Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – August 4, 2026: The Leonard Cohen Deep Dive, Part 1

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/595/76527.html

Theme: The Leonard Cohen Deep Dive, Part 1.

The Leonard Cohen Deep Dive, Part 1 is the first show in a series that will be happening every four to six weeks on Stranger Songs until we’ve heard virtually all of Leonard Cohen’s songs and some of his poems.

Fred Holstein- Suzanne

Live at the Earl of Old Town (Eddie Holstein)

Leonard Cohen- Master Song

Songs of Leonard Cohen (Columbia/Legacy)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle & Martha Wainwright- Winter Lady

Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man (Verve Forecast)

Leonard Cohen- Beside the Shepherd

Six Montreal Poets (Folkways)

Martin Simpson- The Stranger Song 

Vagrant Stanzas (Topic)

Serena Ryder- Sisters of Mercy

If Your Memory Serves You Well (EMI)

Leonard Cohen- Blessed is the Memory

Songs of Leonard Cohen (Columbia/Legacy)

First Aid Kit, Frida Hyvönen, Loney Dear, Jesper Lindell, Annika Norlin, Maja Francis, Nina Zanjani & Maia Hansson-Bergqvist- So Long, Marianne

Who By Fire: Live Tribute to Leonard Cohen (Sony Sweden/Columbia)

Luciana Souza- Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye

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

Leonard Cohen- Stories of the Street 

Songs of Leonard Cohen (Columbia/Legacy)

Leonard Cohen- For Wilf and His House

Six Montreal Poets (Folkways)

Judy Collins- Priests

In Concert: Wildflowers at The Town Hall (Cleopatra)

Leonard Cohen- Teachers

Songs of Leonard Cohen (Columbia/Legacy)

Leonard Cohen- One of Us Cannot Be Wrong

Songs of Leonard Cohen (Columbia/Legacy)

Leonard Cohen- Store Room

Songs of Leonard Cohen (Columbia/Legacy)

Johnny Cash- Bird On a Wire

American Recordings (American Recordings)

Judy Collins- Story of Isaac

Who Knows Where the Time Goes (Elektra)

Leonard Cohen- Poem 

Six Montreal Poets (Folkways)

Leonard Cohen- A Bunch of Lonesome Heroes 

Songs from a Room (Columbia/Legacy)

Perla Batalla- The Partisan 

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

Perla Batalla- Seems So Long Ago, Nancy 

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

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – April 28, 2026: The Art of the Long Song, Volume 3

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/595/75126.html

Theme: The Art of the Long Song, Volume 3.

While most songs are in the 2-to-5-minute range, the songs on this show range from more than 6 minutes to more than 10 minutes in length. The previous Art of the Long Songs editions of Stranger Songs shows were heard on March 29, 2022 and March 12, 2024 and those shows are available for streaming on demand.

Ramblin' Jack Elliott & Mike Regenstreif (2006)

Ramblin' Jack Elliott- South Coast 

South Coast (Red House)

Mike Regenstreif & Joan Baez (2003)

Joan Baez- Gulf Winds

Gulf Winds (A&M)

Al Grierson- The Petals

The Petals (Folkin’ Eh)

Perla Batalla- So Long, Marianne 

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

Noel Paul Stookey & Mike Regenstreif on Zoom (2023)

Noel Paul Stookey- Come Away Suite

State of the Heart (Neworld)

Maz O'Connor- Come and I Will Sing You

Love It is a Killing Thing (Restless Head)

John Gorka & Mike Regenstreif (2012)

John Gorka- Harris and the Mare

unentitled (Red House)

Stan Rogers- Song of the Candle

Turnaround (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

Mike Regenstreif & Garnet Rogers (2006)

Garnet Rogers- Night Drive

Night Drive (Snow Goose Songs)

Shorty Rogers & Stan Freberg- The Three Little Bops

You Shorty, Me Tarzan (Giant Steps)

Richard Harris- MacArthur Park

A Tramp Shining (MCA)

Next week: 1966.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – January 27, 2026: International Holocaust Remembrance Day

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/595/73873.html

Theme: International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day is marked annually on the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau on January 27, 1945. During the Holocaust, more than one million Jews were gassed to death at Auschwitz-Birkenau. 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. Many of the lessons of the Holocaust, and what led to it, are sadly relevant to what’s going on in the world today.

