Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – April 14, 2026: Conversation and Songs with David Eisenstadt; Ruination 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/595/74924.html

Themes: Part 1 – Conversation and Songs with David Eisenstadt; Part 2 – Ruination Day.

Part 1 – Conversation and Songs with David Eisenstadt

David Eisenstadt is author of Rock Musicians Under the Radar: 18 Notable Canadian Jewish Performers, the fifth in his series of Under the Radar books. https://undertheradarbook.com/

Robbie Robertson- Somewhere Down the Crazy River

Testimony (Universal)

The Lovin’ Spoonful- Blues in the Bottle

Do You Believe in Magic (Sony/Legacy)

Danny Marks- Heading Down to New Orleans

Cities in Blue (Danny Marks)

Marc Jordan- Waiting for the Sun to Rise

Waiting for the Sun to Rise (Linus)

Barenaked Ladies- If I Had $1,000,000

Gordon (Reprise/Sire)

Part 2 – Ruination Day

In her songs, “April the 14th (Part 1)” and “Ruination Day (Part 2),” Gillian Welch reminded us that the shooting of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth in 1865, the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, and Black Sunday, the biggest dust storm of the Depression-era Dust Bowl in 1935, all occurred on April 14. 

Gillian Welch- April the 14th (Part 1)

Time (The Revelator) (Acony/Stony Plain)

Tony Rice- John Wilkes Booth

Night Flyer: The Singer-Songwriter Collection (Rounder)

Uncle Earl- Booth Shot Lincoln

She Waits for Night (Rounder)

Lead Belly- Abraham Lincoln

Bourgeois Blues: Lead Belly Legacy, Vol. 2 (Smithsonian Folkways)

Eric Bibb & JJ Milteau- Titanic

Lead Belly’s Gold (Stony Plain)

Pete Seeger- Titanic (When That Great Ship Went Down)

Headlines & Footnotes: A Collection of Topical Songs (Smithsonian Folkways)

Mance Lipscomb- God Moves on the Water

Newport Folk Festival – Best of the Blues 1959-68 (Vanguard)

David Olney- Titanic

Eye of the Storm (Philo)

Woody Guthrie- The Great Dust Storm (Dust Storm Disaster)

Dust Bowl Ballads (Rounder)

Crowes Pasture- Going Down the Road Feeling Bad

Crowes Pasture (Crowes Pasture)

Woody Guthrie- Dust Bowl Refugee

Dust Bowl Ballads (Rounder)

Jimmy LaFave- My Oklahoma Home (It Blowed Away)

Peace Town (Music Road)

James Talley- So Long It’s Been Good to Know You

Woody Guthrie and Songs of My Oklahoma Home (Cimarron)

Gillian Welch- Ruination Day (Part 2)

Time (The Revelator) (Acony/Stony Plain)

Next week: Swingtime in Springtime.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday May 16, 2023: Remembering Gordon Lightfoot

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 recorded and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/60419.html

Theme: Remembering Gordon Lightfoot (1938-2023).

One of our greatest singer-songwriters – whose songs have done much to help define Canadian identity and culture – Gordon Lightfoot passed away on May 1st at age 84.

Gordon Lightfoot- Long River

The Original Lightfoot (EMI)

Bruce Cockburn- Ribbon of Darkness

Beautiful: A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot (Borealis/NorthernBlues)

Matthew Alexander- Steel Rail Blues

Soul River (Caravan)

Ilsey Juber- The Way I Feel

Ladies Sing Lightfoot (Sunset Blvd.)

Gordon Lightfoot- Bitter Green

Songbook (Warner Archives/Rhino)

Johnny Cash- For Lovin’ Me

The Man in Black 1963-’69, Plus (Bear Family)

George Hamilton IV- Did She Mention My Name

In the 4th Dimension (RCA)

Stephen Fearing- Early Morning Rain

Vejpoesi (Stephen Fearing)

Gordon Lightfoot- Alberta Bound

Songbook (Warner Archives/Rhino)

Murray McLauchlan- Home from the Forest

Beautiful: A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot (Borealis/NorthernBlues)

Katy Moffatt- Canadian Railroad Trilogy

Ladies Sing Lightfoot (Sunset Blvd.)

Connie Kaldor- If You Could Read My Mind

Beautiful: A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot (Borealis/NorthernBlues)

Gordon Lightfoot- Cold on the Shoulder

Songbook (Warner Archives/Rhino)

The Kennedys- Cotton Jenny

Ladies Sing Lightfoot (Sunset Blvd.)

Special Consensus- Brave Mountaineers

Great Blue North (Compass)

John McLachlan with Marc Atkinson & Scott White- The Patriot’s Dream

50 Years Since Don Quixote: A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot (John McLachlan)

Gordon Lightfoot- The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Songbook (Warner Archives/Rhino)

Darling West- Sundown

Ladies Sing Lightfoot (Sunset Blvd.)

Tony Rice- Walls

Tony Rice Sings Gordon Lightfoot (Rounder) 

Quartette- Song for a Winter’s Night

Rocks and Roses (Outside Music)

Gordon Lightfoot- A Painter Passing Through

A Painter Passing Through (Reprise)

Next week: The traditional folk and blues songs of Bob Dylan.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday January 30, 2021

Saturday Morning is an eclectic roots-oriented program on CKCU in Ottawa heard live on Saturday mornings from 7 until 10 am (Eastern time) and then available for on-demand streaming. I am one of the four rotating hosts of Saturday Morning and base my programming on the Folk Roots/Folk Branches format I developed at CKUT in Montreal.

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 prerecorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/50641.html

 

Missy Burgess with The Blue Train- Blue Dog Man
Live (Missy Burgess)

In memory of Tony Rice (1951-2020).

J.D. Crowe & The New South- Summer Wages
J.D. Crowe & The New South (Rounder)
The David Grisman Quintet- Swing 51
The David Grisman Quintet (Kaleidescope)
Tony Rice- Home from the Forest
Tony Rice Sings Gordon Lightfoot (Rounder)

Andy Cohen- Uncle Stinky
Small But Mighty (Earwig)
Marc Nerenberg- Leave Behind My Bones: Three Birds and Me
Little Birdie: Birds, Beasts & Banjo Blues (Marc Nerenberg)
Rick Fines- Laundry on the Line
Solar Powered Too (Rick Fines)
Christine Lavin- My Sister Mary & My Mother
On My Way to Hooterville (Christine Lavin)

Happy & Artie Traum- Love Song to a Girl in an Old Photograph
Double-Back (Capitol)
Huxtable, Christensen & Hood- Oldest of Friends
Wallflowers (Philo)
Tom Mitchell- When Nobody’s Looking
Old Cloth (Yabut Music)
Kim Wallach- Settle In (Chatter of the Finches)
Chatter of the Finches (Black Socks Press)

Bill Staines- Rompin’ Rovin’ Days
Journey Home (Red House)
Penny Lang- Come Across to You
Gather Honey (Borealis)
Bruce Murdoch- Fool Like Me
Bruce Murdoch (Radio Canada International)
Bill Staines- River
Going to the West (Red House)

Extended Feature – A salute to Borealis Records. The next 16 songs are drawn from a small sampling of albums released by Borealis Records over a 25-year period from 1995 to 2020.

Gathering Sparks- Bringing in the Light
All That’s Real (Borealis)
Jon Brooks- Todos Caminamos Por Este Caminito
No One Travels Alone (Borealis)
Shari Ulrich- Canada
Back to Shore (Borealis)
Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project- Lazy John
Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project (Borealis)

Ron Hynes- Get Back Change
Get Back Change (Borealis)
Paul Mills- Stubbs Stomp
The Other Side of the Glass (Borealis)
James Keelaghan- Safe Home
House of Cards (Borealis)
Mighty Popo- Gakondo
Gakondo (Borealis)

Grit Laskin- A Few Simple Words
A Few Simple Words (Borealis)
Bill Garrett & Sue Lothrop- The Hill
Red Shoes (Borealis)
Braden Gates- Lipstick on a Coffee Cup
Kitchen Days (Borealis)
Laura Smith- On the Road to Glory
As Long As I’m Dreaming (Borealis)

Michael Jerome Browne- If Memphis Don’t Kill Me
The Road is Dark (Borealis)
Ken Whiteley- Hands On That Guitar
Ken Whiteley and the Beulah Band (Borealis)
Jackie Washington- You Meet the Nicest People in Your Dreams
The World of Jackie Washington (Borealis)
Beyond the Pale- Ruckus in Ralja
Ruckus (Borealis)

Ana Egge- This Time
This Time – single (StorySound)
The Afro-Métis Nation (featuring Russ Kelley)- We Need a Lot More Love
Constitution (The Afro-Métis Nation)
Len Seligman- Love is the Answer
Our Time Now (Emerging Light Music)
Maria Dunn- Love Carries Me
Joyful Banner Blazing (Distant Whisper)

Tret Fure- Far Too Fast
Stone by Stone (Tomboy girl Records)
Crowes Pasture- Quarantine
Quarantine – single (Crowes Pasture)
Mike Glick- The Bear (COVID Blues)
The Bear (COVID Blues) – single (Mike Glick)
Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Hold Each Other Up
Hold Each Other Up – single (Community Music)

SONiA disappear fear- Best Part of Kissing You
Small House No Secrets Composer’s Cut (Disappear)
Katy Moffatt- Whistlin’ in the Dark
Chrysalis (Sunset Blvd. Records)
Tom Russell- St. Olav’s Gate
Old Songs Yet to Sing (Frontera)
Ball and Chain & The Wreckers- Infinite Blue
Surrender (Ball and Chain)

Don Armstrong- Going to Paris
Mother Don’t Give Up on Me Now (Ronstadt Record Co.)
Kat Goldman- Letter from Paris
Gypsy Girl (Kat Goldman)
Nikki Matheson- It’s Still Raining in Paris
Invisible Angel (Nikki Matheson)

Hoyle Osborne- Rum and Soda
Panazon (Ripple)

Announcement: I have a new weekly show on CKCU called Stranger Songs that will debut on Tuesday, February 9 from 3:30 until 5 pm. Expect an eclectic, roots-based show that will often revolve around a specific theme. Like all CKCU shows, Stranger Songs will be available 24/7 for on-demand streaming.

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on February 27.

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--Mike Regenstreif