Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – March 18, 2025: Canadian Places

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/595/69388.html

Theme: Canadian Places

This show is a celebration of just some of the many places in our country, and a response to the despicable behaviour of the orange felon in regard to Canada. As so many have reiterated, Canada is not for sale and will never be his 51st state. We have our elbows up.

Shari Ulrich & Mike Regenstreif (2019)

Shari Ulrich- Canada

Back to Shore (Borealis)

Shelley Posen & Mike Regenstreif on Zoom (2023)

Shelley Posen- Ontario Moon

Ontario Moon (Well Done Music)

Over the Moon- Old Alberta Moon

Moondancer (Over the Moon)

Mike Regenstreif & Connie Kaldor (2015)

Connie Kaldor & Roy Forbes- Saskatoon Moon

Wood River (Coyote)

Orit Shimoni- Winnipeg 

Winnipeg (Orit Shimoni) 

Doug McArthur- The Lunenburg Shift

Letters from the Coast/Sisteron (Snow Goose Songs)

Deborah Holland- East Porpoise Bay

I Made It This Far (Deborah Holland)

Oscar Peterson- Place St. Henri

Canadiana Suite (Verve)

Bill Garrett & Mike Regenstreif (2014)

Bill Garrett- Lillooet

Bill Garrett (Borealis)

James Keelaghan- Hope Princeton Road

My Skies (Green Linnet)

Humphrey & The Dumptrucks- Calgary Song

Six Days of Paper Ladies (Boot)

Mike Regenstreif & April Verch (2025)

April Verch & Cody Walters- Up in the Ottawa Valley

Passages and Pairings (Slab Town)

Kevun Head & Mike Regenstreif (2013) photo: Vanessa Burnett

Kevin Head- Saturday Night in South Margarree

Live (Kevin Head Music)

Dave Clarke of Steel Rail & Lucinda Chodan (co-writers of Argyle Street) and Mike Regenstreif (2025)

 
Steel Rail- Argyle Street

Coming Home (Crossties)

Allison Russell- Montreal

Outside Child (Fantasy)

Chris Rawlings & Mike Regenstreif (2007)

Chris Rawlings- Vieux Montréal

Pearl Soup (Cooking Fat Music)

Ken Tizzard & Amelia Curran- St. John’s Waltz

A Good Dog is Lost: A Collection of Ron Hynes Songs (Booth Street)

Bob Stark- Patterson Creek Bridge

Sculpted Pieces of Love (Bob Stark)

Paul Weber- Ottawa Lament

Ode to Gerry Barber (Paul Weber)

Ray Harris- Pontiac County Blues

Kinda Sets the Tone (Ray Harris)

Night Sun- Petawawa River

Drive (Borealis)

Stan Rogers- The Rawdon Hills

Fogarty’s Cove (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

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

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Matapedia

Matapedia (Hannibal)

Mike Regenstreif & Murray McLauchlan on Zoom (2021)

Murray McLauchlan- Out Past the Timberline

Songs from the Street: The Best of Murray McLauchlan (True North)

Next week: Part 1 – Songs of Laura Nyro; Part 2 – Bringing It All Back Home Revisited.

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday November 30, 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/128/67920.html

Willie Nelson- Last Leaf

Last Leaf on the Tree (Legacy)

Mike Regenstreif & Tom Paxton (1994)

Tom Paxton- Has Annie Been in Tonight

Up & Up (Mountain Railroad)

Bob Dylan- Annie’s Going to Sing Her Song

Another Self Portrait 1969-1971: The Bootleg Series Vol. 10 (Columbia/Legacy)

Tom Paxton- When Annie Took Me Home

New Songs for Old Friends (Reprise)

Laurie Lewis- Central Square

Bluegrass Sings Paxton (Mountain Home)

Chris Rawlings & Mike Regenstreif (2007)

Chris Rawlings- Smoker’s Lullaby

Two Sides to Your Story (Cookingfat Music)

