Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – June 2, 2026: Songs for International Sex Workers Day

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/595/75625.html

Theme: Songs for International Sex Workers Day.

International Sex Workers Day is marked annually on June 2 to honour sex workers and call attention to the often inhumane conditions of their work. While some choose sex work voluntarily, too many – too often underaged – are forced into it, by their dire circumstances, because they are being exploited, or because they are victims of human trafficking.

Some of these songs are explicitly about sex workers or are sung from their perspectives, some of them mention sex workers as part of the stories they’re telling, and some of them are implicitly about sex workers.

Nanci Griffith- Lookin’ for the Time (Working Girl)

The Last of the True Believers (Philo)

Lucinda Williams- House of Earth

Ghosts of Highway 20 (Highway 20)

Lynn Miles- High Heels in the Snow

Winter (Lynn Miles)

Odetta- New Orleans (House of the Rising Sun)

Lookin’ for a Home: Thanks to Leadbelly (M.C.)

Hal Cannon- Hurdy Gurdy Girl

Cowboy Sutra (Okehdokee)

Hedy West- Whore’s Lament

Love, Hell and Biscuits (Bear Family)

Si Kahn- Backroom Lady

New Wood (Philo)

Townes Van Zandt- Tecumseh Valley

Live at Union Chapel, London, England (Tomato)

Suzy Thompson- Louise

Suzy Sings Siebel Volume One (Suzy Thompson)

David Bromberg- Sammy’s Song

David Bromberg (Columbia)

Tim Grimm- San Francisco Mabel Joy

Names (Wind River)

Tina Turner- Private Dancer

Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll (Rhino)

Dana Gillespie- Brewer Street Blues

First Love (Fretsore)

Tom Paxton- Cindy’s Cryin’/The Hooker

The Compleat Tom Paxton (Even Compleater) (Rhino Handmade)

Eliza Gilkyson- Dream Lover

Beautiful World (Red House)

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

Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions (Asylum)

Heather Masse & Dick Hyman- Love for Sale

Lock My Heart (Red House)

Peter, Paul & Mary- No Other Name

Album 1700 (Warner Bros.)

John Stewart- Josie

Cannons in the Rain/Wingless Angels (One Way)

Guy Clark- Let Him Roll

Keepers: a live recording (Sugar Hill)

Marianne Faithfull- Boulevard of Broken Dreams

20th Century Blues (RCA)

Next week: Songs of Richard Fariña.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – December 30, 2025: My top 10 folk-rooted and folk-branched albums of 2025

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/595/73491.html

Theme: My top 10 folk-rooted and folk-branched albums of 2025.

These are always hard choices. I started with a list of about 30 of my favorite albums for the year. I’ve been over the list several times in the past couple of weeks and came up with several similar – but not identical – Top 10 lists. This list is the final one. The order might have been slightly different and there are several other worthy albums that might have been included, had one of the other lists represented the final choice.

The annotated and illustrated version of this top 10 list is available on the Folk Roots/Folk Branches blog at … https://frfb.blogspot.com/2025/12/top-10-for-2025.html

10. Suzy Sings Siebel Volume One by Suzy Thompson

Suzy Thompson- Bride 1945

Suzy Sings Siebel Volume One (Suzy Thompson)

Suzy Thompson- Long Afternoons

Suzy Sings Siebel Volume One (Suzy Thompson)

9. Personal History by Mary Chapin Carpenter

Mary Chapin Carpenter- Girl and Her Dog

Personal History (Lambent Light/Thirty Tigers) 

Mary Chapin Carpenter- New Religion

Personal History (Lambent Light/Thirty Tigers) 

8. Field of Stars by John McCutcheon

John McCutcheon- Tikkun Olam

Field of Stars (Appalsongs)

John McCutcheon with Windborne- Blessing

Field of Stars (Appalsongs)

7. Woody At Home – Vol 1 + 2 by Woody Guthrie

Woody Guthrie- This Land is Your Land

Woody At Home – Vol 1 + 2 (Shamus)

Woody Guthrie- Peace Call

Woody At Home – Vol 1 + 2 (Shamus)

6. Hardscrabble Hope by Maria Dunn

Maria Dunn- Another Year

Hardscrabble Hope (Distant Whisper Music)

Maria Dunn- Leave It All On the Ice

Hardscrabble Hope (Distant Whisper Music)

5. unentitled by John Gorka

John Gorka- First Snow on the Mountains

unentitled (Red House)

John Gorka- Particle Wave (Goodness in the World)

unentitled (Red House)

4. Every Town: More Songs by Michael Smith by Anne Hills

Anne Hills- Crazy Mary

Every Town: More Songs by Michael Smith (Hand & Heart Music)

Anne Hills- Sure Has Grown

Every Town: More Songs by Michael Smith (Hand & Heart Music)

3. Bones of Trees by Tim Grimm

Tim Grimm- Broken Truth

Bones of Trees (Vault)

Tim Grimm- Up in the Attic

Bones of Trees (Vault)

2. Dark Ages by Eliza Gilkyson

Eliza Gilkyson- Times Like These 

Dark Ages (Realiza) 

Eliza Gilkyson- Holy

Dark Ages (Realiza)

1. David Amram Honors Guthrie and Ochs: Old Souls by The David Amram Quintet

The David Amram Quintet- Talking Subway

David Amram Honors Guthrie and Ochs: Old Souls (Guthrie Legacy)

The David Amram Quintet- When I’m Gone

David Amram Honors Guthrie and Ochs: Old Souls (Guthrie Legacy)

Next week: Remembering Raul Malo, Tim Williams, Joe Ely and Steve Cropper.

--Mike Regenstreif

Top 10 for 2025

Here are my picks for the Top 10 folk-rooted or folk-branched albums of 2024. I started with a list of about 30 superb albums released over the past year and I’ve been over the list several times over the past couple of weeks and came up with several similar – not identical – Top 10 lists. Today’s list is the final one. The order might have been slightly different and there are several other worthy albums that might have been included, had one of the other lists represented the final choice. 

1. The David Amram Quintet – David Amram Honors Guthrie and Ochs: Old Souls (Guthrie Legacy). There is no other musician quite like David Amram. Over the course of more than 50 years, I have seen David play at folk festivals and clubs and at jazz festivals and clubs. I have also seen him in tails conducting symphony and chamber orchestras as they perform his classical compositions in concert halls. On this set of five Woody Guthrie songs, and one by Phil Ochs, David offers innovative, jazzy arrangements of familiar lyrics that make them sound new and fresh. At age 95 – OK, he was only 94 when he recorded the album – David has lost none of the magic I’ve seen from him over the years. 

2. Eliza Gilkyson – Dark Ages (Realiza). On many of the songs on this this sometimes subtle, sometimes direct, collection of mostly topical songs, Eliza Gilkyson insightfully explores the darkness wrought by the forces that have taken control of her country and beyond, and offers hope and inspiration that we will find our way past these times. 

3. Tim Grimm – Bones of Trees (Vault). As both a folk-rooted songwriter and interpreter of other songs, Tim Grimm has taken his place as one of our finest artists over the past 25 years. Tim once did a whole album of Tom Paxton songs and Tom’s influence can be heard in such great topical songs as “Broken Truth” and “Woody’s Landlord Revisited,” an updated version of a song Tim first released in 2016, as well as more haunting songs like “Up in the Attic.” 

4. Anne Hills – Every Town: More Songs by Michael Smith (Hand & Heart Music). If “The Dutchman” had been the only song that Michael Smith (1941-2020) ever wrote, he’d still have to be on any list of great songwriters. But Michael wrote so many more great songs. Anne Hills has long been one of Michael’s finest interpreters. October Child, her first album of Michael Smith songs, came out in 1993 and Paradise Lost & Found, an album of their duets, came out in 1995. While every one of these songs is a gem, highlights include “Ballad of Elizabeth Dark,” “Crazy Mary” and a gorgeous duet with John Gorka on “Spoon River.” 

5. John Gorka – unentitled (Red House). John Gorka has an excellent body of work recorded over the past four decades and this collection of wise and perceptive songs might just be his best yet. Among my favorites are “Particle Wave (Goodness in the World,” a beautiful song about finding hope in these dark times, “First Snow on the Mountains,” a reflection on early winter and late-in-life love, and an exquisite interpretation of Stan Rogers’ “Harris and the Mare.” 

6. Maria Dunn – Hardscrabble Hope (Distant Whisper Music). As I’ve said before, Maria Dunn’s inspiring original songs, deeply rooted in folk and Celtic music traditions, capture the good in the human spirit and the essence of communal common cause. Maria captures that spirit and essence beautifully in songs like “Walking the Miles” and “Another Year.” And in songs like “Coal is a Thirsty Business,” she sings insightfully about the consequences of greedy endeavours on our planet. 

7. Woody Guthrie – Woody at Home – Vol 1 + 2 (Shamus). This collection of home recordings made in 1951 and ’52 by Woody Guthrie is a fascinating look at Woody’s songwriting process and includes some familiar material and some songs being heard for the first time. Some songs – like a version of “This Land is Your Land” with verses that are quite different from the ones he wrote more than 10 years earlier – are both familiar and new. Another is “Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)” with Woody’s own tune which is different from the melody composed years later by Martin Hoffman. Among the unfamiliar songs is “Back Door Bum and the Big Landlord,” which I’m sure must have been inspired by the landlord Tim Grimm referred to in “Woody’s Landlord Revisited,” and the very clever “My Id and My Ego.” 

8. John McCutcheon – Field of Stars (Appalsongs). John McCutcheon offers yet another superb collection of insightful, often-poignant that have much to say about the state of the world and human relations. While I like the whole album, a couple speak very directly to me. “MS St. Louis” is about the shipload of more than 900 Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany who were refused entry by Cuba, the United States and Canada. Ultimately, many of them were murdered in the Holocaust, while “Tikkun Olam” is inspired by the Jewish concept of repairing the world. Other highlights include “Field of Stars,” co-written and sung with Carrie Newcomer, and “Too Old to Die Young,” a song for those of us among John’s generation who are at that age. 

9. Mary Chapin Carpenter – Personal History (Lambent Light/Thirty Tigers). As the title implies, this is perhaps the most personal album in Mary Chapin Carpenter’s career. Highlights include “Girl and Her Dog,” a reflection on life, love and contentment, “The Night We Never Met,” which captures feelings most of us have had at one time or another, and “Paint + Turpentine,” which recalls being inspired by Guy Clark. 

10. Suzy Thompson – Suzy Sings Siebel, Volume 1 (Suzy Thompson). Paul Siebel (1937-2022) was a brilliant singer-songwriter who recorded just two albums in the early-1970s. His first album, Woodsmoke and Oranges remains one of my all-time favorite LPs. On this collection, Suzy Thompson, who has long been known for mostly playing traditional music, offers 10 of Paul’s songs, including seven from Woodsmoke and Oranges, two from Jack-Knife Gypsy, and one that Paul himself never recorded. I think Paul would have been pleased with Suzy’s fine interpretations. I’ll mention that some of my favorite Siebel songs – including “My Town,” Then Came the Children” and “Legend of the Captain’s Daughter” – are not in this set. So I’m looking forward to Volume 2. 

I will be featuring songs from each of these albums on Stranger Songs, Tuesday December 30, 3:30-5 pm (ET), on CKCU. The program is now available 24/7 for on-demand streaming at this link. 

–Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – June 14, 2025

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/128/70676.html

Mike Regenstreif & Steve Gillette (1994)

Steve Gillette- Grapes on the Vine

Best of (Compass Rose)

Ian & Sylvia- Darcy Farrow

Early Morning Rain (Vanguard)

Linda Ronstadt- A Number and a Name

Hand Sown…Home Grown (Capitol)

Steve Gillette- Back on the Street Again

Best of (Compass Rose)

Grayson Capps- Early Morning Rain

Heartbreak, Misery & Death (Royal Potato Family)

The Kennedys- Cotton Jenny

Ladies Sing Lightfoot (Sunset Blvd.)

Seldom Scene- Steel Rail Blues

Changes (Rounder)

Gordon Lightfoot- A Painter Passing Through

A Painter Passing Through (Reprise)

Payadora- Prologue

The Legend of  Carau (Payadora)

Payadora with Elbio Ferenandez & Elmer Ferrer- Gaucho de las Pampas

The Legend of Carau (Payadora)

Payadora- Remember What’s Important

The Legend of Carau (Payadora)

Payadora- The Call of the Bandoneón

The Legend of Carau (Payadora)

Lucie Blue Tremblay- No Esta Solo

So Many Wows (Maggie & Shanti Musique)

NEeMA- Running

Watching You Think (Neemaste/Sony)

Mason Daring & Jeanie Stahl- Across the Great Divide

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

Mary Chapin Carpenter- What Did You Miss

Personal History (Lambent Light/Thirty Tigers)

Eliza Gilkyson & Mike Regenstreif on Zoom (2022)

Eliza Gilkyson- Song to You

Dark Ages (Realiza)

Schmaltz & Pepper- Stirring the Pot

Schmaltz & Pepper (Schmaltz & Pepper)

Mike Regenstreif & Tim Grimm (2025)

Tim Grimm- In the U.S.A.

Bones of Trees (Vault)

Mike Regenstreif & Mark Rubin on Zoom (2025)

Mark Rubin – Jew of Oklahoma- Bear at the Door

Dispatches: Songs from a World Gone Mad (Rubinchik)

Eliza Gilkyson- Dark Ages

Dark Ages (Realiza)

Bethany & Rufus- Isn’t That So

900 Miles (Hyena)

Rodney Crowell with Emmylou Harris & Vince Gill- Dangerous Fun

Quiet About It: A Tribute to Jesse Winchester (Mailboat)

Jesse Winchester & Mike Regenstreif (2006)

Jesse Winchester- Glory to the Day

Third Down, 110 to Go (Stony Plain)

William Bell- All of Your Stories

This is Where I Live (Stax)

Tom Prasada-Rao- Maria

Beautiful You: The Songs of Tom Prasada-Rao (Tom Prasada-Rao)

Suzie Brown- I Love Missing You

Songs Worth Saving (Suzie Brown)

Nathan Sloniowski- Archie’s Good Night

The Lost Love Letter to a Small Town (Rocketchimp)

Jim Wurster- Transcendental Inclinations

Transcendental Inclinations (Y&T Music)

Muireann Bradley- Stag O Lee

I Kept These Old Blues (Decca/Verve Forecast)

Guy Davis & Mike Regenstreif (2006)

Guy Davis- Long Gone Riley Brown

The Legend of Sugarbelly (M.C.)

Dee Robinson- One Dime Blues

Dee from Decatur (Riverlark Music)

Roy Book Binder- Travelin’ Man

Goin’ Back to Tampa (Flying Fish)

Sue Foley- Freight Train

One Guitar Woman: A Tribute to the Female Pioneers of Guitar (Stony Plain) 

Dee Robinson- Washington Blues

Dee from Decatur (Riverlark Music)

Lotus Wight- Dear Old Five String

Original Works for Voice and Banjo Volume One (Lotus Wight)

Original Sloth Band- Diga Diga Do

Hustlin’ & Bustlin’ (Woodshed)

Benoît LeBlanc- Éy laba (Eh la bas)

Mô kouzin, mô kouzinn (Benoît LeBlanc)

Sheesham & Lotus & ‘Son- Leaving Home (Frankie and Johnny)

1929 (Sepiaphone)

Suzy Thompson- If I Could Stay

Suzy Sings Siebel Volume One (Suzy Thompson)

Paul Siebel- Jasper & the Miners

Jack-Knife Gypsy (Elektra)

Happy Traum- Pinto Pony

I Walk the Road Again (Roaring Stream)

Suzy Thompson- Uncle Dudley

Suzy Sings Siebel Volume One (Suzy Thompson)

Paul Siebel- Legend of the Captain’s Daughter

Jack-Knife Gypsy (Elektra)

Cassie & Maggie- Fool’s Gold

Gold and Coal (Cassie and Maggie)

Stan Rogers- The Rawdon Hills

Fogarty’s Cove (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

Mike Regenstreif & Priscilla Herdman (2000)

Priscilla Herdman- Old Jack Ryan

Darkness into Light (Flying Fish)

