Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – May 6, 2025: The Banjo Special

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/595/70088.html

Theme: The Banjo Special.

Pete Seeger holding his banjo.

All the songs and tunes on this show feature the banjo.

Doc Watson- Rambling Hobo

Memories (Sugar Hill)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Foolish You

Tell My Sister: Kate & Anna McGarrigle (Nonesuch)

Michael Jerome Browne- Reverend Strut

Gettin’ Together (Borealis/Stony Plain)

John Hartford- Gentle on My Mind

Live from Mountain Stage (Blue Plate Music)

The Be Good Tanyas- Reuben

Chinatown (Nettwerk)

Mary Gick- Hills of Home

Six Tunes and a Song (Mary Gick)

Finest Kind- Going to the West

Lost in a Song (Fallen Angle)

Marc Nerenberg- Little Birdie: A Reimagined Traditional Song

Little Birdie: Birds, Beasts & Banjo Blues (Marc Nerenberg)

The Dumptrucks- Qu’Appelle

Selections (Laughing Cactus)

Pete Seeger- Monsieur Banjo

American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 4 (Smithsonian Folkways)

Last Forever with John Cohen- Dillard Chandler

No Place Like Home/Last Forever (2nd Story Sound)

Arnie Naiman- My Lucy Stars

My Lucky Stars (Merriweather)

Robert Thomas & the sessionmen- Springhill

The Way We Roll (Gas)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Redwinged Blackbird

Get Up and Do Right (Community Music)

Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five- Put ‘Em Down Blues

The Hot Fives & Hot Sevens, Vol. III (Columbia)

Paul Barbarin with Danny Barker- Eh La Bas

Paul Barbarin and His New Orleans Jazz (Collectables)

Mark Rubin – Jew of Oklahoma- Berish Katz Breakdown

Dispatches: Songs from a World Gone Mad (Rubinchik)

Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson- Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss

What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow (Nonesuch)

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings- Howdy Howdy

Woodland (Acony)

Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn- Railroad

Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn (Rounder)

Pharis & Jason Romero- Train on the Island

Tell ‘Em You Were Gold (Smithsonian Folkways)

Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project- Lazy John

Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project (Borealis)

Derroll Adams- The Mountain

Songs of the Banjoman (Wundertutte) 

Suzy Thompson- Lose My Blues

Suzy Sings Siebel Volume One (Suzy Thompson)

Jenny Whiteley- Banjo Girl

The Original Jenny Whiteley (Black Hen Music)

Tony Trischka & Steve Martin- Plunkin’ Rag

Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular (Rounder)

Next week: A Tribute to The Klezmatics.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – March 19, 2024: Music

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/595/64335.html

Theme: Music.

The songs on this show all have something or other to do with music.

Stan Rogers- Music in Your Eyes

Songs of a Lifetime: From Coffee House to Concert Hall (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

James Keelaghan- Kiri’s Piano

History: The First 25 Years (Borealis)

Mike Regenstreif & Bruce Cockburn (2017)

Bruce Cockburn- Musical Friends

Greatest Hits (1970-2020) (True North)

Diana Krall- Let’s Face the Music and Dance

When I Look in Your Eyes (Verve)

Tom Russell- Tower of Song

Selections from Love & Fear plus bonus out-takes (HighTone)

Jimmy Driftwood- The Ozark Symphony

I Hear Your People Singing Blanchard Cave (Rackensack)

Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion- Folksong

Folksong (RTE 8)

Brownie McGhee- The Blues Had a Baby (and they called it Rock and Roll)

Rainy Day (Tomato)

Louis Armstrong & Trummy Young- Now You Has Jazz

Armstrong Comes Alive (Jazz2Jazz)

Arthur Conley- Sweet Soul Music

Atlantic Rhythm and Blues 1947-1974: Volume 6 1966-1969 (Atlantic)

Finest Kind- John Barleycorn Deconstructed

For Honour & For Gain (Fallen Angle)

John Hartford- My Rag

Morning Bugle (Rounder)

Christy Moore- The Tuam Beat

Magic Nights (Sony)

Doc Watson- Mama Don’t Allow No Music

Memories (Sugar Hill)

David Mallett- Ballad of the St. Anne’s Reel

Inches & Miles 1977-1980 (Flying Fish)

Lynn Miles- Three Chords and the Truth

Fall for Beauty (True North)

Maria Muldaur-Southern Music

Jazzabelle (Stony Plain)

Mike Regenstreif & Jesse Winchester (2009)

Jesse Winchester- I Turn to My Guitar

Love Filling Station (Appleseed)

Sister Rosetta Tharpe- Up Above My Head I Hear Music in the Air

This Train in Concert (Sunset Blvd.)

Dakota Dave Hull & Sean Blackburn- River of Swing

River of Swing (Arabica)

Sisters of Sheynville- Yidl Mitn Fidl

Sheynville Express (Sisters of Sheynville)

Guy & Candie Carawan- When the Fiddler has Played His Last Tune for the Night

Folk Friends (Wundertüte Musik)

Next week: Home.

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday December 31, 2022

Saturday Morning is an eclectic roots-oriented program on CKCU in Ottawa heard 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 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 recorded and can already be streamed on-demand at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/58855.html

Herdman, Hills & Mangsen- At the Turning of the Year

At the Turning of the Year (Hand & Heart Music)

Perla Batalla- Famous Blue Raincoat

Bird on the Wire: The Songs of Leonard Cohen (Mechuda Music)

Jamie O’Reilly & Michael Smith- Song of Bernadette

Songs of a Catholic Childhood (J. O’Reilly Productions)

Rachelle Garniez- Anthem

Gone to Glory (StorySound)

Leonard Cohen- Leaving the Table

You Want It Darker (Columbia)

Brendan Nolan- The Old Year

Where Do I Go from Here (Ould Segosha Music)

Jennifer Cutting & Lisa Moscatiello- The Turning Year: A New Year’s Toast

The Turning Year: Pandemic Sessions Unplugged (SunSign)

Tim Radford- New Year

Home from Home (Fallen Angle Music)

Tret Fure- New Years

Roses in November (Tomboy Girl)

Steve Lundquist- Brand New Year’s Day

Acting a Fool (Steve Lundquist)

Annie Capps- My Eden

How Can I Say This? (Yellow Room)

Joyce Andersen- For What Was Gained

Tribute to a Songpoet: Songs of Eric Andersen (Y&T Music)

The Longest Johns- The Mary Ellen Carter

Smoke + Oakum (Decca)

Paul Mills- Clank Remembers

The Other Side of the Glass (Borealis)

Shirley Eikhard- My Final Chapter

On My Way to You (Shirley Eikhard)

Bonnie Raitt- Something to Talk About

Luck of the Draw (Capitol)

Shirley Eikhard- Emily Remembers

Going Home (Artisan Music)

Emmylou Harris- Good News

White Shoes (Reprise)

Shirley Eikhard- On My Way to You

On My Way to You (Shirley Eikhard)

Quartette- Hobo Girl

20 Years of Quartette (Outside Music)

Fred Holstein- Here’s to You Rounders

Fred Holstein: A Collection (Fred Holstein)

Rosalie Sorrels & Mike Regenstreif (1993)

Rosalie Sorrels- I Remember Loving You

Travelin’ Lady Rides Again (Green Linnet)

Utah Phillips & Mark Ross- Walking Through Your Town in the Snow

Loafer’s Glory (Red House)

The Wainwright Sisters- Hobo’s Lullaby

Songs in the Dark (MapleMusic)

Tom Paxton- Home to Me (is Anywhere You Are)

Comedians & Angels (Appleseed)

Dave Van Ronk- Ramblin’ Boy

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

Ian & Sylvia- The Last Thing On My Mind

The Lost Tapes (Stony Plain)

Tom Paxton, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- The Freedom of Forgiving

All New (Community Music)

The Persuasions- What are You Doing New Year’s Eve

No Frills (Rounder)

Chris Coole & John Showman- Steamboat Whistle Blues

Much Further Out Than Inevitable: A Fiddle and Banjo Tribute to Some Music of John Hartford (Chris Coole)

Sam Bush- In Tall Buildings

Radio John: Songs of John Hartford (Smithsonian Folkways)

John Hartford- My Rag

Morning Bugle (Rounder)

Toasted Westerns- Second Fiddle to an Old Guitar

Out to Lunch! (Moo Music)

Payadora Tango Ensemble featuring Lenka Lichtenberg- A Victim of Mengele

Silent Tears: The Last Yiddish Tango (Six Degrees)

Payadora Tango Ensemble featuring Lenka Lichtenberg & Marta Kosiorek- Bitter Winter

Silent Tears: The Last Yiddish Tango (Six Degrees)

Martin Grosswendt- Mournin’ Blues

Pay Day! (Martin Grosswendt)

Dakota Dave Hull- Geremia’s Wobble

Under the North Star (Arabica)

Paul Geremia & Mike Regenstreif (2012)

Paul Geremia- The Truth is on the Streets

Self Portrait in Blues (Red House)

Shelley Posen- Old Loves

Old Loves (Well Done Music)

Lucie Blue Tremblay- So Many Wows

So Many Wows (Maggie & Shanti Musique)

Ferron- Ain’t Life a Brook

Not a Still Life (Cherrywood Station)

Mark Yan- Please Come Home

Just as One (Mark Yan)

Kate Taylor featuring James Taylor- Auld Lang Syne

Beautiful Road (Front Door)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on January 28. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm. 

Find me on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

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 July 5, 2022: Just Who Was It Who Wrote That Song?

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/595/56819.html

Theme: Just Who Was It Who Wrote That Song?

These are songs that have been widely covered by other artists, or that were hits by other artists, but these versions are by the original songwriters.

Kris Kristofferson- Me and Bobby McGee
Me and Bobby McGee (Monument)

Sylvia Tyson & Mike Regenstreif (1997)

Ian & Sylvia- Four Strong Winds (Ian Tyson)
Four Strong Winds (Vanguard)
Ian & Sylvia- You Were On My Mind (Sylvia Tyson)
Northern Journey (Vanguard)
Steve Gillette- Darcy Farrow
Steve Gillette (Vanguard)
Gordon Lightfoot- Early Morning Rain
Songbook (Warner Archives/Rhino)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle & Mike Regenstreif (1976) Photo: Felicity Fanjoy

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Heart Like a Wheel (Anna McGarrigle)
Tell My Sister: Kate & Anna McGarrigle (Nonesuch)
Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Talk to Me of Mendocino (Kate McGarrigle)
Tell My Sister: Kate & Anna McGarrigle (Nonesuch)
Fred Neil- Everybody’s Talkin’
The Many Sides of Fred Neil (Collectors’ Choice Music)

Mike Regenstreif & Michael Smith (2014)

Shel Silverstein- The Unicorn
Inside Folk Songs (Water)
Steve Goodman- City of New Orleans
No Big Surprise: The Steve Goodman Anthology (Red Pajamas)
Michael Smith- The Dutchman
Michael Smith/Love Stories (Flying Fish)

Elizabeth Cotten- Freight Train
Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes (Smithsonian Folkways)
Jesse Fuller- San Francisco Bay Blues
San Francisco Bay Blues (Good Time Jazz)
John Hartford- Gentle On My Mind
Gentle On My Mind and Other Originals (RCA)
Jerry Jeff Walker- Mr. Bojangles
Five Years Gone (Atco)

Ron Hynes & Mike Regenstreif (2007)

Jesse Winchester- The Brand New Tennessee Waltz
Jesse Winchester (Stony Plain)
Ron Hynes- Sonny’s Dream
Face to the Gale (Artisan Music)
Bonnie Dobson- Morning Dew
Take Me for a Walk in the Morning Dew (Hornbeam)
Joni Mitchell- Both Sides Now
Clouds (Reprise)
Leonard Cohen- Hallelujah
Various Positions (Columbia)

John Stewart- Daydream Believer
The Lonesome Picker Rides Again (Collectors’ Choice Music)
Townes Van Zandt- Pancho & Lefty
Sunshine Boy: The Unheard Studio Sessions and Demos (Omnivore)

Tom Paxton- The Last Thing On My Mind
The Compleat Tom Paxton (Even Compleater) (Rhino Handmade)

Next week: Songs of Woody Guthrie, Part 1: Classic Songs

Find me on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday August 17, 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/595/53131.html

Theme: 50 Years On – Music from my high school years (1967-1971)

I graduated from high school in Montreal in June of 1971 just over 50 years ago. All of the recordings on this show were originally on LPs released during my high school years and that I bought while I was a high school student.

Bob Dylan- All Along the Watchtower
John Wesley Harding (Columbia/Legacy)
Joan Baez- Love is Just a Four-Letter Word
Any Day Now (Vanguard)
Leonard Cohen- Suzanne
Songs of Leonard Cohen (Columbia/Legacy)
Judy Collins- Sisters of Mercy
Wildflowers (Elektra)

Tom Paxton- Annie’s Going to Sing Her Song
Tom Paxton 6 (Elektra)
Gordon Lightfoot- Did She Mention My Name
Did She Mention My Name (United Artists)
Peter, Paul & Mary- Reason to Believe
Late Again (Warner Bros.)
Tim Hardin- Lady Came from Baltimore
Tim Hardin 3 Live in Concert (Polydor)

Arlo Guthrie- Highway in the Wind
Alice’s Restaurant (Reprise)

Jesse Winchester- The Brand New Tennessee Waltz
Jesse Winchester (Stony Plain)
Paul Siebel- Then Came the Children
Woodsmoke and Oranges (Elektra)
Otis Redding- (Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay
The Dock of the Bay (Atco)
Rosalie Sorrels- One More Next Time
If I Could Be the Rain (Folk-Legacy)
Grateful Dead- Ripple
American Beauty (Warner Bros.)

John Hartford- Gentle On My Mind
Gentle On My Mind and Other Originals (RCA)
Ian & Sylvia- Truckers Café
Great Speckled Bird (Stony Plain)
Buffy Sainte-Marie- I’m Gonna Be a Country Girl Again
I’m Gonna Be a Country Girl Again (Vanguard)
Linda Ronstadt- He Dark the Sun
Silk Purse (Capitol)

Mike Regenstreif & Bill Staines (1993)

Bruce Cockburn- Going to the Country
Bruce Cockburn (True North)
Bill Staines- Happiness Is
Somebody Blue (Champlain)
Paul Geremia- Travelin’ Man
Just Enough (Folkways)

Dave Van Ronk- Clouds (From Both Sides Now)
Dave Van Ronk and the Hudson Dusters (Verve Forecast)
Joni Mitchell- That Song About the Midway
Clouds (Reprise)
James Taylor- Sweet Baby James
Sweet Baby James (Warner Bros.)

The Band- Stage Fright
Stage Fright (Capitol)

Next week: Rare Collaborations

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And on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday April 24, 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/128/51715.html

 

John Hartford- Gentle On My Mind
Gentle On My Mind and Other Originals (RCA)

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings- Ginseng Sullivan
All the Good Times Are Past and Gone (Acony)
Marc Nerenberg- Ma Creole Belle
On the Street Again (Marc Nerenberg)
Moira Smiley & Voco- Oh Susannah
In Our Voices (Moira Smiley Music)

Last Forever- Pay Day at Coal Creek
No Place Like Home/Last Forever (2nd Story Sound)
Crys Matthews- How Many More
Changemakers (Crys Matthews)
Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi- I Shall Not Be Moved
They’re Calling Me Home (Nonesuch)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle & Mike Regenstreif (1976) photo: Felicity Fanjoy

Joni Mitchell- Fare Thee Well (Dink’s Song)
Archives – Volume 1: The Early Years 1963-1967 (Rhino)
Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Heart Like a Wheel
Tell My Sister: Kate & Anna McGarrigle (Nonesuch)
Chaim Tannenbaum- Belfast Louis Falls in Love
Chaim Tannenbaum (StorySound)

Laura Smith- Souther’s Faithless Love (Just What I Need)
As Long As I’m Dreaming (Borealis)
JD Souther- Faithless Love
Natural History (Eone)
Craig Cardiff- Emm & May
All This Time Running (True North)

Tim Grimm- Carry Us Away
Gone (Vault)
Peggy Seeger- Tree of Love
First Farewell (Red Grape Music)
Reggie Harris- Come What May
On Solid Ground (Reggie Harris Music)
Ronney Abramson- Your Love Gets Me Around
Stowaway (Castor Island Music)

Darryl Purpose- Gentle Arms of Eden
Gentle Arms of Eden – single (Gamblers Grace Music)
Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer- Farewell to Saint Delores
Tanglewood Tree (Signature Sounds)
Katy Moffatt- Sister Angelina
Chrysalis (Sunset Blvd. Records)
Gretchen Peters with Tom Russell- Guadalupe
One to the Heart, One to the Head (Scarlet Letter/Frontera)
Tom Russell- Angel of Lyon
Old Songs Yet to Sing (Frontera)

Jon Lawton- Goin’ to California
Virginny Sessions: Vol. 1 (Bigtone)
Thad Beckman- Mama, ‘Taint Long for Day
Blues Gone By (Thadzooks)
Lauren Sheehan- Statesboro Blues
Two Wings (Wilson River)
Guy Davis & Lea Gilmore- Some Cold Rainy Day
Juba Dance (M.C.)
Veronika Jackson- Go Down Sunshine
The Woman I Am (Acoustic with Heart Productions)

Anne Hills- Elusive Chemistry
Accidental August (Hand & Heart Music)
Dave Clarke- Lucinda
The Healing Garden (Crossties)
Rings & Things- Smoker’s Lullaby
Pearl Soup (Cooking Fat Music)
Montreal- What About the Wind?
A Summer’s Night (Stormy Forest)
Ian Tamblyn- Tiger Lily Road
Voice in the Wilderness (North Track)

Noel Paul Stookey- Jean Claude
Just Causes (Neworld)
Frank London with Karim Sulayman & Cantor Sveta Kundish- Nirdi Natan Reiho
Ghetto Songs (Felmay)

Maria Muldaur with Tuba Skinny- Let’s Get Happy Together
Let’s Get Happy Together (Stony Plain)
Jeff Healey- Some of These Days
The Best of the Stony Plain Years: Vintage Jazz, Swing and Blues (Stony Plain)
Annabelle Chvostek- String of Pearls
String of Pearls (Annabelle Chvostek)
Sussex- Don’t Wanna Wait
The Ocean Wide (Lucky Bear)
The Hot Sardines- Running Wild
French Fries + Champagne (Decca)

Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges- St. Louis Blues
Back to Back: Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges Play the Blues (Verve)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on May 22. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

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

And on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

This week in Folk Roots/Folk Branches history (June 1-June 7)

Folk Roots/Folk Branches with Mike Regenstreif was a Thursday tradition on CKUT in Montreal for nearly 14 years from February 3, 1994 until August 30, 2007 (and around the world via the web for most of those years). Folk Roots/Folk Branches continued for some time as occasional features on CKUT, and is now a blog. Here’s the 40th instalment of “This week in Folk Roots/Folk Branches,” a weekly look back continuing through next August at some of the most notable guests, features and moments in Folk Roots/Folk Branches history.

June 2, 1994: Show theme- Remembering the Golem, the Montreal folk club I ran from 1974-1976 and 1981-1987, 20 years after I first took over.
June 1, 1995: Show theme- The legacy of Lead Belly.
June 6, 1996: Extended feature- Songs of Jesse Winchester.
June 4, 1998: Guest- David Amram.
June 3, 1999: Guest- Dar Williams.
June 7, 2001: Extended feature- A tribute to the late John Hartford.
June 6, 2002: Extended feature- Songs of Wade Hemsworth.
June 5, 2003: Guest- Brendan Nolan.
June 2, 2005: Guest- Seán Tyrrell.
June 1, 2006: Guest- Penny Lang.
June 5, 2008 (Folk Roots/Folk Branches feature): A tribute to the late Bruce “Utah” Phillips.

Pictured: Utah Phillips and Mike Regenstreif at the 2005 Champlain Valley Folk Festival.

--Mike Regenstreif