Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – September 15, 2026: The Yellow Door at 60

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/595/77110.html

Theme: The Yellow Door at 60.

The Yellow Door Coffee House in Montreal – now Canada’s longest running folk venue – started presenting folk music performers in the fall of 1966 – 60 years ago.

I first got to the Yellow Door as a high school student in 1969.

One night, after I’d been a Yellow Door regular for a while, Chuck Baker – who ran the Yellow Door from the late-1960s until well into the 1980s – drafted me to be a Yellow Door volunteer. Over the next few years, I sold tickets at the door, or served coffee behind the counter, or MCed the show – particularly the Sunday night hootenannies.

All the music on this show is by artists that I saw and got to know back in the day at the Yellow Door. It is but a small sampling.

Jesse Winchester- The Brand New Tennessee Waltz 

Jesse Winchester (Stony Plain)

John Foley- Walk with Me in the Sunshine

Words & Music 1975-1990 (Christine Foley)

Penny Lang- Ain’t Life Sweet

Ain’t Life Sweet (She-Wolf)

Tex König- Sea Fever 

Königsblende (Music Cellar)

Jack Nissenson- Shenandoah 

Mountain City Four (Omnivore)

Sean Gagnier- San Mescalito

Circle Harbor (Sean Gagnier)

Bruce Murdoch- Snowdon

Bruce Murdoch (Radio Canada International)

Ronney Abramson- Three O’Clock Ride

Three O’Clock Ride – single (Ronney Abramson)

Bill Staines- Highway North

Somebody Blue (Champlain)

Bill Garrett- Crossties on a Railroad

Bill Garrett (Borealis)

Caitlin Hanford- Red Clay Halo

Bluer Skies (Denon)

Linda Morrison- Barcelona

Line By Line (Heartstrung Music)

Christopher Kearney- Rocking Chair Ride 

Christopher Kearney (Capitol)

Saul Broudy- No Lonesome Tune

Travels with Broudy (Saul Broudy)

Marc Nerenberg- I Wish I was a Mole in the Ground 

On the Street Again (Marc Nerenberg)

Doug McArthur- Tears Like Rain

Smoke & Whiskey (Doug McArthur)

Paul Geremia- Travelin’ Man 

Just Enough (Folkways)

Humphrey & The Dumptrucks- Calgary Song

Six Days of Paper Ladies (Boot)

Danny Greenspoon- Ragged but Right

Unreleased live track – used with permission

Kevin Head- Everyone Needs a Backyard 

Hear Them Callin’ (Kevin Head)

Chris Rawlings- Pearl River Turnaround 

Pearl Soupe (Cooking Fat Music)

Stan Rogers- The Mary Ellen Carter

Between the Breaks…Live! (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

--Mike Regenstreif 

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – September 5, 2026

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/128/77014.html

Scott Cook- Troubadourly Yours

Troubadourly Yours (Scott Cook)

Chris Rawlings & Mike Regenstreif (2007)

Chris Rawlings & Anne Lederman- Cindy Cindy 2.0

A Whistle, a Tune, a Song and a Dance (Cooking Fat Music)

Danny Marks- Heading Down to New Orleans

Cities in Blue (Danny Marks)

Susan Werner- What He Said in Jackson Square

NOLA: Susan Werner Goes to New Orleans (Sleeve Dog)

Mike Regenstreif & Marc Nerenberg (2009)

Marc Nerenberg- On the Street Again

On the Street Again (Marc Nerenberg)

Tom Waits- I Wish I was in New Orleans

Small Change (Asylum)

Kermit Ruffins- When the Saints Go Marching In

We Partyin’ Traditional Style (Basin Street)

Amy Speace- The Reckoning

The Reckoning – single (Windbone)

Mike Regenstreif & Anne Hills (2001)

Anne Hills- Here Comes Love

The Benevolence of Trees (Hand & Heart Music)

Mike Regenstreif & Tim Grimm (2025)

Tim Grimm- Broken Truth 

Bones of Trees (Vault)

John McCutcheon- If I Had a Hammer

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

Penny Lang & Mike Regenstreif (1976) photo: Felicity Fanjoy

Penny Lang- Never Turning Back

Carry On Children (She-Wolf)

The Kennedys- Seeds of Peace

Smoketree (The Kennedys)

Hank Alrich- The Perfect Hat

Broken River (Walkinay Music Media)

Kate MacLeod’s Mind the Gap- I Will Sing My Heart Out

Home-Brewed (Kate MacLeod’s Mind the Gap)

Mike Regenstreif & Bruce Cockburn (2017)

Bruce Cockburn- King of the Bolero

O Sun O Moon (True North)

Deborah Holland- Walking the Dog in the Rain

Unadorned (Deborah Holland)

Mike Regenstreif & Orit Shimoni (2025)

Dan Bern & Orit Shimoni- New Song

Birds (Dan Bern & Orit Shimoni)

Satellite Birdhouse- One More Afternoon

Satellite Birdhouse (Satellite Birdhouse)

Felicity Hamer & Black Leather Rose- At Your Door

Felicity Hamer & Black Leather Rose (Felicity Hamer & Black Leather Rose)

Dave Clarke & Lucinda Chodan (co-writers of That's How the Summer Slips Away), Mike Regenstreif (2025)

Steel Rail- That’s How the Summer Slips Away 

River Song (Crossties)

Mike Regenstreif & David Francey (2019)

David Francey- Far End of Summer

Far End of Summer (Laker)

Mike Regenstreif & Eric Bibb (2005)

Eric Bibb- Done Laid Around (Gotta Travel On)

Good Stuff (Earthbeat!)

Mike Regenstreif & Bill Morrissey (2005)

Bill Morrissey- When Summer’s Ended

You’ll Never Get to Heaven (Philo)

Tex König- Wild Winds

Königsblende (Music Cellar)

Cindy Mangsen- Shallow Brown

Songs of Experience (Redwing Music)

Rod MacDonald & Mike Regenstreif (2005)

Rod MacDonald- A Sailor’s Prayer

No Commercial Traffic (Solstice)

Wade Hemsworth with the Mountain City Four- The Story of the I’m Alone

Wade Hemsworth with the Mountain City Four (Peter Weldon)

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

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Come a Long Way

Tell My Sister – Dancer with Bruised Knees (Nonesuch)

Allison Russell featuring Norah Jones- Really Real

In the Hour of Chaos (Fantasy)

Kitka- Oj Ty Misjacju

Kolo (Diaphonoca)

Mike Regenstreif & Lisa Gutkin of The Klezmatics (2025)

The Klezmatics featuring Enver Izmaylov- Crimean Freylekhs

We Were Made for These Times (Shamus)

Ranky Tanky- Stomp It in the Ground

This Village (Ranky Tanky)

Frank London & The Loisaida Fife and Drum Corps- Empty Pockets

Touzle Your Kurchy (Adhyâropa)

Terry Gillespie- The Devil Likes to Win

Home Boy: Live at the Granary (Terry Gillespie)

Vince Halfhide- Devil Made Rock & Roll

Vince Halfhide (Vince Halfhide)

Kris Kristofferson- To Beat the Devil 

Me and Bobby McGee (Monument)

Claudia Schmidt- Old Devil Time

Out of the Dark/New Goodbyes, Old Helloes (Flying Fish)

Carla Gover & Friends- William Branch is Hard to Find

William Branch is Hard to Find (Joe Hill Music)

Mama’s Broke- Failing

Reunion (Free Dirt)

Doug McArthur- The Old Country Singer

Smoke & Whiskey (Doug McArthur)

Dennis O’Toole- Man of a Thousand Songs

Lone Gunman at the Assassin’s Hotel (Dennis O’Toole)

Bob Gibson- Living Legend

The Living Legend Years (Bob Gibson Legacy)

Nat Adderley- Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child

Much Brass (Riverside)

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

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – July 14, 2026: 'Round Midnight

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/595/76229.html

Theme: ‘Round Midnight.

Linda Ronstadt with Nelson Riddle & His Orchestra- ‘Round Midnight

For Sentimental Reasons (Asylum)

Mike Regenstreif & Cathy Fink (2025)

Cathy Fink- The Midnight Prayerlight

Doggone My Time (Sugar Hill)

Tish Hinojosa- Midnight Moonlight

Taos to Tennessee (Watermelon)

Sylvia Tyson & Mike Regenstreif (1997)

Ian & Sylvia- Midnight

The Beginning of the End (Bear Family)

Tom Russell & Mike Regenstreif (2000)

Tom Russell- The Santa Fe at Midnight 

Borderland (HighTone)

Mike Regenstreif & Tom Paxton (2001) photo: Janice Hanson

Tom Paxton- Dogs at Midnight

Tom Paxton 6 (Elektra)

Andrew Collins Trio- Sunlight at Midnight

Groove (Andrew Collins Trio)

Aaron Nathans & Michael G. Ronstadt- Midnight Sun

Esperanza (Crooked Cyclone)

HotCha!- Walkin’ After Midnight

Dust Bowl Roots: Songs for the New Depression (HotCha!)

Nanci Griffith- Tequila After Midnight

The Loving Kind (Rounder)

David Mallett- Midnight on the Water

Midnight on the Water (North Road)

Mike Regenstreif & David Francey (2019)

David Francey- Nearly Midnight

Maps (Laker Music)

Mike Regenstreif & Jesse Winchester (2009)

Jesse Winchester- Midnight Bus

Third Down, 110 to Go (Stony Plain)

Odetta- Midnight Special 

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

Paul Geremia & Mike Regenstreif (2012)

Paul Geremia- Midnight Hour Blues

Self Portrait in Blues (Red House)

Diana Braithwaite & Chris Whiteley- Midnight Stroll

DeltaPhonic (Elrctro-Fi)

Long John Baldry- Midnight in New Orleans

The Best of the Stony Plain Years (Stony Plain)

Maria Muldaur- Midnight at the Oasis 

Maria Muldaur (Reprise)

Tom Waits- Midnight Lullaby

Closing Time (Elektra) 

Paul Winter Consort- Minuit

Icarus (Living Music)

Mike Regenstreif & Marc Nerenberg (2009)

Marc Nerenberg- The Midnight Sky is Boiling

Lies, Butterflies, and Tyrants (Marc Nerenberg)

Doug McArthur- Almost Midnight

Letters from the Coast/Sisteron (Snow Goose Songs)

Thelonious Monk- ‘Round Midnight

Thelonious Himself (Riverside)

Next week: Dave Van Ronk at 90.

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – March 21, 2026

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/128/74611.html

Vance Gilbert- Simple Things

The Mother of Trouble (Vance Gilbert)

Mike Regenstreif & Garnet Rogers (2006)

Garnet Rogers- First Day of Spring 

Shining Thing (Snow Goose Songs)

Judy Collins & Mike Regenstreif (2014)

Judy Collins- So Early, Early in the Spring

Fifth Album (Elektra)

John Gorka & Mike Regenstreif (2012)

John Gorka- A Light Exists in Spring

unentitled (Red House)

Kim Wallach- Come, Spring 

Chatter of the Finches (Black Socks Press)

Tommy Makem & Liam Clancy- Rambles of Spring 

The Makem & Clancy Collection (Shanachie)

Kate Weekes- Trace a Constellation

Rideau Roots (Kate Weekes)

Sultans of String- Emerald Swing

Symphony (Sultans of String)

Ken Whiteley- Pallet On Your Floor

Keep Going (Pyramid)

Andy Cohen & Mike Regenstreif (2025)

Andy Cohen & William Lee Ellis- Mr. Furry’s Blues

Whistlin’ Past the Graveyard (Riverlark Music)

Sid Selvidge- Pearlee

Twice Told Tales (Elektra Nonesuch)

Dave Van Ronk- Casey Jones

Somebody Else, Not Me (Philo)

Furry Lewis- Glory Hallelujah, When I Lay My Burden Down

The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions (Sony BMG)

Greg Kelly- Slow Horses

Slow Horses (Greg Kelly)

Jamie Anderson- This Old

The Curves are Still There (Tsunami)

Dave Gunning- Going Nowhere Tonight

Field Notes (Wee House of Music)

Daughters of Donbas- Another Heaven

Songs of Stolen Children (Daughters of Donbas)

Esther Kaiser- Masters of War

Songs of Courage (GLM Music)

Mike Regenstreif & Marc Nerenberg 2009)

Marc Nerenberg- Ain’t Gonna Study War No More (Down By the Riverside)

Times Ain’t Nuthin’ Like They Used to Be (Marc Nerenberg)

Jillian Matundan- Hold On

Hold On – single (Keezamonkee)

Anne Kalmering & Stalhammer Klezmer Classic- Bulbes

Tshiribim (Kakafon)

Roger Davidson & The Frank London Klezmer Orchestra- The Jester

Villages of Old (Soundbrush)

Daniel Kahn & Jake Shulman-Ment- Di Tsukunft (The Future)

The Building and Other Songs (Oriente Musik)

Leonard Cohen- Darkness

Old Ideas (Columbia)

Madeleine Peyroux- Careless Love

Careless Love (Rounder)

Yo-Yo Ma & The Silk Road Ensemble featuring Rhiannon Giddens, Michael Ward-Bergeman & Reylon Yount- St. James Infirmary

Sing Me Home (Sony Masterwoorks)

Center of the River- Mississippi

Americana Art Music from the Mississippi (CotR)

Benoît LeBlanc- Kan mo té piti

Mô kouzin, mô kouzinn (Benoît LeBlanc)

Mike Regenstreif & April Verch (2025)

Newberry & Verch- Robin on the Wagon Wheel

Blessing on the Wing (Slab Town)

Andy Hedges- A Cowboy’s Hard Times

The Westerner (Andy Hedges)

Mike Regenstreif & Bill Staines (1993)

Bill Staines- My Sweet Wyoming Home

Miles (Mineral River)

Emily Scott Robinson- Sea of Ghosts

Appalachia (Oh Boy)

Ian Tyson- Sam Bonnifield’s Saloon

Ol’ Eon (Stony Plain)

Tom Russell & Mike Regenstreif (2005)

Tom Russell- 1946 Martin D18

Mount Olive (Frontera)

Amy Speace- In This Home

The Blue Rock Session (Windbone)

Cliff Eberhardt & Mike Regenstreif (2024)

Cliff Eberhardt- 500 Miles

500 Miles: The Blue Rock Sessions (Red House)

Mary Gauthier- I Drink

Live at Blue Rock (In the Black)

Mike Regenstreif & Missy Burgess (2014)

Missy Burgess- Pilgrim 

Missy Burgess with The Blue Train Live (Missy Burgess)

Tom Chapin & The Chapin Sisters- Quite Early Morning

Songs of Hope (Sundance Music)

Suzanne Nuttall- Dali Never Slept

Live Without a Net (Suzanne Nuttall)

Debi Smith- Vincent Van Gogh’s Mom

Flight of the Robin (Degan Music)

Mike Regenstreif & Tom Paxton (2001) photo: Janice Hanson

Tom Paxton & John McCutcheon- Ran Away with the Circus

Together Again (Appalsongs)

Thea Hopkins- Trouble (Pulled Up a Chair)

Blossoms & Ghosts (Thea Hopkins)

Mativetsky Amiri Pagé- Metamorphose

Metamorphose (Mativetsky Amiri Pagé)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on April 18. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

--Mike Regenstreif 

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – June 3, 2025: Busking

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/595/70492.html

Theme: Busking

All the songs have something or other to do with busking – playing music on the street or in places like bus or train stations for whatever passersby might want to throw in the hat or basket or instrument case.

Joni Mitchell- For Free

Ladies of the Canyon (Reprise)

Daniel Kahn with Vanya Zhuk- Busking Vagabond

Bulat Blues (Oriente Musik)

Ron Hynes- Boy from Old Perlican

Ron Hynes (Borealis)

Sue & Dwight- For a Moment (Subway Busker Song)

For a Moment (Sue & Dwight)

Connie Kaldor- Singer of the Sacred Heart

Out of the Blue (Coyote Entertainment)

Jerry Jeff Walker- Gypsy Songman

Mr. Bojangles (Rhino)

Michael ‘Earnie’ Taylor- I Just Fiddle All Day (The Busking Song)

Folk ‘n’ Western (Laughing Cactus)

Ray Bonneville- Street Singer

Rough Luck (Prime CD)

Eric Andersen- Singin’ Man

Dance of Love and Death (EARecords)

Kate Wolf- The Old Street Singer

Looking Back at You (Rhino)

Guy Clark- A Nickel for the Fiddler

Old No. 1 (Sugar Hill)

Steve Forbert- Grand Central Station, March 18, 1977

Alive on Arrival (Nemperor)

Sylvia Tyson- No Crowd, No Show

At the End of the Day (Stony Plain)

Ronny Cox- Cortelia Clark

How I Love Them Old Songs: Ronny Cox Sings Mickey Newbury (Bay Sound)

Andrew Calhoun- Buskers

Grapevine (Waterbug)

Marc Nerenberg- On the Street Again, Revisited

Lies, Butterflies, and Tyrants (Marc Nerenberg)

Bodie Wagner- Wooly Bum Man

Vintage (Bodie Wagner)

Tom Lewis- The Busker

Tinker Tailor Soldier Singer (Self Propelled Music)

Orit Shimoni- Playing Chelsea Hotel

Soft Like Snow (MW Music)

The Irish Rovers- Whiskey on a Sunday

Years May Come, Years May Go (MCA)

Bill Staines- The Streets of Old Quebec

Tracks and Trails (Philo)

Creedence Clearwater Revival- Down on the Corner

Willy and the Poor Boys (Fantasy)

The Bill Hilly Band (The Bills)- The Berlin Busker’s Polka

All Day Every Day (Borealis)

Next week: Dreams.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – January 28, 2025: Harmonica

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/595/68751.html

Theme: Harmonica.

Jerry Jeff Walker- Harmonica Talk

Bein’ Free (Atco)

Sonny Terry

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- Harmonica Blues

Sonny Terry’s New Sound (Folkways)

Guy Davis & Fabrizio Poggi- Freight Train

Sonny & Brownie’s Last Train (M.C.)

Paul Rishell & Annie Raines- Key to the Highway

I Want You to Know (Tone-Cool)

James Cotton with Joe Louis Walker & Charlie Haden- Country Boy

Deep in the Blues (Verve)

Michael Jerome Browne with JJ Milteau & Eric Bibb- Shake ‘Em on Down

Gettin’ Together (Borealis/Stony Plain)

Vince Halfhide with Steve Marriner- Sonny Boy Said

Vince Halfhide (Vince Halfhide)

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band- Blues with a Feeling

An Anthology: The Elektra Years (Elektra)

Corky Siegel

Corky Siegel- Movement I – Filisko’s Dream

Symphonic Blues No. 6 (Dawnserly)

Corky Siegel- Movement II – Slow Blues

Symphonic Blues No. 6 (Dawnserly)

Corky Siegel- Movement III – Allegro

Symphonic Blues No. 6 (Dawnserly)

Larry Adler- Blues in the Night

Harmonica Virtuoso (Audio Fidelity)

Paul Reddick- Breathless Girls

Sugar Bird (NorthernBlues Music)

Mike Stevens- Clarinet Polka

The World is Only Air (Borealis)

Saul Broudy- Bei Mir Bist Du Sheyn

Travels with Broudy (Saul Broudy)

Shtreiml- Uncle Tibor’s Spicy Paprikash

Spicy Paprikash (I.J. Rosenblatt)

Toots Thielmans- Five O’Clock Whistle

The Soul of Toots Thielmans (Dr. Jazz)

John Sebastian & David Grisman- Harmandola Blues

Satisfied (Acoustic Disc)

Grant Dermody- Waterbound

Lay Down My Burden (Grant Dermody)

Charlie Musselwhite- Blues Up the River

Mississippi Sun (Alligator)

Marc Nerenberg- This Time Around: A Banjo Harmonica Duet

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

Next week: Remembering Garth Hudson (1937-2025).

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – August 20, 2024: Murder Ballads

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/595/66460.html

Theme: Murder Ballads.

Bill Morrissey & Greg Brown- Tom Dula

Friend of Mine (Philo)

Ian & Sylvia- The Greenwood Sidie (The Cruel Mother)

Four Strong Winds (Vanguard)

Fourtold- Four Rode By

Fourtold (Appleseed)

Ian Tyson- Claude Dallas

Cowboyography (Stony Plain)

Tom Russell- El Paso

Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs (HighTone)

Dave Van Ronk- Duncan and Brady

Down in Washington Square (Smithsonian Folkways)

Saul Broudy- John Hardy

Travels with Broudy (Saul Broudy)

Rory Block- Louis Collins

Avalon: A Tribute to Mississippi John Hurt (Stony Plain)

Clarksdale Moan- Stack O’Lee

Dewittville Blues (Clarksdale Moan)

Martin Grosswendt- Delia

Pay Day! (Martin Grosswendt)

Guy Davis- Sugarbelly

The Legend of Sugarbelly (M.C.)

Bessie Smith- Send Me to the ‘Lectric Chair

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

Victoria Spivey- Murder in the First Degree

Queen Victoria (Frank Goldy)

Mark Rubin- The Murder of Leo Frank

The Triumph of Assimilation (Rubinchik)

Marc Nerenberg- Little Sadie

Delia’s Gone: Murder Ballads & Other Songs of Love & Death (Marc Nerenberg)

Mountain City Four- Sam Hall

Mountain City Four (Omnivore)

Doc & Merle Watson- The Banks of the Ohio

Doc Watson On Stage (Vanguard)

The Kossoy Sisters- Pretty Polly

Hop On Pretty Girls (Living Folk)

Karan Casey- The Ballad of Hollis Brown

Hieroglyphs That Tell the Tale (Vertical)

Wendy Grossman- Mary Hamilton

The Last Trip Home (Riverlark) 

Next week: Walking Blues.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – June 18, 2024: 50 years ago, I took over The Golem, Part 2

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/595/65644.html

Theme: 50 years ago, I took over The Golem, Part 2.

Mike Regenstreif at The Golem (1987) (Montreal Gazette photo)

It was just over 50 years ago, on May 24, 1974, that I took over running The Golem, Montreal folk club. 

The Golem had been established in 1973 in the McGill Hillel building at 3460 Stanley Street by Saul Markowicz. I had done my basic training in folk club management with Chuck Baker at the Yellow Door, and had been producing concerts in Montreal at Dawson College and McGill University for about two years when Saul approached me in the spring of 1974 and asked if I’d be interested in taking over The Golem.

I actually ran The Golem twice – from 1974 until 1976 and from 1981 until 1987. The Golem was also run for about a year after my first tenure by Marc Nerenberg (who, by the way, is responsible for keeping the Yellow Door going still). The Golem was closed between 1977 and when I returned and re-opened it in 1981. And, after my second tenure, a committee including Helen Fortin and Dave Clarke of Steel Rail fame kept the Golem going until 1991.

All of the songs on this show were played back in the day by artists who performed during my two tenures running the Golem.

Mike Regenstreif & Garnet Rogers (2006)

Garnet Rogers- Ain’t Goin’ Home

The Outside Track (Snow Goose Songs)

Humphrey & The Dumptrucks- Calgary Song

Six Days of Paper Ladies (Boot)

Penny Lang & Mike Regenstreif (1976) photo: Felicity Fanjoy

Penny Lang- Barrelhouse Blues

Live at the Yellow Door (She-Wolf)

Paul Geremia & Mike Regenstreif (2012)

Paul Geremia- The Truth is on the Streets

Self Portrait in Blues (Red House)

Terry Garthwaite- Hoy Hoy Hoy

Live at the Great American Music Hall (Flying Fish)

Dakota Dave Hull & Sean Blackburn- Deep Water

River of Swing (Arabica)

Bill Garrett- Northshore Train

Bill Garrett (Borealis)

Valdy- Peter & Lou

Classic Collection (A&M)

Roger McGuinn- Gate of Horn

Peace On You (Columbia)

Ramblin' Jack Elliott & Mike Regenstreif (2006)

Ramblin' Jack Elliott- Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right

Kerouac’s Last Dream (Appleseed)

Eric Andersen & Mike Regenstreif (2000)

Eric Andersen- Violets of Dawn

Woodstock Under the Stars (Y&T Music)

Mike Regenstreif & Loudon Wainwright III (2015)

Loudon Wainwright III- The Swimming Song

Attempted Moustache (Columbia/Legacy)

Diana Marcovitz- Don’t Call It Love

Recent unreleased version of song from Joie de Vivre (Diana Marcovitz)

David Mallett- Open Doors & Windows

Open Doors & Windows (Flying Fish)

Rory Block- Lovin’ Whiskey

I’ve Got a Rock in My Sock (Rounder)

Josh White, Jr..- One Meatball

Live at the Raven Gallery (Silverwolf)

Roy Forbes (known as Bim in the Golem years)- Woh Me

Almost Overnight (AKA)

David Essig & Mike Regenstreif (2014)

David Essig- Flo’s Café

A Stone in My Pocket (Peregrin)

Linda Morrison- Left Foot Slide

Line By Line (Heartstrung Music)

Guy Van Duser & Billy Novick- Sweet Georgia Brown

American Finger-Style Guitar (Rounder)

Jackie Washington & Mike Regenstreif (2008)

Jackie Washington- Gotta Go

The World of Jackie Washington (Borealis)

Mike Regenstreif & Marc Nerenberg (2009)

Marc Nerenberg- On the Street Again

On the Street Again (Marc Nerenberg)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- The Redtail Hawk

Back Roads (Rhino)

Mike Regenstreif & Murray McLauchlan on Zoom (2021)

Murray McLauchlan- Sweeping the Spotlight Away

Sweeping the Spotlight Away (True North)

50 years ago, I took over The Golem, Part 1 – with many more artists and songs from my Golem years – was heard on the May 28 edition of Stranger Songs and can be streamed at this link. https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/65341.html

Next week: 50 years ago, I took over The Golem, Part 3 in the first half-hour; and then, Songs and Conversation with Michael Jerome Browne and Mary Flower.

--Mike Regenstreif