Jesse Winchester & Mike Regenstreif (2000)

Jesse Winchester- Defying Gravity

Learn to Love It (Stony Plain)

Ronney Abramson & Mike Regenstreif (2016)

Ronney Abramson- Purify My River

Ronney Abramson (Capitol)

Bruce Murdoch- (Can I) Come Across to You

Bruce Murdoch (Radio Canada International)

Kevin Head & Mike Regenstreif (2013) photo: Vanessa Burnett

Kevin Head- Digby Lament

Hear Them Callin’ (Kevin Head)

Mason Daring & Jeanie Stahl- The Ring

Recordings Celebrating 50 Years of a Musical Partnership (Mason Daring & Jeanie Stahl) 

Neale Eckstein- The Lighthouse (NE & Eric Schwartz)

Never Too Late (Neale Eckstein)

Howard Gladstone- Sea of Sorrow

Crazy Talk (Howard Gladstone)

Carolyn Shulman- No Sad Songs

Heart on a Wire (Carolyn Shulman)

Ball & Chain & The Wreckers- Man with the Pain

Satisfied (Moo Music)

Paul Mills- Stubbs Stomp

The Other Side of the Glass (Borealis)

Rufus Wainwright & Anohni- Going to a Town

Folkocracy (BMG)

Ferron- It Won’t Take Long

Shadows on a Dime (Lucy)

Moonfruits- Brittle Earth

Salt (Co-Op)

Jay Linden- Dreamers on a Sailing Ship

Ordinary Sunrise (Americana North)

Albert & Gage- I Used to be Lonesome

Burnin’ Moonlight (MoonHouse)

Efrat- We Just Need Love

We Just Need Love (Efrat)

Tom Mitchell & Mike Regenstreif (1999)

Tom Mitchell- Soap and Powder

Old Cloth (Yabut Music)

Rosalie Sorrels & Mike Regenstreif (1993)

Rosalie Sorrels- The Pine

Live at the Great American Music Hall (Flying Fish)

Shelley Posen & Mike Regenstreif on Zoom (2023)

Shelley Posen- Having a Drink with Jane

The Old Songs Home (Well Done Music)

Jane Voss & Hoyle Osborne- To All My Friends in Far-Flung Places

Sparkle and Shine (Front Hall)

Michael Jerome Browne & Mike Regenstreif (2005)

Michael Jerome Browne- Where is the Song?

That’s Where It’s At! (Borealis)

Paul Geremia & Mike Regenstreif (2012)

Paul Geremia- Kick It in the Country

Self Portrait in Blues (Red House)

Little Birdie (Orit Shimoni)- Can’t Stop This Train

Bare Bones (Little Birdie)

Perla Batalla- Awakened

A Letter to Leonard Cohen: Tribute to a Friend (Mechuda Music)

Leonard Cohen- By the Rivers Dark

Ten New Songs (Columbia)

Perla Batalla- Take This Waltz

A Letter to Leonard Cohen: Tribute to a Friend (Mechuda Music)

Chris Rawlings- Lifting the Darkness

Two Sides to Your Story (Cookingfat Music)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Come Back Baby

Pronto Monto (Omnivore)

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

Chaim Tannenbaum- Belfast Louis Falls in Love

Chaim Tannenbaum (StorySound)

Tom Russell & Mike Regenstreif (2018)

Tom Russell- All on a Belfast Morning

Folk Hotel (Frontera)

Mike Regenstreif & Bruce Murdoch (2014)

Bruce Murdoch- Rompin’ Rovin’ Days

Singer-Songwriter Project (Elektra)

Kat Goldman- Take It Down the Line

The Workingman’s Blues (Kat Goldman)

Kurt Anderson- 900 Miles

Life on Interstate 40 (Riverlark Music)

Sonya Cohen Cramer- No Place to Fall

You’ve Been a Friend to Me (Smithsonian Folkways)

Grayson Capps- Columbus Stockade Blues

Heartbreak, Misery & Death (Royal Potato Family)

The Wailin' Jennys- The Parting Glass

40 Days (Jericho Beach Music)

I’m taking some time off in December so I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on January 25. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – September 17, 2024: Hank Williams 101

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/595/66859.html

Theme: Hank Williams 101.

The theme on this edition of Stranger Songs is Hank Williams 101 as the air date for this show –  September 17, 2024 – is the 101st anniversary of the birth of Hank Williams. Hank was just 29 years old when he died on January 1, 1953, but his contributions to the history of music are immense. Most of the songs on this show were written by Hank Williams or are from his repertoire – the rest were inspired by him.

Hank Williams- Move It On Over

40 Greatest Hits (Polydor)

Ball & Chain- I Just Don’t Like This Kind of Livin’

Trouble All the Time (Ball & Chain)

Robert Jones & Matt Watroba- Mind Your Own Business

Common Chords (Common Chords)

Hank Williams- Lost Highway

40 Greatest Hits (Polydor)

Kevin Head- Thanks Hank

Live (Kevin Head Music)

Norah Jones- Cold, Cold Heart

Come Away with Me (Blue Note)

Leon Redbone- Long Gone Lonesome Blues

No Regrets (Sugar Hill)

Martha Seyler & Robert Resnik- Your Cheatin’ Heart

Martha Sings & Robert Plays (Martha Seyler & Robert Resnik)

Hank Williams- Moanin’ the Blues

40 Greatest Hits (Polydor)

John Gorka- Hank Senior Moment

The Company You Keep (Red House)

The Lonesome Ace Stringband- The Log Train

The Log Train – single (The Lonesome Ace Stringband)

The Wailin' Jennys- Weary Blues from Waiting

Fifteen (True North)

Jim Byrnes- Honky Tonk Blues

I Hear the Wind in the Wires (Black Hen Music)

Mose Allison- Hey, Good Lookin’

V-8 Ford Blues (Epic/Legacy)

Hank Williams- Settin’ the Woods on Fire

40 Greatest Hits (Polydor)

Tom Russell- Hank and Audrey

Museum of Memories 1972-2002 (Dark Angel)

Sneezy Waters- Lovesick Blues

Sneezy Waters Sings Hank Williams (Borealis)

Steve Young- Ramblin’ Man

Stars in the Southern Sky (Omnivore)

Jim Rooney & Rooney's Irregulars- House of Gold

My Own Ignorant Way (JRP)

Hank Williams- I Saw the Light

40 Greatest Hits (Polydor)

Lou Dominguez- Hank Songs at the Luna Star

Hanging at the Luna Star (Lou Dominguez)

Hans Theessink- I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry

Songs from the Southland (Blue Groove)

Saul Broudy- Alone and Forsaken

Travels with Broudy (Saul Broudy)

Linda Ronstadt- I Can’t Help It (If I’m Still in Love with You)

Heart Like a Wheel (Capitol)

The Preservation Hall Jazz Band & The Del McCoury Band- Jambalaya

American Legacies (McCoury)

Hank Williams- My Bucket’s Got a Hole In It

40 Greatest Hits (Polydor)

Robin & Linda Williams- Rolling and Rambling (The Death of Hank Williams)

Devil of a Dream (Sugar Hill)

Johnny Cash & Waylon Jennings- The Night Hank Williams Came to Town

Johnny Cash is Coming to Town (Mercury)

Next week: Leonard Cohen at 90.

--Mike Regenstreif 

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – March 26, 2024: Home

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/595/64489.html

Theme: Home.

The songs on this show all have something or other to do with ideas of home.

Eliza Gilkyson & Mike Regenstreif (2006)

Eliza Gilkyson- Home

Home (Realiza)

Peggy Seeger- Tell My Sister

Sing Me the Songs: Celebrating the Works of Kate McGarrigle (Nonesuch)

Rufus Wainwright & John Legend- Heading for Home

Folkocracy (BMG)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Kitty, Come Home

Tell My Sister – Dancer with Bruised Knees (Nonesuch)

Martha Wainwright- Proserpina

Come Home to Mama (MapleMusic)

Andy Cohen- Tryin’ to Get Home

Tryin’ to Get Home (Earwig)

Bob & Sarah Amos- The Hills That I Call Home 

Ever Onward (Bristlecone) 

Steel Rail- When Are You Coming Home

Coming Home (Crossties)

Mike Regenstreif & Tom Paxton (2009)

Tom Paxton- Home to Me is Anywhere You Are

Comedians & Angels (Appleseed) 

Daniel Kahn & Jake Shulman-Ment- Heym iz Mir Aleyn Nor Vu Du Blaybst (Home to Me is Anywhere You Are)

The Building and Other Songs (Oriente Musik)

Kevin Head & Mike Regenstreif (2013) photo: Vanessa Burnett

Kevin Head- Everyone Needs a Backyard

Hear Them Callin’ (Kevin Head)

Deborah Robins- I’m Going Home to Georgia

Home Fires (Zippety Whippet)

Bill Staines- My Sweet Wyoming Home

Miles (Mineral River)

Fred Holstein- The Telling Takes Me Home

Fred Holstein: A Collection (Fred Holstein)

David Massengill- My Home Must Be a Special Place

My Home Must Be a Special Place (Gadfly)

James Talley- To Get Back Home

Touchstones (Cimarron)

Bill Garrett & Sue Lothrop- On Your Way Home

Red Shoes (Borealis)

Mike Regenstreif & Jimmy LaFave (2017)

Jimmy LaFave- Going Home

Favorites 1992-2001 (Music Road)

Tom Waits- Long Way Home

Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (Anti-)

Shelley Posen- Roseberry Road

Roseberry Road (Well Done Music)

Rosalie Sorrels- The Pine

Live at the Great American Music Hall (Flying Fish)

Duke Robillard & Herb Ellis- Flying Home

Conversations in Swing Guitar (Stony Plain)

Next week: The Musical Adventures of Jim, Geoff & Maria.

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday August 13, 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 at home and can already be streamed on-demand at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/57252.html

Happy Traum- There’s a Bright Side Somewhere
There’s a Bright Side Somewhere (Lark’s Nest Music)

The next 12 songs are a tribute to Peter, Paul & Mary’s self-titled debut album, released 60 years ago.

Peter, Paul & Mary- Early in the Morning
Peter, Paul and Mary (Warner Bros.)
Alice Howe- 500 Miles
Americana Railroad (Renew/BMG)
Ken Whiteley- Man of Constant Sorrow
Long Time Travelling (Ken Whiteley)
Louis Armstrong- This Train
Louis and the Good Book (Verve)
Dave Van Ronk- River Come Down (Bamboo)
Down in Washington Square (Smithsonian Folkways)
Peter, Paul & Mary- It’s Raining
Peter, Paul and Mary (Warner Bros.)

Reverend Gary Davis- Samson and Delilah (If I Had My Way)
Live at Newport (Vanguard)
Bethany Yarrow with Peter Yarrow- The Cruel War
Rock Island (Little Monster)
Peter, Paul & Mary- Lemon Tree
Peter, Paul and Mary (Warner Bros.)
Nanci Griffith & Friends- IF I Had a Hammer
Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back to Bountiful) (Elektra) 
Priscilla Herdman- Autumn to May
Stardreamer (Stardreamer Music)
Kronos Quartet with Sam Amidon, Brian Carpenter, Lee Knight & Aoife O'Donovan- Where Have All the Flowers Gone
Long Time Passing: Kronos Quartet & Friends Celebrate Pete Seeger (Smithsonian Folkways)

Hoyt Axton- We’ll Sing in the Sunshine
Mr. Greenback Dollar Man (Surrey)
Gale Garnett- Settle Down
The Many Faces of Gale Garnett (RCA)
Kim Beggs- I Wanna Be a Flower
Steel and Wool (Out of a Paper Bag Productions)
The Goddamsels- Wayward Daughter
Wayward Daughter (The Goddamsels)

Pharis & Jason Romero- Old Bill’s Tune
Tell ‘Em You Were Gold (Smithsonian Folkways)

Joy Zimmerman, Erin McGrane, Danielle Anderson & Eboni Fondren- Hear Our Voices
Hear Our Voices – single (Cultivate Joy)
Colleen Kattau- Hands Off
Besos Kisses (Windlight Studios)

Brendan Nolan- Packing Her Bag
Beneath White Stars: Holocaust Profiles in Song (AlmondSeed Media)
Mella Barnes- Between the Lines
Beneath White Stars: Holocaust Profiles in Song (AlmondSeed Media)
Lenka Lichtenberg- Zas v slunci zlatém/In golden sunlight
Thieves of Dreams (Six Degrees)

Archie Roach- Took the Children Away
The Songs of Charcoal Lane (Bloodlines)
Windborne- Parcel of Rogues
Of Hard Times & Harmony (Wand’ring Feet)
Allison Russell- Little Rebirth
Outside Child (Fantasy)

Adler & Hearne- It’s Summer and We’re Burning
The Ties That Bind Us (Howlin’ Dog)
Guy Davis- Flint River Blues
Be Ready When I Call You (M.C.)
Tiffany Williams- All Those Days of Drinking Dust
All Those Days of Drinking Dust (Blue Redbird)

Mike Regenstreif & David Clayton-Thomas (2006)

Peter Mulvey & SistaStrings- Old Men Drinking Seagram’s
Love is the Only Thing (Righteous Babe)
David Clayton-Thomas- This Town
Say Somethin’ (Linus)

Apple & Setser- It Doesn’t Matter Anymore
Apple & Setser (Bell Buckle)
Chaim Tannenbaum, Kate & Anna McGarrigle & Lily Lanken- Young Love
The McGarrigle Hour (Hannibal)
Last Forever- Duke of Earl
Trainfare Home (StorySound)
Steve Howell & The Mighty Men- Such a Night
Been Here and Gone (Out of the Past Music)

Marc Von Em- Stay
Goodbye, Cloudy Sky (Marc Von Em)
Onna Lou- Qué hiciste con mi querer
Diamante (Onna Lou)
The Hot Sardines- Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen/Diga Diga Do
Live at Joe’s Pub (The Hot Sardines)

Kevin Head & Mike Regenstreif (2013) (Photo: Vanessa Burnett)

Jon Burrowes- Sure I Got the Blues

One More Ride (Jon Burrowes)
Kate & Edith- Make Me a Pallet On Your Floor
Live at Kelso Hall (Kate & Edith)
Kevin Head- Digby Lament
Hear Them Callin’ (Kevin Head)
Mama's Broke- Windows
Narrow Line (Free Dirt)
Dan Navarro- Horizon Line
Horizon Line (Red Hen)

Tom Paxton, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Grandpa Danced the Charleston
All New (Community Music)
Moore & McGregor- Dancing Shoes
Dream with Me (Ivernia)
Missy Burgess- Dance Me Slow
Play Me Sweet (Missy Burgess)
Nanci Griffith- Spin on a Red Brick Floor
One Fair Summer Evening (MCA)

Happy Traum- Santa Cruz Blues
There’s a Bright Side Somewhere (Lark’s Nest Music)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on September 10. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm. And, I’ll be hosting Canadian Spaces on Saturday August 27 from 10 am-noon.

Find me on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--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.

Find me on Twitter. @MikeRegenstreif

And on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif