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Wednesday, June 11, 2025

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

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

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

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

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

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

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

Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday April 19, 2022: Part 1 – “Ukrainian Now,” More Songs in Solidarity with the People of Ukraine; Part 2 – Remembering Paul Siebel (1937-2022)


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/595/55937.html

Themes: Part 1 – “Ukrainian Now,” More Songs in Solidarity with the People of Ukraine; Part 2 – Remembering Paul Siebel (1937-2022)

Part 1 – “Ukrainian Now,” More Songs in Solidarity with the People of Ukraine. An earlier set of songs in solidarity with the people of Ukraine was heard on the March 1, 2022 edition of Stranger Songs.


John McCutcheon
- Ukrainian Now
Ukrainian Now – single (Appalsongs)
Hudaki Village Band- Dorule
Vandruj! (Extra Estrada)
Odetta- Masters of War
Odetta Sings Dylan (RCA)

Pushkin Klezmer Band- Kyiv Bulgar
Klezmer Uber Alles! (Oriente Musik)
Lemon Bucket Orkestra- Odessa Bulgarish
Lume, Lume (Fedora Upside-Down)
Eliza Gilkyson, Patty Griffin, Mary Chapin Carpenter & Iris DeMent- Peace Call
Land of Milk and Honey (Red House)

Part 2 – Remembering Paul Siebel (1937-2022). Paul Siebel was a great singer and songwriter who made just two studio albums, Woodsmoke and Oranges, released in 1970, and Jack-Knife Gypsy, released in 1971. He performed intermittently in the 1970s and then walked away from the music business. Paul died on April 5th, at age 84, from pulmonary fibrosis.

Marley's Ghost- She Made Me Lose My Blues
Jubilee (Sage Arts)
Paul Siebel- Miss Cherry Lane
Woodsmoke and Oranges (Elektra)
Suzy & Eric Thompson- Nashville Again
Unreleased home recording – used with permission
The Flatlanders- The Ballad of Honest Sam
Treasure of Life (Rack ‘Em)
Kate Wolf- Then Came the Children
Carry It On (Flat Rock)

The Village Dudes- Tomorrow’s Train
Another Time and Place (Blue Flute Music)
Staber & Chasnoff- Spanish Johnny
Free To Dream (Bubkes)
Bill Garrett- You Don’t Need a Gun
Bill Garrett (Borealis)
Paul Siebel- Jeremiah’s Song
Jack-Knife Gypsy (Elektra)


Dave Fry
- Louise
Troubadour (Dave Fry)
Rosalie Sorrels- Bride 1945
Then Came the Children – Live (Green Linnet)
Paul Siebel- My Town
Woodsmoke and Oranges (Elektra)
Katie Moore- Any Day Woman
Only Thing Worse (Borealis)
Jerry Jeff Walker- Long Afternoons
A Man Must Carry On (MCA)

Happy Traum- Pinto Pony
I Walk the Road Again (Roaring Stream)
Paul Siebel- Legend of the Captain’s Daughter
Jack-Knife Gypsy (Elektra)

Paul Siebel- Prayer Song
Jack-Knife Gypsy (Elektra)

Next week: Inspired by Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Jim Kweskin & Geoff Muldaur – Penny’s Farm



JIM KWESKIN & GEOFF MULDAUR
Penny’s Farm
Kingswood Records

When I started collecting records obsessively in the 1960s, the LPs by Jim Kweskin & the Jug Band were – and remain – among my favorites. Drawing on folk songs, blues, jazz and early pop and novelty songs, the LPs were filled with fun, deceptively sophisticated, and an entrée into the older traditions and source artists they were drawing on. Well over 50 years after the Kweskin Jug Band got together and 40-something years since they broke up, Jim Kweskin and band stalwart Geoff Muldaur have reunited for the sublime Penny’s Farm, an eclectic collection of folk-rooted and folk-branched songs played by a couple of masters whose interpretive skills have aged like fine whiskey. Jim and Geoff each take the lead vocal on about half the tracks.

The album opens with Jim’s version of the traditional “Diamond Joe,” a song Alan Lomax collected from Big Charlie Butler at the Parchman Farm prison in Mississippi in 1939, and that has become familiar through countless interpretations by artists ranging from Cisco Houston to Ramblin’ Jack Elliott and Bob Dylan. Jim begins singing a cappella and is then joined by Suzy Thompson’s powerful fiddling, Jim and Geoff’s guitars, Cindy Cashdollar’s Weissenborn guitar and Geoff’s harmonies.

Jim continues to shine whenever he takes the lead vocal. Among his highlights are “Down on Penny’s Farm,” one of several songs on the CD drawn from Harry Smith’s seminal Anthology of American Folk Music, on which Jim plays banjo and Geoff is heard on pennywhistle; the infectious African song “Guabi, Guabi,” which he first recorded on a solo LP, Relax Your Mind, in 1965; a haunting version of “The Cuckoo,” also drawn from the Harry Smith Anthology and also a reprise from Relax Your Mind; and a couple of Mississippi John Hurt songs, “Louis Collins (Angels Laid Him Away) – which Philadelphia Jerry Ricks once told me was John Hurt’s very favorite of his own songs – and “Frankie,” a variant of “Frankie and Johnny (or Albert).”

Geoff’s first lead vocal is on “The Boll Weevil,” another folk song collected by Lomax that has become a folk music standard in countless versions. This version is among the best I’ve heard. Geoff is playing six-string banjo and is ably supported by Jim on harmony vocals and guitar, Suzy on fiddle, Cindy on Dobro and Kevin Smith on bass.

Geoff, too, shines, whenever he’s at the lead vocalist’s mic. His highlights include Henry Thomas’ “Fishing Blues,” also drawn from the Harry Smith Anthology; “Just a Little While to Stay Here,” a New Orleans funeral song Geoff recorded earlier on his wonderful album, The Secret Handshake; a couple of Beale Street Sheiks numbers, “Sweet to Mama” and “Downtown Blues” (Geoff first recorded “Downtown Blues” in 1967 on the Kweskin Jug Band LP See Reverse Side for Title); and a fun version of Mississippi John Hurt’s “C-h-i-c-k-e-n.”

My very favorite of Geoff’s tracks, though is his version of Bobby Charles’ beautiful “Tennessee Blues,” a song he recorded more than 40 years ago on Geoff Muldaur is Having a Wonderful Time. Van Dyke Parks joins the ensemble on accordion on this version of the song.

And while Geoff may have been having a wonderful time on that long-ago solo LP, I’ve been having a wonderful time listening to Jim and Geoff both having a wonderful time on Penny’s Farm.

I’ll also mention that the CD package includes an appreciation of Jim and Geoff and the Jim Kweskin Jug Band by John Sebastian and informative song notes by Mary Katherine Aldin.

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--Mike Regenstreif