Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday March 30, 2021

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

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

This episode of Stranger Songs – Episode #8 – was prerecorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/51425.html

Theme: Songs Inspired by Bible Stories 

Maria Muldaur- Adam and Eve had the Blues
Sweet and Slow (Stony Plain)
Geoff Bartley- Noah’s Ark
One Kind Word (Magic Crow)
Sharon Goldman- Pillar of Salt
Kol Isha/A Woman’s Voice (Sharon Goldman)

Shelley Posen- Ram in the Thicket
Manna (Well Done Music)
Leonard Cohen- Story of Isaac
Songs from a Room (Columbia/Legacy)

Kim & Reggie Harris- Go Down Moses
Steal Away: Songs of the Underground Railroad (Appleseed)
Jesse Winchester- Pharaoh’s Army
Learn to Love It (Stony Plain)
Bob Franke- Walkin’ in the Wilderness
The Desert Questions (Robert J. Franke)

Margot Leverett & The Klezmer Mountain Boys with Hazel Dickens- Little Moses
2nd Avenue Square Dance (Traditional Crossroads)
Odetta- Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
Best of the Vanguard Years (Vanguard)
Rory Block- Samson & Delilah
I Belong to the Band: A Tribute to Rev. Gary Davis (Stony Plain)

The Short Sisters- Shadrack
Live from Four States (Black Socks Press)
The High Bar Gang- Daniel Prayed
Lost and Undone (True North)
Louis Armstrong- Ezekiel Saw the Wheel
Louis and the Good Book (Verve)
Eliza Gilkyson- Rose of Sharon
Your Town Tonight (Red House)

Shelley Posen- Shepherd
Menorah: Songs from a Jewish Life (Well Done Music)
SONiA disappear fear- Hallelujah
By My Silence (Disappear Records)

Ian & Sylvia- Jesus Met the Woman at the Well
Four Strong Winds (Vanguard)
Jackie Washington, Ken Whiteley & Mose Scarlett- Blind Barnabas
Where Old Friends Meet (Pyramid)
Odetta & The Holmes Brothers- Two Little Fishes and Five Loaves of Bread
Shout, Sister, Shout! A Tribute to Sister Rosetta Tharpe (M.C.)

Josh White- Never Said a Mumblin’ Word
The Josh White Stories, Vols. I & II (Jasmine)
Mavis Staples- Were You There?
Spirituals & Gospel (Gitanes)
David Olney- A Soldier’s Report
The Stone (Deadbeet)

Charlie Haden & Hank Jones- Wade in the Water
Steal Away: Spirituals, Hymns and Folk Songs (Verve)

Next week – A Live Music Extravaganza

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--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday July 18, 2020

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/128/48384.html

Eric Andersen- Violets of Dawn

Woodstock Under the Stars (Y&T Music)

Paul Mills- 45 Weeks from Now

Unreleased parody of Stan Rogers’ “45 Years” with new words by Shelley Posen – used with permission

John McCutcheon- When All of This is Over

Cabin Fever: Songs from the Quarantine (Appalsongs)

Skinner & T'witch- Working from Home

Working from Home – single (Skinner & T’witch)

Lynn Miles- In the Wilderness

We’ll Look for Stars (Must Have Music)

Ken Tizzard & Music for Goats- King of Broken Hearts

Living the Dream: Live at the Little Pub (Ken Tizzard)

Orit Shimoni- George Street

Strange and Beautiful Things (Orit Shimoni)

Steel Rail- (Just) Waiting for a Train

Coming Home (Crossties)

Sharon Goldman- Woody and Marjorie

Woody and Marjorie – single (Sharon Goldman)

The Klezmatics- Mermaid’s Avenue

Wonder Wheel (Jewish Music Group)

Eliza Gilkyson- Beach Haven

2020 (Red House)

Folk Uke- Small One

Small One – single (Folk Uke)

Judy Mayhan- Morning and an Oldsmobile

Judy Mayhan (Decca)

Lynn Miles- Old Soul

We’ll Look for Stars (Must Have Music)

VickiKristinaBarcelona- Jersey Girl

Pawn Shop Radio (StorySound)

Extended feature: Remembering Dave Van Ronk (1936-2002). Some of the next 14 songs were written by Dave Van Ronk. Others are from his repertoire, or written in tribute to him.

Peter, Paul & Mary- Bamboo

Peter, Paul and Mary (Warner Bros.)

Tex König- Zen Koans Gonna Rise Again

Königsblende (Music Cellar)

Dave Van Ronk- Gaslight Rag

Two Sides of Dave Van Ronk (Fantasy)

Tom Paxton- The Mayor of MacDougal Street

Redemption Road (Pax)

Photo: Jack Mancini

The Village Dudes- Another Time and Place

Another Time and Place (Blue Flute Music)

Andy Antipin- Sunday Street

I’m Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table (Andy Atipin)

Dave Van Ronk- St. James Infirmary

Live in Monterey (Omnivore)

Dakota Dave Hull- Sheridan Square Rag

Under the North Star (Arabica)

Dave Van Ronk- To All My Friends in Far-Flung Places

To All My Friends in Far-Flung Places (Gazell)

David Massengill- Dave Van Ronk’s Last Cigar

Dave on Dave: A Tribute to Dave Van Ronk (Gadfly)

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

The McGarrigle Hour (Hannibal)

Hans Theessink- He was a Friend of Mine

Songs from the Southland (Blue Groove)

Dave Van Ronk- Urge for Going

…and the tin pan bended, and the story ended… (Smithsonian Folkways)

Tom Russell- Van Ronk

Hotwalker (HighTone)

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

Six Days of Paper Ladies (Boot)

Ronny Cox- Quintanaroo

Live at the Kitchen Sink (Ronny Cox)

Don Armstrong- Stay in the Game

Mother Don’t Give Up on Me Now (Ronstadt Record Co.)

David Bromberg Band- Lovin’ of the Game

Big Road (Red House)

Stephen Mendell- Old Ties and Companions

Sing Me a Story (Stephen Mendel)

Julie & John Pennell- Keep On Walkin’

Keep On Walkin’ (JPE Records)

Nina Ricci- Oh, What a Beautiful City (Twelve Gates to the City)

Oh, What a Beautiful City – single (Nina Ricci)

Corin Raymond- Rec Room

Dirty Mansions (Local Rascal Records)

The Kingston Trio- Tom Dooley

The Kingston Trio (Capitol)

Mandy Marylane- Romance Anónimo-The Dance

Mandy Marylane (Y&T Music)

Jenny Reynolds- Dance for Me

Any Kind of Angel (Jenny Reynolds)

Jackie Washington- I’m Happy Darling Dancing with You

The World of Jackie Washington (Borealis)

Vi Wickam & Paul Anastasio featuring Albanie Falletta- Birthday Dance

Swingin’ at the Savoy (Vi Wickam & Paul Anastasio)

Dick Weissman- Banjo in the Mist

No Ceiling (Dick Weissman)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on August 15.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Sharon Goldman – Kol Isha (A Woman’s Voice)

SHARON GOLDMAN

Kol Isha (A Woman’s Voice)

sharongoldmanmusic.com

(A version of this review was published in the April 3, 2017 issue of the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin.)

Sharon Goldman, a New Jersey-based singer-songwriter, who was raised in an Orthodox Jewish home, has created in Kol Isha (A Woman’s Voice), a remarkable song-cycle in which she writes eloquently and sings beautifully, from a liberal and feminist perspective, about being a questioning Jewish woman.

Sharon’s role as a questioning is established in “The Tribe,” the album’s opening song, in which she explains who she is, the traditions she was born to and feels bound to, and the lines and limits “I knew which I could not cross/For the survival of a people,” until she meets the man who would become her second husband – and asks, “Could I meet him as a woman/Not as a member of the tribe?”

Later, in “Kol Isha (A Woman’s Voice),” the album’s title song, she reveals that her questioning began to formulate as a 12-year-old girl, seated silently in the women’s section in her synagogue, because only men’s voices were allowed to be heard there. As someone who wanted to sing, and who knew the melodies, she longed, in vain, to lift her voice during the service.

One of the most telling songs is “The Sabbath Queen” in which the perfect image of the Sabbath queen hides the reality of the hard life experienced by an Orthodox Jewish wife and mother in a rigidly traditional household.

Sharon draws on biblical imagery in a couple of songs, most notably “Pillar of Salt,” which is based on the story of Lot’s wife. Sharon notes, with more than a hint of resignation, that Lot’s wife was “a nameless wife and mother” in the Bible legend, “that no one hears her voice.”

And in two songs, “Jerusalem (Yerushalayim)” and “Land of Milk and Honey,” Sharon sings of her complicated relationship with Israel – a loving relationship rooted in ideals but tarnished by contemporary realities.

Sharon’s songs – with their lovely melodies – are arranged in traditional folk styles. A couple of songs have a distinctly Middle Eastern feel in the arrangements thanks to oud player Brian Punka and percussionist Cheryl Prashker.

Kol Isha (A Woman’s Voice) is a very special collection.

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--Mike Regenstreif