Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – May 20, 2025: Variations on Hallelujah

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/595/70281.html

Theme: Variations on Hallelujah

While the show includes several variations on Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” the theme is not just about the Leonard Cohen song.

Leonard Cohen- (Leonard Cohen’s song called) Hallelujah

Live in London (Columbia)

The Roches- The Hallelujah Chorus

Keep On Doing (Warner Bros.)

Peter, Paul & Mary- Michael Row the Boat Ashore

Around the Campfire (Warner Bros.)

Judy Collins- Sing Hallelujah

Maids & Golden Apples (Wildflower)

Bob Franke- Alleluia, The Great Storm is Over

The Other Evening in Chicago (Waterbug)

Kim & Reggie Harris- Hallelujah I’m a Bum

Resurrection Day (Appleseed)

Canadian Brass- (Leonard Cohen’s song called) Hallelujah 

Canadiana (Linus/Canadian Brass)

Orit Shimoni- (Orit Shimoni’s song called) Hallelujah

Lost and Found on the Road to Nowhere (Orit Shimoni)

The Staple Singers- Glory, Glory, Hallelujah

Freedom Highway (Columbia/Legacy)

Jayme Stone, Moira Smiley, Sumaia Jackson, Joe Phillips, Felicity Williams & Denzal Sinclare- (The Sacred Harp song called) Hallelujah

Jayme Stone’s Folklife (Borealis)

SONiA disappear fear- (Leonard Cohen’s song called) Hallelujah

By My Silence (Disappear)

Boreal- (Katherine Wheatley’s song called) Hallelujah

Winterbirds (Boreal)

Andrew Calhoun- Hallelujah Morning

Living Room (Waterbug) 

Mara Levine- (Nancy Cassidy’s song called) Hallelujah

Jewels and Harmony (Mara’s Creations)

Karyn Oliver- Cry Hallelujah

Cherchez la Femme (Karyn Oliver)

k.d. lang- (Leonard Cohen’s song called) Hallelujah

Hymns of the 49th Parallel (Nonesuch)

Ray Charles- Hallelujah I Love Her So

The Birth of Soul (Atlantic)

American Nomad- (Martha Scanlan’s song called) Hallelujah

Country Mile (Spruce & Maple Music)

John McCutcheon- Hallelujah Morning

Cabin Fever: Songs from the Quarantine (Appalsongs)

Liz Queler- Hallelujah (Sing for the Hope)

Folk Now: Songs for These Times – October 2023 (Hudson Harding)

Lucy Kaplansky- (Leonard Cohen’s song called) Hallelujah

Everyday Street (Lucy Kaplansky)

Next week: “Songs of this kind should not need to be sung.”

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – February 18, 2025: Songs from Gullah Traditions

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/595/68957.html

Theme: Songs from Gullah Traditions.

The Gullah people are an African American group – descended from enslaved people from West Africa – who live in the coastal plains and sea islands of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and northern Florida and have a rich tradition of folksongs.

Bessie Jones & The Georgia Sea Island Singers- O Day

Get in Union (Tompkins Square)

Bessie Jones & The Georgia Sea Island Singers- Buzzard Lope

Get in Union (Tompkins Square)

Reggie Harris- Sheep, Sheep/Little David

Ready to Go (Reggie Harris Music)

Ken Whiteley and the Beulah Band- Beulah Land

Ken Whiteley and the Beulah Band (Borealis)

Ranky Tanky- That’s Alright

Ranky Tanky (Resilience Music)

David Rea- Kindlin’ Wood/Things are Coming My Way

X 7 (Gitsu)

Bessie Jones & The Georgia Sea Island Singers- Sink ‘Em Low

Get in Union (Tompkins Square)

Ranky Tanky- Join the Band

Ranky Tanky (Resilience Music)

Ken Whiteley- Michael Row

Long Time Travelling (Ken Whiteley)

Kim & Reggie Harris with Baby Jay- Row de Boat

Get On Board: Underground Railroad & Civil Rights Freedom Songs, Volume 2 (Appleseed)

Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project with Tim O'Brien- Before This Time Another Year

Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project (Borealis)

Bessie Jones & The Georgia Sea Island Singers- Sign of the Judgement

Get in Union (Tompkins Square)

The Duhks- Moses Don’t Get Lost

Migrations (Sugar Hill)

The Duhks- Turtle Dove

Migrations (Sugar Hill)

