other Evening in Chicago (Waterbug)

Stan Rogers- The Old Rose & Crown

Songs of a Lifetime: Discoveries – Rare Live Recordings (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

Ian Robb with The Friends of Fiddler's Green- Garnet’s Home-Made Beer

From Different Angels (Fallen Angle)

Jaspar Lepak- Kind

So Strong (Jaspar Lepak Music)

Leslie Evers- What Kind of a Heart

Bound for Land (Cumulus)

Simone Keane- Those Beautiful Times

Graced By Leaves (Simone Keane)

David Broza- Saturday Morning

En Casa Limón (S-Curve)

Lynn Miles- Palomino

tumbleWeedyWorld (True North)

Mike Regenstreif & Connie Kaldor (2015)

Connie Kaldor- Wild One

Keep Going (Coyote Entertainment) 

Pat Moore- How Long

Take It to Heart (Pat Moore)

Bobby Dove- Haunted Hotel

Hopeless Romantic (Bobby Dove)

Altan- The Barley and the Rye

Donegal (Compass)

Sassenach- Star of the County Down/Bus Stop Reel

Passages (Sassenach)

Tara O’Grady- Black Velvet Band

Black Irish (Tara O’Grady)

Maggie’s Wake- Grosse Isle (Far Away)

Maggie’s Wake (Maggie’s Wake)

Tom Russell & Mike Regenstreif (2018)

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

Folk Hotel (Frontera)

Reverend Gary Davis- Crucifixion

A Little More Faith (Prestige/Bluesville)

Mavis Staples & Lucky Peterson-Were You There?

Spirituals & Gospel (Gitanes)

David Olney- A Soldier’s Report

The Stone (Deadbeet)

Bruce Cockburn- Easter

Crowing Ignites (True North)

Jim Kweskin & Samoa Wilson- Engine 143

Never Too Late: Duets with My Friends (StorySound)

Paper Wings- Nine Hundred Miles

Listen to the World Spin (Paper Wings)

American Patchwork Quartet- Wind and Rain

American Patchwork Quartet (Carolina Jasmine)

John Stewart & Darwin’s Army- They Call the Wind Mariah

John Stewart & Darwin’s Army (Appleseed)

Claudia Gibson- The Fields of Chazy

The Fields of Chazy (Claudia Gibson)

Jillian Matundan- Only Water

Singing to the Moon (Keezamonkee)

SONiA disappear fear & Mike Regenstreif (2017)

SONiA disappear fear- Teaching Vincent Van Gogh

Album 23 (Disappear)

Mouths of Babes- World Brand New

World Brand New (Wild Awake Music)

Jeff Talmadge- If I was a Sparrow

Sparrow (Berkalin)

Josh White, Jr. & Guthrie Thomas- Don’t Mean a Thing

Delicate Balance (Silverwolf)

Lisa Bastoni- Nora’s Guitar

On the Water (Lisa Bastoni)

Sandy Cash- Gilad’s Guitar

Voices from the Other Side (Sandy Cash)

Josh Fortenbery- Honey

No Such Thing as Forever (Josh Fortenbery)

Laura Smith & Mike Regenstreif (2013)

Laura Smith- What Goes Around (Comes Around)

Everything is Moving (Borealis)

James Talley- Somewhere in the Stars (A Song for Diego)

Bandits, Ballads and Blues (Cimarron)

Tom Rush- The Harbor

Gardens Old, Flowers New (Appleseed)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on April 20. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

--Mike Regenstreif 

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – November 14, 2023: Songs of Utah Phillips

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/595/62730.html

Theme: Songs of Bruce “Utah” Phillips (1935-2008).

