Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – April 21, 2026: Swingtime in Springtime

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/595/75045.html

Theme: Swingtime in Springtime.

Lew London- Swingtime in Springtime

Swingtime in Springtime (Philo)

Ella Fitzgerald with Duke Ellington & His Orchestra- It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook (Verve)

Benny Goodman- Breakfast Feud

The Benny Goodman Small Bands Collection 1935-45 (Acrobat)

Catherine Russell & Mike Regenstreif (2007)

Catherine Russell- At the Swing Cats Ball

Send for Me (Dot Time)

Jackie Washington & Mike Regenstreif (2008)

Jackie Washington- Dinah

Midnight Choo Choo (Borealis)

Susie Arioli Swing Band featuring Jordan Officer- No Regrets

Pennies from Heaven (Justin Time)

Michael Jerome Browne & Mike Regenstreif (2005)

Michael Jerome Browne- He Ain’t Got Rhythm

Drive On (Borealis)

Annabelle Chvostek- Belleville rendez-vous

String of Pearls (Annabelle Chvostek)

Mike Regenstreif & David Amram (2004)

David Amram with Lynn Sheffield- Pull My Daisy

No More Walls (Flying Fish)

Laura Smith & Mike Regenstreif (2004)

Laura Smith- If I Were a Bell 

As Long As I’m Dreaming (Borealis)

Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys- Take Me Back to Tulsa

Take Me Back to Tulsa (Rounder)

Asleep at the Wheel- San Antonio Rose

Western Standard Time (Epic)

Bebop Cowboys- Deep Water

Début (Bebop Cowboys)

Mike Regenstreif & Cathy Fink (2025)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Cactus Swing

Voice on the Wind (Rounder)

Dakota Dave Hull & Sean Blackburn- River of Swing

River of Swing (Arabica)

Sunny and Her Joy Boys- Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea.

Introducing Sunny and Her Joy Boys (Stony Plain)

Guy Van Duser & Billy Novick- Stompin’ at the Savoy

Guy & Billy (Daring)

Dave Van Ronk- I’ll See You in My Dreams

Sweet & Lowdown (Justin Time)

The Hot Sardines- Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen/Diga Diga Do

Live at Joe’s Pub (The Hot Sardines)

Mike Regenstreif & Loudon Wainwright III (2015)

Loudon Wainwright III with Vince Giordano & The Nighthawks- I’d Rather Lead a Band

I’d Rather Lead a Band (Search Party)

Lambert Hendricks & Ross with Count Basie & His Orchestra- Jumpin’ at the Woodside

Sing a Song of & Along with Basie (Jasmine)

Finest Kind- Home in Pasadena

Heart’s Delight (Fallen Angle) 

Jeff Healey- Three Little Words

The Best of the Stony Plain Years: Vintage Jazz, Swing and Blues (Stony Plain)

Sussex- Bye Bye Blues

Shine (Lucky Bear)

Next week: The Art of the Long Song, Volume 3.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – February 3, 2026: A Tribute to Jackie Washington

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/595/73942.html

Theme: A Tribute to Jackie Washington (1919-2009).

Jackie Washington & Mike Regenstreif (2008)

Jackie Washington was a legendary Canadian blues, jazz and folk artist who died in 2009 at age 89. Jackie was born in 1919 in Hamilton, Ontario to a musical family and began his professional career in the 1930s as one of The four Washington Brothers. In the mid-1960s, Jackie began performing on the Canadian folk scene as a solo artist and was a great influence on many artists, and a great friend to many of us on the Canadian folk scene. It was a thrill for me to bring Jackie to Montreal to perform at the Golem, the folk club that I ran in the 1970s and ‘80s. From the 1990s until his death in 2009, he frequently collaborated with Mose Scarlett and Ken Whiteley and the last time I got a chance to visit with Jackie was in 2008 when Jackie, Mose & Ken were in Ottawa for a concert at Library & Archives Canada.

By the way, Jackie Washington should not be confused with the American folksinger and actor Jack Landron, who recorded several albums in the 1960s under the name Jackie Washington.

Jackie sang and played guitar and piano and during this show we hear some of his recordings and many other songs from his huge repertoire performed by other artists.

Jackie Washington- When that Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam’

Midnight Choo Choo (Borealis)

Chick Webb & His Orchestra with Ella Fitzgerald- I Want to Be Happy

The Best of Chick Webb and His Orchestra with Ella Fitzgerald (MCA)

The Andrews Sisters- Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar

Ultimate Edition (Nostalgic Melody Music Production)

Sneezy Waters- Solitude 

Sneezy Waters (Sneezy Waters)

Leon Redbone- Lulu’s Back in Town

On the Track (Warner Bros.)

Jackie Washington- All of Me

The World of Jackie Washington (Borealis)

Katy Moffatt- Miss Otis Regrets

Chrysalis (Sunset Blvd.)

Jackie Washington- Columbus Stockade Blues

The World of Jackie Washington (Borealis)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Triskaidekaphobia

Wahoo! (Community Music)

Danny Barker- Save the Bones

Save the Bones (Orleans)

Martha Davis & Spouse- Blue Turning Grey Over You

Slightly More Than Wonderful (Jasmine)

The Hot Sardines- Keepin’ Out of Mischief Now

Welcome Home, Bon Voyage (Eleven)

Mose Scarlett, Jackie Washington & Ken Whiteley- A Little Street Where Old Friends Meet

Where Old Friends Meet (Pyramid)

Pearl Bailey- I Ain’t Got Nobody (and Nobody Cares For Me)

Pearl Bailey (Coral)

Howard Armstrong- Dinah

Louie Bluie (Blue Suit)

Hoagy Carmichael- Lazy River

Stardust Melody (Bluebird)

Emmalisa Hollander- Street of Dreams

Out of Reach (Prophone/Naxos Sweden)

Jackie Washington- Sleepy Town Train

Keeping Out of Mischief (Pyramid)

Jay McShann- Goin’ to Chicago

Still Jumpin’ the Blues (Stony Plain)

Colin Linden- Ain’t That Gravy Good

The World of Jackie Washington (Borealis)

Nicki Parrott- Them There Eyes

Fly Me to the Moon (Venus)

Bebop Cowboys- Sugarfoot Rag

Some Kind of Fantasy (Bebop Cowboys)

Jackie Washington- Take the ‘A’ Train

Keeping Out of Mischief (Pyramid)

Jackie Washington- Gotta Go 

The World of Jackie Washington (Borealis)

Next week: Songs of – or inspired by – the Civil Rights Movement.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – August 26, 2025: Songs of August & Highway 61 Revisited – Revisited

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/595/71687.html

Themes: Part 1 – Songs of August; Part 2 – Highway 61 Revisited – Revisited.

Part 1 – Songs of August

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer with Chao Tran- August Flower

From China to Appalachia (Community Music)

Emily Triggs- Beautiful August

The Great Escape (Emily Triggs)

Jay Linden- August Night

Satchel (Jay Linden)

The Lucky Sisters- On an August Night

So Lucky (Patio)

Preservation Hall Jazz Band- August Nights

That’s It (Legacy)

Joan Baez- The 33rd of August

Blessed Are (Vanguard)

Jeanie Stahl- The August of Our Years

Mysteries (Daring)

Benny Carter- August Moon

Aspects (United Artists)

Part 2 – Highway 61 Revisited – Revisited.

It was 60 years ago, on August 30, 1965, that Bob Dylan released his monumental folk-rock album, Highway 61 Revisited.

Rory Block- Like a Rolling Stone

Positively 4th Street: A Tribute to Bob Dylan (Stony Plain)

Tim O’Brien- Tombstone Blues

Red On Blonde (Sugar Hill)

Ian Hanchet- It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry

Dealin’ from the Bottom (of My Heart) (Ian Hanchet)

Bob Dylan- From a Buick 6

Highway 61 Revisited (Columbia)

Ben Sidran- Ballad of a Thin Man

Dylan Different (Bonsai)

Emma Swift- Queen Jane Approximately

Blonde on the Tracks (Tiny Ghost/CRS)

Ray Benson- Highway 61 Revisited

Swingin’ and Skankin’ (Primary Wave Music)

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

Folk Hotel (Frontera)

Bill Camplin- Desolation Row

Bob Dylan Project One (Bill Camplin)

Bob Dylan recorded versions of the next three songs during the sessions for Highway 61 Revisited but did not include them on the album.

Lucinda Williams- Positively 4th Street

The Village: A Celebration of the Music of Greenwich Village (429)

Bob Dylan & The Hawks- Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window (single version)

Side Tracks (Columbia/Legacy)

Bob Dylan- Sitting On a Barbed Wire Fence

The Best of the Cutting Edge 1965-1966 (Columbia/Legacy)

Next week: Crazy Blues and Other Crazy Songs.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – May 6, 2025: The Banjo Special

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/595/70088.html

Theme: The Banjo Special.

Pete Seeger holding his banjo.

All the songs and tunes on this show feature the banjo.

Doc Watson- Rambling Hobo

Memories (Sugar Hill)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Foolish You

Tell My Sister: Kate & Anna McGarrigle (Nonesuch)

Michael Jerome Browne- Reverend Strut

Gettin’ Together (Borealis/Stony Plain)

John Hartford- Gentle on My Mind

Live from Mountain Stage (Blue Plate Music)

The Be Good Tanyas- Reuben

Chinatown (Nettwerk)

Mary Gick- Hills of Home

Six Tunes and a Song (Mary Gick)

Finest Kind- Going to the West

Lost in a Song (Fallen Angle)

Marc Nerenberg- Little Birdie: A Reimagined Traditional Song

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

The Dumptrucks- Qu’Appelle

Selections (Laughing Cactus)

Pete Seeger- Monsieur Banjo

American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 4 (Smithsonian Folkways)

Last Forever with John Cohen- Dillard Chandler

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

Arnie Naiman- My Lucy Stars

My Lucky Stars (Merriweather)

Robert Thomas & the sessionmen- Springhill

The Way We Roll (Gas)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Redwinged Blackbird

Get Up and Do Right (Community Music)

Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five- Put ‘Em Down Blues

The Hot Fives & Hot Sevens, Vol. III (Columbia)

Paul Barbarin with Danny Barker- Eh La Bas

Paul Barbarin and His New Orleans Jazz (Collectables)

Mark Rubin – Jew of Oklahoma- Berish Katz Breakdown

Dispatches: Songs from a World Gone Mad (Rubinchik)

Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson- Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss

What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow (Nonesuch)

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings- Howdy Howdy

Woodland (Acony)

Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn- Railroad

Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn (Rounder)

Pharis & Jason Romero- Train on the Island

Tell ‘Em You Were Gold (Smithsonian Folkways)

Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project- Lazy John

Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project (Borealis)

Derroll Adams- The Mountain

Songs of the Banjoman (Wundertutte) 

Suzy Thompson- Lose My Blues

Suzy Sings Siebel Volume One (Suzy Thompson)

Jenny Whiteley- Banjo Girl

The Original Jenny Whiteley (Black Hen Music)

Tony Trischka & Steve Martin- Plunkin’ Rag

Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular (Rounder)

Next week: A Tribute to The Klezmatics.

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday August 10, 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/128/66371.html

Emily Triggs- Beautiful August

The Great Escape (Emily Triggs)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer with Chao Tran- August Flower

From China to Appalachia (Community Music)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer with Chao Tran- High on a Mountain

From China to Appalachia (Community Music)

Laurie Lewis- Trees

Trees (Spruce & Maple Music)

Tiffany Williams & Dalton Mills- Gold Watch and Chain

Wasted Luck (Tiffany Williams & Dalton Mills)

The Haden Triplets- Single Girl, Married Girl

The Haden Triplets (Third Man)

Jesse Winchester- Rosy Shy

Jesse Winchester (Stony Plain)

Bruce Murdoch- (The Plains of) Jericho

Bruce Murdoch (Radio Canada International)

Sean Gagnier- Circle Harbor

Circle Harbor (Sean Gagnier)

Mike Regenstreif & Penny Lang (2005)

Penny Lang- Ain’t Life Sweet

Ain’t Life Sweet (She-Wolf)

Kevin Head- Everyone Needs a Backyard

Hear Them Callin’ (Kevin Head)

Madeleine Peyroux- Showman Dan

Let’s Walk (Thirty Tigers)

David Amram- East and West

Subway Night (RCA)

Ramblin’ Jack Elliott- If I Were a Carpenter

South Coast (Red House)

Tim Hardin- The Lady Came from Baltimore

Live in Concert (Polygram)

Tom Russell- Dance Hall Girls

Song of the West: The Cowboy Collection (HMG)

Tio Chorinho- Frevo Corrido

Tempestuoso (Lulaworld)

Archie Fisher & Garnet Rogers- Riverboat

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

Archie Fisher & Garnet Rogers- Mary Ann

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

House of Hamill- The Highwayman

Wildfire (House of Hamill)

Janie Rothfield & Allan Carr- Love is Teasing

The Two of Us (Janie Rothfield & Allan Carr)

The Spain Brothers- The Leaving of Liverpool

Bright and Better Morning (The Spain Brothers)

The Proclaimers- Bonnie Lass

Linda Thompson: Proxy Music (StorySound)

Beth DeSombre- My Father’s Piano

Holding the Threads (Beth DeSombre)

John Stewart- Anna on a Memory

Cannons in the Rain (RCA)

Teni Rane- Firefly

Goldenrod (Teni Rane)

Lou Dominguez- Eddie Went to Nashville

Hanging at the Luna Star (Lou Dominguez)

Hana Zara- Our Work Here is Not Yet Done

Bloom Where You Fall (People of Orphalese)

Last Forever- In the Pines

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

Sonya Cohen Cramer- Black Jack Davey

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

Evenchick & Hucul- Child of the Mississippi

This is My Story (Melissa Hucul & Mark Evenchick) 

Gathering Time- Ripple

Old Friends (Triple-G)

Guy Davis & Mile Regenstreif (2006)

Guy Davis- In the Evening Time

The Legend of Sugarbelly (M.C.)

The Dumptrucks- Thinkin’ of Home

Selections (Laughing Cactus)

Me & My Uncle- Next Train Blues

Me & My Uncle (Laughing Cactus)

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

Folk ‘n’ Western (Laughing Cactus)

Guy Clark- A Nickel for the Fiddler

Old No. 1 (Sugar Hill)

James Talley- When the Fiddler Packs His Case

Touchstones (Cimarron)

Ruth Moody- Michigan

Wanderer (Blue Muse/True North)

Catherine MacLellan & John Connolly- The Call

If It’s Alright With You: The Songs of Gene MacLellan (True North)

Hank Snow- Cure for the Blues

Cure for the Blues (RCA)

Colin James featuring Lucinda Williams- Protection

Chasing the Sun (Stony Plain)

Tracy Nelson- The Summer of the Silver Comet

Home Made Songs/Come See About Me (Flying Fish)

Chuck E. Weiss & Willie Dixon- Down the Road a Piece

Old Souls & Wolf Tickets (Slow River/Rykodisc)

Misty Blues- Yonder Come the Blues

I’m Too Old for Games: A Live Tribute to Odetta (Guitar One)

Odetta- Look the World Over

Blues Everywhere I Go (M.C.) 

Marc Nerenberg- The Coo-Coo: A Reimagined Traditional Song 

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

Lemon Bucket Orkestra- Cuckoo

Cuckoo (Lemon Bucket Orkestra)

Ivan Strunin- Really the Blues

The First Day of December (Ivan Strunin)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on September 7. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday May 20, 2023

Saturday Morning is an eclectic roots-oriented program on CKCU in Ottawa heard on Saturday mornings from 7 until 10 am (Eastern time) and available for on-demand streaming anytime. I am one of the four rotating hosts of Saturday Morning and base my programming on the Folk Roots/Folk Branches format I developed at CKUT in Montreal.

CKCU can be heard live at 93.1 FM in Ottawa and https://www.ckcufm.com/ on the web.

This episode of Saturday Morning was recorded and can already be streamed on-demand at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/60547.html

 

Bob Dylan- Mr. Tambourine Man

The Real Royal Albert Hall 1966 Concert (Columbia/Legacy)

Mike Regenstreif & Bruce Cockburn (2017)

Bruce Cockburn- Push Comes to Shove

O Sun O Moon (True North)

Martha Trachtenberg with Dede Wyland- Ticket Back

It’s About Time (Mom and Pop)

Robinson & Rohe- Where I’m Coming From

Into the Night (Righteous Babe)

Michael Jerome Browne with Harrison Kennedy- Monday Morning Blues

Gettin’ Together (Borealis/Stony Plain)

Colleen Peterson- Richland Woman Blues

Beginning to Feel Like Home (Capitol)

Mississippi John Hurt- Pay Day

Mr. Hurt Goes to Washington (Sunset Blvd.)

Michael Jerome Browne with Mary Flower & John Sebastian- Coffee Blues

Gettin’ Together (Borealis/Stony Plain)

Happy & Artie Traum- Mississippi John

Hard Times in the Country (Rounder)

Daniel Janke- Remember My Name

Songs of Small Resistance (Northern Town Films)

Annie Capps- The Punch

How Can I Say This? (Yellow Room)

Bruce Murdoch- Daly’s Song

Matters of the Heart (Bruce Murdoch)

Linda Morrison- Barcelona

Line By Line (Heartstrung Music)

Alison Brown featuring Anat Cohen- Choro ‘Nuff

On Banjo (Compass)

Geoff Bartley- Baby Boomers

The Ballad of Billy Bridger (Magic Crow)

Hans Theessink & Big Daddy Wilson- Roll with the Punches

Pay Day (Blue Groove)

The Refugees- Good Vibrations

California (Wahubo/Longhouse)

William Prince- Take a Look Around

Stand in the Joy (Six Shooter)

Orit Shimoni- Sing Back to Me

Lorem Ipsum (Orit Shimoni)

Garnet Rogers- All That Is

Sparrow’s Wing (Snow Goose Songs)

Rachelle Garniez- Anthem

Gone to Glory (StorySound)

Iggy Pop- You Want It Darker

Here It Is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen (Blue Note)

Dom Flemons- Saddle It Around

Traveling Wildfire (Smithsonian Folkways)

Andy Hedges featuring Dom Flemons- Dodgin’ Joe

Roll On, Cowboys (Andy Hedges)

The Rifters- At the Foot of the Mountain

The Enchanted World (Howlin’ Dog)

Eliza Gilkyson & Mike Regenstreif on Zoom (2022)

Eliza Gilkyson- Wind River and You

Songs from the River Wind (Howlin’ Dog)

John Gorka- Mennonite Girl

True in Time (Red House)

Russ Kelley- Somewhere Later Down the Road

Crazy Shades of Blue (Ark Road Music Productions)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Fu-Fu-Fu-Fu-Fu

All Wigged Out: Songs from the Musical (Community Music)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Love is the Answer

All Wigged Out: Songs from the Musical (Community Music)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Franklin Tango

All Wigged Out: Songs from the Musical (Community Music)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Unsolicited Advice

All Wigged Out: Songs from the Musical (Community Music)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Closer to the Light

All Wigged Out: Songs from the Musical (Community Music)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Two Peas in a Pod

All Wigged Out: Songs from the Musical (Community Music)

Liz Miller- Bittersweet

Lucky Me (Liz Miller)

Tom Russell- Old Heart

Love & Fear (HighTone)

Lynn Miles- Hide Your Heart

tumbleWeedyWorld (True North)

Tom Mitchell- A Little Longer with You

When the Moon is Right (Truesongs)

Jim Wurster- Brand New Start

Three Silly Love Songs (Y&T Music)

Ian Robb & James Stephens- God and The Orange Clown

Declining …with thanks (Fallen Angle Music)

Bruce Cockburn- Orders

O Sun O Moon (True North)

Tim Grimm- I Don’t Know This World

The Little In-Between (Vault)

Too Sad for the Public with Ana Egge- Old Alabama

Oysters Ice Cream Lemonade: American Folk Fantasies Written and Arranged by Dick Connette (StorySound)

Shelley Posen with Erik Frandsen- It’s for You

Old Loves (Well Done Music)

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

Find me on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday April 22, 2023

Saturday Morning is an eclectic roots-oriented program on CKCU in Ottawa heard on Saturday mornings from 7 until 10 am (Eastern time) and available for on-demand streaming anytime. I am one of the four rotating hosts of Saturday Morning and base my programming on the Folk Roots/Folk Branches format I developed at CKUT in Montreal.

CKCU can be heard live at 93.1 FM in Ottawa and https://www.ckcufm.com/ on the web.

This episode of Saturday Morning was recorded and can already be streamed on-demand at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/60194.html

Judy Collins- Mr. Tambourine Man 

Live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art at the Temple of Dendur (Wildflower)

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

Tom Paxton- Whose Garden Was This

The Compleat Tom Paxton (Even Compleater) (Rhino Handmade)

The Rifters- The Dollar Worth of Mother Earth

The Enchanted World (Howlin' Dog)

Jaeger & Reid- Fire (For Greta)

Fire (For Greta) – single (Judi Jaeger & Bob Reid)

Debra Mann- Big Yellow Taxi

Full Circle: The Music of Joni Mitchell (Whaling City Sound)

Kuné- Earth I

Universal Echoes (Kuné)

Lynn Miles- Moody

tumbleWeedyWorld (True North)

Stephen Fearing- As the Crow Flies

Vejpoesi (Stephen Fearing)

Jason Lang- Carry On Children

Handled with Care (Famgroup/Genison Music)

Penny Lang- Ain’t Nobody Got the Blues Like Me

Live at the Yellow Door (She-Wolf)

Meredith Moon- Constellations

Constellations (True North)

Gordon Lightfoot- Sixteen Miles

The Original Lightfoot: The United Artists Years (EMI)

Chris Coole & John Showman- The Julia Belle Swain

Much Further Out Than Inevitable: A Fiddle and Banjo Tribute to Some Music of John Hartford (Chris Coole)

Dom Flemons- Tough Luck

Traveling Wildfire (Smithsonian Folkways)

Martin Hayes & The Common Ground Ensemble- Longford Tinker

Peggy’s Dream (Faction)

Colleen Kattau- In the Garden

In the Garden – single (Wind Light Studios)

Amelia Hogan- The Woodthrush’s Song

Taking Flight (Amelia Hogan)

Kuné- Earth II

Universal Echoes (Kuné)

Kuné- Earth III

Universal Echoes (Kuné)

Tom Chapin- This Pretty Planet II

This Pretty Planet (Sundance Music)

Eddie Redmayne & Cast- Wilkommen

Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club – London Cast Recording (Decca)

Jessie Buckley & Cast- Cabaret

Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club – London Cast Recording (Decca)

Coco Love Alcorn- Good News

Wonderland (Coco Love Alcorn)

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

Gonna Let It Shine (M.C.)

Jenny Whiteley- Needle in a Haystack

Hopetown (Black Hen Music)

Tim Grimm- Lonesome All the Time

The Little In-Between (Vault)

Ray Lemelin- Grandma’s Hands

Dark/Out of Phase (Ray Lemelin)

Eric Bibb featuring Harrison Kennedy- Call Me By My Name

Ridin’ (Stony Plain)

Dakota Dave Hull- Oh, Didn’t Ramble

Better Late Than Never: The Classic American Guitar-Banjo (Arabica)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- All Wigged Out

All Wigged Out: Songs from the Musical (Community Music)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Amy’s of Denmark

All Wigged Out: Songs from the Musical (Community Music)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Car Wash

All Wigged Out: Songs from the Musical (Community Music)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Tipsy All the Time

All Wigged Out: Songs from the Musical (Community Music)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Where’d You Get That Hat

All Wigged Out: Songs from the Musical (Community Music)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Jesus is My Backstreet Driver

All Wigged Out: Songs from the Musical (Community Music)

Tom Russell & Mike Regenstreif (2005)

Tom Russell- Pork Roast and Poetry

Tribute to the Travelin’ Lady Rosalie Sorrels (Tribute to Rosalie Sorrels)

Rosalie Sorrels- Singing in the Country

Report from Grimes Creek (Green Linnet)

Andy Hedges & Tom Russell- Old Dolores

Roll On, Cowboys (Andy Hedges)

Chaim Tannenbaum- Brooklyn 1955

Chaim Tannenbaum (StorySound)

Aaron Nathans & Michael G. Ronstadt- Flatbush Sunset

Hello World (Crooked Cyclone)

Mike Ward- The Currency of Forgiveness

Love Never Rests (Psychosongs)

Grace Morrison- Oh, Colorado

Maybe Modern (Grace Morrison)

Chris Coole- Where the Light Begins

The Old Man and the C Chord (Chris Coole)

Greg Greenway- That’s Where the Hope Comes From

Between Hello & Goodbye (Greg Greenway)

Polky- Kolomyjka

Songs from Home (Polky)

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

Find me on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday January 3, 2023: Songs of Tom Paxton

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 iNn Ottawa and https://www.ckcufm.com/ on the web.

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Theme: Songs of Tom Paxton.

Note: On January 1st, from 7-10 pm (ET), the Greenwich Village Folk Festival is presenting a free, on-line concert celebrating Tom Paxton featuring Dan Boling; Tom Chapin; Judy Collins; The Don Juans; Cliff Eberhardt; Jackson Emmer; Eric Erickson; Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer; Tim Grimm; Janis Ian; Christine Lavin; Chris Lowe; Kathy Mattea; Amanda McBroom; John McCutcheon; Holly Near; Noel Paul Stookey & Peter Yarrow; Josh White, Jr.; and Tom Paxton – with MCs Ron Olesko of the Folk Music Notebook and Mike Regenstreif. You can watch the concert at … https://greenwichvillagefolkfestival.org/

Mike Regenstreif & Tom Paxton (2009)

Tom Paxton- Wish I Had a Troubadour

The Compleat Tom Paxton (Even Compleater) (Rhino Handmade)

Nanci Griffith- Can’t Help But Wonder Where I’m Bound

Other Voices/Other Rooms (Elektra)

Doc Watson- Leaving London

Portrait (Sugar Hill)

Cindy Mangsen- Outward Bound

Long Time Traveling (Compass Rose Music)

Tom Paxton- Victoria Dines Alone

Morning Again (Elektra)

Peter, Paul & Mary- The Last Thing On My Mind

See What Tomorrow Brings (Warner Bros.)

Pete Seeger- (My) Ramblin’ Boy

We Shall Overcome: The Complete Carnegie Hall Concert, June 8, 1963 (Columbia)

Tom Paxton- Has Annie Been in Tonight

Up & Up (Mountain Railroad)

Bob Dylan- Annie’s Going to Sing Her Song

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

Tom Paxton- When Annie Took Me Home

New Songs for Old Friends (Reprise)

Geoff Bartley- Central Square

Blackbirds in the Pie (Geoff Bartley)

Judy Collins- The Hostage

True Stories and Other Dreams (Elektra)

Magpie- What If, No Matter

A Tiding (Longtail)

Tom Paxton, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- When the Big Bad Books Go ‘Boo!’

All New (Community Music)

Mike Regenstreif, Anne Hills & Tom Paxton (2001)

Anne Hills- Mother

The Things I Notice Now: Anne Hills sings the songs of Tom Paxton (Appleseed)

Tim Grimm- Fare Thee Well, Cisco

Thank You Tom Paxton (Vault)

Dave Van Ronk- Did You Hear John Hurt?

Somebody Else, Not Me (Philo)

Tom Paxton & The DonJuans- Bottle of Wine

Live (Pax)

Josh White, Jr.- (Coming Through) And Loving You

By Request (Silverwolf)

Kate Wolf- Hold on to Me, Babe

Looking Back at You (Rhino)

Patrick Sky- Everytime

Patrick Sky (Vanguard)

Tom Paxton- Comedians and Angels

Comedians & Angels (Appleseed)

Tom Paxton- The Honor of Your Company

Wearing the Time (Sugar Hill)

Next week: Remembering Ian Tyson

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Tom Paxton – Boat in the Water

TOM PAXTON

Boat in the Water

Pax

tompaxton.com

I’ve written about Tom Paxton a lot over many years: here on the Folk Roots/Folk Branches blog, in Sing Out magazine, and in the Montreal Gazette. I’ve worked with him a bunch of times in coffee houses and concert halls and folk festivals – and, more than once, I’ve told the story of how an encounter with Tom when I was about 14 or 15 (and he was 31 or 32) was that “it moment” for me that led to a lifetime’s involvement in folk music. All this to say, without trying to be too repetitious, that I regard Tom to be one of the most important and significant songwriters and folksingers of all time. Period.

At age 79, Tom remains a vital artist. On Boat in the Water, his new album, Tom offers eight new songs and new versions of five of his classics from the 1960s and ‘70s all delivered from the perspective of wisdom and experience – whether they are songs reflecting his own life or reflecting the lives of characters created from his (and his co-writers’) creative imagination(s).

Among the most poignant of the new songs are “The First Thing I Think of Each Morning,” co-written with Jon Vezner, and “It’s Too Soon,” co-written with Pat Alger, both of which made me think of Midge Paxton, Tom’s late wife, who passed away in 2014. I always enjoyed so enjoyed Midge’s company when she came up to Montreal with Tom or at folk festivals we were all at.

Other highlights from the new songs include “Boat in the Water,” co-written with Pat Alger, a breezy let’s-get-away-from-it-all-together tune; “A Daughter in Denver,” in which Tom’s character, a divorced dad with grown kids, laments how his family has scattered; and “Eleanor’s Song,” co-written with Jon Vezner and Don Henry, a portrait of a woman who has lived life strictly on her own terms.

Highlights from among the older songs that Tom revisits are “Outward Bound,” a beautiful farewell song that takes on even more poignancy in hearing it sung in Tom’s older voice; and “The Last Hobo,” a story of a man left behind by society that is filled with the subtext of ever-changing times.

Tom on vocals and guitar is well supported throughout the album by bassist Ralph Gordon and co-producers/multi-instrumentalists/harmony singers Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer. Cathy also takes the lead vocal – and does a very nice job – on “Home to Me,” a tender love song that Tom used to sing at the Golem, the Montreal folk club I ran in the 1970s and ‘80s.

To paraphrase the title from a 1973 Tom Paxton LP, it’s always great to have new songs (and new versions of old songs) from an old friend.

Pictured (from left): Billy Bragg, Sonia disappear fear, Mike Regenstreif, Tom Paxton and Greg Greenway (with Zachary Stevenson looking on as he does a sound check) at the Kansas City Folk Festival after the Folk Alliance International Conference (2017).

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