Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – June 13, 2026

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/128/75834.html

The McDades- Roving Gambler

Thread the Light (Free Radio)

Renée Fleming with Béla Fleck featuring Jerry Douglas- The Cuckoo

The Fiddle and the Drum (Thirty Tigers)

Amy Melissen & Lee Stivers- Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor

Something Tells Me Everything Will Be Alright (AMCTR)

Chaim Tannenbaum- Farther Along

Chaim Tannenbaum (StorySound)

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

Kate McGarrigle, Martha Wainwright & Lily Lanken with Anna McGarrigle, Rufus & Loudon Wainwright, Chaim Tannenbaum, Dane & Sylvan Lanken- Johnny’s Gone to Hilo

The McGarrigle Hour (Hannibal)

Sylvia Tyson & Mike Regenstreif (1997)

Ian & Sylvia- Mary Anne

Ian & Sylvia (Vanguard)

Hannah & Nathan- Turtle Dove

Love and Labour (Just Right Music)

Kitka- Loomine

Kolo (Diaphonoca)

Ian Tamblyn- Woodsmoke and Oranges

Scenes Through a Mirror (North Track)

Boreal- Beautiful Blue

Winterbirds (Boreal)

Jenny Reynolds- Learning to Be Yours

Willow & Stone (Jenny Reynolds)

Willie Nelson- Dream Chaser

Dream Chaser (Legacy)

Jenna Nichols- You, Me & the Moon

The Commuter (Royal Potato Family)

Neale Eckstein- Always Been Older Than Me

Build Our Dreams (Neale Eckstein)

Annie Gallup- Almost Alright

Nightclothes (Galway Bay Music)

Tom Mitchell & Mike Regenstreif (1999)

Tom Mitchell- Church and Paydays

Tom Mitchell (Philo)

Rufus Wainwright, Anna McGarrigle, Chaim Tannenbaum, Lily Lanken, Lucy Wainwright Roche & Martha Wainwright- Wild Mountain Thyme

Folkocracy (BMG)

Tony Rice- Mr. Engineer

Tony Rice (Craft)

Mike Regenstreif & Bruce Cockburn (2017)

Bruce Cockburn- Train in the Rain

Speechless (True North)

Last Forever- Old 97

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

Mike Regenstreif & Anne Hills (2001)

Anne Hills- I Rode ‘Em All, Man

Tracks (Hand & Heart Music)

Utah Phillips & Mike Regenstreif (1976) photo: Felicity Fanjoy

Utah Phillips- Wabash Cannonball/Tolono

Good Though! (Philo)

ES Pearl AKA Ed Snodderly- When Doc Watson Come to Johnson City

Baggage Flies Free (Majestic/Need to Know Music)

Doc & Merle Watson- Along the Road

Black Mountain Rag (Rounder)

Stan Rogers- Down the Road

Songs of a Lifetime: From Coffee House to Concert Hall (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

Paul Mills- Clank Remembers 

The Other Side of the Glass (Borealis)

Mike Regenstreif & Orit Shimoni (2025)

Dan Bern & Orit Shimoni- Arms

Birds (Dan Bern & Orit Shimoni)

NEeMA- Lost in L.A.

Watching You Think (Neemaste/Sony)

Leonard Cohen- Going Home

Old Ideas (Columbia)

Norah Jones- Steer Your Way

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

Sons of the Never Wrong- Waterfall

Feather and Starry Crown (Sons 3)

Teilhard Frost- Four and Twenty Blackbirds Dancing on a Deerskin

Four and Twenty Blackbirds Dancing on a Deerskin (Wolfe Island)

Renée Fleming with Béla Fleck featuring Jerry Douglas- The Fiddle and the Drum

The Fiddle and the Drum (Thirty Tigers)

The Klezmatics featuring James Brandon Lewis & William Parker- Elegy for the Innocents

We Were Made for These Times (Shamus)

Bill Garrett & Mike Regenstreif (2014)

Bill Garrett- How Will I Ever Be Simple Again

Seems to Me (Borealis)

Diana Jones & Mike Regenstreif on Zoom (2021)

Diana Jones- Better Times will Come

Better Times will Come (Proper)

A Different Thread- Over Again

Over Again (Same Cloth)

Tom Russell & Mike Regenstreif (2005)

Tom Russell & Dolores Keane- The Dreamin’

The Man from God Knows Where (HighTone)

