Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday September 5, 2023: Joni Mitchell and Others at the Newport Folk Festival

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/595/61791.html

Theme: Joni Mitchell and Others at the Newport Folk Festival.

Brandi Carlisle- Introduction

Joni Mitchell at Newport (Rhino)

Joni Mitchell featuring Lusius- Big Yellow Taxi

Joni Mitchell at Newport (Rhino)

Joni Mitchell featuring Brandi Carlisle & Marcus Mumford- A Case of You

Joni Mitchell at Newport (Rhino)

Joni Mitchell featuring Taylor Goldsmith- Amelia

Joni Mitchell at Newport (Rhino)

Joni Mitchell- Both Sides Now

Joni Mitchell at Newport (Rhino)

Joni Mitchell- Just Like This Train

Joni Mitchell at Newport (Rhino)

Joni Mitchell- Summertime

Joni Mitchell at Newport (Rhino)

Joni Mitchell featuring Brandi Carlisle- Carey

Joni Mitchell at Newport (Rhino)

Joni Mitchell featuring Celisse- Help Me

Joni Mitchell at Newport (Rhino)

Joni Mitchell featuring Taylor Goldsmith- Come in from the Cold

Joni Mitchell at Newport (Rhino)

Joni Mitchell featuring Brandi Carlisle- Shine

Joni Mitchell at Newport (Rhino)

Joni Mitchell- The Circle Game

Joni Mitchell at Newport (Rhino)

Ian & Sylvia- C.C. Rider

Live at Newport (Vanguard)

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- Drink Muddy Water

Newport Folk Festival: Best of the Blues 1959-68 (Vanguard)

Mississippi John Hurt- Candy Man

Newport Folk Festival: Best of the Blues 1959-68 (Vanguard)

Joan Baez- Farewell, Angelina

Live at Newport (Vanguard)

Tom Paxton- Ramblin’ Boy

Best of the Vanguard Years (Vanguard)

Reverend Gary Davis- I Won’t Be Back No More (I’m Going to Sit Down on the Banks of the River)

Live at Newport (Vanguard)

Peter, Paul & Mary- If I Had My Way (Samson and Delilah)

At Newport 1963-1965 (Shout! Factory)

Jean Carignan- Le Reel du Diable (Devil’s Dream)

Newport Folk Festival 1963: The Evening Concerts, Vol 2 (Vanguard)

Next week: Part 1 – Songs and Conversation with author David Eisenstadt; Part 2 – Songs of Dave Carter.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday June 13, 2023: Train Songs, Volume II

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU in Ottawa on Tuesdays 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 was recorded and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/60788.html

Theme: Train Songs, Volume II.

Bill Garrett & Mike Regenstreif (2014)

Bill Garrett- Railroad Line

Bill Garrett (Borealis)

Mason Daring & Jeanie Stahl- Chattanooga Choo Choo

Forty (Daring)

Jackie Washington- Sleepy Town Train

Keeping Out of Mischief (Pyramid)

Rory Block- Midnight Train to Georgia

Ain’t Nobody Worried: Celebrating Great Women of Song (Stony Plain)

The Whiteley Brothers- When the Train Comes Along 

Bluesology (Pyramid)

Doc & Merle Watson- Freight Train Boogie

Elementary Doctor Watson (Tomato)

Ball & Chain & The Wreckers- Golden Rails

Satisfied (Ball & Chain)

Paul Mills- Last Steam Engine Train

The Other Side of the Glass (Borealis)

Stan Rogers- Guysborough Train

From Coffee House to Concert Hall (Fogarty’s Cove)

Anne Hills- Maria Took the Train to Town

Tracks (Hand & Heart Music)

Steel Rail- (Just) Waiting for a Train

Coming Home (Crossties)

David Mallett- Dulcimer

Inches & Miles 1977-1980 (Flying Fish)

Doug McArthur- Tears Like Rain

Tears Like Rain (Doug McArthur)

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- Southern Train

London, 1958 (Jasmine)

Erynn Marshall & Carl Jones- Southern Special

Old Tin (Dittyville Music)

Larry & Joe- Nuevo South Train

Nuevo South Train (Larry & Joe)

Bill Staines- Railroad Blues

Third Time Around (Catfish)

Eric Bibb- 500 Miles

Ridin’ (Stony Plain)

Tom Russell- The Santa Fe at Midnight

Borderland (HighTone)

Caitlin Hanford- That Lonesome Whistle Sound

Bluer Skies (Denon)

Priscilla Herdman & Utah Phillips- I Remember Loving You

Darkness into Light (Flying Fish)

Mike Regenstreif & Ronny Cox (2013)

Ronny Cox- Cortelia Clark

How I Love Them Old Songs: Ronny Cox Sings Mickey Newbury (Bay Sound)

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy- Whistle Stop

Louie Louie Louie (Savoy Jazz)

NRBQ- Next Stop Brattleboro

High Noon – A 50-Year Retrospective (Omnivore)

Next week: The Philosophy of Modern Song, Part 2.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday October 4, 2022: A Week’s Worth of Songs

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU in Ottawa on Tuesdays 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 was prerecorded and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/57765.html

Theme: A Week’s Worth of Songs.