Utah Phillips & Mike Regenstreif (1976) photo: Felicity Fanjoy

Utah Phillips- The Telling Takes Me Home

The Telling Takes Me Home (Philo)

Saul Broudy- Starlight on the Rails

Singing Through the Hard Times: A Tribute to Utah Phillips (Righteous Babe)

Pop & Bodie Wagner & Dakota Dave Hull- Old Buddy, Goodnight

Singing Through the Hard Times: A Tribute to Utah Phillips (Righteous Babe)

Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen- Going Away

Live in Concert (Compass Rose)

The Sorry Muthas Wolverine 14

Greatest Hits Vol. 3 (Wampus Cat)

Utah Phillips- Phoebe Snow

Good Though! (Philo)

Finest Kind- The Goodnight-Loving Trail

Lost in a Song (Fallen Angle)

Rosalie Sorrels- Rock Me to Sleep

Travelin’ Lady (Sire)

John Gorka- I Think of You

So Dark You See (Red House)

Penny Lang- If I Could be the Rain

Stone + Sand + Sea + Sky (Borealis)

Kate Wolf- Clearing in the Forest

The Wind Blows Wild (Rhino)

The Short Sisters- Rock Salt and Nails

Love and Transportation (Black Socks Press)

Utah Phillips & Mike Regenstreif (2005)

Utah Phillips- Frisco Road

Good Though! (Philo)

Finest Kind- He Comes Like Rain

Singing Through the Hard Times: A Tribute to Utah Phillips (Righteous Babe)

Bruce Brackney- Hood River, Roll On

Singing Through the Hard Times: A Tribute to Utah Phillips (Righteous Babe)

Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin- Walking Through Your Town in the Snow

Heart Songs: The Old Time Country Songs of Utah Phillips (Rounder)

Priscilla Herdman & Utah Phillips- I Remember Loving You

Darkness into Light (Flying Fish)

Fred Holstein- Nevada Jane

Fred Holstein: A Collection (Fred Holstein)

Rosalie Sorrels- Ashes on the Sea

Strangers in Another Country: The Songs of Bruce “Utah” Phillips (Red House)

Margaret Christl & Simon Christl- The Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia

House of Song (Margaret Christl)

Utah Phillips- Eddy’s Song

The Telling Takes Me Home (Philo)

Magpie, Dan Schatz, Emma's Revolution- Singing Through the Hard Times

Singing Through the Hard Times: A Tribute to Utah Phillips (Righteous Babe)

Next week: Songs and Conversation with Noel Paul Stookey.

--Mike Regenstreif 

Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band -- Legacy

PETER ROWAN BLUEGRASS BAND
Legacy
Compass Records
peter-rowan.com

Peter Rowan left Massachusetts in 1964 to play guitar and sing with Bill Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys – the legacy band in bluegrass music. After serving his three-year apprenticeship with the father of bluegrass music, he’s gone on to make all kinds of music from Tex-Mex to folk, from reggae to rock ‘n’ roll, with frequent returns to make some of the best bluegrass albums north of Kentucky.

Legacy, featuring an all-star set of musicians is surely the finest album of traditional, by-the-rules bluegrass music I’ve heard this year. Peter’s songwriting is first-rate, his singing has remained virtually unparalleled over many decades, and he’s surrounded himself with a dream band with the great Jody Stecher, one of our finest folk artists, on mandolin, Keith Little on banjos and Paul Knight on bass. All three add superb harmonies and Jody and Keith each take a lead vocal. There’s is also a great Jody Stecher instrumental track that includes Tim O’Brien sitting in on fiddle.

The other guests on the album are Del McCoury and Ricky Skaggs who join Peter for some close gospel harmonies on “God’s Own Child,” and singer Gillian Welch and guitarist David Rawlings who add something special to the quasi-gospel “So Good.”

Among the other highlights are “The Family Demon,” sung from the perspective of a young boy determined to not be defeated by his violently abusive father, “Jailer, Jailer,” a somewhat oblique song that seems to suggest that the psychological bonds one enforces on himself can be stronger than the steel bars of a jail cell, and “Across the Rolling Hills,” which seems to combine Eastern and Western spiritualism. Spiritualism, in some form or another, seems to be the pervasive theme of much of this album.

--Mike Regenstreif