Donald WG Lindsay- Tramps & Hawkers

Two Boats Under the Moon (Donald WG Lindsay)

Sarah Segal-Lazar- Earlier

Valleys (Sarah Segal-Lazar)

The Heart Collectors- Shenandoah

Alchymie (Spins the Gold)

Dave & Kristi- All are Welcome Here

The Chickadees (Paris Chili)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on July 12. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – May 17, 2025

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/128/70266.html

Jim Rooney & Rooney's Irregulars- One Morning in May

My Own Ignorant Way (JRP)

Garland Frady- The Brand New Tennessee Waltz

Pure Country (Countryside)

Lisa Moscatiello- Biloxi

Second Avenue (Machine Heart)

The Frontmen- That’s a Touch I Like

The Frontmen (Rolltop Discs)

Mike Regenstreif & Jesse Winchester (2009)

Jesse Winchester- Skip Rope Song

Jesse Winchester (Stony Plain)

Tim Hardin- Yankee Lady

Simple Songs of Freedom: The Tim Hardin Collection (Columbia/Legacy)

Chris Rawlings & Mike Regenstreif (2007)

Chris Rawlings- Lake Isle of Innisfree/Song of the Wandering Aengus

Two Sides to Your Story (Cookingfat Music)

Mike Regenstreif & Priscilla Herdman (1978)

Priscilla Herdman- Reedy River

The Water Lily (Philo)

Mike Regenstreif & Garnet Rogers (2006)

Archie Fisher & Garnet Rogers- The Outside Track

The Best Times After All: Live (Snow Goose Songs)

Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis & Karine Polwart- Rebecca

Looking for the Thread (Lambent Light/Thirty Tigers)

Suzie Brown- Mothers and Daughters

Songs Worth Saving (Suzie Brown)

Bettye LaVette- Mama, You Been On My Mind

Things Have Changed (Verve)

Schmaltz & Pepper- I’m Sorry Mama

Schmaltz & Pepper (Schmaltz & Pepper)

Schmaltz & Pepper- Mozart the Mensch

Schmaltz & Pepper (Schmaltz & Pepper)

Suzy Thompson- Louise

Suzy Sings Siebel Volume One (Suzy Thompson)

Suzy Thompson- Bride 1945

Suzy Sings Siebel Volume One (Suzy Thompson)

Paul Siebel- My Town

Woodsmoke and Oranges (Elektra)

Suzy Thompson- Any Day Woman

Suzy Sings Siebel Volume One (Suzy Thompson)

Suzy Thompson- Long Afternoons

Woodsmoke and Oranges (Elektra)

Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi- I Shall Not Be Moved

They’re Calling Me Home (Nonesuch)

Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson- Brown’s Dream

What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow (Nonesuch)

Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens- Swannanoa Tunnel/Steel-Driving Man

American Railroad (Nonesuch)

Carolyn Shulman- Old Farm House

Heart on a Wire (Carolyn Shulman)

Mike Regenstreif & Tim Grimm (2025)

Tim Grimm- Barbed Wire Boys

Bones of Trees (Vault)

Tom Mitchell & Mike Regenstreif (1999)

Tom Mitchell- Sam Ogan

Tom Mitchell (Philo)

Eric Andersen & Mike Regenstreif (2000)

Eric Andersen- Dance of Love and Death

Dance of Love and Death (EARecords)

Louise Coombe & Mike Regenstreif (2024)

Louise Coombe- Paris

Paris (Zoe Cat Music)

Terry Kitchen- Mona Lisa Blue

We All Dream (Urban Campfire Productions)

Gordie Tentrees & Jaxon Haldane- Bobbi & Gus

Double Takes (Gordie Tentrees & Jaxon Haldane)

Jill Sobule- The Last Line

Underdog Victorious: Deluxe Edition (Pinko)

Jill Sobule- A Good Life

F*ck the 7th Grade: Original Cast Recording (Jill Sobule)

Sarah Segal-Lazar- From Sea to Sea

Two If By Sea (Sarah Segal-Lazar)

NEeMA- Unwinding

Watching You Think (Neemaste/Sony)

Leonard Cohen- Traveling Light

You Want It Darker (Columbia)

