Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – August 5, 2025: Songs of Steve Gillette and John Stewart

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/595/71387.html

Theme: Songs of Steve Gillette and John Stewart.

The songs in the first half of the show were written or co-written by Steve Gillette (born 1942). 

Mike Regenstreif & Steve Gillette (1994)

Steve Gillette- The Old Trail

Best of (Compass Rose Music)

Stephen Mendel- Darcy Farrow

Sing Me a Story (Stephen Mendel)

Ian & Sylvia- Molly and Tenbrooks

Play One More (Vanguard)

Chuck Pyle- Share Me with Texas

Keepin’ Time By the River (Bee ‘n’ Flower)

Steve Gillette- Down Where the River Meets the Road

Best of (Compass Rose Music)

Ted Hawkins- Happy Hour 

Happy Hour (Rounder)

Don Williams- Healing Hands

Reflections (Sugar Hill)

Fourtold- Two Men in the Building

Fourtold (Appleseed)

Linda Ronstadt- A Number and a Name

Hand Sown…Home Grown (Capitol)

Marty Morrissey- Grapes on the Vine

The Ancient Ground (Marty Morrissey)

Carolyn Hester- 2:10 Train

At Town Hall (Bear Family)

Steve Gillette- Back on the Street Again

Best of (Compass Rose Music)

The songs in the second half of the show were written or co-written by John Stewart (1939-2008).

John Stewart (1975)

The Kingston Trio- Hope You Understand

Nick Bob John (Folk Era)

John Stewart & Buffy Ford- Mucky Truckee River

Signals Through the Glass (Folk Era)

Dave Alvin- California Bloodlines

West of the West (Yep Roc)

Josh White, Jr..- July, You’re a Woman

By Request (Silverwolf)

Eddy Arnold- Some Lonesome Picker

Standing Alone (RCA)

John Stewart- Mother Country

California Bloodlines (Capitol)

Anne Murray- Daydream Believer

The Ultimate Collection (Universal)

John Stewart- Anna on a Memory

Cannons in the Rain (RCA)

Kate Wolf- Some Kind of Love

Give Yourself to Love (Rhino)

Bill Staines- Chilly Winds

Going to the West (Red House)

Buffy Ford Stewart- Same Old Heart

Same Old Heart (Global Recording Artists)

Nanci Griffith & John Stewart- Sweet Dreams Will Come

Little Love Affairs (MCA)

John Stewart- Shackles and Chains

California Bloodlines (Capitol)

Next week: The Original Sloth Band at 60.

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday May 18, 2024

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/128/65234.html

Tex König- One Morning in May

Königsblende (Music Cellar)

Wendy Grossman- My Sweet Wyoming Home

The Last Trip Home (Riverlark)

The Spain Brothers- Roseville Fair

Bright and Better Morning (The Spain Brothers)

Mason Daring & Jeanie Stahl- River

Recordings Celebrating 50 Years of a Musical Partnership (Mason Daring & Jeanie Stahl)

Bill Staines- Rompin’ Rovin’ Days

Journey Home (Red House)

Penny Lang- Come Across to You

Gather Honey (Borealis)

Bruce Murdoch- First Robin of Springtime

Matters of the Heart (Bruce Murdoch)

Jaspar Lepak- Dandelion

The Seasons Project: Spring (Christine Lavin)

Hilary Field- Esperanza (Hope)

The Seasons Project: Spring (Christine Lavin)

Kat Goldman- Weight of the World

The Seasons Project: Spring (Christine Lavin)

Declan O’Rourke- The Harbour

The Seasons Project: Spring (Christine Lavin)

Christine Lavin- Another New York Afternoon

The Seasons Project: Spring (Christine Lavin)

Bill Hearne- Sixteen Miles

Always Trust Your Cape (Howlin’ Dog)

Brittany Jean- Early Morning Rain

Colors & Covers (Brittany Jean)

Gordon Lightfoot- Long River

The Original Lightfoot (EMI)

Stephen Mendel- Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Sing Me a Story (Stephen Mendel)

Evenchick & Hucul- Under Your Wing

This is My Story (Melissa Hucul & Mark Evenchick)

