Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – April 15, 2025: “All God’s Critters Got a Place in the Choir”

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/595/69786.html

Theme: “All God’s Critters Got a Place in the Choir” – all the songs have something or other to do with animals.

Bill Staines- A Place in the Choir

The First Million Miles (Rounder)

Ian & Sylvia- Old Blue

Ian & Sylvia (Vanguard)

Ron Hynes- A Good Dog is Lost

Get Back Change (Borealis)

James Talley- Somewhere in the Stars (A Song for Diego)

Ballads, Bandits and Blues (Cimarron)

Bob Dylan with Hilda Harris, Albertine Robinson & Maeretha Stewart- All the Tired Horses

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

Garnet Rogers- Small Victory

The Best Times After All: Live (Snow Goose Songs)

Amy Speace- There Used to Be Horses Here

There Used to Be Horses Here (Windbone)

Priscilla Herdman- Waltzing with Bears

Stardreamer (Alacazam)

Rosalie Sorrels- Mehitabel’s Theme

Always a Lady (Green Linnet)

Phil Harris- Thomas O’Malley Cat

Disney’s Jazz Album: Big Band & Swing (Disneyland)

Cisco Houston- The Cat Came Back

The Folkways Years 1944-1961 (Smithsonian Folkways)

Tom Russell- Gallo del Cielo

Old Songs Yet to Sing (Frontera)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Man Gave Names to All the Animals

Get Up and Do Right (Community Music)

Odetta- The Fox

At the Gate of Horn (Tradition)

Paul Geremia- Foolish Frog

I Really Don’t Mind Livin’/My Kinda Place (Flying Fish)

Dave Van Ronk, Anne Hills & Cindy Mangsen- Froggy Went A-Courting

Never Grow Up (Flying Fish)

Ladysmith Black Mambazo- Mbube (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)

Gift of the Tortoise (Music for Little People)

Amelia Hogan- The Snow Hare

Burnished (Amelia Hogan)

The Marigolds- Inchworm

The Marigolds (The Marigolds)

Oscar Brand- The Derby Ram

The Riverside Folklore Series, Volume Three: Singing the New Traditions (Riverside)

Deborah Robins- The Three Ravens

Lone Journey (Zippety Whippet Music) 

James Keelaghan- Red-Winged Blackbird

Home (Jericho Beach Music)

Jackie Washington- The Snake

Midnight Choo Choo (Borealis)

Dave Van Ronk- I’m Proud to Be a Moose

Peter and the Wolf (Alacazam)

Next week: Songs for Earth Day.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday July 18, 2023: Seven Psalms and Other Songs of Paul Simon

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/595/61226.html

Theme: Seven Psalms and Other Songs of Paul Simon.

Simon & Garfunkel- The Sound of Silence

Wednesday Morning 3 A.M. (Columbia)

Lucy Wainwright Roche & Suzzy Roche- Bleecker Street

Mud & Apples (Lucy Wainwright Roche & Suzzy Roche)

Dawn Tyler Watson & Paul Deslauriers-Homeward Bound

En Duo (Justin Time)

Caroline Doctorow- The Dangling Conversation

Dreaming in Vinyl (Narrow Lane)

Kate Campbell- America

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

Dave Van Ronk- Punky’s Dilemma

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

Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers- The Boxer

Ramble in Music City: The Lost Concert 1990 (Nonesuch)

Morgane Imbeaud & Elias Dris- Bridge Over Troubled Water

Homeward Bound: The Songs of Simon & Garfunkel (Fredonia)

Mara Levine- Song for the Asking

Facets of Folk (Mara’s Creations)

The Wailin' Jennys- Loves Me Like a Rock

Fifteen (True North)

John Stewart & Darwin’s Army- Boy in the Bubble

John Stewart & Darwin’s Army (Appleseed)

Melody Walker & Jacob Groopman- Graceland

We Made It Home (Maker/Mender Records)

Ladysmith Black Mambazo- Homeless

Live at the Royal Albert Hall (Shanachie)

Carrie Elkin- American Tune

The Penny Collector (Carrie Elkin)

Paul Simon’s new album, Seven Psalms, consists of just one track. Simon’s vision is that it is something to be listened to in its entirety so he weaves the seven psalms together into one piece. The seven psalms are The Lord, Love is Like a Braid, My Professional Opinion, Your Forgiveness, Trail of Volcanos, The Sacred Harp, and Wait. The second vocalist heard occasionally in the piece is Edie Brickell.

Paul Simon- Seven Psalms

Seven Psalms (Owl Legacy)

Paul Simon & Phoebe Snow- Gone at Last

Still Crazy After All These Years (Warner Bros.)

Next week: Name That Tune.

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday June 19, 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/128/52408.html

 

Donna Adler- Emily’s Café
Remembering Butterflies (Donna Adler)

Mike Regenstreif & Bill Morrissey (2005)

Cliff Eberhardt- When We Were Kings (Bill)
Knew Things (Tin Pan Ally)
Bill Morrissey- Small Town on the River
Bill Morrissey (Philo)
Lucy Kaplansky- Texas Blues
The Tide (Red House)

Murray McLauchaln- Pandemic Blues
Hourglass (True North)
Chris Ronald- Please Don’t Come for Me Now
Light & Dark (Borealis)

Amy Speace with The Orphan Brigade- Father’s Day
There Used to Be Horses Here (Windbone)
Michael ‘Earnie’ Taylor- What My Father Taught Me
Folk ‘n’ Western (Laughing Cactus Music)
Michael Smith- I Brought My Father With Me
Songs of a Catholic Childhood (J. O’Reilly Productions)

Diana Jones- Song to a Refugee
Song to a Refugee (Goldmine)

Joseph Spence- Run Come See Jerusalem
Encore: Unheard Recordings of Bahamian Guitar and Singing (Smithsonian Folkways)
Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Travellin’ On For Jesus
Tell My Sister: Kate & Anna McGarrigle (Nonesuch)

Allison Russell- Montreal
Outside Child (Fantasy)
Allison Russell- Nightflyer
Outside Child (Fantasy)

Oscar Peterson- Hymn to Freedom
Night Train (Verve)

Erin Ash Sullivan- Spring Come Running
We Can Hear Each Other (Willoughby)
Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi- Waterbound
They’re Calling Me Home (Nonesuch)
Adeline- Whitehorse Breakdown
Adeline (Owl)

Mark Schatz & Bryan McDowell- One Too Many Mornings
Grit & Polish (Patuxent Music)
Howard Gladstone with Bob Cohen- She Belongs to Me
She Belongs to Me – single (Howard Gladstone)
Ladysmith Black Mambazo & Dolly Parton- Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door
Heavenly (Shanachie)

Kate McDonnell- Ballad of a Bad Girl
Ballad of a Bad Girl (Dog Eared Discs)
Donna Herula- Bang at the Door
Bang at the Door (Donna Herula)
Rob Lutes- Knives
Come Around (Lucky Bear)
Kelly’s Lot- Stronger
Where or When (Kelly Zirbes)

Catherine Russell & Mike Regenstreif (2007)

Catherine Russell- Juneteenth Jamboree/Royal Garden Blues
Cat (World Village)
Loudon Wainwright III with Vince Giordano & The Nighthawks- I’d Rather Lead a Band
I’d Rather Lead a Band (Search Party)
Maria Muldaur with Tuba Skinny- Be Your Natural Self
Let’s Get Happy Together (Stony Plain)
Jeff Healey- Sing You Sinners
The Best of the Stony Plain Years: Vintage Jazz, Swing and Blues (Stony Plain)
Annabelle Chvostek- D’être humain
String of Pearls (Annabelle Chvostek)

Dave Clarke- The Healing Garden
The Healing Garden (Crossties)

David Essig- The Way Hate Walks
Tremble and Weep (Appaloosa)
SONiA disappear fear- By My Silence
By My Silence (Disappear)

Willie Dunn- Charlie
Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies: The Willie Dunn Anthology (Light in the Attic)
Buffy Sainte-Marie- My Country ‘tis of thy People You’re Dying
Medicine Songs (True North)

Guy Davis- God’s Gonna Make Things Over
Be Ready When I Call You (M.C.)
Reggie Harris- Sing Out/March On/Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ‘Round
On Solid Ground (Reggie Harris Music)

Mark Rubin – Jew of Oklahoma- A Day of Revenge
The Triumph of Assimilation (Rubinchik)
Sophie Milman- Taybls Briv (Taybl’s Letter to Her Husband at the Front)
Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II (Six Degrees)

Sons of the Never Wrong- Muddy Muddy River
Undertaker’s Songbook (Sons 3)
The Slowinks- Stay With Me Awhile
Stay With Me Awhile (weewerk)
Lorenzo Wolff featuring Osei Essed- There’s a Rugged Road
Down Where the Valleys are Low: Another Otherworld for Judee Sill (StorySound)
Jackson Browne- My Cleveland Heart
My Cleveland Heart – single (Inside Recordings)
Steve Marriner- Long Way Down
Hope Dies Last (Stony Plain)

Bùmarang- Weasel
Echo Land (Fallen Tree)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on July 17. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

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

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--Mike Regenstreif

This week in Folk Roots/Folk Branches history (May 11-May 17)

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. Folk Roots/Folk Branches continued for some time as occasional features on CKUT, and is now a blog. Here’s the 37th 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.

May 12, 1994: Extended feature- Western Swing.
May 11, 1995: Extended feature- Gift of the Tortoise: A musical Journey through Southern Africa with Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
May 16, 1996: Extended features- The Friends of Fiddler’s Green; A Tribute to the late Walter Hyatt.
May 14, 1998: Show theme- The Songs of Tom Paxton.
May 11, 2000: Show theme- The 50th anniversary of Sing Out! Magazine with Guest- Mark Moss, editor of Sing Out!
May 15, 2003: Show theme- From All His Friends in Far-Flung Places: A Tribute to Dave Van Ronk.
May 17, 2007: Guest- Max Layton.

Pictured: Mike Regenstreif and Tom Paxton at the Champlain Valley Folk Festival, circa mid-1990s.

--Mike Regenstreif