The show begins and ends with songs about every day of the week. In between are songs about each day of the week.

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- Different Blues

Working Man Blues (Sunset Blvd.)

Spanky & Our Gang- Sunday will Never Be the Same

Spanky & Our Gang (Mercury)

Mike Regenstreif & The Durham County Poets (2014)

Durham County Poets- Monday Morning

Grimshaw Road (Durham County Poets)

Cowboy Junkies- Sun Comes Up, It’s Tuesday Morning

The Caution Horses (BMG)

Taz Halloween- Wednesday’s Blues

I Am/Songs by Lynn Swisher Spears (Ugwerks)

Sam Baker- Thursday

Horses and Stars (Blue Limestone Publishing)

The Whiteley Brothers- Friday Night Blues

Sixteen Shades of Blue (Borealis)

Stan Rogers- Acadian Saturday Night

From Coffee House to Concert Hall (Fogarty’s Cove)

Kris Kristofferson- Sunday Morning Coming Down

Me and Bobby McGee (Monument)

The Mamas & The Papas- Monday, Monday

If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears (MCA)

Jack Williams- Tuesday Night at the Candlelight

Far Away, Long Ago (Wind River)

Tom Russell & Gretchen Peters- Ash Wednesday

The Tom Russell Anthology: Veteran’s Day (Shout! Factory)

Dakota Dave Hull- Sweet Thursday

Under the North Star (Arabica)

Mike Regenstreif & Tom Paxton (2009)

Tom Paxton- Angeline is Always Friday

Tom Paxton 6 (Elektra)

Gordon Lightfoot- Saturday Clothes

If You Could Read My Mind (Reprise)

Caroline Doctorow- Sunday Morning

Dreaming in Vinyl (Narrow Lane)

Mississippi John Hurt- Monday Morning Blues

Mr. Hurt Goes to Washington (Sunset Blvd.)

Terri Hendrix- Double Shift Tuesday

The Slaughterhouse Sessions: Project 5.2 (Wilory)

Charles Mingus- Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting

Blues & Roots (Atlantic)

The Cats & The Fiddle- Thursday Evening Swing

That's on, Jack, That's On: Selected Singles 1939-1950 (Jasmine)

Norma Waterson- On Fridays He’s Fred Astaire

The Very Thought of You (Hannibal)

Bebop Cowboys with Chris Whiteley- Dancing on a Saturday Night

Canadian Dance Hall (Bebop Cowboys)

Sylvia Tyson & Mike Regenstreif (1997)

Ian & Sylvia- Sunday

Movin’ On 1967-1968 (Mercury)

Fats Domino- Blue Monday

Fats Rocks! (Bear Family)

Tom Rush- Every Day in the Week

Blues, Songs and Ballads (Fantasy)

Next week: Songs of Jimmie Rodgers. Update (October 3): The Jimmie Rodgers theme will be postponed to a later date. Next week's show will a tribute to old friend Mary McCaslin, who passed away today at age 75,

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--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday September 10, 2022

Saturday Morning is an eclectic roots-oriented program on CKCU in Ottawa heard 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 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 recorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/57551.html
 
Tom Chapin- Listen Close
Hold Our Ground (Sundance Music)
 
James Keelaghan- Second-Hand
Second-Hand (Borealis)
John McCutcheon- The Ride

Leap! (Appalsongs)
Claudia Schmidt- Broken Glass
Reimagining (Claudia Schmidt)
David Olney with Daniel Seymour- Evermore
Evermore: The Final Live in Holland Sessions I (Strictly Country)
 

Mike Regenstreif & Loudon Wainwright III (2015)

Mountain City Four- Jesulein Süss/Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Mountain City Four (Omnivore)
Loudon Wainwright III- One Wish
Lifetime Achievement (StorySound)
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)
 
Lucy Kaplansky- Last Days of Summer
Last Days of Summer (Lucyricky)
Bill Garrett & Sue Lothrop- That’s How the Summer Slips Away
Red Shoes (Borealis)
Steel Rail- Once in a While
Coming Home (Crossties)
Happy Traum- Love Song to a Girl in an Old Photograph
There’s a Bright Side Somewhere (Lark’s Nest Music)
 
Peter Lehndorff- The Huntington’s Waltz
Don’t Be Discouraged (Peter Lehndorff)
The Wailin' Jennys- Keep Me in Your Heart
Fifteen (True North)
Ben Bullington- I’ve Got to Leave You Now
Ben Bullington (Ben Bullington)
 
Merle Travis- Sixteen Tons
Folk Songs of the Hills (Bear Family)
Mountain City Four- Dark as a Dungeon
Mountain City Four (Omnivore)
Peter Keane- I am a Pilgrim
Blues/Ballads/Cowboy Songs (Peter Keane)
 
Grit Laskin- The End of a Pointed Gun
Unabashedly Folk (Borealis)
Max Ferguson- Black September (Munich ’72)
Black September (Munich ’72) – single (Max Ferguson)
 
Corky Siegel's Chamber Blues featuring Cantor Pavel Roytman- Hine Ma Tov Blues
More Different Voices (Dawnserly)
Moira Smiley & Voco- Days of War
In Our Voices (Moira Smiley Music)
 
Sid Selvidge- Pearlee
Twice Told Tales (Elektra Nonesuch)
Furry Lewis- Kassie Jones
Furry Lewis in Memphis/Matchbox Bluesmaster Series – Set 8: Big Road Blues 1966-1972 The Tradition Continues (Nimbus Matchbox Bluesmaster)
Spanky & Our Gang- Prescription for the Blues
Like to Get to Know You (Mercury)
Little Brother Montgomery- Lonesome Mama Blues
Home Again/Matchbox Bluesmaster Series – Set 8: Big Road Blues 1966-1972 The Tradition Continues (Nimbus Matchbox Bluesmaster)
 
Brian Lemco- For EL
Seasons (Brian Lemco Music)
Amy Speace- The Offering
Tuscon (Windbone)
 
John McCutcheon- Third Way
Leap! (Appalsongs)
 
Paul Colombino- God Bless Americana
Hello Old Friend (Sweet Allen Farm Music)
 
Buffy Sainte-Marie- Little Wheel Spin and Spin
Medicine Songs (True North)
Geoff Bartley- When the Few Have Much and the Many Have None
Keep Your Eyes on the Road (Magic Crow)
Windborne- The Song of Hard Times
Of Hard Times & Harmony (Wand’ring Feet)
 

Mike Regenstreif & Jesse Winchester (2009)

James Keelaghan- Eulalie
Second-Hand (Borealis)
Susie Burke & David Surette- I Turn to My Guitar
Waiting for the Sun (Madrina Music)
Bailey Bigger- Mississippi You’re On My Mind
Coyote Red (Madjack)
Jesse Winchester- It’s a Shame About Him
Love Filling Station (Appleseed)
 
Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup- Rock Me Mama
Mean Ole Frisco (Collectables)
Mountain City Four- Mean Old Frisco
Mountain City Four (Omnivore)
Elvis Presley- That’s All Right
For LP Fans Only! (RCA)
 
Happy Traum- Living with the Blues
There’s a Bright Side Somewhere (Lark’s Nest Music)
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- Love, Truth and Confidence
At the Bunkhouse (BGO)
Michael Jerome Browne- Walk On
Double (Borealis)
 
Loudon Wainwright III- It Takes 2
Lifetime Achievement (StorySound)
Suzzy Roche & Lucy Wainwright Roche- Talkin’ Like You (Two Tall Mountains)
I Can Still Hear You (StorySound)
 
Helen Townsend with Shannon Smith- If You Were Real
Love Lies ‘n’ Leaving (Apra Amcos)
 
I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on October 8. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm. And, I’ll be hosting Canadian Spaces on Saturday September 17 from 10 am-noon.
 
Find me on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif
 
--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday May 21, 2022

Saturday Morning is an eclectic roots-oriented program on CKCU in Ottawa heard 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 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/128/56352.html

Ian Tamblyn- Tiger Lily Road
Voice in the Wilderness (North Track)

OXLIP- Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies
Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies (World Peach)
Ian Robb & James Stephens- Bold Riley
Declining …with thanks (Fallen Angle)
Séan McCann- Deep Blue Sea
Shantyman (Séan McCann)

Tom Mitchell & Mike Regenstreif (1999)

Edie Carey- Georgia
The Veil (Edie Carey)
Barney Bentall- Potter’s Wheel
Cosmic Dreamer (True North)
Chuck Brodsky- It Takes Two Wings
Gravity, Wings, and Heavy Things (Chuck Brodsky)
Barry Oreck- Wounded
Leap Year (Barry Oreck)
Tom Mitchell- Old Blue Train
When the Moon is Right (Truesongs)

Amy Speace- Little Red
Tuscon (Windbone)
Kim Beggs- Not a Man of God
Steel and Wool (Out of a Paper Bag Productions)
Allison Russell- Poison Arrow
Outside Child (Fantasy)
Amanda Rheaume- Red Dress
Holding Patterns (Amanda Rheaume)

Mike Stevens- Watermelon Pie
Breathe In the World Breathe Out Music (Stony Plain)

The video of this performance of “Ukrainian Now” is at this link. 

John McCutcheon with Tom Paxton, Noel Paul Stookey, Peter Yarrow, Bill Miller, Tret Fure, Holly Near, Joe Jencks, Emma's Revolution, Rebel Voices, Crys Matthews, Carrie Newcomer & Christine Lavin- Ukrainian Now
Ukrainian Now – single (Appalseed) 

Lenka Lichtenberg- Kam jsme to zašli?/What is this place?
Thieves of Dreams (Six Degrees)
Lily Henley- La Galud (The Exile)
Oras Dezaoradas (Lior Éditions)

Gathering Sparks- Many Sparks Make a Fire
All That’s Real (Borealis)
Vanessa Lively- (Truth Is) I Am Found
Truth Is (Animada)
Martyn Joseph- Born Too Late
1960 (Pipe)

Marc Jordan & Amy Sky- Dimming of the Day
He Sang She Sang (Linus)
Susan Cattaneo- Diamond Days
All is Quiet (Jersey Girl Music)
Steve Lundquist- You Got Gold
My Life in Song (Steve Lundquist)

Nina Simone- I Shall Be Released
To Love Somebody (RCA)
Dalia Davis- My Back Pages
Keep a Clean Engine (Teal Power)
James Lee Baker- Just Like a Woman
Impressions (James Lee Baker)
Bob Dylan- I Contain Multitudes
Rough and Rowdy Ways (Columbia)

Oscar Peterson- Liza
The Jazz Soul of Oscar Peterson (Verve)

Mike Regenstreif & The Durham County Poets (2014)

Durham County Poets- Working On It
Out of the Woods (Durham County Poets)
The Hogtown Allstars- Mr. Lucky
Hog Wild (Stony Plain)
Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus- Austin Night
Going the Distance (Berkalin)

Mike Regenstreif & Barbara Dane (2017)

Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder- Drinkin’ Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee
Get On Board: The Songs of Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee (Nonesuch)
Guy Davis & Fabrizio Poggi- Louise, Louise
Sonny & Brownie’s Last Train (M.C.)
Barbara Dane with Earl ‘Fatha’ Hines & His Orchestra- Livin’ with the Blues
Livin’ with the Blues (Dreadnaught)
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- Walk On
Working Man Blues (Sunset Blvd.)

Bonnie Dobson- Who are These Men?
Take Me for a Walk in the Morning Dew (Hornbeam)
Rain Perry featuring Mark Hallman- (Walk Me Out in the) Morning Dew
A White Album (Precipitous)

Jenny Reynolds- Before I Know You’re Gone
Any Kind of Angel (Jenny Reynolds)
Steve Madewell- Hometown Blues
Hometown Blues (Barnsongs)
Courtney Hale Revia- One Way Out
Growing Pains (Courtney Hale Revia)
Doug Kolmar- Black Cloud
So Said Life (Doug Kolmar)

Wolf & Clover- O’Carolan’s Farewell to Music
Twelvemonth and a Day (Wolf & Clover)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on June 18. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

Find me on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday February 8, 2022: Boogie Men and Boogie Women

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 was prerecorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/55121.html

Theme: Boogie Men and Boogie Women

Diana Braithwaite & Chris Whiteley- Boogie Train
Scrap Metal Blues (Electro-Fi)

Big Joe Turner- Boogie Woogie Country Girl
Flip, Flop and Fly 1951-1955 (Rev-Ola)
Willie Dixon- Big 3 Boogie
The Big Three Trio (Columbia)
Jay McShann- The Fish Fry Boogie
Goin’ to Kansas City (Stony Plain)
Jimmy Rushing- Boogie Woogie (I May Be Wrong)
Do You Wanna Jump, Children? 1937-1946 (Jasmine)
Louis Jordan- Choo Choo Ch’Boogie
The Rock ‘n’ Roll Years 1955-1958 (Jasmine)

Lawrence Lebo- Cowboy Swinging Boogie Woogie
Don’t Call Her Larry, Volume 3: American Roots (On the Air)
Driftin’ Doug- Alberta Boogie
A Legend in His Grime (Driftin’ Doug)
Brenda Lewis- Cow Cow Boogie
Far & Near (Brenda Lewis)

The Bebop Cowboys- Cadillac Boogie
Some Kind of Fantasy (Bebop Cowboys)

Mike Regenstreif & Jesse Winchester (2006)

Jesse Winchester- Never Forget to Boogie
A Reasonable Amount of Trouble (Appleseed)
The Andrews Sisters- Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
Ultimate Edition (Nostalgic Melody Music Production)
Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer with Bill Kirchen- Guitar Boogie
Voice on the Wind (Rounder)
Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen - The Boogie Man Boogie
Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen (Wounded Bird)

Stick McGhee- House Warmin’ Boogie
New York Blues and R&B (JSP)
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- You Bring Out the Boogie In Me
Sonny & Brownie (A&M)
Lil Hardin Armstrong- Boogie Me
Chicago: The Living Legends (Riverside)
Jesse Fuller- Memphis Boogie
Jazz, Folk Songs, Spirituals & Blues (Good Time Jazz)

Michael Jerome Browne- Boogie Chillen
Double (Borealis)
Susie Arioli Swing Band featuring Jordan Officer- Jordan’s Boogie
Pennies from Heaven (Justin Time)
Little Miss Higgins- Broadcast Boogie
Two Nights in March (L.M.H. Music)
Sue Foley- Boogie Real Low
Pinky’s Blues (Stony Plain)

Cab Calloway- The Calloway Boogie
Are You Hep to the Jive? (Columbia/Legacy)
Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers- Roll the Boogie
Everybody’s Talkin’ ‘Bout Miss Thing (Fat Note)
Brother John Sellers- Dorothea Boogie
Brother John Sellers Sings Blues and Folk Songs (Vanguard)
Big Mama Thornton- Mischievous Boogie
The Story of My Blues: The Complete Singles As and Bs 1951-1961 (Jasmine)

Little Brother Montgomery- Pinetop’s Boogie Woogie
Classic Piano Blues from Smithsonian Folkways (Smithsonian Folkways)

Next week: Part 1 – Remembering Norma Waterson and Tony Barrand; Part 2 – Love Songs

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--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday October 26, 2021: Songs of Randy Newman

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 was prerecorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/53908.html

Theme: Songs of Randy Newman

Randy Newman (Twitter)

Randy Newman- She Chose Me
Dark Matter (Nonesuch)

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee with Arlo Guthrie- Sail Away
Sonny & Brownie (A&M)
Randy Newman- It’s Lonely at the Top
Sail Away (Reprise)
Dave Van Ronk- Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear
To All My Friends in Far-Flung Places (Gazell)
The Duhks- Political Science
Sail Away: The Songs of Randy Newman (Sugar Hill)

Randy Newman- Burn On
Sail Away (Reprise)
Sussex- Dayton, Ohio – 1903
Parade Day (Lucky Bear)
Tracy Nelson- God’s Song (That’s Why I Love Mankind)
Homemade Songs/Come See About Me (Flying Fish)

Chris Smither- Old Kentucky Home
I’m a Stranger Too (Tomato)

Caroline Doctorow- I Think It’s Going to Rain Today
Dreaming in Vinyl (Narrow Lane)
Odetta- Mama Told Me Not to Come
Odetta Sings (Polydor)
Randy Newman- I’ll Be Home
Randy Newman Live (Warner Bros.)

The Del McCoury Band- Birmingham
Sail Away: The Songs of Randy Newman (Sugar Hill)
Judy Collins- Marie
Hard Times for Lovers (Elektra)
Randy Newman- Mr. President (Have Pity on the Working Man)
Good Old Boys (Warner Bros.)
Madeleine Peyroux- Guilty
The Blue Room (Decca)
Michael Jerome Browne- Louisiana 1927
That’s Where It’s At! (Borealis)
Mollie O'Brien- Rollin’
Big Red Sun (Sugar Hill)

Jeanie Stahl- Texas Girl at the Funeral of Her Father
Mysteries (Daring)
Peter Mulvey- In Germany Before the War
Ten Thousand Mornings (Signature Sounds)
Nina Simone- Baltimore
Baltimore (Epic/Legacy)
Randy Newman- Old Man on the Farm
Little Criminals (Warner Bros.)

Mary McCaslin- Living Without You
Way Out West (Philo)
Peggy Lee- Love Story
Is That All There Is (Capitol)
Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton & Emmylou Harris- Feels Like Home
Trio II (Asylum)
Randy Newman- Harps and Angels
Harps and Angels (Nonesuch)

Next week: CKCU Funding Drive – Show Us the Money, Please

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--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday October 12, 2021: Drinking Songs

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 was prerecorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/53775.html

Theme: Drinking Songs

Annie Lou- Grandma’s Rules for Drinking
Grandma’s Rules for Drinking (Annie Lou)

Finest Kind- Sussex Drinking Song
Lost in a Song (Fallen Angle)
David Parry- In Praise of Alcohol
The Man from Eldorado: Songs and Stories of Robert W. Service (Borealis)
Joni Mitchell- Nancy Whiskey
Archives – Volume 1: The Early Years (1963-1967) (Rhino)
Sandy & Caroline Paton- I’m a Rover and Seldom Sober
The Village Out West: The Lost Tapes of Alan Oakes – Field Recordings of the 1960s California Folk Music Scene (Smithsonian Folkways)
Ian Robb with The Friends of Fiddler's Green- Garnet’s Home-Made Beer
From Different Angels (Fallen Angle)

Stick McGhee- Drinkin’ Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee
New York Blues and R&B (JSP)
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer
Backwater Blues (Fantasy)

Gina Forsyth- Whiskey Before Breakfast
Copper Rooster and Other Tunes and Tales (Waterbug)

Rosalie Sorrels- Red Wine at Noon
Always a Lady (Green Linnet)
Kathy Mattea- Little Glass of Wine
Pretty Bird (Captain Potato)
Tom Paxton & The DonJuans- Bottle of Wine
Live (Pax)
Buster Poindexter- Who Drank My Beer (While I was in the Rear)?
Buster’s Happy Hour (Rhino)

Mike Regenstreif & Maria Dunn (2017)

Maria Dunn- Whiskey Evening
For a Song (Distant Whisper Music)
Russ Kelley- Whiskey Stone Blues
In Plain Sight (Ark Road Music Productions)
Lynn Miles- She Drinks
We’ll Look for Stars (Must Have Music)
Shelley Posen- Having a Drink with Jane
The Old Songs’ Home (Well Done Music)

Penny Lang- Barrelhouse Blues
Live at the Yellow Door (She-Wolf)
John McCutcheon- Moonshiner
Bucket List (Appalseed)
Laura Nyro- Sweet Blindness
Eli and the Thirteenth Confession (Columbia/Legacy)

Tom Mitchell & Mike Regenstreif (1999)

Tom Mitchell- Eastern Beer
1976 live recording – used with permission
Dave Van Ronk- Alabama Song
Let No One Deceive You: Songs of Bertolt Brecht (Flying Fish)
David Massengill- Last Call
Dave on Dave: A Tribute to Dave Van Ronk (Gadfly)
Miranda Mulholland- The Parting Glass
By Appointment or Chance (Roaring Girl)

Mary Gauthier- I Drink
Live at Blue Rock (In the Black)

Next week: Eating Songs

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Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday September 14, 2021: Strange Songs and Stranger Songs

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 was prerecorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/53440.html

Theme: Strange Songs and Stranger Songs

Hans Theessink- Wayfaring Stranger
Wishing Well (Blue Groove)

Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers- Hello Stranger
Ramble in Music City: The Lost Concert 1990 (Nonesuch)
Ian & Sylvia- Come In, Stranger
Early Morning Rain (Vanguard)
Kim Wallach- The Stranger
The House Between the Tracks (Black Socks Press)
Gordon Lightfoot- Sit Down Young Stranger
Songbook (Warner Archives/Rhino)
Catherine MacLellan- Don’t Call Me Stranger
The Raven’s Sun (Catherine MacLellan)
Robin & Linda Williams- Don’t Let Me Come Home a Stranger
Stonewall Country: Songs from the Musical (Red House)

Duke Ellington- Stranger On the Shore
Ellington ’65 (Reprise)

Bettye LaVette- Strange Fruit
Blackbirds (Verve)
Chris White- Strange Emotion
Inner Voice (Chris White)
Catherine Russell- Strange as it Seems
Bring It Back (Jazz Village)

Orit Shimoni- Strange and Beautiful Things
Strange and Beautiful Things (Orit Shimoni)
Marianne Faithfull- Strange Weather
Strange Weather (Island)
Pat Moore & The Vinyl Frontier- Strange
Take It to Heart (Pat Moore)
k.d. lang & the reclines- Diet of Strange Places
Angel with a Lariat (Sire)

Michael Jerome Browne, Mike Regenstreif, Eric Bibb (2005)

Leonard Cohen- The Stranger Song
Songs of Leonard Cohen (Columbia/Legacy)
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- Stranger Here
Back to New Orleans (Fantasy)
Michael Jerome Browne & Eric Bibb- Everybody Ought to Treat a Stranger Right
That’s Where It’s At! (Borealis)
Josh White, Jr..- Say a Prayer for a Stranger
Live at the Raven Gallery (Silverwolf)

Over the Moon- Strangers We Meet
Over the Moon (Over the Moon)
Greg Kelly- Talking to Strangers
Ghosts (Greg Kelly)
Tom Waits & Bette Midler- I Never Talk to Strangers
Foreign Affairs (Elektra) or Broken Blossom (Atlantic)
Tom Russell- Common Strangers
Midway to Bayamon (Frontera)

Dakota Dave Hull- Wayfaring Stranger
Heavenly Hope (Arabica)

Next week: Relatively Speaking

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Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday August 24, 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 was prerecorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/53196.html

Theme: Rare Collaborations – each song features artists collaborating with an artist or artists they don’t or didn’t usually work with.

The Band & The Staple Singers- The Weight
The Last Waltz (Capitol)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Emmylou Harris, Loudon Wainwright III- Green Green Rocky Road
The McGarrigle Hour (Hannibal)
Jean Ritchie & Oscar Brand- Paper of Pins
The Riverside Folklore Series, Volume Three: Singing the New Traditions (Riverside)
Priscilla Herdman & Utah Phillips- I Remember Loving You
Darkness into Light (Flying Fish)
Eric Bibb & Odetta- ‘Tain’t Such a Much
Friends (Telarc)
Perla Batalla & David Hidalgo- Ballad of the Absent Mare
Bird on the Wire: The Songs of Leonard Cohen (Mechuda Music)

Barbara Dane & The Chambers Brothers- Study War No More (Down By the Riverside)
Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs (Smithsonian Folkways)

Stringband & Stan Rogers- Tugboats
The Indispensable 1972-2002 (Nick)
Tom Russell & Iris DeMent- Big Water
The Long Way Around (HighTone)
Kimmie Rhodes & Townes Van Zandt- I’m Gonna Fly
West Texas Heaven (Justice)
Josh White, Jr. & Guthrie Thomas- Don’t Mean a Thing
Delicate Balance (Silverwolf)
Dave Alvin & Christy McWilson- Here in California
West of the West (Yep Roc)

Odetta & Dr. John- Please Send Me Someone to Love
Blues Everywhere I Go (M.C.)
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee & Chris Barber's Jazz Band- Betty and Dupree
London, 1958 (Jasmine)
Geoff Muldaur's Futuristic Ensemble & Martha Wainwright- There Ain’t No Sweet Man That’s Worth the Salt of My Tears
Private Astronomy: A Vision of the Music of Bix Beiderbecke (Edge Music)
Members of The Duke Ellington Orchestra & B.B. King- Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
The Stereophonic Sound of Duke Ellington (Bright Orange)

Dave Van Ronk & Christine Lavin- Two Sleepy People
Hummin’ to Myself (Gazell)
Michael Jerome Browne & Roxane Potvin- Remember When
That’s Where It’s At! (Borealis)
Big Daddy Wilson & Shaneeka Simon- Meatballs
Hard Time Blues (Continental Blue Heaven)

Woody Guthrie & Lead Belly (1940s)

Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Sonny Terry & Cisco Houston- We Shall Be Free
Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection (Smithsonian Folkways)
The Klezmatics & Susan McKeown- From Here On In
Wonder Wheel: Lyrics by Woody Guthrie (Jewish Music Group)
Tom Rush, Arlo Guthrie, Eric Andersen & Judy Collins- Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Judy Collins Wildflower Festival (Wildflower)

Connie Kaldor & Roy Forbes- Saskatoon Moon
Wood River (Coyote)

Next week: Remembering Nanci Griffith (1953-2021)

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Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday April 13, 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 #10 – was prerecorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/51586.html

Theme: Train Songs

Eve Goldberg- Waiting for a Train
Ever Brightening Day (Sweet Patootie)
James Talley- Hear That Lonesome Whistle
Journey – The Second Voyage (Cimarron)
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- Rock Island Line
Blues Masters, Vol. 5 (Storyville)
Preservation Hall Jazz Band & Ani DiFranco- Freight Train
Preservation (Preservation Hall)

Bill Garrett- Northshore Train
Bill Garrett (Borealis)
Happy & Artie Traum- Blow Your Whistle, Freight Train
Hard Times in the Country (Rounder)
Seldom Scene- Steel Rail Blues
Changes (Rounder)
Gordon Lightfoot- Canadian Railroad Trilogy
Songbook (Warner Archives/Rhino)

Craig Duncan- Take the A Train
Bluegrass Swing (Green Hill Productions)

Mike Regenstreif & Arlo Guthrie (1996)

Crowes Pasture- Hobo’s Lullaby
Crowes Pasture (Crowes Pasture)
Mountain City Four- Mean Old Frisco
Mountain City Four (Peter Weldon)
Last Forever- Old 97
No Place Like Home/Last Forever (2nd Story Sound)
Arlo Guthrie- City of New Orleans
Here Come the Kids (Rising Son)

Veronika Jackson- Morning Train
The Woman I Am (Acoustic with Heart Productions)
Rosalie Sorrels- Talkin’ Wolverine 14
Travelin’ Lady Rides Again (Green Linnet)
Andy Cohen- Talkin’ Casey
Tryin’ to Get Home (Earwig)

Anne Hills- I Rode ‘Em All
Tracks (Hand & Heart Music)
Louis Jordan- Choo Choo Ch’Boogie
The Later Years 1953-1957 (JSP)
Jackie Washington- When that Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam’
Midnight Choo Choo (Borealis)

Utah Phillips & Mike Regenstreif (2005)

Sue Foley- Cannonball Blues
The Ice Queen (Stony Plain)
Tom Rush- The Panama Limited
Tom Rush/Take a Little Walk with Me (BGO)
Utah Phillips- Wabash Cannonball/Tolono
Good Though! (Philo)

Bruce Cockburn- Train in the Rain
Speechless (True North)

Next week – Celebrating Spring

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Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday February 1, 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 http://www.ckcufm.com/ on the web.

This episode of Saturday Morning can be streamed on-demand at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/46720.html

Eliza Meyer & Sam Gleaves- Hello Stranger

Hello Stranger (Eliza Meyer)

In memory of masterful singer-songwriter David Olney. David died January 18 of an apparent heart attack while performing at a festival in Florida. He was 71. I was already an admirer of David's songs and albums when I met him in 1997 when I was MC of the Rounder Records showcase at the Folk Alliance International conference in Toronto and he was one of the performers. His performance there was stunning. I took this photo during a late night showcase at the 2017 Folk Alliance International conference in Kansas City.

David Olney- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Women Across the River (Strictly Music)

Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris with Kate & Anna McGarrigle- 1917

Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions (Asylum)

The Wailin’ Jennys- Deeper Well

The Wailin’ Jennys (The Wailin’ Jennys)

Mimi Fariña- If My Eyes Were Blind

Solo (Philo)

David Olney- Women Across the River

Women Across the River (Strictly Music)

In memory of Bob Shane, the last of the original members of The Kingston Trio. Bob died January 26. He was 85.

The Kingston Trio- Scotch and Soda

The Kingston Trio (Capitol)

Stephen Mendel- Song for a Winter’s Night

Sing Me a Story (Stephen Mendel)

Miranda Mulholland- Heart Like a Wheel

By Appointment or Chance (Roaring Girl)

Catherine MacLellan- Coyote

Coyote (Catherine MacLellan)

Annette Wasilik- Chincoteague

Love & Fire (Azalea City)

SONiA disappear fear- Picture Perfect

Small House No Secrets Composer’s Cut (Disappear)

Don Bray- Thank You My Friend

I Bless the Wounds (Don Bray)

Sneezy Waters- Papa’s on the Housetop

Sneezy Waters (Sneezy Waters)

Lynne Hanson- Hemmingway’s Songbird

Just Words (Lynne Hanson)

David Francey- Night and Morning

The Broken Heart of Everything (Laker)

Extended feature: A Tribute to Sonny Terry (1911-1986) & Brownie McGhee (1915-1996). Some of the next 16 songs were written by Sonny Terry and/or Brownie McGhee. All were from their repertoire.

Peter, Paul & Mary- Tryin’ to Win

See What Tomorrow Brings (Warner Bros.)

John Jackon- Red River Blues

Front Porch Blues (Alligator)

The Whiteley Brothers- Custard Pie

Bluesology (Pyramid)

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- Rock Island Line

Blues Masters, Vol. 5 (Storyville)

Happy Traum- Careless Love Blues

Just for the Love of It (Lark’s Nest Music)

Andy Cohen- Spread the News Around

Road Be Kind (Earwig)

Odetta- Stranger Here

Sometimes I Feel Like Cryin’ (RCA)

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- Confusion

Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry Sing (Smithsonian Folkways)

Tim Williams- Sportin’ Life Blues

Evenings Among Friends (Cayuse)

Sweet Honey in the Rock- Midnight Special

A Tribute: Live! Jazz at Lincoln Centre (Appleseed)

Guy Davis & Fabrizio Poggi- Baby Please Don’t Go Back to New Orleans

Sonny & Brownie’s Last Train (M.C.)

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee with Chris Barber- No Worries on My Mind

London, 1958 (Jasmine)

Penny Lang- Trouble in Mind

Gather Honey (Borealis)

Durham County Poets- I’ve Been Living with the Blues

Hand Me Down Blues (Durham County Poets)

Robert Jones & Matt Watroba- Walk On

Common Chords (Common Chords Records)

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- That’s Why I’m Walking

Back to New Orleans (Fantasy)

Susan Werner- Napoleon

NOLA: Susan Werner Goes to New Orleans (Sleeve Dog)

Michael Doucet- Walking on a Mardi Gras Day

Lâcher Prise (Compass)

Lyle Lovett- God Will

Lyle Lovett (Curb/MCA)

Judy Collins & Jonas Fjeld with Chatham County Line- The Fallow Way

Winter Stories (Wildflower/Cleopatra)

John Prine- Storm Windows

Souvenirs (Oh Boy)

Leonard Cohen- Moving On

Thanks for the Dance (Columbia/Legacy)

Perla Batalla- So Long, Marianne

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

Vance Gilbert- Pie & Whiskey

Good Good Man (Disismye Music)

Tom Russell- Canadian Whiskey

Old Songs Yet to Sing (Frontera)

Windborne- Chilly Winds

Recollections/Revolutions (Wand’ring Feet Records)

Leigh Cline- Galatia

Galatia (Scimitar)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on February 29. The extended feature will be Songs of Phil Ochs.

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