Gentle Sparrow- Shining a Light Over You

River (Heart Alchemy Music)

Boreal- Warm Hands

Recorded for a future album release

Kate Weekes- Tea in Reykjavik

Taken By Surprise (Artiste Extrordinaire Originals)

Tom Lewis- Chicken on a Raft

Sea-Dog, See Dog! (Flying Fish)

Maddy Prior & June Tabor- The Grey Funnel Line

Silly Sisters (Shanachie)

Garnet Rogers- Sammy’s Bar

Summer Lightning: Live (Snow Goose Songs)

Bruce Cockburn- O Sun By Day O Moon By Night

O Sun O Moon (True North)

Lynne Hanson- Hemingway’s Songbird

Just Words (Lynne Hanson)

Ana Egge- Door Won’t Close

Sharing in the Spirit (StorySound)

Paula Cole- Follow the Moon

Lo (675)

Eric Bibb- 500 Miles

Live at the Scala Theatre (Stony Plain)

Steve Howell & The Mighty Men- God’s Gonna Cut You Down

99½ Won’t Do (Out of the Past Music)

Jay Linden- Another Day

Ordinary Sunrise (Americana North)

Tom Mitchell- My Newest Friend

When the Moon is Right (Truesongs)

Heather Little- Saint Christopher

By Now (Heather Little)

James Talley- My Little Corner of the World

Bandits, Ballads and Blues (Cimarron)

Robin Holcomb- Be Still

One Way or Another, Vol. 2 (Robin Holcomb)

Gretchen Peters with Tom Russell- Guadalupe

One to the Heart, One to the Head (Scarlet Letter/Frontera)

Steve Young- Angel of Lyon

Switchblades of Love (Watermelon)

Tom Russell & Mike Regenstreif (2005)

Tom Russell & The Norwegian Wind Ensemble- Goodnight Juarez

Aztec Jazz (Frontera)

Magpie- I Just Roll Along

Endless River (Long Tail)

Rosalie Sorrels- Elegant Hobo

What Ever Happened to the Girl That Was (Paramount)

Paul Geremia- I’ll Be Goin’

Just Enough (Folkways)

Judy Roderick- Born in the Country

Woman Blue (Vanguard)

Chris Smither- All About the Bones

All About the Bones (Signature Sounds)

Mike Regenstreif & David Amram (2004)

David Amram- Waltz from After the Fall

No More Walls (Flying Fish)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on June 15. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday September 13, 2022: Songs of Gordon Lightfoot

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/595/57590.html

Theme: Songs of Gordon Lightfoot.

Gordon Lightfoot- Sit Down Young Stranger

Songbook (Warner Archives/Rhino)

Eva Cassidy- Early Morning Rain

Imagine (Blix Street)

Spanky & Our Gang- Steel Rail Blues

Live (Mercury)

Mara Levine- Bitter Green

Facets of Folk (Mara’s Creations)

George Hamilton IV- Long Thin Dawn

Canadian Pacific (RCA)

Gordon Lightfoot- Rich Man’s Spiritual

Lightfoot! (United Artists)

Frida’s Brow- The Way I Feel

Frida’s Brow (Frida’s Brow)

Frank Christian- Did She Mention My Name

Mister So and So (Palmetto)

Gordon Lightfoot- Sixteen Miles

Lightfoot! (United Artists)

Ronnie Hawkins- Home from the Forest

The Giant of Rock & Roll (Monument)

Ian & Sylvia- For Lovin’ Me

Early Morning Rain (Vanguard)

Josh White, Jr.- Wherefor and Why

Live at the Raven Gallery (Silverwolf)

James Keelaghan- Canadian Railroad Trilogy

Beautiful: A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot (Borealis/NorthernBlues)

Gordon Lightfoot- Don Quixote

Songbook (Warner Archives/Rhino)

Rick Fines- Ribbon of Darkness

Solar Powered (Rick Fines)

Gathering Time- If You Could Read My Mind

Old Friends (Triple-G Records)

Claire Lynch & Bryan McDowell- It’s Worth Believin’

North By South (Compass)

Punch Brothers- Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Hell on Church Street (Nonesuch)

Gordon Lightfoot- Old Dan’s Records

Songbook (Warner Archives/Rhino)

Nanci Griffith- Ten Degrees and Colder

Other Voices/Other Rooms (Elektra)

Jesse Winchester- Sundown

Beautiful: A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot (Borealis/NorthernBlues)

Maria Muldaur- That Same Old Obsession

Beautiful: A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot (Borealis/NorthernBlues)

Stephen Mendel- Song for a Winter’s Night

Sing Me a Story (Stephen Mendel)

Gordon Lightfoot- The Pony Man

Songbook (Warner Archives/Rhino)

Next week: At the Intersection of Folk Street and Jazz Avenue.

Find me on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday March 16, 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 #6 – was prerecorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/51230.html

 

Theme: Irish and Irish-inspired songs

The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem- Come By the Hills
The Bold Fenian Men (Columbia)

Moore & McGregor- The Fields of Athenry
Dream with Me (Ivernia)
Brendan Nolan- The Forty Shades of Green
Live at the Side Door (Ould Segosha)
Kirk MacGeachy & David Gossage- The Irish Rover
The Shroud of Erin (Kirk MacGeachy & David Gossage)

Doug McArthur- The Morning I Left Galway
The Horses of the Sea: A Personal Exploration of Ireland (Doug McArthur)
Maria Dunn- From Dublin with Love
Joyful Banner Blazing (Distant Whisper)

Alana & Leigh Cline- The Kerry Lassie Medley: Mother and Child/The Monaghan Twig/The Basket of Oysters/The Kerry Lassie
Alana & Leigh Cline (Scimitar)

Marty Morrissey- Kilkelly
The Ancient Ground (Marty Morrissey)
Highland Weavers- The Star of the County Down
Work O’ The Weavers (Highland Weavers)
Tim Henderson- No Irish Need Apply
Among the Best (Snake Hollow Music)
Ian & Sylvia- Little Beggarman
The Lost Tapes (Stony Plain)

Jack Hardy- Willie Goggin’s Hat
The Passing (Prime CD)
Runa- The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Live (Runa)
The Irish Rovers- The Black Velvet Band
The Best of the Irish Rovers (MCA)
Tara O'Grady- Wild Rover
Black Irish (Tara O’Grady)

Susan McKeown & Lorin Sklamberg- Oakum
Saints & Tzadiks (World Village)
The Dubliners- The Auld Triangle
Spirit of the Irish: The Ultimate Collection (Sanctuary)
The Burns Sisters- From Clare to Here
Looking Back: Our Irish American Souls (Sisters Music)
Makem & Spain- Nae Awa’ to Bide Awa’
Four Pounds a Day (New Folk)

Jamie O'Reilly & The Rogues- Cockles and Mussels
A Collection of Rogues’ Recordings (J. O’Reilly Productions)
The Pogues- Sally Maclennane
Rum, Sodomy & the Lash (WEA)
Stephen Mendel- The Parting Glass
Sing Me a Story (Stephen Mendel)

Kevin Burke's Open House- Paddy the Caffler/Glen Cottage Polka/Tolka Polka
Hoofandmouth (Green Linnet)

Next week – A Tribute to the late Bob Nesbitt, founder and director of the Ottawa Grassroots Festival: Songs by artists who performed at the Ottawa Grassroots Festival over the years.

Find me on Twitter. www.twitter.com/mikeregenstreif

And on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday February 29, 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/128/47124.html

Amy Helm- Mandolin Wind

This Too Shall Light (Yep Roc)

Rose Cousins- Stray Birds

Stray Birds (Old Farm Pony)

The Haden Triplets- Gray Mother Dreaming

The Family Songbook (Trimeter/Thirty Tigers)

Ian Hanchet- No More Worries

New Life (Ian Hanchet)

Miranda Mulholland- The Old Churchyard

By Appointment or Chance (Roaring Girl)

Claudia Schmidt- Weather

Slow Steady Heart (Pragmavsion Publishing)

Tom Russell- Sam Bonnifield’s Saloon

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

Ian & Sylvia- Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies

The Lost Tapes (Stony Plain)

Stephen Mendel- Darcy Farrow

Sing Me a Story (Stephen Mendel)

Steve Gillette- Back on the Street Again

Steve Gillette (Vanguard)

Nanci Griffith- Banks of the Pontchartrain

The Last of the True Believers (Philo)

Susan Werner- Nobody Loves You Like Me

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

Paul Barbarin w/Danny Barker- Eh La Bas

Paul Barbarin and His New Orleans Jazz (Collectables)

Socalled with The Kaiser Quartett- Roumanishe Kretchme

Di Frosh and other Yiddish Songs (Membran)

Daniel Kahn with Vanya Zhuk- Busking Vagabond

Bulat Blues (Oriente Musik)

Leonard Cohen- The Night of Santiago

Thanks for the Dance (Columbia/Legacy)

Laura Smith- My Gate’s Wide Open

It’s a Personal Thing (Cornermuse)

Extended Feature: Songs of Phil Ochs (1940-1976). The next 16 songs were written by Phil Ochs.

Pete Seeger- The Draft Dodger Rag

Dangerous Songs (Columbia/Legacy)

Joan Baez- There but for Fortune

75th Birthday Celebration (Razor & Tie)

Martyn Joseph- Knock on the Door

Days of Decision: A Tribute to Phil Ochs (Pipe)

Phil Ochs- Bound for Glory

Farewells & Fantasies (Elektra/Rhino)

Judy Collins- In the Heat of the Summer

Forever: an anthology (Elektra)

Arlo Guthrie- I Ain’t Marching Anymore

What’s That I Hear: The Songs of Phil Ochs (Sliced Bread)

Phil Ochs- One More Parade

Farewells & Fantasies (Elektra/Rhino)

Pat Wictor- I’m Tired

This is Absolutely Real: Visions and Versions of Phil Ochs (Risky Disc)

disappear fear- Outside a Small Circle of Friends

Get Your Phil (Disappear Records)

Magpie- That’s What I Want to Hear

A Tiding (Longtail Records)

Phil Ochs- Too Many Martyrs

Farewells & Fantasies (Elektra/Rhino)

Kim & Reggie Harris- What’s That I Hear

Let My People Go! (Appleseed)

Gordon Lightfoot- Changes

The Original Lightfoot (EMI)

Phil Ochs- Links on the Chain

Farewells & Fantasies (Elektra/Rhino)

Karen Savoca- No More Songs

What’s That I Hear: The Songs of Phil Ochs (Sliced Bread)

Theodore Bikel- When I’m Gone

While I’m Here (Red House)

John Prine with The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band- Grandpa was a Carpenter

Will the Circle Be Unbroken Volume Two (MCA)

Lyle Lovett- If I had a Boat

Pontiac (Curb/MCA)

John Hiatt with Rosanne Cash & The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band- One Step Over the Line

Will the Circle Be Unbroken Volume Two (MCA)

Jud Caswell- 1952 Vincent Black Lightning

Live at the Seagull Shop (Jud Caswell)

Ken Tizzard- For the USA

A Good Dog is Lost: A Collection of Ron Hynes Songs (Ken Tizzard)

Bill Garrett & Sue Lothrop- St. John’s Waltz

Red Shoes (Borealis)

Christy Moore- Sonny’s Dream

Magic Nights (Sony)

Ron Hynes- Love and Hunger

Stealing Genius (Borealis)

Vance Gilbert- Brunswick County

Good Good Man (Disismye Music)

Annette Wasilik- Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right

Love & Fire (Azalea City)

The Small Glories- Secondhand

Assiniboine & the Red (Red House)

The New Customs- Hey Little Bird

Selling Religion on Government Street (The New Customs)

The Lonesome Ace Stringband- Highlanders Farewell/Monroe’s Farewell to Long Hollow

Modern Old-Time Sounds for the Bluegrass & Folksong Jamboree (Lonesome Ace Stringband)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on April 25.

Find me on Twitter. @MikeRegenstreif

And on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif