Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – August 13, 2024: Kin Ya See That Sun

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/595/66394.html

Theme: “Kin Ya See That Sun.”

All of these songs have something or other to do with the sun.

Terre & Maggie Roche- Kin Ya See That Sun

Kin Ya See That Sun (Earth Rock Wreckerds)

Paul Simon- Was a Sunny Day

There Goes Rhymin’ Simon (Warner Bros.)

Ana Egge- Chasing Rabbits in the Sun

Is It the Kiss (StorySound)

Jason Lang- You Are My Sunshine

Handled with Care (Famgroup/Genison Music)

Shout Sister Shout- Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying

Hit That Jive (M.C.)

Bruce Cockburn- O Sun By Day O Moon By Night

O Sun O Moon (True North)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Sun, Son (Shining on the Water)

Love Over and Over (Polygram)

Thelonious Monk- North of the Sunset

Solo Monk (Columbia/Legacy)

Ian & Sylvia- Every Night When the Sun Goes Down

Four Strong Winds (Vanguard)

Jackie Washington- At Sundown

Keeping Out of Mischief (Pyramid)

Misty Blues- Go Down, Sunshine

Tell Me Who You Are: A Live Tribute to Odetta (Guitar One) 

Jay McShann- On the Sunny Side of the Street

Still Jumpin’ the Blues (Stony Plain)

Diana Braithwaite & Chris Whiteley- Morning Sun

Morning Sun (Electro-Fi)

Chris Rawlings- Mr. Sunshine

Pearl Soupe (Cooking Fat Music)

The Magnolia Janes- The Sun in My Backyard

The Light Years (Be a Jane)

Miranda Hardy- Like the Sunrise

The Price of Happiness (Great Divide)

Hoyt Axton- We’ll Sing in the Sunshine

Mr. Greenback Dollar Man (Surrey)

Peter Yarrow- Weave Me the Sunshine

Peter (Warner Bros.)

John Stewart- Lost Her in the Sun

Bombs Away Dream Babies (RSO)

Linda Ronstadt- He Dark the Sun

Silk Purse (Capitol)

Katy Moffatt- Waitin’ for the Sun to Shine

Loose Diamond (HighTone)

Bonnie Koloc- Colors of the Sun

Rediscovered (Mr. Biscuit)

Pat Guadango- Warmth of the Sun

1964 (Campbell Music)

Lynn Miles- Time to Let the Sun

Fall for Beauty (True North)

Gordon Fleming- East of the Sun

According to Gordie: Gordon Fleming Anthology 1948-1990 (Just a Memory)

Next week: Murder Ballads.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday October 24, 2023: Conversation and Songs with Terri Thal

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/595/62442.html

Primary Theme: Conversation and Songs with Terri Thal.

Terri Thal is the author of the newly published memoir, My Greenwich Village: Dave, Bob and Me. She became involved in the folk music scene while still a teenager in New York and was the first wife and manager of Dave Van Ronk. She was also the first manager of Bob Dylan and a number of other artists in the 1960s. I spoke with Terri on October 13 via Zoom.

The next five songs punctuated my conversation with Terri.

Pete Seeger- Solidarity Forever

If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope & Struggle (Smithsonian Folkways)

Dave Van Ronk- Cocaine Blues

Inside Dave Van Ronk (Fantasy)

Bob Dylan- Masters of War

The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (Columbia/Legacy)

Dave Van Ronk- Mack the Knife

Let No One Deceive You: Songs of Bertolt Brecht (Flying Fish)

Terre & Maggie Roche- Malachy’s

Kin Ya See That Sun (Earth Rock Wreckerds) 

Note: This is the first edition of Stranger Songs that I’ve recorded since the day of horrific and unfathomable terrorism committed by Hamas in Israel on October 7, and the entirely predictable consequences that followed in Gaza. I despair for the innocent victims in Israel and in Gaza who have been injured and killed these last few weeks. May there soon be peace, shalom, salaam, in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank; in Ukraine, and everywhere else on Earth torn apart by war. These are just a few of the songs I was reminded of in the days that followed October 7.

Leonard Cohen- Story of Isaac

Songs from a Room (Columbia/Legacy)

Kronos Quartet with Sam Amidon, Brian Carpenter, Lee Knight & Aoife O'Donovan- Turn, Turn, Turn

Long Time Passing: Kronos Quartet & Friends Celebrate Pete Seeger (Smithsonian Folkways)

Nanci Griffith- From a Distance

Lone Star State of Mind (MCA)

The Klezmatics with Adrienne Cooper- I Ain’t Afraid

Live at Town Hall (Klezmatics Disc) 

Fran Avni with Rachelle Mingail Shubert & Jeffrey Simons- Sim Shalom/Bring the Peace

Kulanu: All of Us in Harmony (Fran Avni)

Next week: Halloween and CKCU Funding Drive.

--Mike Regenstreif 

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday June 17, 2023

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 the Saturday Morning show.

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 and can already be streamed on-demand at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/60881.html

 

The Persuasions- Mr. Tambourine Man

Knockin’ On Bob’s Door (Zoho)

Stan Rogers- The Last Watch

From Fresh Water (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

Tex König- Northwest Passage

Königsblende (Music Cellar)

Ian Robb- Make and Break Harbour

From Different Angels (Fallen Angle)

Priscilla Herdman- Forty-Five Years

Forgotten Dreams (Flying Fish)

Stan Rogers- The Flowers of Bermuda

Between the Breaks…Live! (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

Artisan- Mary Ellen Carter

Driving Home (Bedspring Music)

Mountain City Four- The Log Driver’s Waltz

Mountain City Four (Omnivore)

Chaim Tannenbaum- Moonshiner

Chaim Tannenbaum (StorySound)

Rufus Wainwright with Anna McGarrigle, Chaim Tannenbaum, Lily Lanken, Lucy Wainwright Roche & Martha Wainwright- Wild Mountain Thyme

Folkocracy (BMG)

Terre & Maggie Roche- Apostrophe to the Wind

Kin Ya See That Sun (Earth Rock Wreckerds)

Vance Gilbert- Honeysuckle Fences

The Mother of Trouble (Vance Gilbert)

Rod MacDonald & Mike Regenstreif (2005)

Rod MacDonald- Enough About Me

Rants and Romance (Blue Flute Music)

Terre & Maggie Roche- Kin Ya See That Sun

Kin Ya See That Sun (Earth Rock Wreckerds)

Larry & Joe- Los Doce

Nuevo South Train (Larry & Joe)

The Refugees- Monday Monday

California (Wahubo/Longhouse)

Rufus Wainwright with Susanna Hoffs, Chris Stills & Sheryl Crow- Twelve-Thirty (Young Girls are Coming to the Canyon)

Folkocracy (BMG)

The Mamas & The Papas- Dancing Bear

The Mamas & The Papas (MCA)

Natalie Merchant & The Klezmatics- The Dancing Bear

Leave Your Sleep (Nonesuch)

Dave Van Ronk- Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear

To All My Friends in Far-Flung Places (Gazell)

Ball & Chain & The Wreckers- Merle

Satisfied (Ball & Chain)

Tom Russell- Tulare Dust/They’re Tearing the Labor Camps Down

Tulare Dust: a songwriters’ tribute to Merle Haggard (RockBeat)

Preservation Hall Jazz Band & Merle Haggard- Basin Street Blues

Preservation (Preservation Hall)

Terra Spencer & Ben Caplan- Good Friends

Old News (Terra Spencer & Ben Caplan)

Bruce Cockburn- King of the Bolero

O Sun O Moon (True North)

Eliza Gilkyson & Mike Regenstreif (2006)

Eliza Gilkyson- Here Comes the Night

Home (Realiza)

William Prince- Tanqueray

Stand in the Joy (Six Shooter)

Bob Dylan- Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues

Shadow Kingdom (Columbia/Legacy)

Eliza Gilkyson & Mary Chapin Carpenter- Sparrow

Home (Realiza)

Chris Vallillo- Ma Belle

Forgottonia (Go Ridge Music)

Tim O'Brien- Cup of Sugar

Cup of Sugar (Howdy Skies)

Queen Esther- All That We Are

Rona (EL)

Tim Grimm- Stirrin’ Up Trouble

The Little In-Between (Vault)

Jaspar Lepak- Ever Gonna Fly

Desert Ghosts (Jaspar Lepak)

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

Michael Jerome Browne with J.J. Milteau & Eric Bibb- Shake ‘Em on Down

Gettin’ Together (Borealis/Stony Plain)

Eric Bibb with Taj Mahal & Jontavious Willis- Blues Funky Like Dat

Ridin’ (Stony Plain)

Taj Mahal- Summertime

Savoy (Stony Plain)

Aaron Smith & The Coal Biters- The Way to Sam’s Throne

The Legend of Sam Davis and Other Stories of Newton County, Arkansas (Aaron Smith)

The Sherpas- A Ways to Go

Promise to Harry (Trifecta)

John & Sheila Ludgate- The Gift of an Ordinary Day

The Kitchen Sessions (John & Sheila Ludgate)

Matthew Alexander- My Children’s Children

Midnight Dream Station (Caravan)

The Bombadils- Bicycle

Dear Friend (The Bombadils)

Jay Linden- I Wish

Ordinary Sunrise (Americana North)

Lea Michele- Don’t Rain On My Parade

Funny Girl – New Broadway Cast Recording (Sony Masterworks Broadway)

Lea Michele & Ramin Karimloo- Sadie, Sadie

Funny Girl – New Broadway Cast Recording (Sony Masterworks Broadway)

Tovah Feldshuh & Jared Grimes- Who Taught Her Everything She Knows

Funny Girl – New Broadway Cast Recording (Sony Masterworks Broadway)

Meredith Moon- Needlecase Medley

Constellations (True North)

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

--Mike Regenstreif