Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday January 25, 2025

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/128/68698.html

Mike Regenstreif & Garnet Rogers (2006)

Garnet Rogers- Small Victory

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

John McCutcheon & Carrie Newcomer- Field of Stars

Field of Stars (Appalsongs)

Chris Rawlings- Deep Blue Sea

Two Sides to Your Story (Cookingfat Music)

Mike Regenstreif & Priscilla Herdman (1978)

Priscilla Herdman- The Coast of Marseilles

Forgotten Dreams (Flying Fish)

The Twangtown Paramours- A Room in Bordeaux

The Wind will Change Again (Inside Edge)

Melón Jimenez & Lara Wong- Paraná

Confluencias (Scatcat Music)

Mike Regenstreif & Jesse Winchester (2009)

Jesse Winchester- Wintry Feeling

A Touch on the Rainy Side (Stony Plain)

Mike Regenstreif, Bill Garrett & Sue Lothrop (2014)

Bill Garrett & Sue Lothrop- The Hill

Red Shoes (Borealis)

Neale Eckstein- January Thaw

Never Too Late (Neale Eckstein)

Nanci Griffith- Ten Degrees and Getting Colder

Other Voices/Other Rooms (Elektra)

Amy Speace- I Break Things

The American Dream (Windbone)

Cindy Kallet- The Poet

Ride in the Light (Sleepy Creek Music)

Boreal- Winterbirds

Winterbirds (Boreal)

Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens- Rainy Day

American Railroad (Nonesuch)

John McCutcheon- MS St. Louis

Field of Stars (Appalsongs)

Perla Batalla- The Partisan

A Letter to Leonard Cohen: Tribute to a Friend (Mechuda Music)

The Klezmatics & Susan McKeown- Gonna Get Through This World

Wonder Wheel: Lyrics by Woody Guthrie (Jewish Music Group)

Rosalie Sorrels- Mehitabel’s Theme

Always a Lady (Green Linnet)

Peggy Lee- The Alley Cat Song

I’m a Woman: Expanded Edition (Capitol)

Phil Harris- Thomas O’Malley Cat

Disney’s Jazz Album: Big Band & Swing (Disneyland)

Eliza Gilkyson & Mike Regenstreif on Zoom (2022)

Eliza Gilkyson- Bare Necessities

Your Town Tonight (Red House)

Doug McArthur & Jeffra- Angels of the Mission Trail

Angels of the Mission Trail (Tableaux Vivants)

Eric Taylor with Nanci Griffith- Mission Door

Live at the Red Shack (Blue Ruby)

Ana Egge- Mission Bells Moan

Sharing in the Spirit (StorySound)

Rosanne Cash- Girl from the North Country

The List (Manhattan)

Ian & Sylvia- Tomorrow is a Long Time

Four Strong Winds (Vanguard)

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

Penny Lang- One Too Many Mornings

Stone + Sand + Sea + Sky (Borealis)

Moses Crouch- Banjo Blues

Earth Music (Riverlark)

The airdate for this show, January 25, is Robbie Burns Day. The next nine songs were written or collected by the great Scottish poet, Robert Burns, who was born on January 25, 1759 and died at 37 on July 21, 1796.

Jean Redpath- A Parcel of Rogues in a Nation

The Songs of Robert Burns, Volumes 1 & 2 (Philo)

Dougie MacLean- Scots Wha’ Hae

Tribute to Robert Burns, Neil Gow and Robert Tannahill (Dunkeld)

The Short Sisters- Ca’ the Yowes

Downsized (Black Socks Press)

Andrew & Casey Calhoun- A Rosebud By My Early Walk

Skeins (Waterbug)

Mike Regenstreif & Brendan Nolan (2023)

Brendan Nolan- Green Grow the Rashes O’

Familiar Brew (Ould Sagosha)

Bett Padgett- Ae Fond Kiss

Beneath Blue Water (Ceildhe’s Music)

Mallory Chipman- A Red, Red Rose

Songs to a Wild God (Tunnel Mountain)

Bobby Watt- Westlin’ Winds

Watt Next? (Glenashdale Music)

Highland Weavers- Auld Lang Syne

Going Home (Highland Weavers)

