Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday November 16, 2021: The Guitar

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.

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Theme: The Guitar

Guy Clark- The Guitar
Somedays the Song Writes You (Dualtone)

John Gorka- Nazarene Guitar
True in Time (Red House)
Mary Chapin Carpenter- Old D-35
One Night Lonely (Lambent Light)
Jamie Anderson- Linda’s Guitar
Songs from Home (Jamie Anderson)

Mike Regenstreif & Michael Smith (2014)

Michael Smith- Gamble’s Guitar
Time (Flying Fish)
Fink, Marxer & Gleaves- Maybelle Played Guitar
Maybelle Played Guitar – single (Community Music)
Amos Garrett- Always Got Your Hands On That Guitar
Acoustic Album (Stony Plain)

Paul Mills- Doc’s Guitar
The Other Side of the Glass (Borealis)

Mike Regenstreif & Steve Gillette (1994)

Susie Burke & David Surette- I Turn to My Guitar
Waiting for the Sun (Madrina Music)
Kinky Friedman- Me & My Guitar
Circus of Life (Echo Hill)
Alex Cuba- En Mi Guitarra
Lo Unico Constante (Caracol)
Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen- La Guitarra
Live in Concert (Compass Rose)

Hans Theessink- Big Bill’s Guitar
Hard Road Blues (Minor Music)
Eric Bibb- Booker’s Guitar
Booker’s Guitar (Telarc)
Roy Book Binder- The Preacher Picked the Guitar
Singer-Songwriter Bluesman (PEGleg)

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

Magpie- This Guitar
Of Changes and Dreams (Long Tail)
Toasted Westerns- Second Fiddle to an Old Guitar
Out to Lunch!  (Moo Music)
Michael Jerome Browne- I’m a Guitar King
Sliding Delta (Borealis)
Kate Campbell- Yellow Guitar
Monuments (Large River Music)

Cheryl Wheeler- Mrs. Pinocci’s Guitar
Mrs. Pinocci’s Guitar (Philo)
Tish Hinojosa- Voice of the Big Guitar
Homeland (A&M)
Stephen Fearing- This Guitar
Yellow Jacket (True North)

Judy Collins & Mike Regenstreif (2014)

Judy Collins & Jona Fjeld with Chatham County Line- Bury Me with My Guitar On
Winter Stories (Wildflower/Cleopatra)
Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick- Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar
Together (Rounder)

Jeff Healey- Guitar Duet Stomp
The Best of the Stony Plain Years: Vintage Jazz, Swing and Blues (Stony Plain)

Next week: Songs and Conversation with Si Kahn

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Susie Burke & David Surette – Waiting for the Sun

SUSIE BURKE & DAVID SURETTE

Waiting for the Sun

Madrina Music

burkesurette.com

Susie Burke, a soprano who sounds great whether she’s singing quietly or powerfully, has been on my list of favorite singers for many years while her husband, David Surette, is a sublime master of the guitar and mandolin. They’ve worked together as a duo for more than 25 years and released several fine recordings, including the excellent Sometimes in the Evening, which I reviewed in Sing Out! Magazine back in 2000.

Susie and David’s latest album, Waiting for the Sun, is a fine effort combining four of Susie’s songs with two of David’s – one of them a nifty instrumental – and four well-chosen covers. The 11th track is an alternate version of Susie’s “Give Me Some Hope.”

The album opens with “Give Me Some Hope,” a slightly jazzy blues song that gives Susie an opportunity to belt with the best of them on top of a swinging arrangement featuring some great picking. The alternate take that ends the album is almost two minutes longer giving David, bassist Steve Roy and drummer PJ Donahue even more room to stretch out.

Among the other highlights is Susie’s “April with the Flying Bow,” a joyous tribute to music making and contra dancing that is one of several songs featuring harmonies by daughters Isa Burke and Juliana Burke. Isa’s fiddle playing is also featured on the song. Another is “Like I Used to Do,” a perceptive piece written by Tim O’Brien and Pat Alger about how life changes as we move into and through middle age.

But my absolutely favorite track is the stunning version of “I Turn to My Guitar,” written by my late friend Jesse Winchester. As I noted in my Montreal Gazette review of Jesse’s album, Love Filling Station, the song “captures the feelings that have led to the creation of so much music by so many people over so many years.” Susie’s singing and David’s instrumental work on the song are simply gorgeous.

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