Penny Lang- Let Me Fly

Stone + Sand + Sea + Sky (Borealis)

Ranky Tanky- Watch That Star

Ranky Tanky (Resilience Music)

Bessie Jones & The Georgia Sea Island Singers- Once There was No Sun

The Complete Friends of Old Time Music Concert (Smithsonian Folkways)

John Davis & The Georgia Sea Island Singers- Adam in the Garden

The Complete Friends of Old Time Music Concert (Smithsonian Folkways)

Bessie Jones & The Georgia Sea Island Singers- Who Built the Ark

The Complete Friends of Old Time Music Concert (Smithsonian Folkways)

John Davis & The Georgia Sea Island Singers- Let My Children Go

The Complete Friends of Old Time Music Concert (Smithsonian Folkways)

Peter Davis & The Georgia Sea Island Singers- My God is a Rock

The Complete Friends of Old Time Music Concert (Smithsonian Folkways)

Bruce Springsteen & The Sessions Band- Pay Me My Money Down

Live in Dublin (Columbia)

Ranky Tanky- Ranky Tanky

Ranky Tanky (Resilience Music)

Bessie Jones & The Georgia Sea Island Singers- You Better Mind

Put Your Hand On Your Hip and Let Your Backbone Slip: Songs and Games from the Georgia Sea Islands (Rounder)

Bessie Jones & The Georgia Sea Island Singers- May Be the Last Time, I Don’t Know

Put Your Hand On Your Hip and Let Your Backbone Slip: Songs and Games from the Georgia Sea Islands (Rounder)

Next week: A Tribute to Nina Simone.

--Mike Regenstreif 

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – September 10, 2024: Conversation and Songs with Reggie Harris

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/595/66775.html

Theme: Songs and Conversation with Reggie Harris.

Reggie Harris & Mike Regenstreif on Zoom (2024)

My conversation with Reggie Harris wa s recorded on August 21 via Zoom. Reggie’s book, Searching for Solid Ground: A Memoir, written with Linda Hansell, is available through most online booksellers.

Our conversation was punctuated by these songs.

Reggie Harris- On Solid Ground

On Solid Ground (Reggie Harris Music)

Kim & Reggie Harris- Wade in the Water

Steal Away: Songs of the Underground Railroad (Appleseed)

Kim & Reggie Harris- Oh Freedom

Steal Away: Songs of the Underground Railroad (Appleseed)

Kim & Reggie Harris- Resurrection Day

Resurrection Day (Appleseed)

Reggie Harris- Hickory Hill

Ready to Go (Reggie Harris Music)

Reggie Harris- Been Down Into the South

Ready to Go (Reggie Harris Music)

Reggie Harris- High Over the Hudson

On Solid Ground (Reggie Harris Music)

Reggie Harris- Harlem Renaissance

Ready to Go (Reggie Harris Music)

Visit Reggie’s website for more information about Reggie, his music and his other projects.

Next week: Hank Williams 101.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – August 6, 2024: Remembering Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon

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/595/66262.html

Theme: Remembering Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon (1942-2024).

Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, who died on July 16 at age 81, was a noted singer – probably best known for founding and leading the a cappella group Sweet Honey in the Rock. She was a prominent civil rights activist and a member of The SNCC Freedom Singers in the 1960s. Later, she served as cultural historian in music history at the Smithsonian Institution, curator of music history for the National Museum of American History, and as a distinguished professor of history at American University.

Bernice Johnson Reagon- River of Life

River of Life: Harmony One (Flying Fish)

The SNCC Freedom Singers- Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ‘Round

Voices of the Civil Rights Movement (Smithsonian Folkways)

The SNCC Freedom Singers- We Shall Not Be Moved

Voices of the Civil Rights Movement (Smithsonian Folkways)

The SNCC Freedom Singers- Woke Up This Morning with My Mind on Freedom

Voices of the Civil Rights Movement (Smithsonian Folkways)

Len Chandler & Bernice Johnson Reagon- I’m Going to Get My Baby Out of Jail

The Best of Broadside 1962-1988 (Smithsonian Folkways)

Bernice Johnson Reagon & Pete Seeger- Backlash Blues

Pete Seeger Now (Columbia)

Bernice Johnson Reagon & Pete Seeger - Michael, Row the Boat Ashore

Pete Seeger Now (Columbia)

Bernice Johnson Reagon & Pete Seeger- Taint But Me One

Pete Seeger Now (Columbia)

Bernice Johnson Reagon- There is More Love Somewhere

River of Life: Harmony One (Flying Fish)

Bernice Johnson Reagon- Cotton Needed Pickin’ So Bad

Pete Seeger Now (Columbia)

Bernice Johnson Reagon, Kim & Reggie Harris- Oh Mary, Don’t You Weep

Get On Board: Underground Railroad & Civil Rights Freedom Songs, Volume 2 (Appleseed)

Sweet Honey in the Rock- Joan Little

Selections 1976-1988 (Flying Fish)

Sweet Honey in the Rock- Echo

Selections 1976-1988 (Flying Fish)

Sweet Honey in the Rock- As Long As I Have Breath in My Body

Selections 1976-1988 (Flying Fish)

Sweet Honey in the Rock- My Way

Selections 1976-1988 (Flying Fish)

Bernice Johnson Reagon & Toshi Reagon- Your Country

Africans in America: America’s Journey Through Slavery (Rykodisc)

Bernice Johnson Reagon & Toshi Reagon- Remember Me

Africans in America: America’s Journey Through Slavery (Rykodisc)

Bernice Johnson Reagon & Toshi Reagon- Long Way Journey Home

Africans in America: America’s Journey Through Slavery (Rykodisc)

Bernice Johnson Reagon & Toshi Reagon- Venture’s Song

Africans in America: America’s Journey Through Slavery (Rykodisc)

Sweet Honey in the Rock- Come Unto Me

Africans in America: America’s Journey Through Slavery (Rykodisc)

Bernice Johnson Reagon & Toshi Reagon- What Kind of Land

Africans in America: America’s Journey Through Slavery (Rykodisc)

Bernice Johnson Reagon- Balm in Gilead

Africans in America: America’s Journey Through Slavery (Rykodisc)

Bernice Johnson Reagon- Since I Laid My Burden Down

River of Life: Harmony One (Flying Fish)

Next week: “Kin Ya See That Sun.”

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – February 6, 2024: A Tribute to Odetta

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/595/63807.html

Theme: A Tribute to Odetta (1930-2008).

Odetta, the magnificent and highly influential African American folk and blues singer, who died in 2008 at the age of 77, was born Odetta Holmes in Birmingham, Alabama. She originally trained to be an opera singer and her earliest professional jobs were in musical theatre. In 1949, while singing in the touring company of Finian’s Rainbow, she met some folksingers and fell in love with the genre. From then on, she turned her attention to folk and blues, performing concerts and recording prolifically starting in the mid-1950s.

I met Odetta for the first time in 1977 in the hallway of the hotel we were staying at during the Philadelphia Folk Festival. I was there with Priscilla Herdman, who knew Odetta, and when she introduced us, Odetta gave me one of her big hugs. In the 1980s, I brought Odetta to The Golem, the folk club I ran in Montreal, numerous times.

Odetta, pianist Dave Keyes & Mike Regenstreif (2008)

The last time I got to work with Odetta was when I hosted a workshop with her at the 2008 Ottawa Folk Festival, just a few months before she passed away. I was deeply honored when she told me that my friendship over the years meant a lot to her.

All of the songs on this show were from Odetta’s repertoire.

Odetta- Stranger Here

Sometimes I Feel Like Cryin’ (RCA)

Lead Belly with The Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet- Alabama Bound

Take This Hammer – When the Sun Goes Down, Vol. 5 (Bluebird)

Bessie Smith- Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out

Bessie Smith: The Absolutely Essential 3 CD Collection (Big3)

Josh White- House of the Rising Sun

The Josh White Stories, Vols. I & II (Jasmine)

Odetta- Roberta

Lookin’ for a Home: Thanks to Leadbelly (M.C.)

Odetta- Freedom Trilogy: Oh Freedom/Come & Go with Me/I’m On My Way

Gonna Let It Shine (M.C.)

Gina Coleman- Glory Glory

Tell Me Who You Are: A Live Tribute to Odetta (Guitar One) 

Kim & Reggie Harris- Wade in the Water

Steal Away: Songs of the Underground Railroad (Appleseed)

Odetta- Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child

Odetta at Carnegie Hall (Vanguard)

Bob Dylan- No More Auction Block

The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 [Rare & Unreleased] 1961-1991 (Columbia)

Odetta- Blowin’ in the Wind

Odetta Sings Dylan (RCA)

Chaim Tannenbaum- Ain’t No More Cane on the Brazos

Chaim Tannenbaum (StorySound)

Rhiannon Giddens- Waterboy

Tomorrow is My Turn (Nonesuch)

Sweet Honey in the Rock- The Midnight Special

A Tribute: Live! Jazz at Lincoln Centre (Appleseed)

Coco Love Alcorn- This Little Light of Mine

Rebirth (Coco Love Alcorn)

Odetta & The Holmes Brothers- Down By the Riverside

Gonna Let It Shine (M.C.)

