Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – January 14, 2025: Remembering Peter Yarrow

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/595/68573.html

Theme: Remembering Peter Yarrow (1938-2025).

The theme on this edition of Stranger Songs is Remembering Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary. Peter died on January 7 at age 86 following a four-year battle with bladder cancer.

This program includes songs performed by Peter and Peter, Paul & Mary, as well as some songs from his or their repertoire performed by several other artists.

Peter Yarrow- Don’t Ever Take Away My Freedom

Peter (Warner Bros.)

Peter, Paul & Mary- Puff (The Magic Dragon)

Moving (Warner Bros.)

Dave Van Ronk- River Come Down (Bamboo)

Down in Washington Square (Smithsonian Folkways)

Priscilla Herdman- Autumn to May

Stardreamer (Stardreamer Music)

Kronos Quartet with Sam Amidon, Brian Carpenter, Lee Knight & Aoife O'Donovan- Where Have All the Flowers Gone

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

Bethany Yarrow with Peter Yarrow- The Cruel War

Rock Island (Little Monster)

Peter, Paul & Mary- Blowin’ in the Wind

In the Wind (Warner Bros.)

Peter Yarrow & Richie Havens- The Great Mandala (The Wheel of Life)

Lifelines Live (Warner Bros.)

Cliff Eberhardt- 500 Miles

500 Miles (Red House)

Grayson Capps- Early Morning Rain

Heartbreak, Misery & Death (Royal Potato Family)

Penny Lang- If I Had a Hammer

Live at the Yellow Door (She-Wolf)

Peter, Paul & Mary- Rich Man Poor Man

Late Again (Warner Bros.)

Tom Paxton- The Last Thing On My Mind

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

Peter Yarrow- Tall Pine Trees

Peter (Warner Bros.)

Stan Rogers- Delivery Delayed

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

Peter, Paul & Mary- Day is Done

The Very Best of Peter, Paul & Mary (Warner Bros./Rhino)

Noel Paul Stookey & Peter Yarrow with The Paul Winter Consort- Et Misericordia

Something New and Fresh (Neworld)

Peter Yarrow- Freedom Medley: Woke Up This Morning with My Mind on Freedom/Oh Freedom/This Train is Bound for Glory/Twelve Gates to the City/Down by the Riverside/We Shall Overcome

Lifelines Live (Warner Bros.)

Peter Yarrow- Weave Me the Sunshine

Peter (Warner Bros.)

Peter, Paul & Mary with Tom Paxton, Fred Hellerman, Ronnie Gilbert, Odetta, Richie Havens, Dave Van Ronk, Susan Werner, Buddy Mondlock & John Sebastian- River of Jordan

Lifelines Live (Warner Bros.)

Next week: Blood on the Tracks Revisited.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – January 23, 2024: Holocaust Remembrance

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/595/63632.html

Theme: Songs for International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day falls on January 27 – the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. In these times of exploding antisemitism and other forms of racism and hatred, it’s important for us to pause and remember the lessons of the Holocaust when Hitler’s Nazi Germany systematically murdered 6 million Jews – about two-thirds of the Jews who lived in Europe.

Mara Levine- By My Silence

Facets of Folk (Mara’s Creations)

Brendan Nolan- Packing Her Bag

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

Mella Barnes- Between the Lines

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

Lenka Lichtenberg- Kam jsme to zašli? (What is this place?)

Thieves of Dreams (Six Degrees)

June Tabor- Di nakht (The Night)

Aleyn (Green Linnet)

Sasha Lurje- Tif iz di nakht (Dark is the night)

Jac Weinstein’s Helsinki Yiddish Cabaret (Global Music Centre)

Lee Oskar- Never Forget

Passages Through Music: Never Forget (Dreams We Share Productions)

Psoy Korolenko- Babi Yar

Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II (Six Degrees)

Psoy Korolenko- Misha tserayst Hitlers Daytchland (Misha Tears Apart Hitler’s Germany)

Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II (Six Degrees)

Perla Batalla featuring Bill Gable- Dance Me to the End of Love

Bird on the Wire: The Songs of Leonard Cohen (Mechuda Music)

Chuck Brodsky- Your Violin

Them and Us (Chuck Brodsky)

Leonard Cohen- The Partisan

Songs from a Room (Columbia/Legacy)

Theodore Bikel- Partizaner-March (March of the Partisans)

While I’m Here (Red House)

Henry Sapoznik- Itzik Vitnberg

Partisans of Vilna (Flying Fish)

Payadora Tango Ensemble featuring Marta Kosiorek- A Prayer for Rescue

Silent Tears: The Last Yiddish Tango (Six Degrees)

Payadora Tango Ensemble featuring Aviva Chernick- The Numbers on My Arm

Silent Tears: The Last Yiddish Tango (Six Degrees)

Chava Alberstein & The Klezmatics- Mayn Shvester Khaye (My Sister Khaye)

The Well (Rounder)

Noel Paul Stookey- Jean Claude

Just Causes (Neworld)

Zisl Slepovitch Ensemble & Sasha Lurje- Shotns (Shadows)

Shotns-Shadows (Fortunoff Video Archive)

Zisl Slepovitch Ensemble & Sasha Lurje- Geto, getunyu (Ghetto, My Dear Ghetto)

Shotns-Shadows (Fortunoff Video Archive)

Lee Oskar- Miracle Children

Passages Through Music: Never Forget (Dreams We Share Productions)

Next week: Conversation and Songs with Garnet Rogers.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – November 21, 2023: Conversation and Songs with Noel Paul Stookey

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/595/62799.html

Theme: Conversation and Songs with Noel Paul Stookey.

The conversation with Noel Paul Stookey – recorded on Zoom on November 21 – was punctuated by these songs:

Peter, Paul & Mary- Whatshername

Album 1700 (Warner Bros.)

Peter, Paul & Mary- The House Song

Album 1700 (Warner Bros.)

Noel Paul Stookey & Mike Regenstreif on Zoom (2023)

Noel Paul Stookey- John Henry Bosworth

Paul and (Newworld)

Noel Paul Stookey- Not That Kind of Music

At Home: The Maine Tour (Neworld)

Peter, Paul & Mary- State of the Heart

No Easy Walk to Freedom (Gold Castle)

Noel Paul Stookey- Wedding Song (There is Love)

Paul and (Newworld)

Noel Paul Stookey- El Salvador

Just Causes (Neworld)

Noel Paul Stookey- Jean Claude

Just Causes (Neworld)

Noel Paul Stookey- Revolution (1 X 1)

Facets (Neworld)

Noel Paul Stookey, Peter Yarrow, Jonathan Edwards, Tom Chapin, Holly Near, Josh White, Jr., David Mallett, Barry Ollman, David Roth & Maureen McGovern- I Will Stand (Work Together)

Summerfallwinterspring (Neworld)

Noel Paul Stookey- For the Love of It All

At Home: The Maine Tour (Neworld)

Noel Paul Stookey- America

At Home: The Maine Tour (Neworld)

Noel Paul Stookey- Dance to the Manulenjo

Dance to the Manulenjo – single (Neworld)

Noel Paul Stookey- In These Times

Just Causes (Neworld)

Bonus – for on-demand listeners – a verse from the theme song from The Birds of Paradise, Noel’s rhythm & blues band while he was in high school:

Noel Paul Stookey- Birds of Paradise

Sung spontaneously on Zoom

Next week: Stormy Weather.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday July 25, 2023: Name That Tune

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

This episode of Stranger Songs was recorded and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/61281.html

Theme: Name That Tune – every song includes a proper name in its title.

