Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday September 14, 2019

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

This episode of Saturday Morning can be streamed on-demand at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/44679.html

Terri Hendrix- Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key

Talk to a Human: Project 5.3 (Wilory)

I was deeply saddened by the passing of Mitch Podolak on August 25. I first met Mitch in June 1974 and he told me he was starting a folk festival in Winnipeg. I didn't go to the first Winnipeg Folk Festival that summer but I was there many times through the 1970s and ‘80s. I shared friendship, many a meal, much music, and the occasional fierce argument with Mitch in many places over the years. His influence – like that of Estelle Klein – is felt every time I plan a radio show. Perhaps the most excited I ever saw Mitch at the Winnipeg Folk Festival was when Pete Seeger sang “L’Internationale.”

Pete Seeger- L’Internationale

Singalong, Sanders Theatre, 1980 (Smithsonian Folkways)

The Duhks- Pretty Boy Floyd/Stoney Point

Your Daughters & Your Sons (Sugar Hill)

The Small Glories- Winnipeg

Assiniboine & the Red (Red House)

Stan Rogers- The Mary Ellen Carter

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

Martin Simpson performs Sunday, October 6, 8 pm, at Rosemount Hall, 41 Rosemount Avenue. Visit www.oldsod.ca for tickets or information.

Martin Simpson- Kimbie

Rooted (Topic)

Katie Dahl- Anna Lee

Wildwood (Leaky Boat)

Andy Antipin w/Sharon Katz & Mara Levine- I’m Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table

I’m Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table (Andy Atipin)

Blue Flame String Band- Blues Stay Away from Me

Blue Flame String Band (Flying Fish)

Nefesh Mountain performs Thursday, September 19 at Kehillat Beth Israel synagogue, 1400 Coldrey Avenue. They’ll be doing a family concert at 5:30 pm and an adult-focused all-ages concert at 7 pm. Call 613-728-3501 or visit https://kehillatbethisrael.shulcloud.com/form/nefesh-mountain.html for more info or tickets.

Nefesh Mountain- Halleluyah

Beneath the Open Sky (Eric Lindberg & Doni Zasloff)

Lynn Miles performs Saturday, September 21 at the Westboro Masonic Hall, 430 Churchill Avenue North. Visit www.rasputins.org for more info or tickets.

Lynn Miles- Million Brilliant

Downpour (Lynn Miles)

Old Man Luedecke performs Thursday, October 10 at the National Arts Centre Fourth Stage. Visit https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/23023 for more info or tickets.

Old Man Luedecke- Easy Money

Easy Money (True North)

Rob Lutes performs Thursday, October 24 at the National Arts Centre Fourth Stage. Visit https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/21896 for more info or tickets.

Rob Lutes- Believe in Something

Walk in the Dark (Lucky Bear)

Tom Russell- Red Velvet

Play One More: The Songs of Ian & Sylvia (True North)

Ian & Sylvia- Summer Wages

The Lost Tapes (Stony Plain)

Kim Wallach- The Cowboy and the Umbrella

Chatter of the Finches (Black Socks Press)

Ian & Sylvia- Four Strong Winds

The Lost Tapes (Stony Plain)

Extended Feature: Songs and Tunes of Bruce Cockburn. The next 15 songs and tunes were written by Bruce Cockburn.

Bruce Cockburn- Musical Friends

Bruce Cockburn (True North)

Teresa Ennis- Going to the Country

Space (BeaverBank Empire)

Tom Rush- One Day I Walk

Ladies Love Outlaws (Columbia)

Claire Lynch- All the Diamonds in the World

North By South (Compass)

Bruce Cockburn- Sweetness and Light

Crowing Ignites (True North)

Mike Regenstreif & Bruce Cockburn (2017)

Bruce Cockburn- Lovers in a Dangerous Time

Slice O Life: Live Solo (True North)

Dawn Tyler Watson & Paul Deslauriers- Mama Just Wants to Barrelhouse All Night Long

En Duo (Justin Time)

David Wiffen- Up on the Hillside

Coast to Coast Fever (EMI)

Maria Muldaur- Southland of the Heart

Southland of the Heart (Telarc)

Bruce Cockburn- Blind Willie

Crowing Ignites (True North)

Bruce Cockburn- Forty Years in the Wilderness

Bone On Bone (True North)

Judy Collins- Pacing the Cage

Portrait of an American Girl (Wildflower)

Salamander Crossing- Child of the Wind

Henry Street – A Retrospective (Signature Sounds)

Grace Griffith- Wondering Where the Lions Are

Minstrel Song (Blix Street)

Bruce Cockburn- Bardo Rush

Crowing Ignites (True North)

“Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story,” starring Ben Caplan, returns to the Babs Asper Theatre at the National Arts Centre from October 17-27. Visit https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/21514 for more information.

Ben Caplan- Traveller’s Curse

Old Stock (Rhyme and Reason)

Lisa Gutkin, Aaron Halva & Company- Welcome to Amerike: Vot can you makh

Indecent: Original Broadway Cast Recording (Yellow Sound Label)

Sharon Goldman- Tuesday Morning Sun

Every Trip Around the Sun (Sharon Goldman)

Susan Werner- What He Said in Jackson Square

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

Lisa Bastoni- Dogs of New Orleans

How We Want to Live (Sweet Ondine Music)

Christine Lavin & The Calithumpians- The Liar Tweets Tonight

The Best of Christine Lavin (Christine Lavin)

The Four Bitchin' Babes w/Mary Travers- What Was I Thinking

The Best of Christine Lavin (Christine Lavin)

Tim Grimm- Too Hard Drivin’

Heart Land Again (Vault)

Shelley Posen- Back at Bub’s

Ontario Moon (Well Done Music)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on October 12.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Stan Rogers – Fogarty’s Cove (reissue)

STAN ROGERS

Fogarty’s Cove

Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis

borealisrecords.com/artists/stan-rogers/

This review discusses the newly remastered and reissued version of Fogarty’s Cove, Stan Rogers’ first album.

As I noted in my review of The Very Best of Stan Rogers, Stan and I were friends for the last eight years of his life after meeting at the 1975 Mariposa Folk Festival. I invited him to come and play at the Golem, the Montreal folk club that I ran in the 1970s and ‘80s, and he played his first three-night gig there in February 1976.

Stan and I talked a lot that weekend about his artistic vision and the kind of records he’d like to make given the opportunity. As it happened, he got the opportunity to record his first LP later that year, thanks in no small part to the efforts of producer Paul Mills – who would go on to produce all but one of Stan’s albums – and the financial backing of Mitch Podolak, founder and then-artistic director of the Winnipeg Folk Festival, who bankrolled the production and release of Fogarty’s Cove.

Stan was, in my opinion, the finest folk-rooted songwriter that Canada has yet produced – and that was already more than obvious to me from the songs on Fogarty’s Cove – many of which he performed that February weekend at the Golem.

When he died at the so-very-young age of 33, Stan left behind a formidable body of work including several themed albums capturing specific regions of Canada and their distinctive people. He started that ongoing project with Fogarty’s Cove, about Atlantic Canada and its people. Along with several other albums, Stan went on to record Northwest Passage about the prairies and From Fresh Water about the Great Lakes region of Ontario. Eventually, he would have done projects about most, if not all, of Canada’s regions.

Stan’s parents both grew up in Nova Scotia and he spent much time there himself visiting relatives. No contemporary songwriter has captured Maritime life as genuinely as Stan did on Fogarty’s Cove (and in other songs that would later turn up on Turnaround, and two live recordings: Between the Breaks…Live and Home in Halifax). Whether it’s the lives of fishers and their families in songs like “Fogarty’s Cove” and “Make and Break Harbour,” the transformation of modern day Halifax in “Fisherman’s Wharf,” the played-out mining area in “The Rawdon Hills,” or the 18th century story he tells in “Barrett’s Privateers,” a song that seems so real and authentic you’d swear it was a time-tested traditional sea chantey.

Another highlight on the album is “Forty-five Years,” a beautiful love song inspired by his wife-to-be and “a day in Cole Harbour.” It would turn out to be one of Stan’s best-loved and most venerable songs.

I’ve listened to this album countless times. Stan played a cassette for me before it was released and I wore out at least a couple of copies of the original LP before moving on to the first CD version. But Fogarty’s Cove has never sounded as great as it does on this newly remastered version. It’s like hearing these amazing songs for the first time. Stan and accompanists Garnet Rogers and David Woodhead, his touring band of the time, and Curly Boy Stubbs (Paul Mills), Grit Laskin, Ken Whiteley, Bernie Jaffe and John Allan Cameron sound glorious.

Click here to read my first review of Fogarty’s Cove from the May 7, 1977 edition of The Montreal Gazette.

--Mike Regenstreif