SONiA disappear fear- By My Silence

By My Silence (Disappear)

John McCutcheon- MS St. Louis

Field of Stars (Appalsongs)

Brendan Nolan- Watching Myself Watch My Son

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

Simon Spiro- Obodivke Camp (In Obodivker Lager)

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

Alice Zawadzki- The Sad Camp (Fun a Troyerikn Lager)

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

Cantor Allan Robuck- So the World Would Know

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

Lee Oskar- Never Forget

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

Madeleine Peyroux- Dance Me to the End of Love

Careless Love (Rounder)

Leonard Cohen- Lovers

Six Montreal Poets (Folkways)

Leonard Cohen- Puppets

Thanks for the Dance (Columbia/Legacy)

Rod MacDonald- Auschwitz

The Man on the Ledge (Shanachie)

Tim Grimm- Anne in Amsterdam

The Turning Point (Cavalier)

Nefesh Mountain- Piece of the Sun (for Anne Frank)

Songs for the Sparrows (Eden Sky)

Brendan Nolan- Parallel Limbs

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

Lenka Lichtenberg- Feel with Blood

Feel with Blood (Six Degrees)

Lenka Lichtenberg- Wintry Dusk

Feel with Blood (Six Degrees)

Psoy Korolenko- Transnistrian Lullaby (Transnistria Viglid)

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

Alice Zawadzki- A Girl from Kyiv (A Meydele from Kyiv)

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

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

While I’m Here (Red House)

Perla Batalla- The Partisan

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

Noel Paul Stookey- Jean Claude

Just Causes (Neworld)

Frank London with Cantor Sveta Kundish- Minutn fun bitokhn (Moments of Hope)

Ghetto Songs (Felmay)

Next week: A Tribute to Jackie Washington.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – June 17, 2025: Music for 88 Keys

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/595/70697.html

Theme: Music for 88 Keys – all of the songs and instrumentals feature the piano as a primary instrument.

Philip Dyson- The Entertainer

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

Perla Batalla- Sisters of Mercy

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

Chaim Tannenbaum- Time On My Hands

The McGarrigle Hour (Hannibal)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Talk to Me of Mendocino

Tell My Sister: Kate & Anna McGarrigle (Nonesuch)

Pink Martini with Rufus Wainwright & The Von Trapps- Kitty Come Home

Get Happy (Audiogram)

Last Forever- Lonesome Day

Acres of Diamonds (StorySound)

Hoyle Osborne- The Baltimore Todalo

Panazon: Pan American Café Music (Ripple)

Odetta & Dr. John- Oh Papa

Blues Everywhere I Go (M.C.)

Jay McShann with Johnnie Johnson- Kansas City (Revisited)

Goin’ to Kansas City (Stony Plain)

Alberta Hunter- Always

Amtrak Blues (Columbia)

Tom Waits- Tom Traubert’s Blues

Small Change (Asylum)

Mary Chapin Carpenter with Anais Mitchell- Home is a Song

Personal History (Lambent Light/Thirty Tigers)

Rosalie Sorrels- Moments of Happiness

Moments of Happiness (Philo)

Suzie Brown- Songs are My Tears

Songs Worth Saving (Suzie Brown)

Jesse Winchester- The Easy Way

Third Down, 110 to Go (Stony Plain)

Lee Hunter & The Gatherers- Farewell, Farewell

Beneath My Feet (Birds Tale)

Penny Lang- Nama Says

Yes (She-Wolf)

Julian Fauth- Bad John

The Weak and the Wicked, the Hard and the Strong (Electro-Fi)

Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon- Chicago House Rent Party

Songs of Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon (Folkways)

Count Basie & Oscar Peterson- S & J Blues

Satch and Josh (Pablo)

Next week: 1965.

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – February 22, 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/128/69061.html

Humphrey & The Dumptrucks- Merry Mansion Quadrology: Merry Mansion; Magician; Front Door; Red White & Blue

Six Days of Paper Ladies (Boot)

Boreal- Song for a Winter’s Night

Winterbirds (Boreal)

Mike Regenstreif & Lynn Miles (2013)

Lynn Miles- Just Let It Snow

Winter (Lynn Miles)

Steel Rail- A Thousand Miles of Snow

A Thousand Miles of Snow (Crossties)

Rosalie Sorrels & Mike Regenstreif (1993)

Rosalie Sorrels- Snowing On Raton

Borderline Heart (Green Linnet)

Ronney Abramson & Mike Regenstreif (2016)

Ronney Abramson- Long Lonely Winter

Stowaway (Castor Island Music)

Laurie MacAllister & David Glaser- Birches

The Lies the Poets Tell (Laurie MacAllister)

Mike Regenstreif & Bill Morrissey (2005)

Bill Morrissey- Ice Fishing

North (Philo)

Joel Mabus & Mike Regenstreif (2001)

Joel Mabus- Five Kinds of Snow

Promised Land (Fossil)

Herdman, Hills & Mangsen- The Druggist

At the Turning of the Year (Hand & Heart Music)

The Roches- My Winter Coat

Where Do I Come From: Selected Songs (StorySound)

Crys Matthews- In Her House

Reclamation (Crys Matthews)

Bradstreet & Keesee- The Land Beyond

Live in London (Street)

Kim Beggs- Miles & Miles Away

Beneath Your Skin (Out of a Paperbag Productions)

Cindy Kallet- Ride in the Light

Ride in the Light (Sleepy Creek Music)

Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis & Karine Polwart- Send Love

Looking for the Thread (Lambent Light/Thirty Tigers)

In memory of John Roberts (1944-2025)

John Roberts- Rambleaway

Spencer the Rover is Alive and Well… (Swallowtail)

John Roberts & Tony Barrand- We Have Fed Our Sea

Naulakha Redux: Songs of Rudyard Kipling (Golden Hind Music)

John Roberts & Debra Cowan- Drive Dull Care Away

Ballads Long & Short: The Best of Every Sort (Golden Hind Music)

John Roberts & Tony Barrand- Row On

Twiddlum Twaddlum (Golden Hind Music)

Rosanne Cash- My Old Man

Rhythm & Romance (Columbia)

Rhiannon Giddens- Up Above My Head

Tomorrow is My Turn (Nonesuch)

Laura Cortese- Into the Dark

Into the Dark (Laura Cortese)

Roy Zimmerman- Big Yellow Taxi

Road Map (Roy Zimmerman)

Tim Grimm- Broken Truth 

Broken Truth – single (Vault) 

Ian Robb & James Stephens- God and The Orange Clown

Declining …with thanks (Fallen Angle Music)

Lemon Bucket Orkestra- Da Ishly Divky

Cuckoo (Lemon Bucket Orkestra)

Alice Howe & Freebo- A Case of You

Live (Know Howe Music)

Perla Batalla- A Thousand Kisses Deep

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

Orit Shimoni- My Flying Shoes

Lorem Ipsum (Orit Shimoni)

Lisa Gutkin- For All of You

From Here On In (Lisa Gutkin)

The Twangtown Paramours- Old Friends

The Wind will Change Again (Inside Edge)

NEeMA with Emmylou Harris- For You

Painting My Wall Gold (Neemaste Productions)

John McCutcheon with Windborne- Blessing

Field of Stars (Appalsongs)

Jim Brewer- Corrina, Corrina

Take It Easy Greasy (Earwig/Riverlark Music)

Odetta- Rock Island Line

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

Guy Davis & Mike Regenstreif (2006)

Guy Davis- Don’t Know Where I’m Bound

The Legend of Sugarbelly (M.C.)

Fabrizio Poggi with Shar White- I Want Jesus to Walk with Me

Healing Blues (Appaloosa)

Mike Regenstreif & Priscilla Herdman (2000)

Priscilla Herdman- Waltzing with Bears

Stardreamer (Alacazam)

Natalie Merchant with The Klezmatics- The Dancing Bear

Leave Your Sleep (Nonesuch)

Dave Van Ronk- Teddy Bears’ Picnic

Songs for Ageing Children (Cadet)

Jenny Scheinman- Every Bear That Ever There Was

All Species Parade (Royal Potato Family)

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

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – December 3, 2024: Top 10 for 2024

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/595/67938.html

Theme: Songs from my top 10 folk-rooted and folk-branched albums of 2024.

The annotated and illustrated list is posted on the Folk Roots/Folk Branches blog at this link. https://frfb.blogspot.com/2024/11/top-10-for-2024.html

Number 10 – Heartbreak, Misery & Death by Grayson Capps

Grayson Capps- Hallelujah

Heartbreak, Misery & Death (Royal Potato Family)

Number 9 – Lonesome Road: Suite for Solo Guitar and Voice – Songs of the Lost Generation 1924-1928 by Joel Mabus

Joel Mabus- The Lonesome Road

Lonesome Road: Suite for Solo Guitar and Voice – Songs of the Lost Generation 1924-1928 (Fossil)

Number 8 – American Patchwork Quartet by American Patchwork Quartet

American Patchwork Quartet- Shenandoah

American Patchwork Quartet (Carolina Jasmine)

Number 7 – Heart of the Swan by Carla Sciaky

Carla Sciaky- Standing by a River

Heart of the Swan (Propinquity)

Carla Sciaky- This Forsaken Garden

Heart of the Swan (Propinquity)

Number 6 – Two Sides to Your Story by Chris Rawlings

Chris Rawlings- Bastille Day

Two Sides to Your Story (Cookingfat Music)

Chris Rawlings- Smoker’s Lullaby

Two Sides to Your Story (Cookingfat Music)

Number 5 – Live at the Scala Theatre and In the Real World by Eric Bibb

Eric Bibb- Bring Me Little Water, Sylvie 

Live at the Scala Theatre (Stony Plain) 

Eric Bibb- Best I Can

In the Real World (Stony Plain)

Number 4 – American Railroad by Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens

Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens- Swannanoa Tunnel/Steel-Driving Man

American Railroad (Nonesuch)

Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens- Tamping Song

American Railroad (Nonesuch)

Number 3 – Feel with Blood by Lenka Lichtenberg

Lenka Lichtenberg- Feel with Blood

Feel with Blood (Six Degrees)

Lenka Lichtenberg- Wintry Dusk

Feel with Blood (Six Degrees)

Number 2 – Bandits, Ballads and Blues by James Talley

James Talley- The Love Song of Billy the Kid

Bandits, Ballads and Blues (Cimarron)

James Talley- If We Could Love One Another

Bandits, Ballads and Blues (Cimarron)

Number 1 – A Letter to Leonard Cohen: Tribute to a Friend by Perla Batalla

Perla Batalla- A Singer Must Die

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

Perla Batalla- You Want It Darker

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

I’m taking the next four weeks off and Stranger Songs will feature some repeat shows from 2022. You can see the playlists and stream the shows at the following links.

December 10: Songs of the Mountain City Four and Kate & Anna McGarrigle. https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/57707.html

December 17: “Acapella Stella” and other a capella songs. https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/57170.html

December 24: Happy Holidays. https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/58701.html

December 31: Songs of – or inspired by – Jesse Winchester. https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/56097.html

New programs will resume on January 7.

--Mike Regenstreif

Top 10 for 2024

Here are my picks for the Top 10 folk-rooted or folk-branched albums of 2024. I started with a list of about 30 superb albums released between December 2023 and November 2024. I’ve been over the list several times over the past couple of weeks and came up with several similar – not identical – Top 10 lists. Today’s list is the final one. The order might have been slightly different and there are several other worthy albums that might have been included, had one of the other lists represented the final choice. Any new albums that arrive between now and the end of the year will be considered for my 2025 list. 

1. Perla Batalla – A Letter to Leonard Cohen: Tribute to a Friend (Mechuda Music). Early in her career, in the late-1980s and ‘90s, Perla Batalla toured the world as a backup singer in Leonard Cohen’s band. I remember being mesmerized by her singing as I sat front row, centre at the St. Denis Theatre in Montreal in 1988. In 2004, Perla released the superb collection, Bird on the Wire: The Songs of Leonard Cohen, and now follows up with this sublime album. She includes superb versions of eight of Leonard’s songs; a version of “The Partisan,” a song from the French Resistance in the World War II that Leonard made his own; and two of Perla’s original songs inspired by her friend and mentor.

2. James Talley – Bandits, Ballads and Blues (Cimarron). James Talley has been one of my favorite singer-songwriters since he released Got No Bread, No Milk, No Money, but We Sure Got a Lot of Love in 1974. On Bandits, Ballads and Blues, James sings compassionate songs about old west outlaws, family, a missed dog, and – most importantly – common folk victimized by forces beyond their control.

3. Lenka Lichtenberg – Feel with Blood (Six Degrees). Feel with Blood by Lenka Lichtenberg, the second album that Lenka has done based on poems written by Anna Hana Friesová, her maternal grandmother, while she was a prisoner at the Theresienstadt concentration camp during the Holocaust. While Thieves of Dreams, her first album of this material was largely sung in Czech, this album is largely sung in English translation.

4. Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens – American Railroad (Nonesuch). The Silkroad Ensemble is a multicultural group of musicians founded by Yo-Yo Ma and now under the artistic direction of Rhiannon Giddens. As explained on the Silkroad Ensemble website, American Railroad, was inspired by the impact that African American, Chinese, Indigenous, Irish, and other immigrant communities had on the creation of the transcontinental and connecting railways in North America.

5. Eric Bibb – Live at the Scala Theatre (Stony Plain) and In the Real World (Stony Plain). The always inspiring Eric Bibb, who has been a favorite folk and acoustic blues performer for many years, released both a live album, Live at the Scala Theatre, and a studio album, In the Real World, this year and both are deserving of inclusion on this list, so I decided to bend my list and have two albums share a slot.

6. Chris Rawlings – Two Sides to Your Story (Cookingfat Music). I’ve known Chris Rawlings since circa 1970 and I think that Two Sides to Your Story – featuring stellar backup from Henry Heillig and Jim Hoke – is his best (and best sounding) album yet. Among the highlights is a new version of “Smoker’s Lullaby,” a piece that Chris sang the first time I heard him about 55 years ago, featuring slightly edited lyrics that make a great song even better – and whose opening line gives the album its title.

7. Carla Sciaky – Heart of the Swan (Propinquity). Heart of the Swan, the first solo album in about 30 years by Carla Sciaky, marks a triumphant return of a fine singer and songwriter who was unheard from for too long. This is an album of quiet power with several tracks featuring recurring instrumental or vocal passages from the traditional ballad, “Polly Vaughn,” about a hunter mistakes the woman he loves for a swan.

8. American Patchwork Quartet – American Patchwork Quartet (Carolina Jasmine). American Patchwork Quartet is a multicultural group whose members are both ethnically and musically diverse, traits which they bring to their delightfully re-imagined versions of 14 traditional folksongs that demonstrate how relevant and powerful traditional source material remains for contemporary music.

9. Joel Mabus – Lonesome Road: Suite for Solo Guitar and Voice – Songs of the Lost Generation 1924-1928 (Fossil). Joel Mabus, a longtime veteran of the folk music scene, is a fine singer and player of many stringed instruments. Joel is also an excellent songwriter whose work is well informed by his knowledge of diverse styles including traditional balladry, old-time country, bluegrass, jazz, vintage pop and blues. On Lonesome Road: Suite for Solo Guitar and Voice – Songs of the Lost Generation 1924-1928 Joel offers fine versions of 14 classic songs written between 1924 and 1928.

10. Grayson Capps – Heartbreak, Misery & Death (Royal Potato Family). On Heartbreak, Misery & Death, Grayson Capps, a singer-songwriter from Alabama well-versed in folk and blues styles, turns his attention to really nice versions of traditional folksongs and contemporary folk classics written by the likes of Leonard Cohen, Gordon Lightfoot, Jerry Jeff Walker and Randy Newman.

I will be featuring songs from each of these albums on Stranger Songs, Tuesday December 3, 3:30-5 pm (ET), on CKCU. The program is already available 24/7 for on-demand streaming at this link. https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/67938.html

–Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – November 5, 2024: Addendums to Past Themes

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/595/67577.html

Theme: Addendums to Past Themes.

This is the second of two editions of Stranger Songs airing during CKCU’s 2024 Funding Drive. Your support is meaningful and essential to keeping CKCU’s diverse programming on the air for another year. You can make a donation in support of Stranger Songs and CKCU at this link. Charitable income tax receipts are issued for donations of $20 or more. Thanks for your support. https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/CKCU/p2p/fundingdrive2024/page/stranger-songs

A theme I do every year on the second Stranger Songs funding drive show is Addendums to Past Themes. More often than not, when I choose a theme for Stranger Songs, there are more possible songs to choose from than I can include – and sometimes new music that fits the theme arrives after the show has been produced. So, I’ve chosen a few of the themes from the past year for addendums.

Perla Batalla- A Thousand Kisses Deep

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

Leonard Cohen- Going Home

Old Ideas (Columbia)

Perla Batalla- Everybody Knows

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

Scottie Miller- Ah, New York

Carnival Cocoon (Scottie Miller)

Lucy Kaplansky- Love Song/New York

The Red Thread (Red House)

Amy Speace- In New York City

The American Dream (Windbone)

Shelley Posen- The Old Songs Home

The Old Songs Home (Well Done Music)

Madeleine Peyroux- I Hear Music

Careless Love: Deluxe Edition (Rounder)

The Central Park Sheiks- The People’s Key

Honeysuckle Rose (Flying Fish)

Misty Blues- Keep On Movin’ It On

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

Eric Bibb & Odetta- ‘Tain’t Such a Much

Friends (Telarc)

Odetta- Look the World Over

Blues Everywhere I Go (M.C.) 

Bob Dylan- My Back Pages

Another Side of Bob Dylan (Columbia)

Ian & Sylvia- You Were On My Mind

Northern Journey (Vanguard)

Sam Cooke- A Change is Gonna Come

Ain’t That Good News (RCA)

Lenka Lichtenberg- Remember the Sun

Feel with Blood (Six Degrees)

Lenka Lichtenberg- After the Flood

Feel with Blood (Six Degrees)

Sid Selvidge- Pearlee

Twice Told Tales (Elektra Nonesuch)

Rosalie Sorrels- One More Next Time

If I Could Be the Rain (Folk-Legacy)

Gordon Lightfoot- Steel Rail Blues

The Original Lightfoot (EMI)

Duke Ellington- Sugar Hill Shim Sham

Ellington in Order, Volume 8 (1937) (Legacy)

Next week: Remembering Barbara Dane (1927-2024).

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday November 2, 2024

Saturday Morning is an eclectic roots-oriented program on CKCU, 93.1 FM, in Ottawa on Saturday mornings from 7 until 10 am (Eastern time) and available for on-demand streaming anytime. I am one of the four rotating hosts of the Saturday Morning show. 

This episode of Saturday Morning was recorded and can be streamed on-demand, now or anytime, by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/67537.html

This is the second of three editions of the Saturday Morning show airing during CKCU’s 2024 Funding Drive. Your support is meaningful and essential to keeping CKCU’s diverse programming on the air for another year. You can make a donation in support of Saturday Morning and CKCU at this link. Charitable income tax receipts are issued for donations of $20 or more. Thanks for your support. https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/CKCU/p2p/fundingdrive2024/page/saturday-morning

Walter Hyatt- In November

King Tears (MCA)

Mary Flower- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime

Bywater Dance (Yellow Dog)

El Coyote- Tip Jar

El Coyote (El Coyote)

Old Man Luedecke- Easy Money

Easy Money (True North)

Bonnie Dobson- Living on Plastic

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

Bill Hearne- Cash on the Barrelhead

Always Trust Your Cape (Howlin’ Dog) 

Perla Batalla- Sisters of Mercy

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

Dave Van Ronk- Bird on the Wire

Van Ronk (Polydor)

Martin Simpson- The Stranger Song

Vagrant Stanzas (Topic)

Leonard Cohen- Famous Blue Raincoat

Songs of Love and Hate (Columbia/Legacy)

Perla Batalla- The L of Your First Name

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

Carla Sciaky- Dear Mr. Bowers

Heart of the Swan (Propinquity)

Tom Mitchell & Mike Regenstreif (1999)

Tom Mitchell- Wasted Rose

1976 live recording – used with permission

Amy Speace- Love is Gonna Come Again

The American Dream (Windbone)

Lenka Lichtenberg- Wintry Dusk

Feel with Blood (Six Degrees)

Mike Regenstreif & Brendan Nolan (2023)

Brendan Nolan- Packing Her Bag

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

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

The Well (Rounder)

Lenka Lichtenberg- Feel with Blood

Feel with Blood (Six Degrees)

Ian Robb & James Stephens- God and The Orange Clown

Declining …with thanks (Fallen Angle Music)

Resistance Revival Chorus featuring Rhiannon Giddens- All You Fascists Bound to Lose

This Joy (Righteous Babe)

John McCutcheon- If I Had a Hammer

To Everyone in All the World: A Celebration of Pete Seeger (Appalseed)

Perla Batalla- Democracy

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

Connie Kaldor- Set You Free

Keep Going (Coyote Entertainment) 

Carolyn Shulman- Bolt Out of the Blue

Heart on a Wire (Carolyn Shulman)

Kurt Anderson- Whistlers and Jugglers

Life on Interstate 40 (Riverlark Music)

Neale Eckstein & BettySoo- Like a Poem Needs a Rhyme

Never Too Late (Neale Eckstein)

Rik Palieri- When the Circus Leaves Town

Hands of Time (Rik Palieri)

Geneviève Racette- X2

Golden (Geneviève Racette)

Eric Bibb- Make a Change (Chains & Free)

In the Real World (Stony Plain)

Reggie Harris- The Times They are A-Changin’

Ready to Go (Reggie Harris Music)

Bettye LaVette- A Change is Gonna Come

Change is Gonna Come Sessions (Anti-)

Jerron Paxton- Things Done Changed

Things Done Changed (Smithsonian Folkways)

Moses Crouch- Hillbilly Willie’s Blues/Travelin’ Railroad Blues

Earth Music (Riverlark)

Joel Mabus & Mike Regenstreif (2001)

Joel Mabus- Blues in a Bottle

Lonesome Road: Suite for Solo Guitar and Voice – Songs of the Lost Generation 1924-1928 (Fossil)

Misty Blues- Weepin’ Willow Blues

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

Odetta with Dr. John- Oh Papa

Blues Everywhere I Go (M.C.)

Terra Spencer & Stephen Fearing- East to West

Sunset (Terra Spencer)

Steve Lundquist- The Great Northwest

The Great Northwest (Steve Lundquist)

Tish Hinojosa- If I Could Only Fly

With a Guitar & a Pen (Tish Hinojosa)

Sav Sankaran- Looking for the Moon

Bluegrass Sings Paxton (Mountain Home)

Amir Amiri Ensemble- Raghseh Choobi (Dance of the Wooden Sticks)

Ajdad – Ancestors: Echoes of Persia (Fifth House)

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

--Mike Regenstreif