Mason Daring & Jeanie Stahl- Across the Great Divide

Marblehead Morning – Mason Daring & Jeanie Stahl: 50 Years in Harmony (Daring)

Center of the River- Darkness Light

Americana Art Music from the Mississippi (CotR)

Mike Regenstreif & Shawna Caspi (2015)

Shawna Caspi- Hope Lives

Hurricane Coming (Shawna Caspi)

Oscar Brown Jr..- When Malindy Sings

The Voice of Cool (Not Now Music)

Rosalie Sorrels & Mike Regenstreif (1993)

Rosalie Sorrels- Truth is on the Streets

Moments of Happiness (Philo)

Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus- Ghosts in This Room Tonight

Pattonville (Berkalin)

Dave Gunning- Pursued By Grace

Field Notes (Wee House of Music)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on July 11. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

--Mike Regenstreif 

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – December 23, 2025: A Christmas Concert with Odetta and More Songs for the Holiday

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/595/73359.html

Theme: A Christmas Concert with Odetta and More Songs for the Holiday.

Odetta – who died in 2008 less than a month before her 78th birthday – was one of the most influential folksingers of her time. In the late-1950s, a teenaged rock singer in Minnesota named Robert Zimmerman decided to pursue folk music after hearing an Odetta album, and later arrived in New York City calling himself Bob Dylan. Others, among many, who have cited Odetta’s influence include Joan Baez, Nina Simone, Janis Joplin and Harry Belafonte. Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. referred to Odetta as “the voice of the civil rights movement.

Odetta was accompanied throughout the concert by pianist Seth Farber and, on a couple of songs, by The Holmes Brothers.

Odetta with The Holmes Brothers- This Little Light of Mine

Gonna Let It Shine: A Concert for the Holidays (M.C.)

Odetta- Rise Up Shepherd and Follow

Gonna Let It Shine: A Concert for the Holidays (M.C.)

Odetta- Mary had a Baby

Gonna Let It Shine: A Concert for the Holidays (M.C.)

Odetta- What Month was Jesus Born In

Gonna Let It Shine: A Concert for the Holidays (M.C.)

Odetta- Shout for Joy

Gonna Let It Shine: A Concert for the Holidays (M.C.)

Odetta- Virgin Mary Had One Son

Gonna Let It Shine: A Concert for the Holidays (M.C.)

Odetta with The Holmes Brothers- Down By the Riverside

Gonna Let It Shine: A Concert for the Holidays (M.C.)

Odetta- Poor Little Jesus

Gonna Let It Shine: A Concert for the Holidays (M.C.)

Odetta- Freedom Trilogy: Oh Freedom, Come & Go With Me and I’m On My Way

Gonna Let It Shine: A Concert for the Holidays (M.C.)

Odetta- Somebody Talking ‘Bout Jesus

Gonna Let It Shine: A Concert for the Holidays (M.C.)

Odetta- Keep On Movin’ It On

Gonna Let It Shine: A Concert for the Holidays (M.C.)

Odetta- O Jerusalem

Gonna Let It Shine: A Concert for the Holidays (M.C.)

Odetta- If Anybody Asks You

Gonna Let It Shine: A Concert for the Holidays (M.C.)

Odetta- Midnight Special

Gonna Let It Shine: A Concert for the Holidays (M.C.)

Chris White- That’s Christmas

That’s Christmas – single (Chris White)

Maggie’s Wake- It Ain’t Christmas Without You

Close to Home (Maggie’s Wake)

Chaim Tannenbaum- A Winter Tale

A Winter Tale – single (StorySound)

Good Lovelies- The Chipmunk Song

Under the Mistletoe (Good Lovelies)

Erik Frandsen- Christmas in Brooklyn

Antiques: New & Used (Erik Frandsen)

Shelley Posen- You are All the Christmas That I Need

Old Loves (Well Done Music)

Rosalie Sorrels- Hot Buttered Rum

An Imaginary Christmas in Idaho (Limberlost)

Stan Rogers- At Last, I’m Ready for Christmas

Songs of a Lifetime: From Coffeehouse to Concert Hall (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

David Massengill- Jesus, the Fugitive Prince 

The Return (Plump)

Next week: My Top 10 Folk-Rooted or Folk-Branched albums of 2025.

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – November 1, 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/128/72669.html

Presley Halle- Someday Soon

Off to Find a Sunny Day (Columbia)

Judy Collins & Mike Regenstreif (2014)

Judy Collins- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime

Judith (Elektra)

Clela Errington- I Know You Rider

Walkin’ Each Other Home (Clela Errington)

Guy Davis & Mike Regenstreif (2006)

Guy Davis- Statesboro Blues

Juba Dance (M.C.)

John Stewart- Chilly Winds

Cannons in the Rain/Wingless Angels (One Way)

Waylon Jennings- Brand New Tennessee Waltz

Songbird (Son of Jessi/Thirty Tigers)

Lily Sazz- Isn’t That So

What Just Happened (Lily Sazz)

Jesse Winchester & Mike Regenstreif (2000)

Jesse Winchester- All of Your Stories

Third Down, 110 to Go (Stony Plain)

Mike Regenstreif & Bruce Murdoch (2007)

Bruce Murdoch- Fool Like Me 

Bruce Murdoch (Radio Canada International)

Chris Rawlings & Mike Regenstreif (2007)

Chris Rawlings- Songbird and Rainbow

Two Sides to Your Story (Cookingfat Music)

Jory Nash & Mike Regenstreif (2024)

Jory Nash- Me & You

The Light Still Shines on the Main (Thin Man)

Mike Regenstreif & Anne Hills (2001)

Anne Hills- Portland Fancy

Every Town: More Songs by Michael Smith (Hand & Heart Music)

Kate MacLeod- Fair Winds and Following Seas

Perennial (Westmoon)

Cosy Sheridan- The Breathing Room

The Breathing Room (Cosy Sheridan)

Paul Mills- The London Scratch

The Other Side of the Glass (Borealis)

Mike Regenstreif & The Durham County Poets (2014)

Durham County Poets- St. James Infirmary

Hand Me Down Blues (Durham County Poets)

Sheesham & Lotus & 'Son- Michigan Water

Clear the Table (Sepiaphone)

Dave Van Ronk & The Red Onion Jazz Band- Sister Kate

Two Sides of Dave Van Ronk (Fantasy)

Maria Muldaur- Down Hill Pull

One Hour Mama: The Blues of Victoria Spivey (NOLA Blues)

Mike Regenstreif & Connie Kaldor (2015)

Connie Kaldor- Hitched Together

Wide Open Spaces (Coyote Entertainment)

Tom Mitchell & Mike Regenstreif (1999)

Tom Mitchell- The Pine

Outamongum Again (Cowlick)

Rosalie Sorrels & Mike Regenstreif (1993)

Rosalie Sorrels- The Caterpillar and the Butterfly

Always a Lady (Green Linnet)

John Gorka & Mike Regenstreif (2012)

John Gorka- First Snow on the Mountains

unentitled (Red House)

Becky Buller- A Hazy Shade of Winter

Songs That Sing Me (Dark Shadow Recording)

Mike Regenstreif & Tony Turner (2018)

Tony Turner- Pine Beach

Survivor Tree (Bon Esprit Music) 

Kate Greenland- Longing & Dreaming of You

Longing and Dreaming (Kate Greenland)

Kate Weekes- Rideau Roots

Rideau Roots (Kate Weekes)

Bobby Dove- Golden Years

Hopeless Romantic (Bobby Dove)

Odetta, pianist Dave Keyes & Mike Regenstreif (2008)

Odetta- Dink’s Blues

Blues Everywhere I Go (M.C.)

Mike Regenstreif & Tim Grimm (2025)

Tim Grimm- Broken Truth

Bones of Trees (Vault)

Jez Lowe- Frozen Roman

Oubliette (Tantobie)

Mike Regenstreif & Mark Rubin on Zoom (2025)

Mark Rubin – Jew of Oklahoma- Dog Whistle

Dispatches: Songs from a World Gone Mad (Rubinchik)

Ellen Hamilton- I Don’t Need a Flag

Mending (Ellen Hamilton)

Eliza Gilkyson & Mike Regenstreif (2006)

Eliza Gilkyson- Dark Night of the Soul

Dark Ages (Realiza)

Mike Regenstreif & Lynn Miles (2013)

Lynn Miles- Million Brilliant

Downpour (Lynn Miles)

Sylvia Tyson & Mike Regenstreif (997)

Ian & Sylvia- Changes

Play One More (Vanguard)

Louise Coombe & Mike Regenstreif (2024)

Louise Coombe- October

Paris (Zoe Cat Music)

Stacey Kent- Tis Autumn

The Boy Next Door (Candid)

Chris McKhool- Little Leaf

Little Leaf (Chris McKhool)

Leslie Jordan- The Agonist

The Agonist (Leslie Jordan Music)

Gretchen Peters- Five Minutes

The Show: Live from The UK (Scarlet Letter)

Caroline Marie Brooks- Vitamin

Everything at the Same Time (Caroline Brooks)

Joel Mabus & Mike Regenstreif (2001)

Joel Mabus- The Lonesome Road

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

Alison Brown & Steve Martin- Friend of Mine

Safe Sensible and Sane (Compass)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on November 29. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – September 2, 2025: "Crazy Blues" and Other Crazy Songs

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/595/71788.html

Theme: “Crazy Blues” and other Crazy Songs.

Mamie Smith- Crazy Blues

The Rough Guide to Blues Women (World Music Network)

Patsy Cline- Crazy

The Unforgettable Patsy Cline (Polygram)

Steven Fromholz- I’d Have to Be Crazy

A Rumor in My Own Time (Capitol)

Rosalie Sorrels- We Were Kinda Crazy Then 

Travelin’ Lady Rides Again (Green Linnet)

Lennie Gallant- She’s Gonna Drive You Crazy

Shelter from the Storms (Gallant Effort Productions)

J.J. Cale- Crazy Mama

Naturally (Mercury)

Ball & Chain & The Wreckers- Crazy Arms

Live at the Bayou (Ball & Chain)

Durham County Poets- Good Kind of Crazy

Out of the Woods (Durham County Poets)

Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band- Crazy Words, Crazy Tune

Greatest Hits (Vanguard)

Leon Redbone- I’m Crazy ‘Bout My Baby

Whistling in the Wind (Rounder)

John Prine- Egg & Daughter Night, Lincoln Nebraska, 1967 (Crazy Bone)

The Tree of Forgiveness (Oh Boy)

Bebop Cowboys- Crazy Rhythm

Début (Bebop Cowboys)

Tom Paxton- Crazy John

Tom Paxton 6 (Elektra)

Michael Smith- Crazy Mary

Love Letter on a Fish (Tales from the Tavern)

Carla Gover & Brett Ratliff- Crazy

Kentucky Queen (Redbird)

Russ Kelley- Crazy Shades of Blue

Crazy Shades of Blue (Ark Road Music Productions)

Billie Holiday- Crazy He Calls Me

Lady’s Decca Days, Volume One (Decca)

Sunny and Her Joy Boys- You’re Driving Me Crazy

Introducing Sunny and Her Joy Boys (Stony Plain)

J. Reissner- Crazy Swing

Portrait in Blue (J. Reissner)

Ana Gasteyer- Crazy People

I’m Hip (Henry’s Girl)

Ian Robb- Champion at Driving ‘Em Crazy

Ian Robb & Hang the Piper (Folk-Legacy)

Leonard Cohen- Crazy to Love You

Old Ideas (Columbia)

Shirley Eikhard- Crazy from the Heat

Going Home (Artisan Music)

Tom Russell- The Other Side of Crazy

Who’s Gonna Build Your Wall? (HighTone)

Barbara Dane- Crazy Blues

On My Way (Dreadnaught Music)

Next week: Part 1 – Songs and Conversation with author David Eisenstadt; Part 2 – Riding in My Car.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – July 8, 2025: Peggy Seeger at 90

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/595/70985.html

Theme: Peggy Seeger at 90.

Peggy Seeger – who I’ve known for many years – turned 90 on June 17. Peggy was born in 1935 to a musical and activist family. Her father, Charles Seeger, was a musicologist, composer and folklorist. Her mother, Ruth Crawford Seeger, was a composer and musicologist. Her older half-brother was Pete Seeger, and her other siblings were Mike Seeger, Barbara Seeger and Penny Seeger. Peggy’s life partner from the 1950s until his death in 1989 was the preeminent British folksinger and songwriter Ewan MacColl.

The show includes some of Peggy’s original songs, as well as traditional folksongs and songs written by other songwriters that were part of her repertoire from some of Peggy’s many recordings and collaborations, and by other artists.

Peggy Seeger- Sing About These Hard Times

Teleology (Red Grape)

Peggy Seeger with Barbara Seeger & Penny Seeger - Five Nights Drunk

Folk Songs with The Seegers (Prestige)

Sheesham & Lotus & ‘Son- I Truly Understand

Clear the Table (Sepiaphone)

Kate & Edith- Pretty Saro

Live at Kelso Hall (Kate & Edith)

Ian & Sylvia- Lady of Carlisle

Four Strong Winds (Vanguard)

Peggy Seeger- When I was Single

The Folkways Years 1955-1992: Songs of Love and Politics (Smithsonian Folkways)

Linda Ronstadt with Dolly Parton- I Never Will Marry

Simple Dreams: 40th Anniversary Edition (Elektra/Rhino)

Mike Seeger & Peggy Seeger- Little Birdie

Fly Down Little Bird (Appleseed)

Bonnie Dobson- The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

Philadelphia Folk Festival – 40th Anniversary (Sliced Bread)

Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger- Dirty Old Town

Black and White: The Ewan MacColl Definitive Collection (Cooking Vinyl)

Peggy Seeger- On This Very Day

An Odd Collection (Rounder)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle & Roma Baran- Willie Moore

Tell My Sister (Nonesuch)

Peggy Seeger- Tell My Sister

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

Rufus Wainwright & John Legend- Heading for Home

Folkocracy (BMG)

Sue Foley- Freight Train

One Guitar Woman: A Tribute to the Female Pioneers of Guitar (Stony Plain)

Rosalie Sorrels with Peggy Seeger- Schofield Mine Disaster

Strangers in Another Country: The Songs of Bruce “Utah” Phillips (Red House)

Fourtold- Ballad of Springhill

Fourtold (Appleseed)

Peggy Seeger- It’s a Free World

An Odd Collection (Rounder)

Robin Greenstein- I’m Gonna Be an Engineer

Images of Women, Vol. 2 (Windy)

Peggy Seeger with Irene Pyper-Scott- Fatal Flower Garden

Live (Appleseed)

Peggy Seeger- Bring Me Home

Bring Me Home (Appleseed)

Next week: Blues in the Night.

--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

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – April 15, 2025: “All God’s Critters Got a Place in the Choir”

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/595/69786.html

Theme: “All God’s Critters Got a Place in the Choir” – all the songs have something or other to do with animals.

Bill Staines- A Place in the Choir

The First Million Miles (Rounder)

Ian & Sylvia- Old Blue

Ian & Sylvia (Vanguard)

Ron Hynes- A Good Dog is Lost

Get Back Change (Borealis)

James Talley- Somewhere in the Stars (A Song for Diego)

Ballads, Bandits and Blues (Cimarron)

Bob Dylan with Hilda Harris, Albertine Robinson & Maeretha Stewart- All the Tired Horses

Another Self Portrait 1969-1971: The Bootleg Series Vol. 10 (Columbia/Legacy)

Garnet Rogers- Small Victory

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

Amy Speace- There Used to Be Horses Here

There Used to Be Horses Here (Windbone)

Priscilla Herdman- Waltzing with Bears

Stardreamer (Alacazam)

Rosalie Sorrels- Mehitabel’s Theme

Always a Lady (Green Linnet)

Phil Harris- Thomas O’Malley Cat

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

Cisco Houston- The Cat Came Back

The Folkways Years 1944-1961 (Smithsonian Folkways)

Tom Russell- Gallo del Cielo

Old Songs Yet to Sing (Frontera)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Man Gave Names to All the Animals

Get Up and Do Right (Community Music)

Odetta- The Fox

At the Gate of Horn (Tradition)

Paul Geremia- Foolish Frog

I Really Don’t Mind Livin’/My Kinda Place (Flying Fish)

Dave Van Ronk, Anne Hills & Cindy Mangsen- Froggy Went A-Courting

Never Grow Up (Flying Fish)

Ladysmith Black Mambazo- Mbube (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)

Gift of the Tortoise (Music for Little People)

Amelia Hogan- The Snow Hare

Burnished (Amelia Hogan)

The Marigolds- Inchworm

The Marigolds (The Marigolds)

Oscar Brand- The Derby Ram

The Riverside Folklore Series, Volume Three: Singing the New Traditions (Riverside)

Deborah Robins- The Three Ravens

Lone Journey (Zippety Whippet Music) 

James Keelaghan- Red-Winged Blackbird

Home (Jericho Beach Music)

Jackie Washington- The Snake

Midnight Choo Choo (Borealis)

Dave Van Ronk- I’m Proud to Be a Moose

Peter and the Wolf (Alacazam)

Next week: Songs for Earth Day.

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – March 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/128/69494.html

Mike Regenstreif & Garnet Rogers (2006)

Gaenet Rogers- First Day of Spring

Shining Thing (Snow Goose Songs)

Ian Tyson- Springtime

Cowboyography (Stony Plain)

Frida’s Brow- Spring

Frida’s Brow (Frida’s Brow)

Wade Hemsworth with The Mountain City Four- The Blackfly Song

Wade Hemsworth with The Mountain City Four (Peter Weldon)

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

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Foolish You

Tell My Sister: Kate & Anna McGarrigle (Nonesuch)

Katie Moore- Heart Like a Wheel

Montebello (Katie Moore)

Patti LuPone- Saratoga Summer Song

A Life in Notes (Center Stage)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Emmylou Harris, Loudon Wainwright III- Green Green Rocky Road

The McGarrigle Hour (Hannibal)

Dave Van Ronk- Somebody Else, Not Me

Somebody Else, Not Me (Philo)

Chris Walz- Been All Around This World

All I Got and Gone (Chris Walz Music)

Rosalie Sorrels & Mike Regenstreif (1993)

Rosalie Sorrels- Ain’t Nobody Got the Blues Like Me

Moments of Happiness (Philo)

Leonard Cohen- The Old Revolution

Songs from a Room (Columbia/Legacy)

Perla Batalla- Everybody Knows

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

NEeMA- Unspoken

Watching You Think (Neemaste/Sony)

Kim Beggs- Little Tin Cup

Beneath Your Skin (Out of a Paperbag Productions)

Boreal- Hallelujah

Winterbirds (Boreal)

Manus McGuire- Irish Jig Set

The Copperplate Sessions (Manus McGuire)

La Nef featuring Kate Bevan-Baker- Dark Eyed Sailor

Red Sky at Night (La Nef)

La Bottine Souriante featuring André Marchand- Le rossignol sauvage

Chic & Swell (Mille-Pattes)

La Bottine Souriante featuring Michel Bordeleau- Un coup madame

La Bottine Souriante en Spectacle (Mille-Pattes)

Chris Coole & John Showman- Steamboat Whistle Blues

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

Rose Cousins- Denoument

Conditions of Love Vol. 1 (Nettwerk)

Rhiannon Giddens- Shake Sugaree

Tomorrow is My Turn (Nonesuch)

Ladysmith Black Mambazo- Rain Rain Beautiful Rain

Live at the Royal Albert Hall (Shanachie)

Mike Regenstreif & Tim Grimm (2025)

Tim Grimm & The Family Band- Gonna Be Great

A Stranger in This Time (Vault)

Artists for Action- Which Side Are You On? *

Which Side Are You On? – single (Bon Jensen)

*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.

Cassie & Maggie- Bow Down

Gold and Coal (Cassie and Maggie)

Rube & Rake- Stephen

Good Time After Bad (LHM)

Rum Ragged- The Road to Lushes Bight (Island Stock)

Gone Jiggin’ (LHM)

The Twangtown Paramours- Stars Without a Heaven

The Wind Will Change Again (Inside Edge)

John McCutcheon- Tikkun Olam

Field of Stars (Appalsongs)

Louise Coombe & Mike Regenstreif (2024(

Louise Coombe- Brothers in Arms

Paris (Zoe Cat Music)

Mike Regenstreif & Tom Paxton (2009)

Tom Paxton- If I Pass This Way Again

It Ain’t Easy (Flying Fish)

Alice Howe & Freebo- Twilight

Live (Know Howe Music)

Tom Mitchell & Mike Regenstreif & Tom Mitchell (1999)

Tom Mitchell- Time Piece

Tom Mitchell (Philo)

Mike Regenstreif & Lucy Kaplansky (2012)

Lucy Kaplansky- No Place to Fall

The Lucy Story: unreleased and rare tracks, 1976-2023 (Lucyricky)

Stephen Fearing- The Empathist

The Empathist (Ging)

Willie P. Bennett- Music in Your Eyes

Tryin’ to Start Out Clean (Bnatural Music)

The Seldom Scene- White Line

Remains to Be Scene (Smithsonian Folkways)

Sultans of String featuring Shannon Thunderbird- Black Winged Raven

Walking Through the Fire (Sultans of String)

HuDost- Fire of Eden

The Monkey in the Crown (Open Sesame Music)

Billy Novick & Guy Van Duser- Gershwin Medley

The New Pennywhistle Album (Green Linnet)

Antonio Andrade- Loony Tunes Medley: This is It! (Intro)/The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down/Merrily We Roll Along/This is It! (Outro)

Here We Go! (Life Shakes)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on April 19. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

--Mike Regenstreif