Bonnie Dobson- Peter Amberley

Take Me for a Walk in the Morning Dew (Hornbeam)

David Massengill- My Name Joe

Coming Up for Air (Flying Fish)

Christine Lavin- My Sister Mary & My Mother

On My Way to Hooterville (Christine Lavin)

Rod MacDonald- Come Out, Annie

Rants and Romance (Blue Flute Music)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle & Linda Ronstadt- Gentle Annie

The McGarrigle Hour (Hannibal)

Tom Mitchell- Old Dan

When the Moon is Right (Truesongs)

Dave Clarke- Lucinda

The Healing Garden (Crossties)

The Dumptrucks- Jean Harlow

Selections (Laughing Cactus)

The Wailin' Jennys- Bring Me Little Water Sylvie

Live at The Mauch Chunk Opera House (Outside Music)

Ken Whiteley- Michael Row

Long Time Travelling (Ken Whiteley)

Tom Russell- Annette

Box of Visions (Stony Plain)

Nanci Griffith- Julie Anne

Poet In My Window (Philo)

Paul Siebel- Louise

Woodsmoke and Oranges (Elektra)

Katy Moffatt- Sister Angelina

Chrysalis (Sunset Blvd. Records)

Ball & Chain & The Wreckers- Merle

Satisfied (Moo Music)

Lynn Miles- Johnny Without June

tumbleWeedyWorld (True North)

Ian Hanchet- To Ramona

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

Bob Dylan- Visions of Johanna

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

Noel Paul Stookey- Jean Claude

Just Causes (Neworld)

Mike Regenstreif & Michael Smith (2014)

Michael Smith- The Ballad of Elizabeth Dark

Such Things are Finely Done (Tales from the Tavern)

Jesse Winchester- Eulalie

Live from Mountain Stage (Blue Plate Music)

Next week: Art & Artists.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday May 10, 2022: “Rooty Toot Toot for the Moon”

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/595/56173.html

Theme: “Rooty Toot Toot for the Moon”

Tom Paxton- Looking for the Moon
Looking for the Moon (Appleseed)

Over the Moon- Over the Moon
Moondancer (Over the Moon)
Shelley Posen- Ontario Moon
Ontario Moon (Well Done Music)
Leon Redbone- Shine On Harvest Moon
Double Time (Warner Bros.)
Chaim Tannenbaum- It’s Only a Paper Moon
Chaim Tannenbaum (StorySound)

Patti Casey with Paul Asbell- Blue Moon
Just an Old Sweet Song (Long Shot Music)
Martha Seyler & Robert Resnik- Blue Moon of Kentucky
Martha Sings & Robert Plays (Martha Seyler & Robert Resnik)
Pat Alger- Once in a Very Blue Moon
True Love & Other Short Stories (Sugar Hill)

Noel Paul Stookey- I’ll Be Seeing You
Fazz: Now & Then (Neworld Multimedia)

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

Erik Frandsen- Dig That Moon
Antiques: New & Used (Erik Frandsen)
Nanci Griffith- Grapefruit Moon
Ruby’s Torch (Rounder)
Billie Holiday- I Wished On the Moon
Songs for Distingué Lovers (Verve)
Durham County Poets- The Moon Won’t Go Down
Hand Me Down Blues (Durham County Poets)

Ben Bullington- Ring Around the Moon
White Sulphur Springs (Ben Bullington)
Lily Henley- Alta Alta Va La Luna
Oras Dezaoradas (Lior Éditions)
Perla Batalla- Cuando Sale la Luna
Discoteca Batalla (Mechuda Music)
Tom Russell- Walking On the Moon
Old Songs Yet to Sing (Frontera)

Maggie & Terre Roche- Underneath the Moon
Where Do I Come From: Selected Songs (StorySound)
Kevin Head- Full Moon
Hear Them Callin’ (Kevin Head)
Ian Tyson- Horsethief Moon
Eighteen Inches of Rain (Stony Plain)

Mike Regenstreif, Tom Paxton & Joel Mabus (2001) phto: Janice Hanson

Joel Mabus- The Moon May Never Shine This Way Again
Time & Truth (Fossil)
Vance Gilbert- Unfamiliar Moon
Unfamiliar Moon (Disismye Music)
Missy Burgess- Drive to the Moon
Play Me Sweet (Missy Burgess)
David Francey- Big Texas Moon
Empty Train (Laker Music)

