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

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU, 93.1 FM, in Ottawa on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5 pm (Eastern time) and is also available 24/7 for on-demand streaming.

This episode of Stranger Songs was recorded and can be streamed on-demand, now or anytime, by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/72459.html

Theme: Songs I’ve Heard Missy Burgess Sing.

Mike Regenstreif & Missy Burgess (2014)

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

Missy Burgess- Pour Me a Song 

Pour Me a Song (Patio)

Po’ Girl Ain’t Life Sweet

Home to You (Nettwerk)

Martin Grosswendt- Come On In My Kitchen

Dog On a Dance Floor (Philo)

Odetta- Make Me a Pallet On Your Floor

Odetta and the Blues (Fantasy)

Missy Burgess- Basket of Blues

Lemon Pie (Missy Burgess)

Penny Lang- Trouble in Mind

Gather Honey (Borealis)

Mary Gauthier- Mercy Now 

Mercy Now (Lost Highway)

Rosanne Cash- Time

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

Missy Burgess- Don’t Go to Cincinnati

Play Me Sweet (Missy Burgess)

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

Up All Night (Niwot)

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

We’ll Meet Again (Borealis)

Kimmie Rhodes & Willie Nelson- Picture in a Frame

Picture in a Frame (Sunbird)

Missy Burgess- My Blue Sweater

Lemon Pie (Missy Burgess)

Jay Linden- That Lucky Old Sun

Under the Radar (Jay Linden)

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

Pour Me a Song (Patio)

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

Satisfied (Moo Music)

Missy Burgess- Missy’s Blues

Pour Me a Song (Patio)

Steve Earle & The Del McCoury Band- Pilgrim

The Mountain (New West)

Madeleine Peyroux- Smile

Half the Perfect World (Rounder)

Missy Burgess- Dance Me Slow

Play Me Sweet (Missy Burgess)

Next week: Remembering Bob Franke and Danny Thompson.

--Mike Regenstreif

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

Canadian Spaces – CKCU – Saturday July 16, 2016

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

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 co-hosted by Mike Regenstreif and Chris White.

Guests: Garnet Rogers; Julie Corrigan; Darryl Poulsen (Slocan Ramblers); Charlie Sohmer

Maria Dunn- Music in the Meadow

Gathering (Distant Whisper)

Arnie Naiman- Maggie at the Door

My Lucky Stars (Merriweather)

Po' Girl- Gone in Pawn (Shake Sugaree)

Po’ Girl (Jericho Beach)

David Wiffen- Four Strong Winds

At The Bunkhouse Coffeehouse, Vancouver BC (Universal International)

Bill Staines- Rompin’ Rovin’ Days

Journey Home (Red House)

Reid Jamieson- Bird on the Wire

Dear Leonard: The Cohen Collection (Reid Jamieson) NR

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Come Back Baby

Pronto Monto (Omnivore) NR

Chaim Tannenbaum- (Talk to Me of) Mendocino

Chaim Tannenbaum (StorySound) NR

Priscilla Herdman- Forty-Five Years

Forgotten Dreams (Flying Fish)

Stan Rogers- The Flowers of Bermuda

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

Garnet Rogers- Night Drive

Night Drive (Snow Goose)

*Garnet Rogers' book, "Night Drive: Travels with My Brother," is available at garnetrogers.com. A book review will be published on the Folk Roots/Folk Branches blog in the coming weeks.

Julie Corrigan- Home

Live in the studio

Slocan Ramblers- Groundhog

Coffee Creek (The Slocan Ramblers)

Adam Hill- Down by the Riverside

Old Paint (Adam Hill)

Charlie Sohmer & Shoe Drop- What’s the Use in Fighting

Demo

Charlie Sohmer- High Low

Live in the studio

Christine Graves- Summerlea

Stray (Christine Graves)

The show is now available for online listening. http://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/129/28081.html

I’ll be co-hosting Canadian Spaces again on August 6.

Find me on Twitter. @MikeRegenstreif

And on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Po' Girl -- No Shame tour

I’ve been listening to, enjoying and admiring Po’ Girl since they first formed as a duo of Allison Russell, originally from Montreal, who’d been in the Vancouver Celtic band, Fear of Drinking, and Trish Klein, one of the Be Good Tanyas. Not long after their first album came out in 2003, they toured to Montreal and were my guests on Folk Roots/Folk Branches. By then, Po’ Girl was a trio with the addition of fiddler Diona Davies.

There’ve been personnel changes over the years with Alli, a very musical singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, being the constant presence through all versions of Po’ Girl. For the past several years, Alli’s main collaborator has been Awna Teixeira, another very musical singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. These days Po’ Girl also includes a couple of guys – Benny Sidelinger, who also plays a bunch of different instruments, and percussionist Mikey “Lightning” August.

Their upcoming tour takes its name from “No Shame,” a very brave song that Alli wrote about the decade of sexual abuse she suffered as a child from her adopted father, about the years it took her to come to terms with that abuse, about a mother’s dependency on the man who destroyed her daughter’s childhood, and about Alli’s survivor’s resolve not to let the abuse destroy the rest of her life. “I won't be sad, I won't be silent, I won't let him steal my joy,” she defiantly sings at the end of the last two verses.

The Canadian dates on Po’ Girl’s No Shame tour are a fundraiser for Little Warriors, a national organization dedicated to helping adults "prevent, recognize and react responsibly to child sexual abuse." The U.S. dates will benefit the National Children's Alliance, an organization also dedicated to stopping child abuse.

Among the nearby concert dates are stops at Hugh’s Room in Toronto (Wednesday, March 10); the Black Sheep Inn in Wakefield, QC near Ottawa (Friday, March 12) and L’Astral in Montreal (Saturday, March 13). The full itinerary with concert and ticket details is at pogirl.net.

--Mike Regenstreif

This week in Folk Roots/Folk Branches history (October 20-26)

Folk Roots/Folk Branches with Mike Regenstreif was a Thursday tradition on CKUT in Montreal for nearly 14 years from February 3, 1994 until August 30, 2007. Folk Roots/Folk Branches continued as occasional features on CKUT and is now also a blog. Here’s the eighth instalment of “This week in Folk Roots/Folk Branches,” a weekly look back continuing through next August at some of the most notable guests, features and moments in Folk Roots/Folk Branches history.

October 20, 1994: Extended feature- Arlo Guthrie.
October 26, 1995: Guest- Bill Garrett.
October 24, 1996: Guest- Steve Fruitman.
October 22, 1998: Guest- John Gorka.
October 21, 1999: Guest- Chuck Brodsky.
October 25, 2001: Guest- Lynn Miles.
October 23, 2003: Guests- Po’ Girl.
October 21, 2004: Guests- Ken Whiteley, Harry Manx.
October 20, 2005: Guests- Brian Blain, Harry Manx.
October 26, 2006: My 700th broadcast on CKUT.
October 25, 2007 (Folk Roots/Folk Branches feature): Songs about this time of year.
October 23, 2008 (Folk Roots/Folk Branches feature): Three Women Sing, Part 2.

--Mike Regenstreif