Tom Jones- Hit or Miss

Spirit in the Room (Island)

Penny Lang- Careless Love

Stone + Sand + Sea + Sky (Borealis)

Misty Blues- Go Down, Sunshine

Tell Me Who You Are: A Live Tribute to Odetta (Guitar One) 

Odetta & Dr. John- Oh Papa

Blues Everywhere I Go (M.C.)

Odetta- Goodnight Irene

Lookin’ for a Home: Thanks to Leadbelly (M.C.)

Next week: A Tribute Jelly Roll Morton on Mardi Gras Day.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday April 4, 2023: Songs of the Passover and Easter Legends

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 recorded and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/60013.html

Theme: Songs of the Passover and Easter Legends.

Kim & Reggie Harris- Go Down Moses

Steal Away: Songs of the Underground Railroad (Appleseed)

Peter, Paul & Mary- Tell It on the Mountain

In the Wind (Warner Bros.)

Rabbi Jonathan Kliger & Reggie Harris- Man Come Into Egypt

Let My People Go: A Jewish & African American Celebration of Freedom (Appleseed)

Caroline Doctorow- Wade in the Water

That Changes Everything (Narrow Lane)

The Short Sisters- Moses

A Planet Dancing Slow (Black Socks Press)

The Klezmatics- Moses Smote the Water

Brother Moses Smote the Water (Piranha)

Charlie Haden & Hank Jones- Wade in the Water

Steal Away: Spirituals, Hymns and Folk Songs (Verve)

Michael Jerome Browne & Harrison Kennedy- Pharaoh

That’s Where It’s At! (Borealis)

Jesse Winchester- Pharaoh’s Army

Learn to Love It (Stony Plain)

Bob Franke- Walkin’ in the Wilderness

The Desert Questions (Robert J. Franke)

Shelley Posen- And We Sang ‘Ha Lakhma Anya’

Manna (Well Done Music)

David Olney- Jerusalem Tomorrow

The Stone (Deadbeet)

David Olney- Brays

The Stone (Deadbeet)

David Olney- Brains

The Stone (Deadbeet)

David Olney- Flesh and Blood

The Stone (Deadbeet)

David Olney- Barabbas

The Stone (Deadbeet)

David Olney- A Soldier’s Report

The Stone (Deadbeet)

Reverend Gary Davis- Crucifixion

A Little More Faith (Prestige/Bluesville)

Ralph McTell- Jesus Wept

Sand in Your Shoes (Red House)

Charlie Haden & Hank Jones- Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?

Come Sunday (EmArcy)

Next week: Old Friends.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday August 9, 2022: “Acapella Stella” and other a cappella songs

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/595/57170.html

Theme: “Acapella Stella” and other a cappella songs.

All the songs on this show are performed a cappella – that is the singers are not accompanied by musical instruments.

Maddy Prior & The Girls- Acapella Stella
Bib & Tuck (Park)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Mike Regenstreif, Chaim Tannenbaum, Dane Lanken (1976) Photo: Felicity Fanjoy

Chaim Tannenbaum, Dane Lanken, Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Dig My Grave
The McGarrigle Hour (Hannibal)
Alison Krauss- Down to the River to Pray
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Mercury)
Ralph Stanley- O Death
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Mercury)
Jesse Winchester- I Can’t Stand Up Alone
Learn to Love It (Stony Plain)

Paul Simon & Ladysmith Black Mambazo- Homeless
Graceland (Warner Bros.)
Ladysmith Black Mambazo- Rain Rain Beautiful Rain
Live at the Royal Albert Hall (Shanachie)
Blue Flame String Band- Blues Stay Away from Me
Blue Flame String Band (Flying Fish)

Maria Dunn- Beautiful Fools
Joyful Banner Blazing (Distant Whisper)

Finest Kind- John Barleycorn
Silks & Spices (Fallen Angle)
Finest Kind- John Barleycorn Deconstructed
For Honour & For Gain (Fallen Angle)