Lui Collins- Rooty Toot Toot for the Moon
Baptism of Fire (Green Linnet)

Next week: These Songs are for the Birds.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday March 26, 2022

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 prerecorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/55682.html

Richie Havens- Here Comes the Sun
Résumé: The Best of Richie Havens (Rhino)

Pete Seeger & Tao Rodriguez Seeger- Maple Syrup Time
Seeds: The Songs of Pete Seeger, Volume 3 (Appleseed)
Le Vent du Nord- Dans l’eau-de-vie de l’arbre
20 Printemps (La Compagnie du Nord)
Tamarack- Maple Syrup
Leaving Inverarden (Folk Era)
Trent Severn- Stealin’ Syrup
Trillium (Trent Severn)

Jesse Winchester & Mike Regenstreif (2000)

Jesse Winchester- Yankee Lady
Live From Mountain Stage (Blue Plate Music)
Bob Stark- I Can’t Be Sure
Sculpted Pieces of Love (Bob Stark)
Colleen Peterson- Brand New Tennessee Waltz
Beginning to Feel Like Home (Capitol)
Michael Miland- Isn’t That So
Michael Miland (Michael Miland)
Jennifer Warnes- You Remember Me
Shot Through the Heart (Arista)

Tom Paxton, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- When the Big Bad Books Go Boo
When the Big Bad Books Go Boo – single (Community Music)
Carla Ulbrich- From the Bible
Twang (Romantic Devil)

Rupert Wates- For the People
For the People (Rupert Wates)
Greg Greenway- Let It Roll
Songs From the Beginning (Sheen of Heat Music)
Johnsmith- Virgil’s Sweet Six String
Backroads (Blue Pine Music)

Mike Mullins- Beneath the Skye the Water is Wide
8-String Sketches (Rubber Chicken)

Mike Regenstreif & Bruce Cockburn (2017)

Psoy Korolenko- Babi Yar
Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II (Six Degrees)
Sophie Milman- Tulchin
Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II (Six Degrees)
Tom Paxton- Silent Night
New Songs for Old Friends (Reprise)
Leonard Cohen- The Partisan
Songs from a Room (Columbia/Legacy)
Bruce Cockburn- If I Had a Rocket Launcher
Greatest Hits (1970-2020) (True North)

Lisa Null- Sweet Dove of Peace
Legacies (Folk-Legacy)
Sue Horowitz- Peace Song
Notes From the Garrison (Sue Horowitz)
Noel Paul Stookey featuring Theresa Thomason- In Reverence
Fazz: Now & Then (Neworld Multimedia)
Priscilla Herdman- Peace Must Come
Darkness Into Light (Flying Fish)

Eliza Gilkyson- Colorado Trail
Songs from the River Wind (Howlin’ Dog)
Tom Russell & Ian Tyson- Navajo Rug
Cowboy’d All to Hell (Frontera)
Over the Moon- Someday Soon
Chinook Waltz (Borealis)
Bill Staines- My Sweet Wyoming Home
Miles (Mineral River)
Willie P. Bennett- Blackie and the Rodeo King
Blackie and the Rodeo King (Bnatural Music)

Hoyle Osborne- Can-Can
Ragtime Cowboy Joe: Piano Music from an Old West Saloon (Ripple)

Shari Ulrich & Mike Regenstreif (2019)

Rick Fines- Live Forever
Solar Powered Too (Rick Fines)
Susan Crowe- Still, You Do Not Come
The Door to the River (Corvus)
Shari Ulrich- Busy
Back to Shore (Borealis)
Lynn Miles- Main St.
We’ll Look for Stars (Must Have Music)

The Duke Robillard Band with Michelle Willson- Trouble in Mind
They Called It Rhythm & Blues (Stony Plain)
Barbara Dane- Prescription for the Blues
Trouble In Mind (Dreadnaught)
Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon- Chicago House Rent Party
Songs of Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon (Folkways)
Kenny ‘Blues Boss’ Wayne- Rock and Rolling This House
Blues from Chicago to Paris: A Tribute to Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon (Stony Plain)

Pierce Turner- Don’t Get Too Fallen
Terrible Good (StorySound)
The Band- I Shall Be Released
Music from Big Pink: 50th Anniversary (Capitol)
Cowboy Junkies with Garth Hudson- Clothes Line Saga
Garth Hudson Presents a Canadian Celebration of The Band: 10th Anniversary Edition (Curve Music)
The Brothers & Sisters- My Back Pages
Dylan’s Gospel (Columbia)
Bob Dylan- Visions of Johanna
The Real Royal Albert Hall 1966 Concert! (Columbia/Legacy)

Wynton Marsalis- The Pearls  
Selections from Swinging into the 21st (Columbia)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on April 23. 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 June 1, 2021

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/595/52165.html

Theme: The Third Stranger Songs Fantasy Concert, a whole show of music recorded live in concert. We will have a “Stranger Songs Fantasy Concert” on our first show of every month until it’s safe for us to return to live music in person.

Josh White, Jr..- Say a Prayer for a Stranger
Live at the Raven Gallery (Silverwolf)

Ronny Cox- Hot Water Cornbread
Live at the Kitchen Sink (Ronny Cox)
Kate & Edith- Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor
Live at Kelso Hall (Kate & Edith)
Corin Raymond & The Sundowners- Postcard from Winnipeg
Paper Nickels (Local Rascals)

Rosalie Sorrels & Mike Regenstreif (1993)

Diana Jones- Better Times Will Come
Live in Concert (Proper)
Judy Collins- Four Strong Winds
Living (Elektra)
Rosalie Sorrels- Then Came the Children
Then Came the Children (Green Linnet)

Perla Batalla- Bird On a Wire
Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man (Verve Forecast)
Leonard Cohen- Suzanne
Live in London (Columbia)

Noel Paul Stookey- Not That Kind of Music
Just Causes (Neworld)
Pete Seeger- L’Internationale
Singalong, Sanders Theatre, 1980 (Smithsonian Folkways)
Bruce Springsteen with The Sessions Band- When the Saints Go Marching In
Live in Dublin (Columbia)
Hans Theessink & Blue Groove- I Shall Not Be Moved
Live (Minor Music)

Guy Clark- Dublin Blues
Songs and Stories (Dualtone)
Bonnie Dobson- Bonnie’s Blues
At Folk City (Prestige)
Missy Burgess- Time
Missy Burgess with The Blue Train Live (Missy Burgess)

The Band- The Weight
Stage Fright: 50th Anniversary Edition [Live at the Royal Albert Hall, June 1971] (Capitol)
Wynton Marsalis Septut featuring The Blind Boys of Alabama- The Last Time
United We Swing: Best of the Lincoln Center Galas (Blue Engine)

Stephane Grappelli & David Grisman- Swing 42
Live (Warner Bros.)

Next week – Thinking About Elvis

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--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday April 24, 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/128/51715.html

 

John Hartford- Gentle On My Mind
Gentle On My Mind and Other Originals (RCA)

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings- Ginseng Sullivan
All the Good Times Are Past and Gone (Acony)
Marc Nerenberg- Ma Creole Belle
On the Street Again (Marc Nerenberg)
Moira Smiley & Voco- Oh Susannah
In Our Voices (Moira Smiley Music)

Last Forever- Pay Day at Coal Creek
No Place Like Home/Last Forever (2nd Story Sound)
Crys Matthews- How Many More
Changemakers (Crys Matthews)
Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi- I Shall Not Be Moved
They’re Calling Me Home (Nonesuch)

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

Joni Mitchell- Fare Thee Well (Dink’s Song)
Archives – Volume 1: The Early Years 1963-1967 (Rhino)
Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Heart Like a Wheel
Tell My Sister: Kate & Anna McGarrigle (Nonesuch)
Chaim Tannenbaum- Belfast Louis Falls in Love
Chaim Tannenbaum (StorySound)