Christine Lavin featuring Robin Batteau- Mercury & Mars (Jan. 28, 1977)

Drum School Dropout (Christine Lavin)

Tom Mitchell- Sing to Me Now

Outamongum Again (Cowlick)

Laura Smith & Mike Regenstreif (2013)

Laura Smith- Gypsy Dream

As Long As I’m Dreaming (Borealis)

Christopher Kearney- Rocking Chair Ride

Christopher Kearney (Capitol)

Carol Crittenden- The Fields of Athenry

Glimmer (Carol Crittenden)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on February 22. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

--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

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday October 7, 2023

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/128/62245.html

Melanie- Mr. Tambourine Man

Born to Be (Buddah)

Tom Paxton & John McCutcheon- Ukrainian Now

Together (Appalseed)

Tom Paxton & John McCutcheon- This Campfire

Together (Appalseed)

Utah Phillips- Joe Hill

We Have Fed You All a Thousand Years (Philo)

Rosalie Sorrels- Borderline Heart

Borderline Heart (Green Linnet)

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

Penny Lang- My Last Go Round

Stone + Sand + Sea + Sky (Borealis)

Noam "Nani" Vazana- Sin Dingun Hijo Varon (Without Any Sons)

Ke Haber (Noam Vazana)

Matthew Morgan- Sunny

Timepiece (Tiny Attic)

Bruce Cockburn- Us All

O Sun O Moon (True North) 

Connie Kaldor- Keep Going

Keep Going (Coyote Entertainment)

Randall Kromm- Come with Me Now

Late September (Randall Kromm)

Eliza Gilkyson & Robert Earl Keen- How Deep

Home (Realiza)

Jay Linden- Hand Your Heart to the Wind 

Ordinary Sunrise (Americana North)

Ed Sweeney with Cathy Clasper-Torch- While My Guitar Gently Weeps

A Sunday Drive (Ed Sweeney Music)

Too Sad for the Public featuring Ana Egge- Shake Sugaree

Vol.2 – Yet and Still: Traditional American Folk Song-Stirring by Dick Connette (StorySound)

Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band- Oh Babe, It Ain’t No Lie

Almost Acoustic (Concensus Reality)

The Balladeers- Freight Train

It’s About Time (The Balladeers)

Elizabeth Cotten- Casey Jones

When I’m Gone (Folkways)

Rachael Kilgour- The Smell of Autumn Leaves

My Father Loved Me (Rachael Kilgour)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Talk to Me of Mendocino

Tell My Sister: Kate & Anna McGarrigle (Nonesuch)

Mike Regenstreif & Jesse Winchester (2009)

Jesse Winchester- Yankee Lady

Live From Mountain Stage (Blue Plate Music)

Liz Simmons- Who Knows Where the Time Goes

Poets (Morgana Music)

Joni Mitchell- Urge for Going

Archives – Volume 2: The Reprise Years (1968-1971) (Rhino)

David Francey- The Breath Between

The Breath Between (Laker Music)

Tony Turner- Crossroad’s Café

The Lost Sketches (Tony Turner)

Lyle Lovett- This Old Porch

Lyle Lovett (MCA/Curb)

Leo Kottke- Louise

Greenhouse (BGO)

Rod MacDonald- What Happened to You

Rants and Romance (Blue Flute Music) 

Mike Regenstreif & Tom Paxton (circa 1994)

Tom Paxton & John McCutcheon- Complete

Together (Appalseed)

Johnny Cash- Can’t Help but Wonder Where I’m Bound

American VI: Ain’t No Grave (American)

C. Daniel Boling- The Missing Years

New Old Friends (Berkalin)

Tret Fure- This and So Much More

Lavender Moonshine (Tomboy girl)

Shelley Posen- Long, Long Tunnel

Old Loves (Well Done Music)

Reggie Harris- It Isn’t Nice

On Solid Ground (Reggie Harris Music)

Emma's Revolution with Reggie Harris- Our People Gonna Rise

Rooted (Moving Forward Music)

Dropkick Murphys- My Eyes are Gonna Shine

Okemah Rising: Lyrics of Woody Guthrie (Dummy Luck Music) 

Bob Dylan- Tombstone Blues 

Shadow Kingdom (Columbia/Legacy) 

John Forster- Route 9W Revisited

Location, Location, Location! (Acute Music)

Mason Daring & Jeanie Stahl- Marblehead Morning

The Early Years (Daring)

Noah Zacharin- 17 Minute

Points of Light (Noah Zacharin) 

Connie Kaldor- Pain and Sorrow

Keep Going (Coyote Entertainment)

David Francey- Two Shadows

The Breath Between (Laker Music)

The Kennedys- Silence is a Warning

Headwinds (The Kennedys)

Yake Strom & Hot Pstromi- Pilky

The Wolf and the Lamb: Live at The Shakh (Arc) 

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on November 4. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm. 

--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

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday February 25, 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/128/59512.html

Odetta- Mr. Tambourine Man

Odetta Sings Dylan (RCA)

Ben Sures- Cry Like a Flood

The Story That Lived Here (Ben Sures)

Kat Goldman- Gypsy Girl

Gypsy Girl (Kat Goldman)

Jason Lang- Firewater

Handled with Care (Famgroup/Genison Music)

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

Penny Lang- It’s Not Easy

Stone + Sand + Sea + Sky (Borealis)

Jason Lang- Senses of Your Leave

Handled with Care (Famgroup/Genison Music)

Ramblin' Jack Elliott & Mike Regenstreif (2006)

Ramblin' Jack Elliott- South Coast

South Coast (Red House)

Hoyt Axton- Evangelina

The A&M Years (A&M)

Mark Rubin – Jew of Oklahoma- Good Shabbes

The Triumph of Assimilation (Rubinchik)

Bonnie Raitt- Just Like That

Just Like That (Redwing)

Mike Regenstreif & Jesse Winchester (2006)

Jesse Winchester- That’s What Makes You Strong

Gentleman of Leisure (Sugar Hill)

Emily White- Stone in Your Pocket

Songs You Didn’t Know I Wrote About You (Squeezed Fresh Productions)

Benny Bleu- Lost Goose

March of the Mollusk (Benny Bleu Haravitch)

Taivi- Ukraiyna

Ukraiyna – single (Taivi)

John McCutcheon- Ukrainian Now

Ukrainian Now – single (Appalsongs)

Artists for Action- Which Side Are You On? *

Which Side Are You On? – single (Figs D Music)

Mike Regenstreif & Eric Bibb (2005)

Eric Bibb- Masters of War

Migration Blues (Stony Plain)

*The Artists for Action singers and musicians are, in alphabetical order, Black Umfolosi, Ray Bonneville, Bruce Cockburn, Chris Corrigan, Guy Davis, Ani DiFranco, Maria Dunn, Adam Hill, Bob Jensen, James Keelaghan, Richard Knox, Lucy MacNeil, Tony McManus, Moulettes, Oysterband, Richard Perso, Heather Rankin, Martin Simpson, and Jon Weaver.

The Vanier Playboys- Reach Out and Touch a Hand

Deux (The Vanier Playboys)

Ball & Chain & The Wreckers- More

Satisfied (Ball & Chain)

Mike Regenstreif & Lynn Miles (2013)

Lynn Miles- Hockey Night in Canada

Black Flowers Vol. 3 (Lynn Miles)

Moore & McGregor- Don’t Let Us Get Sick

Dream with Me (Ivernia)

Eric Kilburn- Waiting at Your Door

Reckonings (Wellspring)

Shelley Posen- Long, Long Tunnel

Old Loves (Well Done Music)

Doug Cox & Linda McRae- Ready for the Times to Get Better

Beyond the Great Pause (42 RPM)

Annie Capps- Two Different Things

How Can I Say This? (Yellow Room)

Jaimee Harris- Love is Gonna Come Again

Boomerang Town (Thirty Tigers)

Danny Britt- Friends and Memories

All Over the Map (Red Dawg Music)

Taraf Syriana- Abdul Karim’s Tango

Taraf Syriana (Lulaworld)

Reggie Garrett- Stagecoach Mary

York’s Lament & other stories (WonderDog)

Dom Flemons- Steel Pony Blues

Dom Flemons Presents Black Cowboys (Smithsonian Folkways)

Odetta- Rock Island Line

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

Preservation Hall Jazz Band & Ani DiFranco- Freight Train

Preservation (Preservation Hall)

Julian Taylor- 100 Proof

Beyond the Reservoir (Howling Turtle)

Mavis Staples & Lucky Peterson- Wade in the Water

Spirituals & Gospel (Gitanes)

Dave Rudolf- Mary Don’t You Weep

Traditional (MoneyTree)

Reggie Harris- Sheep, Sheep/Little David

Ready to Go (Reggie Harris Music)

The Klezmatics & Joshua Nelson- Didn’t It Rain

Brother Moses Smote the Water (Piranha)

Last Forever with John Cohen- Dillard Chandler

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

John Cohen- The Story That the Crow Told Me

Stories the Crow Told Me (Acoustic Disc)

Grateful Dead- Uncle John’s Band

Workingman’s Dead (Warner Bros./Rhino)

The Dumptrucks- Friend of the Devil

Selections (Laughing Cactus)

The Persuasions- Ripple

Might as Well: The Persuasions Sing Grateful Dead (Grateful Dead)

CornMaiz Stringband- Jubilee

Fresh-Picked Kentucky Music (CornMaiz Stringband)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on March 25. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm. 

Find me on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Canadian Spaces – CKCU – November 19, 2022

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. 

This week’s show was hosted by Mike Regenstreif.

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

This particular show was recorded and is already available for on-demand listening. https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/129/58358.html

Chris Coole- Upon the Mystery

The Old Man and the C Chord (Chris Coole)

The Dumptrucks- Stealin’

Selections (Laughing Cactus)

Bruce Cockburn- Honey Babe Let the Deal Go Down

Rarities (True North)

Zachary Lucky- I Wish I was a Mole in the Ground

Songs for Hard Times (Zachary Lucky)

Ken Whiteley- Michael Row

Long Time Travelling (Ken Whiteley)

Kaia Kater- White (Long Time Traveling)

Nine Pin (Kaia Kater)

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

Chaim Tannenbaum- Ain’t No More Cane on the Brazos

Chaim Tannenbaum (StorySound)

Mountain City Four- Motherless Children

Mountain City Four (Omnivore)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- No Biscuit Blues

Tell My Sister: Dancer with Bruised Knees (Nonesuch)

Norah Jones with Lily Lanken- Over the Hill

Sing Me the Songs: Celebrating the Works of Kate McGarrigle (Nonesuch)

Braden Gates- Norah Jones at Closing Time

Kitchen Days (Borealis)

Chris Coole & John Showman- Back in the Goodle Days

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

The Slowinks- The Problem

Stay With Me Awhile (weewerk)

Jane Hawley- Take These Chains from My Heart

Sorrow Bound: Hank Williams Re-examined (Ruby Moon)

The Mahones- Watch Me Fall

Jameson Street (True North)

Al Grierson- Barney Rubble Meets Mack the Knife

The Petals (Folkin’ Eh)

Ofra Harnoy- Let Me Fish Off Cape St. Mary’s

On the Rock (Analekta)

Stan Rogers- Three Fishers

For the Family (Folk Tradition)

Tony Turner- Indelible Blue

Love & Other Attractions (Tony Turner)

Orit Shimoni- Sing Back to Me

Lorem Ipsum (Orit Shimoni)

Garnet Rogers- Shadows on the Water

Summer’s End (Snow Goose Songs)

Eric Andersen- More Often Than Not

Blue River (Columbia/Legacy)

Jason Lang- Happiness Is

Handled with Care: Hommage à Penny Lang (Jason Lang)

Mike Regenstreif & Penny Lang (2005)

Penny Lang- Geremia

Carry On Children (She-Wolf)

Durham County Poets & Michael Jerome Browne- Diamonds on the Water

Grimshaw Road (Durham County Poets)

Po’ Girl- Ain’t Life Sweet

Home to You (Nettwerk)

Penny Lang- If I Could Be the Rain

Stone + Sand + Sea + Sky (Borealis)

Moore & McGregor- Don’t Let Us Get Sick

Dream with Me (Ivernia)

Dennis O’Toole- To Grow Old Together

Dennis O’Toole (Dennis O’Toole)

Terra Spencer & Ben Caplan- Maybe

Old News (Terra Spencer & Ben Caplan)

Holly Cole- Good Time Charlie’s Got the Blues

Night (Rumpus Room)

Ian Tamblyn- Whip Poor Will

Voice in the Wilderness (North Track)

I also host Stranger Songs every Tuesday from 3:30 to 5 pm; and the Saturday Morning show from 7 to 10 am, once every 4 weeks with my next slot on November 5.

Find me on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday November 5, 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 recorded on October 3 and can already be streamed on-demand at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/58218.html

This show airs during CKCU’s Annual Funding Drive for 2022. Please visit https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/76213 to make your charitable donation to help us continue bringing you creative, volunteer-programmed, listener-supported community radio for another year.

Stillhouse Junkies- El Camino

Small Towns (Dark Shadow Recording)

Sneezy Waters & Mike Regenstreif (2013)

Sneezy Waters- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime

Sneezy Waters (Sneezy Waters)

Hannah Shira Naiman- The Grouse

The Wheels Won’t Go (Hannah Shira Naiman)

Ofra Harnoy- Lonely Waterloo

On the Rock (Analekta)

Jamie Anderson- Public Radio

Better Than Chocolate (Tsunami)

Darryl Purpose- A Place Where Everyone Sings

Two Good Hands EP (Darryl Purpose)

The Dumptrucks- Clyde Beattie

Selections (Laughing Cactus)

Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard- Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar

Pioneering Women of Bluegrass: The Definitive Collection (Smithsonian Folkways)

Zachary Lucky- Rex’s Blues

Songs for Hard Times (Zachary Lucky)

The Claytones- If I Needed You

Reserva (Rip Roar Music)

Townes Van Zandt- Highway Kind

Sunshine Boy: The Unheard Studio Sessions and Demos (Omnivore)

David Olney with Daniel Seymour- For the Sake of the Song

Evermore: The Final Live in Holland Sessions I (Strictly Country)

Jesse Winchester- Yankee Lady

Jesse Winchester (Stony Plain)

Steve Lundquist with Mike Fjerstad- I Wave Bye-Bye

Acting a Fool (Steve Lundquist)

Suzie Vinnick- Raino

Fall Back Home (Suzie Vinnick)

Walter Hyatt- In November

King Tears (MCA)

Tom Mitchell- When Nobody’s Lookin’

Old Cloth (Yabut Music)

Mike Regenstreif & Tony Turner (2018)

Tony Turner- Heart of Your Man

A Matter of Time (Tony Turner)

Doug McArthur- 1911

Letters from the Coast/Sisteron (Snow Goose Songs)

Lynn Miles- Million Brilliant

Downpour (Lynn Miles)

Ian Tamblyn- Voice in the Wilderness

Voice in the Wilderness (North Track)

Garnet Rogers- Sweet Spot

Summer’s End (Snow Goose Songs)

Amy Speace- My Father’s House

Tuscon (Windbone)

John Fusco- Coyote Man

Borderlands (Rocket 88)

Linda Ronstadt with Emmylou Harris- Across the Border

Feels Like Home: Songs from the Sonoran Borderlands – Linda Ronstadt’s Musical Odyssey (Putomayo)

Tom Russell- Down the Rio Grande

Borderland (HighTone)

Mountain City Four- All the Good Times

Mountain City Four (Omnivore)

Rory Block- Freight Train

Ain’t Nobody Worried: Celebrating Great Women of Song (Stony Plain)

Fink, Marxer, Gleaves- Oh Babe, It Ain’t No Lie

Shout and Shine (Community Music)

Deborah Robins- Shake Sugaree

Home Fires (Zippety Whippet Music)

Elizabeth Cotten- Fare You Well, My Darling

Shake Sugaree (Smithsonian Folkways)

James Keelaghan- Walk On

Second-Hand (Borealis)

Tom Chapin featuring The Chapin Sisters- Hold Our Ground Forever

Hold Our Ground (Sundance Music)

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

Penny Lang- Never Turning Back

Carry On Children (She-Wolf)

Reggie Harris- Sing Out/March On/Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ‘Round

On Solid Ground (Reggie Harris Music)

Sean Gagnier- South Coast

Circle Harbor (Sean Gagnier)

Finest Kind- Going to the West

Lost in a Song (Fallen Angle)

The Dumptrucks- Dobro Song

Selections (Laughing Cactus)

Abbie Gardner- Down the Mountain

DobroSinger (Abbie Gardner)

Chaim Tannenbaum, Dane Lanken, Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Dig My Grave

The McGarrigle Hour (Hannibal)

Loudon Wainwright III- Town & Country

Lifetime Achievement (StorySound)

Terra Spencer & Ben Caplan- Mr. M

Old News (Terra Spencer & Ben Caplan)

Mary Chapin Carpenter- Traveler’s Prayer

One Night Lonely (Lambent Light)

Philip Dyson- Maple Leaf Rag

Scott Joplin, The King of Ragtime: Complete Piano Works (Decca)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on December 3. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm. And, I’ll be hosting Canadian Spaces on Saturday November 19 from 10 am-noon.

Find me on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday July 26, 2022: On the Road Again

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 prerecorded and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/57040.html

Theme: “On the Road Again” – songs about roads and highways, songs about leaving and songs about getting there.

Tom Rush- On the Road Again
Tom Rush/Take a Little Walk with Me (BGO)

Mike Regenstreif & Jimmy LaFave (2017)

Nat King Cole- (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66
The Extraordinary Nat King Cole (Capitol)
Jimmy LaFave- Rt. 66 One More Time
Highway Angels…Full Moon Rain (Night Tribe Music)
Joni Mitchell- Born to Take the Highway
Archives – Volume 1: The Early Years (1963-1967) (Rhino)
Humphrey & The Dumptrucks- Six Days of Paper Ladies
Six Days of Paper Ladies (Boot)

Eliza Gilkyson- Wanderin’
Songs from the River Wind (Howlin’ Dog)
Lynn Miles- My Road
Downpour (Lynn Miles)
Tom Russell- The Road It Gives, The Road It Takes Away
Borderland (HighTone)

Anne Hills- Follow That Road
Angle of the Light (Flying Fish)
Judy Mayhan- Morning and an Oldsmobile
Judy Mayhan (Decca)

Eve Goldberg & Mike Regenstreif (2013)

Eve Goldberg- Travelling Day
Ever Brightening Day (Sweet Patootie)
Caroline Doctorow- Northfield
I Carry All I Own: The Songs of Mary McCaslin (Narrow Lane)
Stan Rogers- Down the Road
From Coffee House to Concert Hall (Fogarty’s Cove)
Doug McArthur- Skyway
Letters from the Coast/Sisteron (Snow Goose Songs)

Lucy Kaplansky- Ford Econoline
Last Days of Summer (Lucyricky)
Rosalie Sorrels- Nevada Moon
Borderline Heart (Green Linnet)
Steel Rail- If By Midnight
Coming Home (Crossties)

David Francey- Highway 95
The Waking Hour (Jericho Beach Music)
Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer- Highway 80 (She’s a Mighty Good Road)
Drum Hat Buddha (Signature Sounds)
Hank Snow- I’ve Been Everywhere
I’ve Been Everywhere (RCA)

Mike Regenstreif & Penny Lang (2005)

Penny Lang- Senses of Your Leave
Ain’t Life Sweet (She-Wolf)
Jesse Winchester- Midnight Bus
Third Down, 110 to Go (Stony Plain)
Charlie Musselwhite- My Road Lies in Darkness
Mississippi Sun (Alligator)
Danny Marks- Going Down the Road Feeling Bad
Cities in Blue (Danny Marks)

Boxcar Boys- On the Road to Cluj
Rye Whiskey (Fedora Upside Down)

Next week: The Legacy of Johnny Cash.

Find me on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

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

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And on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday July 17, 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/128/52768.html

 

Murray McLauchlan- Wishes
Hourglass (True North)

Hannah Shira Naiman- Vinegar Pie
Vinegar Pie – single (Rosietta)
Jared Rabin- Hey Mister Doctor
Cold Rain and Snow (Golden Twine Music)
David Holt- Ready for the Times to Get Better
David Holt & The Lightning Bolts (High Windy Audio)
Adeline- Red Prairie Dawn
Adeline (Owl)
Sons of the Never Wrong- Set Us to Prayin’
Undertaker’s Songbook (Sons 3)

Marc Nerenberg- Trouble in Mind
Times Ain’t Nuthin’ Like They Used to Be (Marc Nerenberg)
Michael J. Miles with Jackie Allen- When Things Go Wrong
New Century Suite (Right Turn On Red Music)
Harrison Kennedy- Takin’ It Back
Who U Tellin’? (Electro-Fi)

Allison Russell- Persephone
Outside Child (Fantasy)
Allison Russell- 4th Day Prayer
Outside Child (Fantasy)

Po’ Girl- Ain’t Life Sweet
Home to You (Nettwerk)
The Lucky Sisters- Stone + Sand + Sea + Sky
So Lucky (Patio)
Durham County Poets & Michael Jerome Browne- Diamonds on the Water
Grimshaw Road (Durham County Poets)
Penny Lang- High Muddy Water
Stone + Sand + Sea + Sky (Borealis)
The Greenbriar Boys- Roll On John
Big Apple Bluegrass (Vanguard)

Tom Russell- Tonight We Ride
Old Songs Yet to Sing (Frontera)
Ian Tyson- Gallo del Cielo
Old Corrals and Sagebrush & Other Cowboy Culture Classics (Stony Plain)

Reggie Harris- Standing in Freedom’s Name
On Solid Ground (Reggie Harris Music)
Tom Prasada-Rao- A Change is Gonna Come
A Change is Gonna Come – single (Simple Gift)
Eliza Gilkyson & Jimmy LaFave- Down by the Riverside
Secularia (Red House)

The Easy Riders featuring Terry Gilkyson- The Green Leaves of Summer
Folk Songs You’ll Like (Jasmine)
Al Grierson- The Petals
The Petals (Folkin’ Eh)

Annie Gallup- Little Theater
Oh Everything (Galway Bay Music)
Kate McDonnell- Pilgrim
Ballad of a Bad Girl (Dog Eared Discs)
Chris Ronald- City Girl
Light & Dark (Borealis)
Erin Ash Sullivan- Train from Gary
We Can Hear Each Other (Willoughby)
Amy Speace with The Orphan Brigade- Shotgun Hearts
There Used to Be Horses Here (Windbone)

Bùmarang- Shot of Jamie
Echo Land (Fallen Tree)

Mark Schatz & Bryan McDowell- There Ain’t Nobody Here but Us Chickens
Grit & Polish (Patuxent Music)
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown- Salt Pork, West Virginia
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown Sings Louis Jordan (Black & Blue)
Buster Poindexter & Soozie Tyrell- Saturday Night Fish Fry
Buster’s Happy Hour (Rhino)
Louis Jordan- Choo Choo Ch’Boogie
The Rock ‘n’ Roll Years 1955-1958 (Jasmine)

Guy Davis & Mike Regenstreif (2006)

Guy Davis- Badonkadonk Train
Be Ready When I Call You (M.C.)
Maria Muldaur with Tuba Skinny- Delta Bound
Let’s Get Happy Together (Stony Plain)
Odetta- Empty Pocket Blues
Sometimes I Feel Like Cryin’ (RCA)
Barbara Dane- Ain’t Nobody Got the Blues Like Me
Trouble In Mind (Dreadnaught)

Kelly's Lot- Jealous Hearted Blues
Where or When (Kelly Zirbes)
Rob Lutes- That Bird Has My Wings
Come Around (Lucky Bear)
Donna Herula- I Got No Way Home
Bang at the Door (Donna Herula)
Jon Shain & FJ Ventre- Den Bosch Blues
Never Found a Way to Tame the Blues (Flyin’)

Socalled with The Kaiser Quartett- Oy Avram
Di Frosh and other Yiddish Songs (Membran)
Mark Rubin – Jew of Oklahoma- Yiddish Banjo Suite
The Triumph of Assimilation (Rubinchik)

Robin & Linda Williams- A Better Day A-Coming
A Better Day A-Coming (Oakenwold Recordings)
Noel Paul Stookey- Revolution (1X1)
Just Causes (Neworld)

Dave Clarke- In the Falling Dark
The Healing Garden (Crossties)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on August 14. 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