Perla Batalla- You Want It Darker

A Letter to Leonard Cohen: Tribute to a Friend (Mechuda Music)

Mike Regenstreif & Old Man Luedecke (2015)

Old Man Luedecke- I Skipped a Stone

Easy Money (True North)

Robert Thomas & Mike Regenstreif (2025)

Robert Thomas & the sessionmen- Kick the Can

The Way We Roll (Gas)

Brian Campbell- Comedy of Errors

Let’s Talk (Beedeecee Productions)

Ron Sowell- In Search of Some Creole Soul

Dance Till the Music Stops (Mountain Soul)

Mike Regenstreif & Bruce Murdoch (2007)

Bruce Murdoch- Maximeline

Bruce Murdoch (Radio Canada International)

Rees Shad- Porcelain Angel

Porcelain Angel (Shadville Music)

C. Daniel Boling- Wand’rin’ Again

It Matters (Berkalin)

Keith Sykes- Rich Wayfaring Stranger

Keith Sykes (Vanguard)

Susie Arioli Swing Band featuring Jordan Officer- Reuben’s Blues

It’s Wonderful (Susie Arioli Swing Band)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on June 14. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – May 6, 2025: The Banjo Special

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/595/70088.html

Theme: The Banjo Special.

Pete Seeger holding his banjo.

All the songs and tunes on this show feature the banjo.

Doc Watson- Rambling Hobo

Memories (Sugar Hill)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Foolish You

Tell My Sister: Kate & Anna McGarrigle (Nonesuch)

Michael Jerome Browne- Reverend Strut

Gettin’ Together (Borealis/Stony Plain)

John Hartford- Gentle on My Mind

Live from Mountain Stage (Blue Plate Music)

The Be Good Tanyas- Reuben

Chinatown (Nettwerk)

Mary Gick- Hills of Home

Six Tunes and a Song (Mary Gick)

Finest Kind- Going to the West

Lost in a Song (Fallen Angle)

Marc Nerenberg- Little Birdie: A Reimagined Traditional Song

Little Birdie: Birds, Beasts & Banjo Blues (Marc Nerenberg)

The Dumptrucks- Qu’Appelle

Selections (Laughing Cactus)

Pete Seeger- Monsieur Banjo

American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 4 (Smithsonian Folkways)

Last Forever with John Cohen- Dillard Chandler

No Place Like Home/Last Forever (2nd Story Sound)

Arnie Naiman- My Lucy Stars

My Lucky Stars (Merriweather)

Robert Thomas & the sessionmen- Springhill

The Way We Roll (Gas)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Redwinged Blackbird

Get Up and Do Right (Community Music)

Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five- Put ‘Em Down Blues

The Hot Fives & Hot Sevens, Vol. III (Columbia)

Paul Barbarin with Danny Barker- Eh La Bas

Paul Barbarin and His New Orleans Jazz (Collectables)

Mark Rubin – Jew of Oklahoma- Berish Katz Breakdown

Dispatches: Songs from a World Gone Mad (Rubinchik)

Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson- Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss

What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow (Nonesuch)

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings- Howdy Howdy

Woodland (Acony)

Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn- Railroad

Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn (Rounder)

Pharis & Jason Romero- Train on the Island

Tell ‘Em You Were Gold (Smithsonian Folkways)

Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project- Lazy John

Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project (Borealis)

Derroll Adams- The Mountain

Songs of the Banjoman (Wundertutte) 

Suzy Thompson- Lose My Blues

Suzy Sings Siebel Volume One (Suzy Thompson)

Jenny Whiteley- Banjo Girl

The Original Jenny Whiteley (Black Hen Music)

Tony Trischka & Steve Martin- Plunkin’ Rag

Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular (Rounder)

Next week: A Tribute to The Klezmatics.

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – April 19, 2025

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/128/69882.html

Mike Regenstreif & Tony Turner (2018)

Tony Turner- Prairie Railroad

The Lost Sketches (Tony Turner)

Mike Regenstreif & Lynn Miles (2013)

Lynn Miles- Drunks and Fools

Black Flowers Vol. 3 (Lynn Miles)

Vince Halfhide- Sleepy Little Town

Vince Halfhide (Vince Halfhide)

Arthur McGregor- Dancing Shoes

Moore & McGregor: Dream with Me (Ivernia)

Ray Harris- Late Night Phone Calls

Kinda Sets the Tone (Ray Harris)

Mary Gick- The Grassroots Waltz

Six Tunes and a Song (Mary Gick)

Suzy Thompson- Lose My Blues

Suzy Sings Siebel Volume One (Suzy Thompson)

Paul Siebel- Miss Cherry Lane

Woodsmoke and Oranges (Elektra)

Suzy Thompson- Nashville Again

Suzy Sings Siebel Volume One (Suzy Thompson)

Suzy Thompson- The Ballad of Honest Sam

Suzy Sings Siebel Volume One (Suzy Thompson)

Paul Siebel- Then Came the Children

Woodsmoke and Oranges (Elektra)

Maggie’s Wake- Bridget O’Brien

Maggie’s Wake (Maggie’s Wake)

Stan Rogers- Scarborough Settler’s Lament

Songs of a Lifetime: For the Family (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis) 

Laura Smith & Mike Regenstreif (2013)

Laura Smith- Magdalen McGillivray

Everything is Moving (Borealis)

Chris Walz- See See Rider

All I Got and Gone (Chris Walz Music)

Amanda Rheaume- #44

The Truth We Hold (Ishkõdé)

Rhiannon Giddens- We Could Fly

Freedom Highway (Nonesuch)

Louis Armstrong- Go Down, Moses

Louis and the Good Book (Verve)

The Short Sisters- Moses

A Planet Dancing Slow (Black Socks Press)

The Sojourners- Brother Moses Smote the Water

The Sojourners (Black Hen Music)

Jesse Winchester & Mike Regenstreif (2000)

Jesse Winchester- Pharaoh’s Army 

Learn to Love It (Stony Plain) 

Shelley Posen & Mike Regenstreif on Zoom (2023)

Shelley Posen- And We Sang ‘Ha Lakhma Anya’ 

Manna (Well Done Music) 

Andy Cohen & Mike Regenstreif (2025)

Andy Cohen- Crucifixion

Oh Glory, How Happy I Am: The Sacred Songs of Rev. Gary Davis (Riverlark Music)

Mahalia Jackson- Were You There

In Concert Easter Sunday 1967 (Columbia/Legacy)

Ralph McTell- Jesus Wept

Sand in Your Shoes (Red House)

NEeMA- Romeo and Juliet

Watching You Think (Neemaste/Sony)

Perla Batalla- Ain’t No Cure for Love

A Letter to Leonard Cohen: Tribute to a Friend (Mechuda Music)

Louise Coombe & Mike Regenstreif (2024)

Louise Coombe- The Girl Upstairs

Paris (Zoe Cat Music)

Kora Feder- In a Young Person’s Body

Some Kind of Truth (Kora Feder)

Danny Marks- I’m Ready

I’m Ready – single (Danny Marks)

Ellen Bukstel & Nick Annis- By My Silence

Legacy of Love (Ellen Bukstel)

Allison Russell & Annie Lennox- Superlover

Superlover – single (Fantasy)

Eric Andersen & Mike Regenstreif (2000)

Eric Andersen- No Man’s Land

Eric Andersen in (Spoken) Pieces (EARecords)

Eliza Gilkyson & Mike Regenstreif (2006)

Eliza Gilkyson- Beach Haven

2020 (Red House)

Mike Regenstreif & Tim Grimm (2025)

Tim Grimm- Woody’s Landlord Revisited

Bones of Trees (Vault)

James Gordon- Liberation Day

Liberation Day – single (James Gordon)

Rees Shad with Kemp Harris, Wanda Houston & Natalia Zukerman- Ain’t That the Way

Porcelain Angel (Shadville Music)

C. Daniel Boling- It Matters

It Matters (Berkalin)

Mr. O’Muck- Gone Train Blues

Home Field Recordings: The Ancient Blues of Mr. O’Muck (Muck-O-Phone)

Jim Ringer- Mrs. Delion’s Lament

Any Old Wind That Blows (Philo)

Preservation Brass- Bagatelle

For Fat Man (Sub Pop)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on May 17. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

--Mike Regenstreif