Laura Smith- Souther’s Faithless Love (Just What I Need)
As Long As I’m Dreaming (Borealis)
JD Souther- Faithless Love
Natural History (Eone)
Craig Cardiff- Emm & May
All This Time Running (True North)

Tim Grimm- Carry Us Away
Gone (Vault)
Peggy Seeger- Tree of Love
First Farewell (Red Grape Music)
Reggie Harris- Come What May
On Solid Ground (Reggie Harris Music)
Ronney Abramson- Your Love Gets Me Around
Stowaway (Castor Island Music)

Darryl Purpose- Gentle Arms of Eden
Gentle Arms of Eden – single (Gamblers Grace Music)
Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer- Farewell to Saint Delores
Tanglewood Tree (Signature Sounds)
Katy Moffatt- Sister Angelina
Chrysalis (Sunset Blvd. Records)
Gretchen Peters with Tom Russell- Guadalupe
One to the Heart, One to the Head (Scarlet Letter/Frontera)
Tom Russell- Angel of Lyon
Old Songs Yet to Sing (Frontera)

Jon Lawton- Goin’ to California
Virginny Sessions: Vol. 1 (Bigtone)
Thad Beckman- Mama, ‘Taint Long for Day
Blues Gone By (Thadzooks)
Lauren Sheehan- Statesboro Blues
Two Wings (Wilson River)
Guy Davis & Lea Gilmore- Some Cold Rainy Day
Juba Dance (M.C.)
Veronika Jackson- Go Down Sunshine
The Woman I Am (Acoustic with Heart Productions)

Anne Hills- Elusive Chemistry
Accidental August (Hand & Heart Music)
Dave Clarke- Lucinda
The Healing Garden (Crossties)
Rings & Things- Smoker’s Lullaby
Pearl Soup (Cooking Fat Music)
Montreal- What About the Wind?
A Summer’s Night (Stormy Forest)
Ian Tamblyn- Tiger Lily Road
Voice in the Wilderness (North Track)

Noel Paul Stookey- Jean Claude
Just Causes (Neworld)
Frank London with Karim Sulayman & Cantor Sveta Kundish- Nirdi Natan Reiho
Ghetto Songs (Felmay)

Maria Muldaur with Tuba Skinny- Let’s Get Happy Together
Let’s Get Happy Together (Stony Plain)
Jeff Healey- Some of These Days
The Best of the Stony Plain Years: Vintage Jazz, Swing and Blues (Stony Plain)
Annabelle Chvostek- String of Pearls
String of Pearls (Annabelle Chvostek)
Sussex- Don’t Wanna Wait
The Ocean Wide (Lucky Bear)
The Hot Sardines- Running Wild
French Fries + Champagne (Decca)

Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges- St. Louis Blues
Back to Back: Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges Play the Blues (Verve)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on May 22. 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

Noel Paul Stookey – At Home: The Maine Tour

NOEL PAUL STOOKEY

At Home: The Maine Tour

Neworld

noelpaulstookey.com

As I’ve noted before, I was too young to have been caught up in the wave of commercial folk groups – like the Kingston Trio and Limeliters – that became hugely popular in the late-1950s. But several groups that came along just a little bit later – in particular Ian & Sylvia and Peter, Paul & Mary – did have a huge impact on me as my interest in music, and especially folk music, developed in the ‘60s. Years later, I got to know Noel Paul Stookey a little and, through him, met Peter Yarrow and Mary Travers, when Peter, Paul & Mary performed in Montreal in the ‘80s.

Along with the many Peter, Paul & Mary albums, Noel has also recorded many solo albums and his latest, At Home: The Maine Tour, is a warm and intimate, extended live set – 24 songs running 79 minutes – recorded during a tour of Maine, his home state for the past four decades. It’s an entirely solo affair – no back-up musicians or singers – with the spotlight all on his voice and very accomplished guitar arrangements.

The set is a CD/DVD combo with the songs on the CD and videos of them recorded at the concerts on the DVD. Some of the songs are numbers I’ve never heard before while others are new versions of songs from Peter, Paul & Mary or earlier solo albums. (I think one of the songs, the then-unreleased “Facets of the Jewel,” may have had its world premiere when Noel was my guest on the Folk Roots/Folk Branches radio program in 1999.)

The most moving pieces on At Home, are “Jean Claude,” a reflection on the Holocaust from the perspective of an old French man who, as a boy, witnessed his friend, a Jewish boy named Michel, shipped off to a Nazi death camp; “Familia Del Corazon,” an inspiring song I’d never heard before that’s an important reminder of what countries like the United States and Canada truly represent to ourselves and to the rest of the world (and an important message in these Trumpian times); and “Not That Kind of Music,” a tribute to Pete Seeger written a couple of years before Pete passed away.

Among my other favorites in this set are such classics as “Wedding Song (There is Love),” a beautiful piece he wrote to sing at Peter Yarrow’s wedding; “Whatshername,” a jazzy reminiscence, many years later, of one who got away (I’m sure most everyone has a whatshername to recall); “Virtual Party,” a witty, delightful spoof of anonymity in the digital age; and “Glory Train,” Noel’s adaptation of the traditional “This Train,” which brings the set back to the first Peter, Paul & Mary LP 54 or so years ago.

Near the end of the album, Noel sings “In These Times,” and it strikes me that At Home: The Maine Tour is a timeless collection from an artist with a deep understanding of his times.

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Peter, Paul and Mary – Discovered: Live in Concert

PETER, PAUL AND MARY

Discovered: Live in Concert

Warner Bros./Rhino

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I was too young to have been caught up in the wave of commercial folk groups – like the Kingston Trio and Limeliters – that became hugely popular in the late-1950s. But several groups that came along just a little bit later – in particular Ian & Sylvia and Peter, Paul & Mary – did have a huge impact on me as my interest in music, and especially folk music, developed in the ‘60s.

My first Peter, Paul & Mary album was Late Again, which I bought when it was brand new in 1968. Soon I had all their earlier albums as well. Years later, I got to know Noel Paul Stookey a little and, through him, met Peter Yarrow and Mary Travers, when Peter, Paul & Mary performed in Montreal in the ‘80s.

Speaking of the ‘80s – Peter, Paul & Mary began to record their concerts in those years and put the tapes away. Now, they have released Discovered: Live in Concert, a 13-track set of songs from those concert tapes that were never included on any of their albums (although one song, “Mi Caballo Blanco,” was included in their box set, Carry It On), as part of the 2014 celebration of their 50th anniversary – there is also a new PBS pledge drive special and a book – as a group.

As is typical of many Peter, Paul & Mary albums, Discovered: Live in Concert includes some traditional material, some original songs, and their interpretations of material drawn from a variety of contemporary folk-rooted songwriters. And, like most of their concerts, a little silly comedy.

My favorite songs on the CD include Kate Wolf’s beautiful love song, “Give Yourself to Love”; Sarah Elizabeth Campbell’s moving song about homelessness, “Geraldine and Ruthie Mae”; “Cactus in a Coffee Can,” a touching story of a woman’s relationship with her difficult mother written by Steve Seskin and James Shamblin; and John Gorka’s very poignant piece about a wounded World War II vet whose deepest wounds, “the wounds that never heal,” were on the inside.

Peter, Paul & Mary were the most enduring of the commercial folk groups of the 1950s and ‘60s and a big reason for that endurance was that they never just rested on their laurels and constantly refreshed their repertoire with songs, such as those I’ve mentioned, by contemporary songwriters.

I’m guessing these recordings were made through on a line off the sound board at various concerts. As such, it lacks the fidelity you would expect in a professionally-recorded live album. And since the recordings were made at different times in different venues, some do sound better than others.

I mentioned that my first Peter, Paul & Mary album was Late Again. Well, since he trio was formed in 1961 and released their first album in 1962, they were late again in marking their 50th anniversary in 2014.

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