Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – October 8, 2024: My Town and Other Towns

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/595/67165.html

Theme: My Town and Other Towns

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- My Town 

Tell My Sister: Kate & Anna McGarrigle (Nonesuch)

John Prine & Dolores Keane- In a Town This Size

In Spite of Ourselves (Oh Boy)

Mike Regenstreif & Bill Morrissey (2005)

Bill Morrissey- Small Town on the River

Bill Morrissey (Philo)

Rosalie Sorrels- Girls In Our Town

Then Came the Children (Green Linnet)

Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin- Our Town

Our Town (Rounder)

David Mallett- This Little Town

Open Doors and Windows (Flying Fish)

Bill Hearne- Small Town Saturday Night

Always Trust Your Cape (Howlin’ Dog) 

Paul Siebel- My Town

Woodsmoke and Oranges (Elektra)

Nanci Griffith- This Old Town

Other Voices/Other Rooms (Elektra)

Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer- Ordinary Town

Drum Hat Buddha (Signature Sounds)

David Essig & Mike Regenstreif (2014)

David Essig- Walk Back Into Town

A Stone in My Pocket (Peregrin)

Mary Chapin Carpenter- I am a Town

One Night Lonely (Lambent Light)

Mike Regenstreif & David Clayton-Thomas (2006)

David Clayton-Thomas- This Town

Say Somethin’ (Linus)

Bobby Charles- Small Town Talk

Bobby Charles (Stony Plain)

Cliff Eberhardt- Little Town

500 Miles: The Blue Rock Sessions (Red House)

Blackie & The Rodeo Kings & Pam Tillis- My Town Has Moved Away

Kings and Queens (FU:M)

C. Daniel Boling & Tom Paxton- This Town has No Café

New Old Friends (Berkalin)

Shawna Caspi- My Town

Skyline (Shawna Caspi)

Nick Justice- Stranger in My Town

Stranger in My Town (Nick Justice)

Amelia Curran- In a Town (200 Days)

Spectators (Six Shooter)

Dave Clarke- In My Home Town

Reunion (Crossties)

Judy Mayhan- I Washed My Face in the Morning Dew (Strange Towns)

Moments (Atlantic)

Amy Speace- Something ‘Bout a Town

The American Dream (Windbone)

Next week: Finest Kind’s Kind of Songs.

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday September 11, 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/128/53398.html

Jackson Browne- A Little Soon to Say
Downhill from Everywhere (Inside Recordings)

Lynne Hanson- Hold My Breath
Hold My Breath – single (Lynne Hanson)
Orit Shimoni- Maybe Tomorrow
Lorem Ipsum (Orit Shimoni)
Cosy Sheridan- It’s Gonna Get Better
A Beautiful Sound (Cosy Sheridan)
Sloan Wainwright- Bright Side of a Rainy Day
Bright Side of a Rainy Day (Sloan Wainwright)
John McCutcheon- Bucket List
Bucket List (Appalseed)

Terri Hendrix- Little Bird
Pilgrim’s Progress: Project 5.5 (Wilory)
Roy Forbes- The Beating of Your Very Own Heart
Edge of Blue (AKA)
Efrat- Fade Away
We Just Need Love (Efrat)
Sons of the Never Wrong- No One Only You
Undertaker’s Songbook (Sons 3)

Mike Regenstreif & Tom Paxton (circa 1994)

Tom Paxton- Deep Fork River
How Come the Sun/Tom Paxton EP (BGO)
Deborah Robins- Tell Old Bill
Lone Journey (Zippety Whippet Music)
Al Grierson- The Illumination of Judge Roy Bean
The Petals (Folkin’ Eh)
Mississippi John Hurt- Stack O’Lee
Mr. Hurt Goes to Washington (Sunset Blvd.)
Robin & Linda Williams- Leaving Home (Frankie and Johnny)
A Better Day A-Coming (Oakenwold Recordings)

Gypsy Rox- Papirosen
A Fiddler in Every Port (Ky Hote)

Logan English- Wild Bill Jones
Kentucky Folk Songs and Ballads (Folkways)
Scott Alarik- Logan English
-30- Folk Songs Old and New (Scott Alarik)
Bill Staines- Going Back Where the Wheatfields Wave
Miles (Mineral River)

Jackson Grimm- I Drink
Sober Again (Vault)
Mary Gauthier- Good-Bye
Filth & Fire (D7)
Crowes Pasture- Mercy Now
Slow It Down (Crowes Pasture)

Jesse Winchester & Mike Regenstreif (2000)

Lucy Kaplansky- Everybody Knows but Me
The Tide (Red House)
Tom Rush- Biloxi
Tom Rush/Wrong End of the Rainbow (BGO)
Jesse Winchester- Dangerous Fun
Third Down, 110 to Go (Stony Plain)
Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers- My Songbird
Ramble in Music City: The Lost Concert 1990 (Nonesuch)
Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger- Defying Gravity
Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses (Dogfish Music)

Anne Hills & Michael Smith- Paterson Summer
Paradise Lost and Found (Red Wing)
Steel Rail- That’s How the Summer Slips Away
River Song (Crossties)
Archie Fisher & Garnet Rogers- Summer’s End
The Best Times After All: Live (Snow Goose Songs)
David Francey- Far End of Summer
Far End of Summer (Laker)

Oscar Peterson- Night Train
Night Train (Verve)

Sharon Goldman- Tuesday Morning Sun
Every Trip Around the Sun (Sharon Goldman)
Stuart Kabak- Towers of Love
Towers of Love – single (Stuart Kabak)
Kim & Reggie Harris- Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child/Short Shift at Ground Zero
Simplicity (Appleseed)
Noa- Look at Me
Letters to Bach (Naïve)

Yiddish Glory- Yom Kippur Without Fascists
Yom Kippur Without Fascists – single (Six Degrees)
Birds On a Wire- Who By Fire
Ramages (Pias)
Tzimmes- Biy-mei Hayai
The Road Never Travelled (Big Tzimmes Productions)

Mike Regenstreif & Shawna Caspi (2015)

Shawna Caspi- Wait Love
Hurricane Coming (Shawna Caspi)
Ana Egge- The Machine
Between Us (StorySound)
Finny McConnell- Atlantic City
The Dark Streets of Love (True North)

Tom Russell- The Santa Fe at Midnight
Borderland (HighTone)
Kate Taylor- Why Wait!
Why Wait! (Red House)
VickiKristinaBarcelona- I’ll Be Gone
Pawn Shop Radio (StorySound)

Sue Foley- Okie Dokie Stomp
Pinky’s Blues (Stony Plain)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on October 9. 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
 

Canadian Spaces – CKCU – Saturday November 25, 2017

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

This particular show is now available for on-demand listening. https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/129/35097.html

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: Terry Tufts & Kathryn Briggs (Algonquin Ensemble); Shawna Caspi; Susan McMaster; Campbell Woods.

The Wailin' Jennys- Light of a Clear Blue Morning

Fifteen (True North)

Orit Shimoni- Etz Harimon

Songs for My Father (Orit Shimoni)

Bruce Cockburn- Twelve Gates to the City

Bone On Bone (True North)

Kim Beggs- See That My Grave is Kept Clean

Said Little Sparrow (Out of a Paper Bag Productions)

Chaim Tannenbaum- Mama’s Angel Child

Chaim Tannenbaum (StorySound)

Tom Russell- These Friends of Mine

Play One More: The Songs of Ian & Sylvia (True North)

Kat Goldman- Baby, I Understand

The Workingman’s Blues (Kat Goldman)

Kevin Head- Digby Lament

Hear Them Callin’ (Kevin Head)

Over the Moon- Alberta Moon

Moondancer (Over the Moon)

Julian Fauth- John Henry

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

Beyond the Pale- Ruckus in Ralja

Ruckus (Borealis)

Algonquin Ensemble- Overture – Birchwood Board

Sonic Palette (Algonquin Ensemble)

Terry Tufts- Northern River

Live in the studio

Shawna Caspi- Love in a Moving Van

Forest Fire (Shawna Caspi)

Shawna Caspi- Numbers Hame

Live in the studio

Susan McMaster- Diagnosis

Gift to be Simple: Crossing Arcs – Alzheimer’s, my mother, and me (Soundcloud)

Susan McMaster- Freeze

Live in the studio

Campbell Woods- She’s a Keeper

Live in the studio

Shawna Caspi w/Campbell Woods- Tennessee Waltz

Live in the studio

Campbell Woods- Blood is Thicker Than Water

Live in the studio

My next show on CKCU is December 9 when I’ll be hosting the Saturday Morning program from 7 until 10 am.

Find me on Twitter. @MikeRegenstreif

And on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Shawna Caspi – Forest Fire

SHAWNA CASPI

Forest Fire

shawnacaspi.com

(A version of this review was published in the September 18, 2017 issue of the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin.)

That Shawna Caspi has become an accomplished guitarist, singer and insightful songwriter is well documented on Forest Fire, her fourth CD, a collection of seven original songs and two covers performed quietly, yet with confidence and strength, in contemporary folk-rooted settings.

The album opens with “Love in a Moving Van,” in which she uses the inherent difficulties in a couple’s do-it-yourself move with a U-Haul truck as metaphors for the difficulties in maintaining a relationship over time.

Mike Regenstreif & Shawna Caspi at the Ottawa Grassroots Festival (2015)

Among the other highlights are “Devil’s Rolling Pin,” which uses a driving, minor-key setting to celebrate the discovery of exciting new music at the end of an otherwise difficult day; the heartrending “Never Enough,” an observational song about a mother’s efforts to change the ways of a wayward son; and “Brave Parade,” a song of courage “in an angry age,” written by Lynn Miles. 

Shawna’s singing and guitar playing gets fine support from producer Don Kerr on drums, fiddler Rosalyn Dennett, Dave Matheson on keyboards, bassist Ben Whiteley and multi-instrumentalist Joel Schwartz.

Shawna is also a visual artist and did the impressionistic painting of the forest fire on the CD cover.

Find me on Twitter. twitter.com/@mikeregenstreif

And on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif