Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday September 6, 2022: Songs of Work and Jobs, Labour and Labour History

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU in Ottawa on Tuesdays 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 and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/57488.html

Theme: Songs of Work and Jobs, Labour and Labour History.

Judy Collins- Bread and Roses

Bread and Roses (Elektra)

Joe Jencks- Winnipeg 1919

The Coming of the Years (Turtle Bear Music)

Windborne- Pie in the Sky

Of Hard Times & Harmony (Wand’ring Feet)

Sue Massek- Down on the Picket Line

Precious Memories: An Original Play by Si Kahn (Strictly Country)

Magpie- Which Side Are You On?

When We Stand Together (Longtail)

Sue Jeffers- Solidarity Forever

Up with the Masses (FBI)

James Keelaghan- Cold Missouri Waters

History: The First 25 Years (Borealis)

Utah Phillips & Mike Regenstreif (2005)

The Short Sisters- Schoolday’s Over

A Little Gracefulness (Black Socks Press)

John Hartford- In Tall Buildings

Essential Recordings: Good’le Days (Rounder)

John McCutcheon- Work

Leap! (Appalsongs)

Utah Phillips- All Used Up

The Long Memory (Red House)

Shelley Posen- Night Nurse

Ontario Moon (Well Done Music)

Nancy White- Mrs. Linda

Unexpected (Borealis)

Mike Regenstreif & David Francey (2019)

Grit Laskin- Sewing Machines

Unabashedly Folk (Borealis)

Maria Dunn- Speed Up

Piece By Piece (Distant Whisper)

Priscilla Herdman- Millworker

Forgotten Dreams (Flying Fish)

David Francey- Working Poor

Torn Screen Door (Laker Music)

James Talley- Workin’ for Wages

Nashville City Blues (Cimmaron)

Tom Russell, Mike Regenstreif & Priscilla Herdman (2000)

Rosalie Sorrels- Aragon Mill

The Long Memory (Red House)

Tom Russell- U.S. Steel

Old Songs Yet to Sing (Frontera)

Odetta- Unemployment Blues

Blues Everywhere I Go (M.C.)

Kat Goldman- Put Your Toolbox Down

The Workingman’s Blues (Kat Goldman)

Oscar Brown, Jr.- Hymn to Friday

The Voice of Cool (Not Now Music)

Stan Rogers- Working Joe

Northwest Passage (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

Leon Bibb- Joe Hill

Praising Peace: A tribute to Paul Robeson (Stony Plain)

Next week: Songs of Gordon Lightfoot.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday December 21, 2021: Winter Solstice & Christmas

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/595/54591.html

Theme: Winter Solstice & Christmas

Good Lovelies- Hurry Home
Under the Mistletoe (Good Lovelies)

Gathering Sparks- Bringing in the Light
All That’s Real (Borealis)
Jesse Palidofsky- Dancing Toward the Light
Dancing Toward the Light (Azalea City)
Herdman, Hills & Mangsen- Solstice Round
At the Turning of the Year (Hand & Heart Music)
Claudia Schmidt- Winter Solstice Chant
Hark the Dark (Claudia Schmidt)
Joe Jencks- Longest Night of the Year
Poets, Philosophers, Workers & Wanderers (Turtle Bear Music)

Joe Newberry & April Verch- Round the Christmas Tree
On This Christmas Day (Slab Town)
Robin Greenstein & Cecilia Kirtland- Mele Kalikimaka
Songs of the Season (Windy)

Jay McShann- Hootie’s K.C. Christmas Prayer
Still Jumpin’ the Blues (Stony Plain)

Joni Mitchell- The Gift of the Magi
Archives – Volume 2: The Reprise Years (1968-1971) (Rhino)
Gordy Quist- River
A Very Blue Rock Christmas Vol. 2 (Blue Rock)
Lynn Miles- Christmas Makes Me Miss You More
Winter (Lynn Miles)

Rosalie Sorrels & Mike Regenstreif (1993)

Rosalie Sorrels- Hot Buttered Rum
An Imaginary Christmas in Idaho (Limberlost)
Jez Lowe & The Bad Pennies- Gramophone Dancing
Wotcheor! (Tantobie)
Cosy Sheridan- The Night the Reindeer Fly
Sometimes I Feel Too Much (Cosy Sheridan)
Herdman, Hills & Mangsen- Mister Santa
Voices of Winter (Gadfly)

Mike Regenstreif & Erik Frandsen (1976) photo: Felicity Fanjoy

Erik Frandsen- Christmas in Brooklyn
Antiques: New & Used (Erik Frandsen)
Louis Armstrong- Cool Yule
Cool Yule: Deluxe Edition (Verve)
Peter Davis- Zat You Santa Claus?
The Pleasures of Winter (Fiddle & Dance)
Mike Goudreau Band & Dany Roy- Shufflin’ on Christmas Day
Christmas Rendezvous (Éditions Goudreau)

Brian Campbell- All Alone This Christmas
All Alone This Christmas – single (Brian Campbell)
Norman Doucette- Christmas in a Phone Booth
Dangerous Ground (Norman Doucette)
Emma’s Revolution- A Zeesn Christmas
A Zeesn Christmas – single (Moving Forward Music)
Suzzy Roche, Lucy Wainwright Roche, Oona Roche, David Roche & Daisy Press- Christmas Love
Where Do I Come From: Selected Songs (StorySound)
David Massengill- Jesus, the Fugitive Prince
The Return (Plump)

Jay Ungar & Molly Mason with Tony Trischka- Christmas Eve
The Pleasures of Winter (Fiddle & Dance)

Next week: Mike Regenstreif's top 10 folk-rooted and folk-branched albums of 2021

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--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday November 23, 2021: Songs and Conversation with Si Kahn

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/595/54257.html

Theme: Songs and Conversation with Si Kahn

Si Kahn is a singer, songwriter, author, playwright, labor organizer, and civil rights and environmental activist. Our conversation was recorded on November 8, 2021 via Zoom. All of the songs on the show were written by Si, except “I am a Union Woman,” which was written by Aunt Molly Jackson.

Mike Regenstreif & Si Kahn (1995)

Si Kahn & The Looping Brothers- Aragon Mill
Aragon Mill: The Bluegrass Sessions (Strictly Country)

Rude Girls- Crossing the Border
Mixed Messages (Flying Fish)
Si Kahn- Lady of the Harbor
Best of the Rest (Strictly Country)

Joe Jencks- I’m a Stranger in This Land
The Forgotten: Recovered Treasures from the Pen of Si Kahn (Turtle Bear Music)

Sue Massek- I am a Union Woman
Precious Memories: A New Play by Si Kahn (Strictly Country)

Si Kahn- Pebble Mine
Bristol Bay (Strictly Country)

Saro Lynch-Thomason & Sam Gleaves- I Have Known Women
I Have Known Women: Songs by Si Kahn Celebrating Women’s Lives and Struggles (Strictly Country)

Katie Oates- We Go On
We Go On: Si Kahn’s Songs of Hope in Hard Times (Hollow Reed Arts Recordings)

Matt Watroba- Will’s Will
The Far Si: The Si Kahn Funny Song Sing-Along Book (Matt Watroba)

Next week: Woody Guthrie’s Happy Joyous Hannukah and other Hannukah Songs

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--Mike Regenstreif