Rod MacDonald & Mike Regenstreif (2005)

Garnet Rogers- Sammy’s Bar
Summer Lightning: Live (Snow Goose Songs)
Pressgang Mutiny- Roll Away
Across the Western Ocean (Pressgang Mutiny)
Coope, Boyes & Simpson- Shallow Brown
Coope, Boyes & Simpson (World Music Network)
Rod MacDonald- A Sailor’s Prayer
No Commercial Traffic (Solstice)

Kim Harris & Mike Regenstreif (2005)

Kim & Reggie Harris- Oh Freedom
Steal Away: Songs of the Underground Railroad (Appleseed)
Priscilla Herdman- Ain’t I a Woman
Darkness Into Light (Flying Fish)
The Short Sisters- Honey in the Rock
Love and Transportation (Black Socks Press)
Sweet Honey in the Rock- Rivers of Babylon
Selections 1976-1988 (Flying Fish)

The Wailin' Jennys- Light of a Clear Blue Morning
Fifteen (True North)
Penny Lang- Never Turning Back
Carry On Children (She-Wolf)
Windborne- When I’m Gone
Of Hard Times & Harmony (Wand’ring Feet)

Rosalie Sorrels & Mike Regenstreif (1993)

Sneezy Waters- Solitude
Sneezy Waters (Sneezy Waters)
The Manhattan Transfer- Foreign Affair
The Manhattan Transfer Anthology: Down in Birdland (Rhino)
Rosalie Sorrels- The Toast
What Ever Happened to the Girl That Was (Paramount)
Dave Van Ronk- Last Call
Going Back to Brooklyn (HighTone)

Next week: It’s Lake Time.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday May 31, 2022: Reflections on Freedom

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 at home and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/56423.html

Theme: Reflections on Freedom.

The very idea of Freedom is not something we can be complacent about. As one of the songs on this show notes, Freedom is a Constant Struggle.

Lois Deloatch- Hymn to Freedom
Hymn to Freedom: Homage to Oscar Peterson (Improv Media)

Ken Whiteley- Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Freedom Blues (Borealis)

Billy Bragg, SONiA disappear fear & Mike Regenstreif (2017)

James Gordon- Crybabies Caravan
Crybabies Caravan – single (James Gordon)
Billy Bragg- Freedom Doesn’t Come for Free
The Million Things That Never Happened (Cooking Vinyl)

Kim & Reggie Harris- Follow the Drinking Gourd
Steal Away: Songs of the Underground Railroad (Appleseed)
Khari Wendell McClelland- No More Auction Block
Freedom Singer (Khari Wendell McClelland)

Odetta- Freedom Trilogy: Oh Freedom, Come & Go with Me, I’m On My Way
Gonna Let It Shine (M.C.)
Crabtree & Mills- The Price of Freedom
Freedom (Free & Easy Music)
Reggie Harris- Standing in Freedom’s Name
On Solid Ground (Reggie Harris Music)
Peter, Paul & Mary- No Easy Walk to Freedom
No Easy Walk to Freedom (Gold Castle)

The video of this performance of “Ukrainian Now” is at this link. 

John McCutcheon with Tom Paxton, Noel Paul Stookey, Peter Yarrow, Bill Miller, Tret Fure, Holly Near Joe Jencks, Emma's Revolution, Rebel Voices, Crys Matthews, Carrie Newcomer & Christine Lavin- Ukrainian Now
Ukrainian Now – single (Appalseed)
Lenka Lichtenberg- Ženeme ?as/We’re chasing time
Thieves of Dreams (Six Degrees)
SONiA disappear fear- By My Silence
By My Silence (Disappear)

Mike Regenstreif & Eric Bibb (2005)

Ladysmith Black Mambazo- Long Walk to Freedom
Long Walk to Freedom (Heads Up International)
Eric Bibb- Stayed On Freedom
Get Onboard (Telarc)

Rosalie Sorrels- Rosie Jane
No Closing Chord: The Songs of Malvina Reynolds (Red House)
Eric Bogle- Roll Call
A Toss of the Coin (Greentrax)

Judy Collins- Liberté
Portrait of an American Girl (Wildflower)

Oscar Peterson- Hymn to Freedom
Night Train (Verve)

Next week: Disney Songs.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday March 29, 2022: The Art of the Long Song

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/595/55701.html

Theme: The Art of the Long Song

While most songs fall somewhere in the range of 2 to 5 minutes, the songs on this show are in the range of 6 to 15 minutes.

Garnet Rogers with Doug Long- Frankie & Johnny
Summer Lightning: Live (Snow Goose Songs)
Laura Smith- One Woman
As Long As I’m Dreaming (Borealis)

Bob Dylan- Desolation Row
Highway 61 Revisited (Columbia/Legacy)

Doug McArthur & Jeffra- Montaña de Oro
Angels of the Mission Trail (Doug McArthur & Jeffra)
Tom Russell- Gallo del Cielo
Old Songs Yet to Sing (Frontera)

Jackson Browne & Rob Wasserman- You Know the Night
Note of Hope (429)

Chaim Tannenbaum- Belfast Louis Falls in Love
Chaim Tannenbaum (StorySound)
Wade Hemsworth with the Mountain City Four- The Story of The I’m Alone
Wade Hemsworth with the Mountain City Four (Peter Weldon)

Janis Ian featuring John Cowan & Diane Schur- Better Times Will Come
The Light at the End of the Line (Rude Girl)

Kim & Reggie Harris- Tree of Life
Resurrection Day (Appleseed)

Next week: Remembering John Prine

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--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday September 11, 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/128/53398.html

Jackson Browne- A Little Soon to Say
Downhill from Everywhere (Inside Recordings)

Lynne Hanson- Hold My Breath
Hold My Breath – single (Lynne Hanson)
Orit Shimoni- Maybe Tomorrow
Lorem Ipsum (Orit Shimoni)
Cosy Sheridan- It’s Gonna Get Better
A Beautiful Sound (Cosy Sheridan)
Sloan Wainwright- Bright Side of a Rainy Day
Bright Side of a Rainy Day (Sloan Wainwright)
John McCutcheon- Bucket List
Bucket List (Appalseed)

Terri Hendrix- Little Bird
Pilgrim’s Progress: Project 5.5 (Wilory)
Roy Forbes- The Beating of Your Very Own Heart
Edge of Blue (AKA)
Efrat- Fade Away
We Just Need Love (Efrat)
Sons of the Never Wrong- No One Only You
Undertaker’s Songbook (Sons 3)

Mike Regenstreif & Tom Paxton (circa 1994)

Tom Paxton- Deep Fork River
How Come the Sun/Tom Paxton EP (BGO)
Deborah Robins- Tell Old Bill
Lone Journey (Zippety Whippet Music)
Al Grierson- The Illumination of Judge Roy Bean
The Petals (Folkin’ Eh)
Mississippi John Hurt- Stack O’Lee
Mr. Hurt Goes to Washington (Sunset Blvd.)
Robin & Linda Williams- Leaving Home (Frankie and Johnny)
A Better Day A-Coming (Oakenwold Recordings)

Gypsy Rox- Papirosen
A Fiddler in Every Port (Ky Hote)

Logan English- Wild Bill Jones
Kentucky Folk Songs and Ballads (Folkways)
Scott Alarik- Logan English
-30- Folk Songs Old and New (Scott Alarik)
Bill Staines- Going Back Where the Wheatfields Wave
Miles (Mineral River)

Jackson Grimm- I Drink
Sober Again (Vault)
Mary Gauthier- Good-Bye
Filth & Fire (D7)
Crowes Pasture- Mercy Now
Slow It Down (Crowes Pasture)

Jesse Winchester & Mike Regenstreif (2000)

Lucy Kaplansky- Everybody Knows but Me
The Tide (Red House)
Tom Rush- Biloxi
Tom Rush/Wrong End of the Rainbow (BGO)
Jesse Winchester- Dangerous Fun
Third Down, 110 to Go (Stony Plain)
Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers- My Songbird
Ramble in Music City: The Lost Concert 1990 (Nonesuch)
Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger- Defying Gravity
Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses (Dogfish Music)

Anne Hills & Michael Smith- Paterson Summer
Paradise Lost and Found (Red Wing)
Steel Rail- That’s How the Summer Slips Away
River Song (Crossties)
Archie Fisher & Garnet Rogers- Summer’s End
The Best Times After All: Live (Snow Goose Songs)
David Francey- Far End of Summer
Far End of Summer (Laker)

Oscar Peterson- Night Train
Night Train (Verve)

Sharon Goldman- Tuesday Morning Sun
Every Trip Around the Sun (Sharon Goldman)
Stuart Kabak- Towers of Love
Towers of Love – single (Stuart Kabak)
Kim & Reggie Harris- Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child/Short Shift at Ground Zero
Simplicity (Appleseed)
Noa- Look at Me
Letters to Bach (Naïve)

Yiddish Glory- Yom Kippur Without Fascists
Yom Kippur Without Fascists – single (Six Degrees)
Birds On a Wire- Who By Fire
Ramages (Pias)
Tzimmes- Biy-mei Hayai
The Road Never Travelled (Big Tzimmes Productions)

Mike Regenstreif & Shawna Caspi (2015)

Shawna Caspi- Wait Love
Hurricane Coming (Shawna Caspi)
Ana Egge- The Machine
Between Us (StorySound)
Finny McConnell- Atlantic City
The Dark Streets of Love (True North)

Tom Russell- The Santa Fe at Midnight
Borderland (HighTone)
Kate Taylor- Why Wait!
Why Wait! (Red House)
VickiKristinaBarcelona- I’ll Be Gone
Pawn Shop Radio (StorySound)

Sue Foley- Okie Dokie Stomp
Pinky’s Blues (Stony Plain)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on October 9. 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
 

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday March 30, 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 – Episode #8 – was prerecorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/51425.html

Theme: Songs Inspired by Bible Stories 

Maria Muldaur- Adam and Eve had the Blues
Sweet and Slow (Stony Plain)
Geoff Bartley- Noah’s Ark
One Kind Word (Magic Crow)
Sharon Goldman- Pillar of Salt
Kol Isha/A Woman’s Voice (Sharon Goldman)

Shelley Posen- Ram in the Thicket
Manna (Well Done Music)
Leonard Cohen- Story of Isaac
Songs from a Room (Columbia/Legacy)

Kim & Reggie Harris- Go Down Moses
Steal Away: Songs of the Underground Railroad (Appleseed)
Jesse Winchester- Pharaoh’s Army
Learn to Love It (Stony Plain)
Bob Franke- Walkin’ in the Wilderness
The Desert Questions (Robert J. Franke)

Margot Leverett & The Klezmer Mountain Boys with Hazel Dickens- Little Moses
2nd Avenue Square Dance (Traditional Crossroads)
Odetta- Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
Best of the Vanguard Years (Vanguard)
Rory Block- Samson & Delilah
I Belong to the Band: A Tribute to Rev. Gary Davis (Stony Plain)

The Short Sisters- Shadrack
Live from Four States (Black Socks Press)
The High Bar Gang- Daniel Prayed
Lost and Undone (True North)
Louis Armstrong- Ezekiel Saw the Wheel
Louis and the Good Book (Verve)
Eliza Gilkyson- Rose of Sharon
Your Town Tonight (Red House)

Shelley Posen- Shepherd
Menorah: Songs from a Jewish Life (Well Done Music)
SONiA disappear fear- Hallelujah
By My Silence (Disappear Records)

Ian & Sylvia- Jesus Met the Woman at the Well
Four Strong Winds (Vanguard)
Jackie Washington, Ken Whiteley & Mose Scarlett- Blind Barnabas
Where Old Friends Meet (Pyramid)
Odetta & The Holmes Brothers- Two Little Fishes and Five Loaves of Bread
Shout, Sister, Shout! A Tribute to Sister Rosetta Tharpe (M.C.)

Josh White- Never Said a Mumblin’ Word
The Josh White Stories, Vols. I & II (Jasmine)
Mavis Staples- Were You There?
Spirituals & Gospel (Gitanes)
David Olney- A Soldier’s Report
The Stone (Deadbeet)

Charlie Haden & Hank Jones- Wade in the Water
Steal Away: Spirituals, Hymns and Folk Songs (Verve)

Next week – A Live Music Extravaganza

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--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday April 27, 2019

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

This episode of Saturday Morning can be streamed on-demand at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/42656.html

“We are traveling in the footsteps of those who’ve come before,” this program celebrates the enduring legacy of Pete Seeger (1919-2014). Some of the songs on the show were written or co-written by Pete, others are traditional or contemporary songs from his repertoire, and some were inspired by him. Friday, May 3, will be the centennial of Pete’s birth.

The Weavers- When the Saints Go Marching In

Best of the Vanguard Years (Vanguard)

John McCutcheon- To Everyone in All the World

To Everyone in All the World: A Celebration of Pete Seeger (Appalsongs)

Peter, Paul & Mary- If I Had a Hammer

Peter, Paul and Mary (Warner Bros.)

SONiA disappear fear & Gitte Diatsschuk- Where Have All the Flowers Gone

Live at Maximal (Disappear Records)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Well May the World Go/Letter from Pete’s Banjo

Get Up and Do Right (Community Music)

Grit Laskin- The Photographers

Unabashedly Folk: Songs and Tunes 1979-1985 (Borealis)

Rosalie Sorrels- Old Devil Time

Report from Grimes Creek (Green Linnet)

Ken Whiteley- Quite Early Morning

Ken Whiteley and the Beulah Band (Borealis)

Pete Seeger- Both Sides Now

Young vs. Old (Columbia)

Spook Handy- Pete Seeger’s Life

Dedicated to the Proposition: Pete, Woody & Me, Vol. II (Akashic)

David Wiffen- Times are Getting Hard

At the Bunkhouse Coffeehouse, Vancouver BC (Universal International)

Happy Traum- Empty Pocket Blues

I Walk the Road Again (Roaring Stream)

Bonnie Dobson- Dink’s Song

Take Me for a Walk in the Morning Dew (Hornbeam)

Penny Lang- Oh, Had I a Golden Thread

Carry On Children (She-Wolf)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Petites Boîtes (Little Boxes)

La vache qui pleure (Tribu)

Pete Seeger- My Dirty Stream (The Hudson River Song)

The Smithsonian Folkways Collection (Smithsonian Folkways)

Richie Havens- Of Time and Rivers Flowing

Where Have All the Flowers Gone: The Songs of Pete Seeger (Appleseed)

Arlo Guthrie- Sailing Down This Golden River

Outlasting the Blues (Rising Son)

Kim & Reggie Harris- High Over the Hudson

Unreleased recording used with permission

The Wailin' Jennys- Bring Me Little Water, Sylvie

The Wailin’ Jennys (The Wailin’ Jennys)

Long John Baldry- Rock Island Line

Remembering Leadbelly (Stony Plain)

Odetta- Midnight Special

Lookin’ for a Home: Thanks to Leadbelly (M.C.)

Pete Seeger- Huddie Ledbetter was Helluva Man

Pete (Living Music)

Ramblin' Jack Elliott & Jerry Jeff Walker- Hard Travelin’

Friends of Mine (HighTone)

Tim O'Brien- Pastures of Plenty

Tim O’Brien Band (Howdy Skies)

Judy Collins- So Long, It’s Been Good to Know Yuh

Woody Guthrie: The Tribute Concerts (Bear Family)

Pete Seeger- This Land is Your Land

The Smithsonian Folkways Collection (Smithsonian Folkways)

Joe Jencks- Let Me Sing You a Song

Poets, Philosophers, Workers & Wanderers (Turtle Bear Music)

Kate Campbell- Passing Through

The K.O.A. Tapes (Vol.1) (Large River Music)

Pete Seeger- L’Internationale

Singalong, Sanders Theatre, 1980 (Smithsonian Folkways)

                  

Bruce Cockburn- Turn, Turn, Turn

Where Have All the Flowers Gone: The Songs of Pete Seeger (Appleseed)

Perla Batalla- Guantanamera

Discoteca Batalla (Mechuda Music)

Malaika- Malaika

Live (Malaika)

HARP: Holly Near, Arlo Guthrie, Ronnie Gilbert, Pete Seeger- Wimoweh (Mbube)

A Time to Sing (Appleseed)

Dave Fry- Lessons from Pete

Troubadour (Dave Fry)

Chaim Tannenbaum- Farther Along

Chaim Tannenbaum (StorySound)

The Klezmatics w/Joshua Nelson & Kathryn Farmer- Oh Mary Don’t You Weep

Brother Moses Smote the Water (Piranha)

Manx Marriner Mainline- This Little Light of Mine

Hell Bound for Heaven (Stony Plain)

Bruce Springsteen- Jacob’s Ladder

We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (Columbia)

Dawn Tyler Watson- Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child

En Duo (Justin Time)

Tom Paxton- The Honor of Your Company

Live For the Record (Sugar Hill)

Pete Seeger w/Arlo Guthrie & Shenendoah- Precious Friend You Will Be There

Precious Friend (Warner Bros.) 

Jim Kweskin- Living in the Country

Unjugged (Hornbeam)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on May 25.

Find me on Twitter. @MikeRegenstreif

And on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif