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Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – October 3, 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/128/77380.html

Martin Simpson- October Song

Home Recordings (Topic)

Vikki Clayton- Who Knows Where the Time Goes

It Suits Me Well: The Songs of Sandy Denny (Castle)

Linda Ronstadt & The Stone Poneys- Driftin’

Evergreen, Vol. 2 (Capitol)

Tommy Makem & Liam Clancy- White Swans and Black/Grey October Clouds

Two for the Early Dew (Shanachie)

Laura Smith & Mike Regenstreif (2013)

Laura Smith- My Bonny

As Long As I’m Dreaming (Borealis)

Mike Regenstreif & Jesse Winchester (2006)

Jesse Winchester- Yankee Lady

Jesse Winchester (Stony Plain)

Karine Polwart & Dave Milligan- Talk to Me of Mendocino

Still As You’re Sleeping (Hudson)

Dave Clarke, Lucinda Chodan & Mike Regenstreif (2025)

Dave Clarke- October

GuitarSongs (Crossties)

Satellite Birdhouse- October

Satellite Birdhouse (Satellite Birdhouse)

Buddy Miller featuring The War & Treaty- Lay Down the Burden of Your Heart

Buddy Miller (New West)

The Kennedys- Smoketree

Smoketree (The Kennedys)

Dida Pelled- Hesitation Blues

I Wish You Would (La Reserve)

Donna Herula- Wish I Could See You Again

Cold Feet (Donna Herula)

Mary Gauthier- Black Ice

Reckoning (Soundly Music/Thirty Tigers)

Doug McArthur- Lean into the Wind

Smoke & Whiskey (Doug McArthur)

AJ Lee & Blue Summit- Glendale Train

Cover to Cover (Signature Sounds)

Mike Regenstreif & Bruce Cockburn (2017)

Bruce Cockburn- Goin’ Down the Road

Rarities (True North)

Woody Guthrie with Cisco Houston & Sonny Terry- Going Down the Road Feeling Bad

This Land is Your Land: The Asch Recordings Vol. 1 (Smithsonian Folkways)

Mike Regenstreif & Lisa Gutkin of The Klezmatics (2025)

The Klezmatics- I Wanna Ride

Wonder Wheel – Lyrics by Woody Guthrie: 20th Anniversary Edition (Shamus)

Carla Sciaky- Dear Mr. Bowers

Heart of the Swan (Propinquity)

Shelley Posen & Mike Regenstreif on Zoom (2023)

Shelley Posen- Packed

Mazel (Well Done Music)

Shari Ulrich & Mike Regenstreif (2019)

Shari Ulrich- The Sweater

Back to Shore (Borealis)

Mike Regenstreif & Missy Burgess (2014)

Missy Burgess- My Blue Sweater

Lemon Pie (Missy Burgess)

Kate Greenland- Bittersweetheart

Longing and Dreaming (Kate Greenland)

Margo Price- Rita Ballou

Old No. 1 Revisited (Truly Handmade)

Jade Bird- L.A. Freeway

Old No. 1 Revisited (Truly Handmade)

Guy Clark- Dublin Blues

Dublin Blues: 30th Anniversary Edition (Compass)

Doc Watson- Columbus Stockade Blues

Memories (Sugar Hill)

Carla Gover & Friends featuring Jeri Katherine Howell- Plant a Seed, Write a Song

William Branch is Hard to Find (Joe Hill Music)

Allison Russell featuring Ruby Amanfu- Just Like Saturday

In the Hour of Chaos (Fantasy)

Mama's Broke- Failing

Reunion (Free Dirt)

Rising Appalachia- Sugar Blue

Trade My Troubles (Rising Appalachia)

Frank London & The Loisaida Fife and Drum Corps- My Babe

Touzle Your Kurchy (Adhyâropa)

Harrison Kennedy- Mountain Stomp

Old Fashion Plain (Electro-Fi)

Rhiannon Giddens- High on a Mountain

Hope is the Thing with Feathers (Nonesuch)

Jake Blount- Shady Grove

Single-Footed Horse (Jake Blount)

Mike Regenstreif & Anne Hills (2001)

Anne Hills- The Benevolence of Trees

The Benevolence of Trees (Hand & Heart Music)

Deborah Holland- Your Safe Haven

Unadorned (Deborah Holland)

Mike Regenstreif & Orit Shimoni (2025)

Dan Bern & Orit Shimoni- Pain

Birds (Dan Bern & Orit Shimoni)

Ian Tamblyn- The Road to Ramona

The Fragile Tangent (North Track)

NEeMA- Jealousy

Watching You Think (Neemaste/Sony)

Felicity Hamer & Black Leather Rose- Heavy Hitter

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

Mike Regenstreif & Tom Russell (2012)

Tom Russell- October in the Railroad Earth

October in the Railroad Earth (Frontera)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on October 31. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

--Mike Regenstreif

Monday, October 20, 2025

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – October 21, 2025: Songs I’ve Heard Missy Burgess Sing

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/595/72459.html

Theme: Songs I’ve Heard Missy Burgess Sing.

Mike Regenstreif & Missy Burgess (2014)

Missy Burgess is a wonderful singer and songwriter who I met shortly after I moved to Ottawa in 2007. Although she’s currently living in Sarnia, Missy remains a treasured part of the Ottawa folk scene. These are all songs I’ve heard Missy sing.

Missy Burgess- Pour Me a Song

Pour Me a Song (Patio)

Po’ Girl Ain’t Life Sweet

Home to You (Nettwerk)

Martin Grosswendt- Come On In My Kitchen

Dog On a Dance Floor (Philo)

Odetta- Make Me a Pallet On Your Floor

Odetta and the Blues (Fantasy)

Missy Burgess- Basket of Blues

Lemon Pie (Missy Burgess)

Penny Lang- Trouble in Mind

Gather Honey (Borealis)

Mary Gauthier- Mercy Now

Mercy Now (Lost Highway)

Rosanne Cash- Time

Come On Up to the House: Women Sing Waits (Dualtone)

Missy Burgess- Don’t Go to Cincinnati

Play Me Sweet (Missy Burgess)

Pete Wernick’s Live Five & Joan (Nondi) Wernick- My Buddy

Up All Night (Niwot)

Mose Scarlett, Jackie Washington & Ken Whiteley- We’ll Meet Again

We’ll Meet Again (Borealis)

Kimmie Rhodes & Willie Nelson- Picture in a Frame

Picture in a Frame (Sunbird)

Missy Burgess- My Blue Sweater

Lemon Pie (Missy Burgess)

Jay Linden- That Lucky Old Sun

Under the Radar (Jay Linden)

Missy Burgess & Michael Burgess- When You Wish Upon a Star

Pour Me a Song (Patio)

Ball & Chain & The Wreckers- Come on Up to the House

Satisfied (Moo Music)

Missy Burgess- Missy’s Blues

Pour Me a Song (Patio)

Steve Earle & The Del McCoury Band- Pilgrim

The Mountain (New West)

Madeleine Peyroux- Smile

Half the Perfect World (Rounder)

Missy Burgess- Dance Me Slow

Play Me Sweet (Missy Burgess)

Next week: Remembering Bob Franke and Danny Thompson.

--Mike Regenstreif

Sunday, October 10, 2021

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday October 12, 2021: Drinking Songs

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU in Ottawa on Tuesday afternoons from 3:30 until 5 pm (Eastern time) and is also available 24/7 for on-demand streaming.

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

This episode of Stranger Songs was prerecorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/53775.html

Theme: Drinking Songs

Annie Lou- Grandma’s Rules for Drinking
Grandma’s Rules for Drinking (Annie Lou)

Finest Kind- Sussex Drinking Song
Lost in a Song (Fallen Angle)
David Parry- In Praise of Alcohol
The Man from Eldorado: Songs and Stories of Robert W. Service (Borealis)
Joni Mitchell- Nancy Whiskey
Archives – Volume 1: The Early Years (1963-1967) (Rhino)
Sandy & Caroline Paton- I’m a Rover and Seldom Sober
The Village Out West: The Lost Tapes of Alan Oakes – Field Recordings of the 1960s California Folk Music Scene (Smithsonian Folkways)
Ian Robb with The Friends of Fiddler's Green- Garnet’s Home-Made Beer
From Different Angels (Fallen Angle)

Stick McGhee- Drinkin’ Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee
New York Blues and R&B (JSP)
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer
Backwater Blues (Fantasy)

Gina Forsyth- Whiskey Before Breakfast
Copper Rooster and Other Tunes and Tales (Waterbug)

Rosalie Sorrels- Red Wine at Noon
Always a Lady (Green Linnet)
Kathy Mattea- Little Glass of Wine
Pretty Bird (Captain Potato)
Tom Paxton & The DonJuans- Bottle of Wine
Live (Pax)
Buster Poindexter- Who Drank My Beer (While I was in the Rear)?
Buster’s Happy Hour (Rhino)

Mike Regenstreif & Maria Dunn (2017)

Maria Dunn- Whiskey Evening
For a Song (Distant Whisper Music)
Russ Kelley- Whiskey Stone Blues
In Plain Sight (Ark Road Music Productions)
Lynn Miles- She Drinks
We’ll Look for Stars (Must Have Music)
Shelley Posen- Having a Drink with Jane
The Old Songs’ Home (Well Done Music)

Penny Lang- Barrelhouse Blues
Live at the Yellow Door (She-Wolf)
John McCutcheon- Moonshiner
Bucket List (Appalseed)
Laura Nyro- Sweet Blindness
Eli and the Thirteenth Confession (Columbia/Legacy)

Tom Mitchell & Mike Regenstreif (1999)

Tom Mitchell- Eastern Beer
1976 live recording – used with permission
Dave Van Ronk- Alabama Song
Let No One Deceive You: Songs of Bertolt Brecht (Flying Fish)
David Massengill- Last Call
Dave on Dave: A Tribute to Dave Van Ronk (Gadfly)
Miranda Mulholland- The Parting Glass
By Appointment or Chance (Roaring Girl)

Mary Gauthier- I Drink
Live at Blue Rock (In the Black)

Next week: Eating Songs

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

And on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday September 11, 2021

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

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

This episode of Saturday Morning was prerecorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/53398.html

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

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

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

Mike Regenstreif & Tom Paxton (circa 1994)

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

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

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

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

Jesse Winchester & Mike Regenstreif (2000)

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

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

Oscar Peterson- Night Train
Night Train (Verve)

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

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

Mike Regenstreif & Shawna Caspi (2015)

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

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

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

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on October 9. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

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

And on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Sunday, May 2, 2021

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday May 4, 2021

Arlo Guthrie- St. James Infirmary
Here Come the Kids (Rising Son)
Barbara Dane- Mama Yancey’s Advice
Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs (Smithsonian Folkways)
Bonnie Koloc- Jazzman
Seems Like Yesterday (Mr. Biscuit)
Eddie Holstein- Back in the Saddle Again
Eddie Holstein (Eddie Holstein)

Norah Jones- (Talk to Me of) Mendocino
Sing Me the Songs: Celebrating the Works of Kate McGarrigle (Nonesuch)
Anna McGarrigle, Sylvan Lanken & Lily Lanken- On My Way to Town
Sing Me the Songs: Celebrating the Works of Kate McGarrigle (Nonesuch)
Martha Wainwright- Matapedia
Sing Me the Songs: Celebrating the Works of Kate McGarrigle (Nonesuch)

Eva Cassidy- Tall Trees in Georgia
Live at Blues Alley (Blix Street)
Doug McArthur- Black Eyed Susan
Thunder Into Heaven (Patio)
The Wailin' Jennys- Begin
Live at The Mauch Chunk Opera House (Outside)

Mary Gauthier- The Rocket
Live at Blue Rock (In the Black)
Bill Chambers- I Drink
Live at the Pub Tamworth (Universal)
Tom Mitchell- Wasted Rose
1976 live recording – used with permission

Next week – Songs Inspired by the Pandemic

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

And on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday, May 31, 2014

Canadian Spaces – CKCU – Saturday May 31, 2014

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

This week’s show was co-hosted by Mike Regenstreif and Chris White.

Canadian Spaces on CKCU in Ottawa is Canada’s longest-running folk music radio program. It is heard Saturday mornings from 10:00 am until noon (Eastern time).

It was hosted for more than 33 years by the late Chopper McKinnon and is now hosted by Chris White and a rotating cast of co-hosts.

Guests: Fred Eaglesmith (phone); Judy Collins (phone); Shari Ulrich (studio) and Julia Graff (phone).

Sneezy Waters- Papa’s on the Housetop

Sneezy Waters (Sneezy Waters)

Hannah Shira Naiman- I’m Going to Find My Joy

Tether My Heart (Merriweather)

Mary Gauthier- The Rocket

Live at Blue Rock (In the Black)

Colleen Rennison- Blue Wing

See the Sky About to Rain (Black Hen)

Tom Russell & the Norwegian Wind Ensemble- Mississippi River Running Backwards

Aztec Jazz (Frontera)

Eliza Gilkyson- Eliza Jane

The Nocturne Diaries (Red House)

Max Layton- Halfway to Heaven

It’s a Mystery to Me (Maximus)

Tower of Song- Hey That’s No Way to Say Goodbye

In City and in Forest (Tower of Song)

Garnet Rogers- Sailor’s Rest

Summer’s End (Snow Goose)

Dave Van Ronk- Four Strong Winds

Live in Monterey (Omnivore)

Fred Eaglesmith- 18 Wheels

Milly’s Café (AML)

Phone conversation with Fred Eaglesmith.

Judy Collins- Pacing the Cage

Portrait of an American Girl (Wildflower)

Judy Collins- Suzanne

Judy Collins Sings Leonard Cohen: Democracy (Elektra/Rhino)

Phone conversation with Judy Collins.

Note: I also did an hour-long Folk Roots/Folk Branches special on Judy Collins for Roots Music Canada via this link.

The next three songs punctuated our studio visit with Shari Ulrich. Her daughter and record producer, Julia Graff, joined us on the phone.

Shari Ulrich- Free Fall

Everywhere I Go (Borealis)

Shari Ulrich- This Life

Live in the studio

Shari Ulrich- Making Friends with Gone

Everywhere I Go (Borealis)

The show is now available for online listening. http://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/129/17226.html

I’ll be co-hosting Canadian Spaces again on August 9.

Find me on Twitter. twitter.com/@mikeregenstreif

And on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Friday, March 7, 2014

Playlist: Folk Roots/Folk Branches - March 8-14, 2014

Folk Roots/Folk Branches with Mike Regenstreif is a thematic program streamed on the radio service at Roots Music Canada. – http://www.rootsmusic.ca/

A new show debuts every Saturday and repeats daily through the rest of the week.

March 8-14, 2014

Theme: Voices of Women.

Laura Smith- I Built a Boat

Everything is Moving (Borealis)

Kate McGarrigle- On My Way to Town

Tell My Sister (Nonesuch)

Caroline Herring- Traveling Shoes

Camilla (Signature Sounds)

Annie Lou- The Plaid Parade

Grandma’s Rules for Drinking (Annie Lou)

Claudia Schmidt- Nothing

New Whirled Order (Red House)

Little Birdie- Blue

Bare Bones (Little Birdie)

Eliza Gilkyson- Eliza Jane

The Nocturne Diaries (Red House)

Mary Gauthier- Mama Here, Mama Gone

The Foundling Alone (In the Black)

Anne Hills- Mother

The Things I Notice Now: Anne Hills Sings the Songs of Tom Paxton (Appleseed)

Rosalie Sorrels- Girls in Our Town

Then Came the Children (Green Linnet)

Eva Cassidy- Penny to My Name

Time After Time (Blix Street)

Priscilla Herdman- Millworker

Forgotten Dreams (Flying Fish)

Maria Dunn- Shareholder’s Reel

Piece By Piece (Distant Whisper)

Amelia Curran- Face on the News

Spectators (Six Shooter)

Lynn Miles- Party Too Long

Downpour (Lynn Miles)

Karine Polwart- Rivers Run

Threshold (W2/Borealis)

Natalie Merchant w/the Klezmatics- The Dancing Bear

Leave Your Sleep (Nonesuch)

This show can be heard at http://www.rootsmusic.ca/ on:

Saturday, March 8 – 10-11 am

Sunday, March 9 – 10-11 am

Monday, March 10 – 9-10 pm

Tuesday, March 11 – 9-10 pm

Wednesday, March 12 – 11 pm-12 am

Thursday, March 13 – 11 pm-12 am

Friday, March 14 – 11 pm-12 am.

The times listed are Eastern Time. Please adjust the schedule for whatever time zone you’re in.

Next week: Irish and Irish-inspired songs.

Find me on Twitter. twitter.com/@mikeregenstreif

And on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif