Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday August 30, 2022: Festival of Flowers

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/595/57439.html

Theme: Festival of Flowers – all of the songs have something or other to do with flowers.

Tish Hinojosa- Festival of Flowers

Where Have All the Flowers Gone: The Songs of Pete Seeger, Volume 1 (Appleseed)

Mike Regenstreif & Priscilla Herdman (1978) photo: Ron Petronko

Priscilla Herdman- The Water Lily

The Water Lily (Philo)

Chris Rawlings- Iris of Flowers

Pearl Soupe (Cooking Fat Music)

Finest Kind- The Faded Roses of December

Lost in a Song (Fallen Angle)

Lynn Miles with Keith Glass- Black Flowers

Road (Lynn Miles)

The Haden Triplets- Wildwood Flower

The Family Songbook (Trimeter/Thirty Tigers)

The Smith Sisters- The Bramble and the Rose

Roadrunner (Flying Fish)

Kimmie Rhodes- Wild Roses

West Texas Heaven (Justice)

Mountain City Four- Erev Shel Shoshanim

Mountain City Four (Omnivore)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Sunflower

La vache qui pleure (Tribu)

Eric Andersen & Mike Regenstreif (2000)

Eric Andersen- Violets of Dawn

Woodstock Under the Stars (Y&T Music)

Last Forever- Who’ll Water My Flowers

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

Anne Hills- Thoughts in Flowers

Beauty Attends: The Heartsongs of Opal Whiteley (Collective Works)

Tiny Tim- Tiptoe Through the Tulips

God Bless Tiny Tim (Now Sounds)

Peter Rowan- Lotus Flower

My Aloha (Omnivore)

Caroline Doctorow- Cactus Flower

Little Lovin’ Darling (Narrow Lane)

Martyn Joseph- Flower Lady

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

The Wailin' Jennys- Wildflowers

Fifteen (True North)

Mike Regenstreif & Missy Burgess (2014)

Missy Burgess- Just Like Roses Do

Lemon Pie (Missy Burgess)

Quartette- Rocks and Roses

Rocks and Roses (Outside Music)

Deirdre McCalla- Amaryllis

Endless Grace (MaidenRock)

Stan Rogers- The Flowers of Bermuda

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

Hoyle Osborne- The Chrysanthemum

Live at the Diamond Belle (Ripple)

Next week: Songs of Work and Jobs, Labour and Labour History.

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--Mike Regenstreif

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.

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/595/54163.html

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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--Mike Regenstreif

Sing Out! Magazine – Autumn ‘09/Winter ‘10

My copy of the latest issue of Sing Out! Magazine arrived in today’s mail. The cover story is on Richie Havens, a member of the Folk Roots/Folk Branches guest list.

As usual, this issue of Sing Out! has a bunch of my CD reviews including:

Albert & Gage- Dakota Lullaby: The Songs of Tom Peterson
Dave Alvin- Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women
David Baxter- Day & Age
Jim Byrnes- My Walking Stick
Leonard Cohen- Live in London
Ronny Cox- Songs... With Repercussions
Nanci Griffith- The Loving Kind
James Hill & Ann Davison- True Love Don’t Weep
Tish Hinojosa- Our Little Planet
Hotcha!- Dust Bowl Roots: Songs for the New Depression
Willie Nelson- Naked Willie
Corin Raymond- There will Always be a Small Time
Red Stick Ramblers- My Suitcase is Always Packed
Robert Resnik & Marty Morrissey- Old & New Songs of Lake Champlain
Sunny and Her Joy Boys- Introducing Sunny and Her Joy Boys
Twist of the Wrist- Twist of the Wrist
Various- Appalachia: Music from Home
Various- Man of Somebody’s Dreams: A Tribute to Chris Gaffney
Susan Werner- Classics

--Mike Regenstreif

This week in Folk Roots/Folk Branches history (October 27-November 2)

Folk Roots/Folk Branches with Mike Regenstreif was a Thursday tradition on CKUT in Montreal for nearly 14 years from February 3, 1994 until August 30, 2007. Folk Roots/Folk Branches continued as occasional features on CKUT and is now also a blog. Here’s the ninth instalment of “This week in Folk Roots/Folk Branches,” a weekly look back continuing through next August at some of the most notable guests, features and moments in Folk Roots/Folk Branches history.

October 27, 1994: Extended feature- Tish Hinojosa.
October 29, 1998: Guest- Vance Gilbert.
October 28, 1999: Guest- Richard Shindell.
November 2, 2000: Guest- Charlie Sohmer.
October 31, 2002: Guest- Corb Lund.
October 27, 2005: Guests- Matapat.
November 2, 2006: Guest- NEeMA.
November 1, 2007 (Folk Roots/Folk Branches feature): Collaborations.

--Mike Regenstreif