Canadian Spaces – CKCU – Saturday January 30, 2021

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

This particular show is now available for on-demand listening. https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/129/50686.html

Canadian Spaces on CKCU in Ottawa is Canada’s longest-running folk music radio program. It is heard Saturday mornings from 10:00 am until noon (Eastern time).

It was hosted for more than 33 years by the late Chopper McKinnon and is now hosted by Chris White and a rotating cast of co-hosts.

This week’s show was co-hosted by Mike Regenstreif and Chris White.

Guests: Marc Nerenberg; Jim Hurcomb (author of Rockin’ on the Rideau: Ottawa’s Golden Age of Rock and Roll). We also recorded interviews with Orit Shimoni and Kat Goldman which, I believe, Chris will be playing on next week's episode of Canadian Spaces.

El Coyote- Come Around
El Coyote (El Coyote)

Corin Raymond- Rec Room
Dirty Mansions (Local Rascal Records)

Susan Ellenton- Yukon Women
Learning to Listen (Susan Ellenton)

Maria Dunn- Ontario Song
Joyful Banner Blazing (Distant Whisper)

Marc Nerenberg- This Time Around: A Banjo-Harmonica Duet
Little Birdie: Birds, Beasts & Banjo Blues (Marc Nerenberg)

Orit Shimoni- Strange and Beautiful Things
Strange and Beautiful Things (Orit Shimoni)

Rick Fines- Scared to Dance
Solar Powered Too (Rick Fines)

Suzie Vinnick- Drift Away
Shake the Love Around (Suzie Vinnick)

Rob Lutes- Rabbit
Walk in the Dark (Lucky Bear)

Kat Goldman- The Workingman’s Blues (Kat Goldman)
The Workingman’s Blues (Kat Goldman)

Shelley Posen- The Best Song Ever Written
Ontario Moon (Well Done Music)

Steel Rail- Flow River Flow
Coming Home (Crossties)

Three Sheets to the Wind- Woodsmoke and Oranges
Canoesongs, Volume 1 (Portage)

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

Lynn Miles- Something Beautiful
Fall for Beauty (True North)

Linda Morrison- Line By Line
Line By Line (Heartstrung Music)

Don Norman & The Other Four- Low Man
Low Man – single (Sir John A.)

Doris Folkens- Across the Sea
Doris Folkens (Doris Folkens)

Eugene Ruffalo- Fool for Every Season
Fool for Every Season (Continental Song City)

Jennifer Noxon- The Bottomless Cup
Watch As You Walk (Jennifer Noxon)

Announcement: I have a new weekly show on CKCU called Stranger Songs that will debut on Tuesday, February 9 from 3:30 until 5 pm. Expect an eclectic, roots-based show that will often revolve around a specific theme. Like all CKCU shows, Stranger Songs will be available 24/7 for on-demand streaming.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Canadian Spaces – CKCU – Saturday November 25, 2017

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

This particular show is now available for on-demand listening. https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/129/35097.html

Canadian Spaces on CKCU in Ottawa is Canada’s longest-running folk music radio program. It is heard Saturday mornings from 10:00 am until noon (Eastern time).

It was hosted for more than 33 years by the late Chopper McKinnon and is now hosted by Chris White and a rotating cast of co-hosts.

This week’s show was co-hosted by Mike Regenstreif and Chris White.

Guests: Terry Tufts & Kathryn Briggs (Algonquin Ensemble); Shawna Caspi; Susan McMaster; Campbell Woods.

The Wailin' Jennys- Light of a Clear Blue Morning

Fifteen (True North)

Orit Shimoni- Etz Harimon

Songs for My Father (Orit Shimoni)

Bruce Cockburn- Twelve Gates to the City

Bone On Bone (True North)

Kim Beggs- See That My Grave is Kept Clean

Said Little Sparrow (Out of a Paper Bag Productions)

Chaim Tannenbaum- Mama’s Angel Child

Chaim Tannenbaum (StorySound)

Tom Russell- These Friends of Mine

Play One More: The Songs of Ian & Sylvia (True North)

Kat Goldman- Baby, I Understand

The Workingman’s Blues (Kat Goldman)

Kevin Head- Digby Lament

Hear Them Callin’ (Kevin Head)

Over the Moon- Alberta Moon

Moondancer (Over the Moon)

Julian Fauth- John Henry

The Weak and the Wicked, the Hard and the Strong (Electro-Fi)

Beyond the Pale- Ruckus in Ralja

Ruckus (Borealis)

Algonquin Ensemble- Overture – Birchwood Board

Sonic Palette (Algonquin Ensemble)

Terry Tufts- Northern River

Live in the studio

Shawna Caspi- Love in a Moving Van

Forest Fire (Shawna Caspi)

Shawna Caspi- Numbers Hame

Live in the studio

Susan McMaster- Diagnosis

Gift to be Simple: Crossing Arcs – Alzheimer’s, my mother, and me (Soundcloud)

Susan McMaster- Freeze

Live in the studio

Campbell Woods- She’s a Keeper

Live in the studio

Shawna Caspi w/Campbell Woods- Tennessee Waltz

Live in the studio

Campbell Woods- Blood is Thicker Than Water

Live in the studio

My next show on CKCU is December 9 when I’ll be hosting the Saturday Morning program from 7 until 10 am.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Kat Goldman – The Workingman’s Blues

KAT GOLDMAN

The Workingman’s Blues

katgoldmanmusic.com

The Workingman’s Blues, the latest album by Toronto-based singer-songwriter Kat Goldman, is an interesting concept album that I gather is based on a difficult relationship she had while living in Boston. As Kat writes in the liner notes, “My anger at the Workingman ultimately had nowhere to go but to turn into compassion, otherwise I knew I would never escape my own suffering… I have tried to tell his story to the best of my ability. The rest of his story, I hope, will be his to tell. I will always love him, and I will never forget him.”

In “Take It Down the Line,” the opening track, Kat seems to be writing from the Workingman’s perspective as he describes working as a truck driver, wanting to escape a generational cycle of violence/abuse, and a desire to start a family of his own.

But most of the other songs are written from the perspective of the woman attempting to maintain and, ultimately, escape from her relationship with the Workingman. These include “Release Me,” in which she tells him “you’re leaving me alone and broken-hearted”; “Put Your Toolbox Down,” in which she seems to be craving his attention; and “The Workingman’s Blues,” in which she begins to express compassion for him and his personal history and an understanding that the relationship really has no future.

This understanding continues to develop over several songs until “It’s Ovaah,” in which she declares to him that the relationship is over and that she’s moving on. But, in “The One to Dream,” she also lets him know that he will always be a part of her; and in “Mr. Right,” she wishes him well and gives thanks for the good times they had together.

In the finale, “Don’t Know Where I’m Bound,” she’s not only given up on the dream of the relationship, but on the American dream as well, as she declares her intent to return to Canada. I don’t know when Kat wrote this last song, but it almost seems like an exiled Canadian’s political commentary in the Trumpian era.

Much of the album has a seemingly (and appropriate) working class rock ‘n’ roll vibe.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Canadian Spaces – CKCU – Saturday November 21, 2015

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

Canadian Spaces on CKCU in Ottawa is Canada’s longest-running folk music radio program. It is heard Saturday mornings from 10:00 am until noon (Eastern time).

It was hosted for more than 33 years by the late Chopper McKinnon and is now hosted by Chris White and a rotating cast of co-hosts.

This week’s show was co-hosted by Mike Regenstreif and Chris White.

Guests: Laura Smith; Naming the Twins

This program was dedicated to the memory of our friend Ron Hynes. Ron passed away, age 64, on November 19 after a battle with cancer. 

Glen MacNeil- If I Could I Would

Where the Heart Remains (Glen MacNeil)

Kat Goldman- Letter from Paris

Gypsy Girl (Kat Goldman)

Bob Stark- Refugees

Storefront Photograph (Bob Stark)

Susie Burke & David Surette- I Turn to My Guitar

Waiting for the Sun (Madrina Music)

Jesse Winchester- Blow On, Chilly Wind

Seems Like Only Yesterday: Live in Montreal 1976 (Real Gone Music)

The Lucky Sisters- I Can’t Stand Up Alone

So Lucky (Patio)

Eric Bibb & JJ Milteau- Bring a Little Water, Sylvie

Lead Belly’s Gold (Stony Plain)

Victor Anthony- He Walks Alone

Mystery Loves Company (Victor Anthony)

Trent Severn- From Canada

Trillium (Trent Severn)

Chaim Tannenbaum- My Old Man

Joy of Living: A Tribute to Ewan MacColl (Compass)

Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright, Lucy Wainwright Roche & Lily Lanken- Sweet Thames, Flow Softly

Joy of Living: A Tribute to Ewan MacColl (Compass)

Missy Burgess- Time

Play Me Sweet (Missy Burgess)

Chris White, Laura Smith & Mike Regenstreif (2013).

Laura Smith- I’m a Beauty

It’s a Personal Thing (Universal)

Laura Smith- Safe Home, Sweet Light

Everything is Moving (Borealis)

Naming the Twins- Lonesome Valley

Drifters & Dreamers (Duet Right)

Ron Hynes- A Good Dog is Lost

Get Back Change (Borealis)

Ron Hynes- 1962

Get Back Change (Borealis)

Ron Hynes- Sonny’s Dream

Face to the Gale (Artisan)

Naming the Twins- Somedays

Video at namingthetwins.com

The show is now available for online listening. http://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/129/24731.html

I’ll be co-hosting Canadian Spaces again on January 23.

Find me on Twitter. @MikeRegenstreif

And on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif