Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – April 22, 2025: Songs for Earth Day

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/595/69923.html

Theme: Songs for Earth Day.

Earth Day has been observed on April 22 since 1970.

Tom Paxton- Whose Garden Was This

Tom Paxton 6 (Elektra)

Tom Paxton, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Dry Times

All New (Community Music)

Tom Paxton & Anne Hills- There Goes the Mountain

Under American Skies (Appleseed)

Lynn Miles with Keith Glass- Black Flowers

Road (Lynn Miles)

The Rifters- The Dollar Worth of Mother Earth

The Enchanted World (Howlin’ Dog)

Mary Gick- Waltz for the Trees

Six Tunes and a Song (Mary Gick)

Laurie Lewis- Trees

Trees (Spruce & Maple Music)

Kronos Quartet & Lee Knight- Garbage

Long Time Passing: Kronos Quartet & Friends Celebrate Pete Seeger (Smithsonian Folkways)

Malvina Reynolds- Skagit Valley Forever

Ear to the Ground: Topical Songs 1960-1978 (Smithsonian Folkways)

The Malvinas- God Bless the Grass

God Bless the Grass (Soona Songs)

Pete Seeger- If It Can’t Be Reduced

At 89 (Appleseed)

Pat Humphries- To My Old Brown Earth

Seeds: The Songs of Pete Seeger, Volume 3 (Appleseed)

Kim & Reggie Harris & Magpie- We Belong to the Earth

Spoken in Love: Kim & Reggie Harris and Magpie in Concert (Long Tail)

Susan Werner- Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)

Classics (Sleeve Dog)

Tom Jones- Ol’ Mother Earth

Surrounded By Time (S-Curve)

HuDost- Fire of Eden

The Monkey in the Crown (Open Sesame Music)

Deb Seymour- Heart of the Earth

Sometimes You Gotta Wear Boots (Herkimer Productions)

Roy Zimmerman- Big Yellow Taxi

Road Map (Roy Zimmerman)

John McCutcheon- Earth

Cabin Fever: Songs from the Quarantine (Appalsongs)

Penny Lang- Power of the Earth

Somebody Else (She-Wolf)

Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer- Gentle Arms of Eden

Drum Hat Buddha (Signature Sounds)

Moonfruits- Brittle Earth

Salt (Co-Op)

Louis Armstrong- What a Wonderful World

What a Wonderful World (MCA)

Next week: “Dublin Blues” and Other Songs of Guy Clark.

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – April 19, 2025

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/128/69882.html

Mike Regenstreif & Tony Turner (2018)

Tony Turner- Prairie Railroad

The Lost Sketches (Tony Turner)

Mike Regenstreif & Lynn Miles (2013)

Lynn Miles- Drunks and Fools

Black Flowers Vol. 3 (Lynn Miles)

Vince Halfhide- Sleepy Little Town

Vince Halfhide (Vince Halfhide)

Arthur McGregor- Dancing Shoes

Moore & McGregor: Dream with Me (Ivernia)

Ray Harris- Late Night Phone Calls

Kinda Sets the Tone (Ray Harris)

Mary Gick- The Grassroots Waltz

Six Tunes and a Song (Mary Gick)

Suzy Thompson- Lose My Blues

Suzy Sings Siebel Volume One (Suzy Thompson)

Paul Siebel- Miss Cherry Lane

Woodsmoke and Oranges (Elektra)

Suzy Thompson- Nashville Again

Suzy Sings Siebel Volume One (Suzy Thompson)

Suzy Thompson- The Ballad of Honest Sam

Suzy Sings Siebel Volume One (Suzy Thompson)

Paul Siebel- Then Came the Children

Woodsmoke and Oranges (Elektra)

Maggie’s Wake- Bridget O’Brien

Maggie’s Wake (Maggie’s Wake)

Stan Rogers- Scarborough Settler’s Lament

Songs of a Lifetime: For the Family (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis) 

Laura Smith & Mike Regenstreif (2013)

Laura Smith- Magdalen McGillivray

Everything is Moving (Borealis)

Chris Walz- See See Rider

All I Got and Gone (Chris Walz Music)

Amanda Rheaume- #44

The Truth We Hold (Ishkõdé)

Rhiannon Giddens- We Could Fly

Freedom Highway (Nonesuch)

Louis Armstrong- Go Down, Moses

Louis and the Good Book (Verve)

The Short Sisters- Moses

A Planet Dancing Slow (Black Socks Press)

The Sojourners- Brother Moses Smote the Water

The Sojourners (Black Hen Music)

Jesse Winchester & Mike Regenstreif (2000)

Jesse Winchester- Pharaoh’s Army 

Learn to Love It (Stony Plain) 

Shelley Posen & Mike Regenstreif on Zoom (2023)

Shelley Posen- And We Sang ‘Ha Lakhma Anya’ 

Manna (Well Done Music) 

Andy Cohen & Mike Regenstreif (2025)

Andy Cohen- Crucifixion

Oh Glory, How Happy I Am: The Sacred Songs of Rev. Gary Davis (Riverlark Music)

Mahalia Jackson- Were You There

In Concert Easter Sunday 1967 (Columbia/Legacy)

Ralph McTell- Jesus Wept

Sand in Your Shoes (Red House)

NEeMA- Romeo and Juliet

Watching You Think (Neemaste/Sony)

Perla Batalla- Ain’t No Cure for Love

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

Louise Coombe & Mike Regenstreif (2024)

Louise Coombe- The Girl Upstairs

Paris (Zoe Cat Music)

Kora Feder- In a Young Person’s Body

Some Kind of Truth (Kora Feder)

Danny Marks- I’m Ready

I’m Ready – single (Danny Marks)

Ellen Bukstel & Nick Annis- By My Silence

Legacy of Love (Ellen Bukstel)

Allison Russell & Annie Lennox- Superlover

Superlover – single (Fantasy)

Eric Andersen & Mike Regenstreif (2000)

Eric Andersen- No Man’s Land

Eric Andersen in (Spoken) Pieces (EARecords)

Eliza Gilkyson & Mike Regenstreif (2006)

Eliza Gilkyson- Beach Haven

2020 (Red House)

Mike Regenstreif & Tim Grimm (2025)

Tim Grimm- Woody’s Landlord Revisited

Bones of Trees (Vault)

James Gordon- Liberation Day

Liberation Day – single (James Gordon)

Rees Shad with Kemp Harris, Wanda Houston & Natalia Zukerman- Ain’t That the Way

Porcelain Angel (Shadville Music)

C. Daniel Boling- It Matters

It Matters (Berkalin)

Mr. O’Muck- Gone Train Blues

Home Field Recordings: The Ancient Blues of Mr. O’Muck (Muck-O-Phone)

Jim Ringer- Mrs. Delion’s Lament

Any Old Wind That Blows (Philo)

Preservation Brass- Bagatelle

For Fat Man (Sub Pop)

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

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – February 22, 2025

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/128/69061.html

Humphrey & The Dumptrucks- Merry Mansion Quadrology: Merry Mansion; Magician; Front Door; Red White & Blue

Six Days of Paper Ladies (Boot)

Boreal- Song for a Winter’s Night

Winterbirds (Boreal)

Mike Regenstreif & Lynn Miles (2013)

Lynn Miles- Just Let It Snow

Winter (Lynn Miles)

Steel Rail- A Thousand Miles of Snow

A Thousand Miles of Snow (Crossties)

Rosalie Sorrels & Mike Regenstreif (1993)

Rosalie Sorrels- Snowing On Raton

Borderline Heart (Green Linnet)

Ronney Abramson & Mike Regenstreif (2016)

Ronney Abramson- Long Lonely Winter

Stowaway (Castor Island Music)

Laurie MacAllister & David Glaser- Birches

The Lies the Poets Tell (Laurie MacAllister)

Mike Regenstreif & Bill Morrissey (2005)

Bill Morrissey- Ice Fishing

North (Philo)

Joel Mabus & Mike Regenstreif (2001)

Joel Mabus- Five Kinds of Snow

Promised Land (Fossil)

Herdman, Hills & Mangsen- The Druggist

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

The Roches- My Winter Coat

Where Do I Come From: Selected Songs (StorySound)

Crys Matthews- In Her House

Reclamation (Crys Matthews)

Bradstreet & Keesee- The Land Beyond

Live in London (Street)

Kim Beggs- Miles & Miles Away

Beneath Your Skin (Out of a Paperbag Productions)

Cindy Kallet- Ride in the Light

Ride in the Light (Sleepy Creek Music)

Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis & Karine Polwart- Send Love

Looking for the Thread (Lambent Light/Thirty Tigers)

In memory of John Roberts (1944-2025)

John Roberts- Rambleaway

Spencer the Rover is Alive and Well… (Swallowtail)

John Roberts & Tony Barrand- We Have Fed Our Sea

Naulakha Redux: Songs of Rudyard Kipling (Golden Hind Music)

John Roberts & Debra Cowan- Drive Dull Care Away

Ballads Long & Short: The Best of Every Sort (Golden Hind Music)

John Roberts & Tony Barrand- Row On

Twiddlum Twaddlum (Golden Hind Music)

Rosanne Cash- My Old Man

Rhythm & Romance (Columbia)

Rhiannon Giddens- Up Above My Head

Tomorrow is My Turn (Nonesuch)

Laura Cortese- Into the Dark

Into the Dark (Laura Cortese)

Roy Zimmerman- Big Yellow Taxi

Road Map (Roy Zimmerman)

Tim Grimm- Broken Truth 

Broken Truth – single (Vault) 

Ian Robb & James Stephens- God and The Orange Clown

Declining …with thanks (Fallen Angle Music)

Lemon Bucket Orkestra- Da Ishly Divky

Cuckoo (Lemon Bucket Orkestra)

Alice Howe & Freebo- A Case of You

Live (Know Howe Music)

Perla Batalla- A Thousand Kisses Deep

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

Orit Shimoni- My Flying Shoes

Lorem Ipsum (Orit Shimoni)

Lisa Gutkin- For All of You

From Here On In (Lisa Gutkin)

The Twangtown Paramours- Old Friends

The Wind will Change Again (Inside Edge)

NEeMA with Emmylou Harris- For You

Painting My Wall Gold (Neemaste Productions)

John McCutcheon with Windborne- Blessing

Field of Stars (Appalsongs)

Jim Brewer- Corrina, Corrina

Take It Easy Greasy (Earwig/Riverlark Music)

Odetta- Rock Island Line

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

Guy Davis & Mike Regenstreif (2006)

Guy Davis- Don’t Know Where I’m Bound

The Legend of Sugarbelly (M.C.)

Fabrizio Poggi with Shar White- I Want Jesus to Walk with Me

Healing Blues (Appaloosa)

Mike Regenstreif & Priscilla Herdman (2000)

Priscilla Herdman- Waltzing with Bears

Stardreamer (Alacazam)

Natalie Merchant with The Klezmatics- The Dancing Bear

Leave Your Sleep (Nonesuch)

Dave Van Ronk- Teddy Bears’ Picnic

Songs for Ageing Children (Cadet)

Jenny Scheinman- Every Bear That Ever There Was

All Species Parade (Royal Potato Family)

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

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – October 29, 2024: Stars & Skies

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/595/67488.html

Theme: Stars & Skies – all the songs have something or other to do with stars and/or skies.

This is the first of two editions of Stranger Songs airing during CKCU’s 2024 Funding Drive. Your support is meaningful and essential to keeping CKCU’s diverse programming on the air for another year. You can make a donation in support of Stranger Songs and CKCU at this link. Charitable income tax receipts are issued for donations of $20 or more. Thanks for your support. https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/CKCU/p2p/fundingdrive2024/page/stranger-songs

Jesse Winchester- North Star

Third Down, 110 to Go (Stony Plain)

Mike Regenstreif & Jesse Winchester (2006)

Jesse Winchester- How Far to the Horizon?

Learn to Love It (Stony Plain)

Mason Daring & Jeanie Stahl- Counting on the Stars

The Early Years (Daring)

James Keelaghan- My Skies

History: The First 25 Years (Borealis)

Mike Regenstreif & Connie Kaldor (2015)

Connie Kaldor- Sky with Nothing to Get in the Way

Sky with Nothing to Get in the Way (Coyote Entertainment)

Mike Regenstreif & Lynn Miles (2013)

Lynn Miles- We’ll Look for Stars

We’ll Look for Stars (Must Have Music)

Martha Seyler & Robert Resnik- Blue Skies

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

Dave Van Ronk- Would You Like to Swing on a Star?

Sunday Street (Philo)

Mike Regenstreif & Bruce Cockburn (2017)

Bruce Cockburn- Whole Night Sky

Rarities (True North)

The Wailin’ Jennys- Bright Morning Stars

Bright Morning Stars (True North)

Mike Regenstreif & Bruce Cockburn (2007)

Bruce Murdoch- I Sit and Count the Stars

Matters of the Heart (Bruce Murdoch)

Cindy Church, George Koller, Joe Sealy- Stardust

The Nearness of You: A Tribute to the Music of Hoagy Carmichael (Seajam)

Vance Gilbert- Ten Thousand Skies

Unfamiliar Moon (Disismye Music)

Steel Rail- Prairie Sky

The Road Less Travelled (Crossties)

Caroline Doctorow- Prairie in the Sky

I Carry All I Own: The Songs of Mary McCaslin (Narrow Lane)

Tom Paxton & John McCutcheon- Prairie Star

Together (Appalseed Productions) 

The Wainwright Sisters- Dusty Skies

Songs in the Dark (MapleMusic)

Mike Regenstreif & Mary McCaslin (1999)

Mary McCaslin- Ghost Riders in the Sky

Prairie in the Sky (Philo)

Anne Hills- Pleiades

Bittersweet Street (Redwing Music)

Eric Bogle- One Small Star

At This Stage (Greentrax)

Jane Voss & Hoyle Osborne- The Galaxy Song

Beyond the Boundaries (Ripple)

Mike Regenstreif & Priscilla Herdman (2000)

Priscilla Herdman- Underneath the Stars

Into the Stars (Stardreamer Music)

Guy Van Duser & Billy Novick- Stars Fell on Alabama

Stride Guitar (Rounder)

Next week: Addendums to Past Themes (CKCU Funding Drive)

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – August 13, 2024: Kin Ya See That Sun

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/595/66394.html

Theme: “Kin Ya See That Sun.”

All of these songs have something or other to do with the sun.

Terre & Maggie Roche- Kin Ya See That Sun

Kin Ya See That Sun (Earth Rock Wreckerds)

Paul Simon- Was a Sunny Day

There Goes Rhymin’ Simon (Warner Bros.)

Ana Egge- Chasing Rabbits in the Sun

Is It the Kiss (StorySound)

Jason Lang- You Are My Sunshine

Handled with Care (Famgroup/Genison Music)

Shout Sister Shout- Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying

Hit That Jive (M.C.)

Bruce Cockburn- O Sun By Day O Moon By Night

O Sun O Moon (True North)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Sun, Son (Shining on the Water)

Love Over and Over (Polygram)

Thelonious Monk- North of the Sunset

Solo Monk (Columbia/Legacy)

Ian & Sylvia- Every Night When the Sun Goes Down

Four Strong Winds (Vanguard)

Jackie Washington- At Sundown

Keeping Out of Mischief (Pyramid)

Misty Blues- Go Down, Sunshine

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

Jay McShann- On the Sunny Side of the Street

Still Jumpin’ the Blues (Stony Plain)

Diana Braithwaite & Chris Whiteley- Morning Sun

Morning Sun (Electro-Fi)

Chris Rawlings- Mr. Sunshine

Pearl Soupe (Cooking Fat Music)

The Magnolia Janes- The Sun in My Backyard

The Light Years (Be a Jane)

Miranda Hardy- Like the Sunrise

The Price of Happiness (Great Divide)

Hoyt Axton- We’ll Sing in the Sunshine

Mr. Greenback Dollar Man (Surrey)

Peter Yarrow- Weave Me the Sunshine

Peter (Warner Bros.)

John Stewart- Lost Her in the Sun

Bombs Away Dream Babies (RSO)

Linda Ronstadt- He Dark the Sun

Silk Purse (Capitol)

Katy Moffatt- Waitin’ for the Sun to Shine

Loose Diamond (HighTone)

Bonnie Koloc- Colors of the Sun

Rediscovered (Mr. Biscuit)

Pat Guadango- Warmth of the Sun

1964 (Campbell Music)

Lynn Miles- Time to Let the Sun

Fall for Beauty (True North)

Gordon Fleming- East of the Sun

According to Gordie: Gordon Fleming Anthology 1948-1990 (Just a Memory)

Next week: Murder Ballads.

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday March 23, 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/128/64437.html

Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin- March Winds Gonna Blow My Blues All Way

Songs of The Carter Family (Appleseed)

Stan Rogers- Paint Me a Picture

Songs of a Lifetime: Discoveries – Rare Live Recordings (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

David Essig- Albert’s Cove

A Stone in My Pocket (Peregrin)

Stan Rogers- Skyway

Songs of a Lifetime: Discoveries – Rare Live Recordings (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

Doug McArthur- The Lunenburg Shift

Letters from the Coast/Sisteron (Snow Goose Songs)

Stan Rogers- Jamie

Songs of a Lifetime: Discoveries – Rare Live Recordings (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

Stan Rogers- Love Can’t Be Bitter All the Time

Songs of a Lifetime: Discoveries – Rare Live Recordings (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

Bob Franke- A Healing in This Night

The Other Evening in Chicago (Waterbug)

Stan Rogers- The Old Rose & Crown

Songs of a Lifetime: Discoveries – Rare Live Recordings (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

Ian Robb with The Friends of Fiddler's Green- Garnet’s Home-Made Beer

From Different Angels (Fallen Angle)

Jaspar Lepak- Kind

So Strong (Jaspar Lepak Music)

Leslie Evers- What Kind of a Heart

Bound for Land (Cumulus)

Simone Keane- Those Beautiful Times

Graced By Leaves (Simone Keane)

David Broza- Saturday Morning

En Casa Limón (S-Curve)

Lynn Miles- Palomino

tumbleWeedyWorld (True North)

Mike Regenstreif & Connie Kaldor (2015)

Connie Kaldor- Wild One

Keep Going (Coyote Entertainment) 

Pat Moore- How Long

Take It to Heart (Pat Moore)

Bobby Dove- Haunted Hotel

Hopeless Romantic (Bobby Dove)

Altan- The Barley and the Rye

Donegal (Compass)

Sassenach- Star of the County Down/Bus Stop Reel

Passages (Sassenach)

Tara O’Grady- Black Velvet Band

Black Irish (Tara O’Grady)

Maggie’s Wake- Grosse Isle (Far Away)

Maggie’s Wake (Maggie’s Wake)

Tom Russell & Mike Regenstreif (2018)

Tom Russell & Joe Ely- Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues

Folk Hotel (Frontera)

Reverend Gary Davis- Crucifixion

A Little More Faith (Prestige/Bluesville)

Mavis Staples & Lucky Peterson-Were You There?

Spirituals & Gospel (Gitanes)

David Olney- A Soldier’s Report

The Stone (Deadbeet)

Bruce Cockburn- Easter

Crowing Ignites (True North)

Jim Kweskin & Samoa Wilson- Engine 143

Never Too Late: Duets with My Friends (StorySound)

Paper Wings- Nine Hundred Miles

Listen to the World Spin (Paper Wings)

American Patchwork Quartet- Wind and Rain

American Patchwork Quartet (Carolina Jasmine)

John Stewart & Darwin’s Army- They Call the Wind Mariah

John Stewart & Darwin’s Army (Appleseed)

Claudia Gibson- The Fields of Chazy

The Fields of Chazy (Claudia Gibson)

Jillian Matundan- Only Water

Singing to the Moon (Keezamonkee)

SONiA disappear fear & Mike Regenstreif (2017)

SONiA disappear fear- Teaching Vincent Van Gogh

Album 23 (Disappear)

Mouths of Babes- World Brand New

World Brand New (Wild Awake Music)

Jeff Talmadge- If I was a Sparrow

Sparrow (Berkalin)

Josh White, Jr. & Guthrie Thomas- Don’t Mean a Thing

Delicate Balance (Silverwolf)

Lisa Bastoni- Nora’s Guitar

On the Water (Lisa Bastoni)

Sandy Cash- Gilad’s Guitar

Voices from the Other Side (Sandy Cash)

Josh Fortenbery- Honey

No Such Thing as Forever (Josh Fortenbery)

Laura Smith & Mike Regenstreif (2013)

Laura Smith- What Goes Around (Comes Around)

Everything is Moving (Borealis)

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

Bandits, Ballads and Blues (Cimarron)

Tom Rush- The Harbor

Gardens Old, Flowers New (Appleseed)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on April 20. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

--Mike Regenstreif 

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday February 24, 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/128/64070.html

Cleia- February Morning Drive

This Side of Main (Cleia)

Mike Regenstreif & David Francey (2019)

David Francey- This Morning

The Breath Between (Laker Music) 

John Prine- Souvenirs

Souvenirs (Oh Boy)

Nanci Griffith- Speed of the Sound of Loneliness

Other Voices/Other Rooms (Elektra)

Reggie Harris- Hello In There

On Solid Ground (Reggie Harris Music)

Bonnie Koloc- Clocks & Spoons

Timeless (Mr. Biscuit)

Mike Regenstreif & James Talley (2005)

James Talley- If We Could Love One Another

Bandits, Ballads and Blues (Cimarron)

Susan Werner- Tiny Texans

Halfway to Houston (Susan Werner)

Tom Rush- Glory Road

Gardens Old, Flowers New (Appleseed)

Jim Kweskin & Maria Muldaur- Let’s Get Happy Together

Never Too Late: Duets with My Friends (StorySound)

American Patchwork Quartet- Beneath the Willow

American Patchwork Quartet (Carolina Jasmine)

Ken Whiteley- Michael Row

Long Time Travelling (Ken Whiteley)

Ranky Tanky- Pay Me My Money Down

Beat Em Down (Resilience Music)

Jenny Whiteley Things are Coming My Way

The Original Jenny Whiteley (Black Hen Music)

Last Forever- Ain’t Going Down to the Well No More/Poor Lazarus

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

Cat Power- Fourth Time Around

Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert (Domino)

Sassenach- MacPherson’s Rant/Reel du pendu

Passages (Sassenach)

Mike Regenstreif & Brendan Nolan (2023)

Brendan Noaln- The Broom O’Cowdenknowes

Familiar Brew (Ould Sagosha)

Portage- The Dawning Set: Dawning on the Pacific Rim/Washington’s March/Raleigh & Spencer

Portage (Portage)

The Once- Anthem

The Once (Borealis)

Béla Fleck with Eric Jacobsen & The Virginia Symphony Orchestra- Rhapsody in Blue

Rhapsody in Blue (Thirty Tigers)

The Heart Collectors- Kathy’s Song

The Space Between (Spins the Gold)

Bobby Watt- Desperado

Watt Next? (Glenashdale Music)

Roberta Flack- Ballad of the Sad Young Men

First Take (Atlantic)

The Dumptrucks- Stealin’

Selections (Laughing Cactus)

Taj Mahal- Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good to You

Savoy (Stony Plain)

Allison Russell- The Returner

The Returner (Fantasy)

Alan Doyle- Welcome Home

Welcome Home (Skinner’s Hill Music)

Carole Wise- I Know My Roots

North Star (Soulful Cricket)

Jay Linden- Ordinary Sunrise

Ordinary Sunrise (Americana North)

Jessica Heine- Burning Bridges

Build Again (Fallen Tree)

Nick Justice- Let the Wind Blow

Stranger in My Town (Nick Justice)

Jeff Talmadge- Night Train from Milan

Sparrow (Berkalin)

Terre & Maggie Roche- Kin Ya See That Sun

Kin Ya See That Sun (Earth Rock Wreckerds)

Mad Agnes- Holy Well

Likely Story (DigDag)

Lisa Klotz- Seventh Generation (For Mother Earth)

Morning Sun (Lisa Klotz)

Charm City Junction- Roll On John

Salt Box (Charm City Junction)

Leslie Evers- Along the Rocky Way

Bound for Land (Cumulus)

Eric Brace & Thom Jutz- Can’t Change the Weather

Simple Motion (Red Beet)

Mike Regenstreif & Lynn Miles (2013)

Lynn Miles- Cold Cold Moon

tumbleWeedyWorld (True North)

Mr. O’Muck- Big Bill Mess Around

Home Field Recordings: The Ancient Blues of Mr. O’Muck (Muck-O-Phone)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on March 23. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday December 2, 2023

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/128/62954.html

Cat Power- Mr. Tambourine Man

Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert (Domino)

Finest Kind- The Faded Roses of December

Lost in a Song (Fallen Angle)

Rosalie Sorrels & Mike Reggenstreif (1993)

Rosalie Sorrels- Walking Down the Lonely Street

If I Could Be the Rain (Folk-Legacy)

Mark Ross- Look for Me in Butte

Singing Through the Hard Times: A Tribute to Utah Phillips (Righteous Babe)

Jay Peterson- Daddy, What’s a Train?

Singing Through the Hard Times: A Tribute to Utah Phillips (Righteous Babe)

Utah Phillips- All Used Up

The Long Memory (Red House)

Sylvia Tyson- Sweet Agony

At the End of the Day (Stony Plain)

Tom Russell & Mike Regenstreif (2018)

Tom Russell- Chocolate Cigarettes

Hurricane Season (Stony Plain)

Gathering Time- You Were On My Mind

Old Friends (Triple-G Records)

Sylvia Tyson- Not Quite Rain

At the End of the Day (Stony Plain)

Orit Shimoni- New York

Winnipeg (Orit Shimoni)

Chava Alberstein- Fellini in New York

End of the Holiday (Rounder)

Mike Regenstreif & Erik Frandsen (1976) photo: Felicity Fanjoy

Erik Frandsen- Unique New York

Antiques: New & Used (Erik Frandsen)

Happy Traum- New York Town

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

Cole Quest & The City Pickers- Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key

Self [En] Titled (Omnivore) 

David Baxter- Marching into Glory

Day & Age (Proper Channels)

Bonnie Dobson- Everybody’s Talkin’

Bonnie Dobson (RCA)

Caroline Doctorow- Other Side of This Life

Follow You Down (Narrow Lane)

Fred Neil- Blues on the Ceiling

Bleecker & MacDougal (Elektra)

Karen Dalton- Little Bit of Rain

It’s So Hard to Tell Who’s Going to Love You the Best (Koch)

Judy Mayhan- The Dolphins

Judy Mayhan (Decca)

JackDaw- Song for Fred

Ghost in the Big House (Cutthroat)

Jack Hardy- Orphan from Madrid/Guernica

Landmark (Great Divide)

Payadora Tango Ensemble featuring Olga Avigail Mieleszczuk- Sabina’s Letter: Some of Us Must Survive

Silent Tears: The Last Yiddish Tango (Six Degrees)

Brendan Nolan- Parallel Limbs

Beneath White Stars: Holocaust Profiles in Song (AlmondSeed Media)

Noel Paul Stookey- Jean Claude

Just Causes (Neworld)

SONia disappear fear & Mike Regenstreif (2017)

SONiA disappear fear- By My Silence

By My Silence (Disappear)

Shelley Posen- Packed

Mazel (Well Done Music)

Ian Tamblyn- Tiger Lily Road

Scenes Through a Mirror (North Track)

Mike Regenstreif & Lynn Miles (2013)

Lynn Miles- Wintery Feeling

Winter (Lynn Miles)

Mike Regenstreif & Jesse Winchester (2006)

Jesse Winchester- Snow

Jesse Winchester (Stony Plain)

Short Sisters- Snow, Snow

A Planet Dancing Slow (Black Socks Press)

Rod MacDonald & Mike Regenstreif (2005)

Rod MacDonald- The Coming of the Snow

After the War (Blue Flute Music)

Garnet Rogers with Doug Long- Give the Fiddler a Dram

Summer Lightning: Live (Snow Goose)

Swing & Tears- Dirty Old Town

Swing & Tears (Swing & Tears)

Guy Van Duser & Billy Novick- Just a Little While to Stay Here

Guy & Billy (Daring)

Mike Regenstreif & Connie Kaldor (2015)

Connie Kaldor- Solo Clarinet

Keep Going (Coyote Entertainment)

Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi- Nature Boy/Natur Bokher

The Wolf and the Lamb: Live at The Shakh (Arc)

David Francey- I Called It Love

The Breath Between (Laker Music) 

Ynana Rose- Redwood Holler

Under a Cathedral Sky (Ynana Rose Music)

David Broza- Untitled

Night Dawn: The Unpublished Poetry of Townes Van Zandt (S-Curve)

Brittany Jean- The Dutchman

Colors & Covers (Brittany Jean)

Cedar County Cobras- Poor Boy

Homesick Blues (Cedar County Cobras)

Michael Jerome Browne with Mary Flower- Black Dog Blues

Gettin’ Together (Borealis/Stony Plain)

Alice Gerrard- December Daisies

Sun to Sun (Sleepy Cat) 

I’m taking some time off in December, so I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on January 27. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

--Mike Regenstreif