Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – September 9, 2025: Part 1 – Songs and Conversation with author David Eisenstadt; Part 2 – Riding in My Car

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/595/71924.html

Part 1 – Songs and Conversation with author David Eisenstadt

The next three songs punctuated my conversation with David Eisenstadt, author of Jazz Musicians Under the Radar: 18 Notable Canadian Jewish Performers. Visit https://undertheradarbook.com/ for more information on David’s four Under the Radar books.

The Moe Koffman Quartette- The Swingin’ Shepherd Blues

The Swingin’ Shepherd Blues/Hambourg Bound (Quality)

Sophie Milman- No More Blues (Chega de Saudade)

In the Moonlight (Eone)

Nikki Yanofsky- West Coast Blues

Nikki By Starlight (MNRK Music Group)

Part 2 – Riding in My Car – featuring songs that have something or other to do with cars.

Woody Guthrie- Riding in My Car

Woody’s 20 Grow Big Songs (Rising Son)

Connie Kaldor- This Car

Wide Open Spaces (Coyote Entertainment)

David Mallett- Daddy’s Oldsmobile

Parallel Lives (Flying Fish)

Judy Mayhan- Morning and an Oldsmobile

Judy Mayhan (Decca)

Bruce Springsteen- Used Cars

Nebraska (Columbia)

Vance Gilbert- Cousin Shelly’s Station Wagon

Good Good Man (Disismye Music)

Joni Mitchell- Ray’s Dad’s Cadillac

Night Drive Home (Geffen)

Rosanne Cash- Black Cadillac

Black Cadillac (Capitol)

Eric Bibb- Pink Dream Cadillac

Blues People (Stony Plain)

The Blasters- Long White Cadillac

Mandatory: The Best of The Blasters (Liberation Hall)

Dropkick Murphys- Cadillac, Cadillac

This Machine Still Kills Fascists: Lyrics of Woody Guthrie (Dummy Luck Music)

The Beach Boys- Little Deuce Coupe

Fifty Big Ones: Greatest Hits (Capitol)

Asleep at the Wheel- Hot Rod Lincoln

Western Standard Time (Epic)

Chuck Berry- Jaguar and Thunderbird

Best of the Chess Years (Not Now Music)

Ray Harris- Big Old American Cars

Kinda Sets the Tone (Ray Harris)

Sass Jordan- Chevrolet

Bitches Blues (Stony Plain)

Victor Mecyssne- Ragtop Automobile

Personal Mercury (Villa Vee Music)

Hans Theessink- Mercury Blues

Songs from the Southland (Blue Groove)

Rod Abernathy- Just Get in the Car

Normal Isn’t Normal Anymore (Songs from Downstairs)

Next week: Songs of Townes Van Zandt.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday October 31, 2023: Halloween

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/595/62553.html

Theme: Halloween and CKCU Funding Drive.

I’ve been involved in community radio, first in Montreal at CKUT, and now in Ottawa at CKCU, for almost 30 years and I truly love the diversity of programming that you only find on community radio stations like CKCU. 

It’s only at community radio stations that people like me have the freedom to curate and host our shows without regard to commercial concerns. CKCU has shows that reflect very rare diversity in genres, artists, songs, and communities – and we’re only able to do that with your support. 

All of us who create programs at CKCU are dedicated volunteers. I know that I work hard to create interesting programs each week on CKCU and I think my programming is unique. But that’s one of the great things about community radio – all of the programs are unique. 

So, please click on this link to show your support for Stranger Songs and CKCU, and help us stay on the air for another year. https://www.canadahelps.org/me/6rEQFU7Z

Bodie Wagner- Halloween

Vintage (Bodie Wagner)

Fourtold- Panther in Michigan

Fourtold (Appleseed)

Fourtold- The Nine Little Goblins

Fourtold (Appleseed)

Erynn Marshall & Carl Jones- Halloween Wedding March

Old Tin (Dittyville Music)

Jack Hardy- The Halloween Parade

The Passing (Prime CD)

Lambert, Hendricks & Ross- Halloween Spooks

The Hottest New Group in Jazz (Columbia/Legacy)

Skinner & T’witch- Halloween

The Fool’s Journey (Skinner & T’witch)

Laurie MacAllister- Are You Happy Now?

The Lies the Poets Tell (Laurie MacAllister)

John & Sheila Ludgate- Halloween Dad

The Kitchen Sessions (John & Sheila Ludgate) 

Loudon Wainwright III- Halloween 2009

10 Songs for the New Depression (Proper)

David Massengill- Come Take a Ride on My Broom

Mogana’s Sleepover and the Witch’s Hand (David Massengill)

David Massengill- The Witch’s Menu

Mogana’s Sleepover and the Witch’s Hand (David Massengill)

Stan Rogers- The Witch of the Westmorland

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

Donovan- Season of the Witch

Donovan’s Greatest Hits (Epic)

Ella Fitzgerald- Ding Dong! The Wicked Witch is Dead

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook (Verve)

Rockapella- Zombie Jamboree

Modern A Cappella (Rhino)

Vance Gilbert- Zombie Pattycake

Good Good Man (Disismye Music)

Vance Gilbert- The Day Before November

Good Good Man (Disismye Music)

Cab Calloway- The Ghost of Smokey Joe

St. James Infirmary (CTS)

Ray Bierl- Big Joe and Phantom 309

Any Place I Hang My Hat (Greasy String Productions)

The Balladeers- Tiptoe Through the Ghosties

It’s About Time (The Balladeers)

Count Basie- Trick or Treat

Hall of Fame (Verve)

Next week: Addendums to Past Themes.

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday July 15, 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/128/61213.html

Bill Camplin- Mr. Tambourine Man

Bob Dylan Project One (Bill Camplin)

Saul Broudy & Mike Regenstreif (1993)

Saul Broudy- Cool Colorado

Ten Great Years at Kerrville, Volume One (Silverwolf)

Rosalie Sorrels- Then Came the Children

Then Came the Children (Green Linnet)

John Stewart- July, You’re a Woman

California Bloodlines (Capitol)

Ed Snodderly- Better Just Ride the Mule

Chimney Smoke (Need to Know Music)

Montreal- A Summer’s Night

A Summer’s Night (Stormy Forest)

Johnny Rivers- Summer Rain

A Touch of Gold/Wild Night (BGO)

Kat Goldman- Summersong

Gypsy Girl (Kat Goldman)

The Lovin’ Spoonful- Summer in the City

Hums of The Lovin’ Spoonful (Sony/Legacy)

Lara Wong with Melón Jiménez- A compás en Usera

Rosa de los Vientos (Lara Wong)

James Talley- La Rosa Montaña

The Road to Torreon (Cimarron)

Perla Batalla- Cuando Sale la Luna

Discoteca Batalla (Mechuda Music)

Michael Jerome Browne- Reverend Strut

Gettin’ Together (Borealis/Stony Plain)

Bruce Cockburn- To Keep the World We Know

O Sun O Moon (True North)

Tim Grimm- Sowin’ on the Mountain

Heart Land Again (Vault)

Aleksi Campagne- Rome

For the Giving/Sans Rien Donner (Aleksi Campagne)

The Scooches- Stop This Climate Change

Lift You Up (On the Bol)

Crowes Pasture- Barranco

Don’t Blink (Crowes Pasture)

David Bradstreet- The Land Beyond

Hindsight (David Bradstreet)

Johnny Eaton- This is Migration

here’s the thing (Johnny Eaton)

The Klezmatics- Dzhankoye

Live at Town Hall (Klezmatics Disc)

Rod MacDonald- Heal the World

Rants and Romance (Blue Flute Music)

Eliza Gilkyson- World Keeps on Singing

Home (Realiza)

Stephen Fearing- Christine

Vejpoesi (Stephen Fearing)

Christine Graves- Hitting My Stride

Everyday Life (Christine Graves)

Matt Andersen- Shoes

The Big Bottle of Joy (Sonic)

Jason Lang- Handle with Care

Handled with Care (Famgroup/Genison Music)

Anat Cohen & Marcello Gonçalves- Never Dreamed You’d Leave in Summer

Reconvexo (Anzic)

Too Sad for the Public featuring Ana Egge- Railroad Bill (pt 1)

Too Sad for the Public, Vol.2 – Yet and Still: Traditional American Folk Song-Stirring by Dick Connette (StorySound)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle & Roma Baran- Willie Moore

Tell My Sister (Nonesuch)

Peggy Seeger- Tell My Sister

Sing Me the Songs: Celebrating the Works of Kate McGarrigle (Nonesuch)

Rufus Wainwright & John Legend- Heading for Home

Folkocracy (BMG)

Too Sad for the Public featuring Chaim Tannenbaum- Railroad Bill (pt 2)

Too Sad for the Public, Vol.2 – Yet and Still: Traditional American Folk Song-Stirring by Dick Connette (StorySound)

Vance Gilbert- Black Rochelle

The Mother of Trouble (Vance Gilbert)

Katie Dahl- Both Doors Open

Seven Stones (Leaky Boat)

Terre & Maggie Roche- Moonruns

Kin Ya See That Sun (Earth Rock Wreckerds)

Owen Walsh-Well Well, Hey Hey, Bye Bye

On My Way (Wrong Road)

Allison Brown- Tomorrow Night

Just Another Memory (Allison Brown)

Bob Dylan- Queen Jane Approximately

Shadow Kingdom (Columbia/Legacy)

Duke Robillard- Watching the River Flow

Six Strings of Steel (M.C.)

The Silas Powell Band- All Along the Watchtower

Makin’ a Run (East Run)

Socalled (Josh Dolgin) with The Kaiser Quartett- Roumanishe Kretchme

Di Frosh and other Yiddish Songs (Membran)

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

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday May 10, 2022: “Rooty Toot Toot for the Moon”

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/595/56173.html

Theme: “Rooty Toot Toot for the Moon”

Tom Paxton- Looking for the Moon
Looking for the Moon (Appleseed)

Over the Moon- Over the Moon
Moondancer (Over the Moon)
Shelley Posen- Ontario Moon
Ontario Moon (Well Done Music)
Leon Redbone- Shine On Harvest Moon
Double Time (Warner Bros.)
Chaim Tannenbaum- It’s Only a Paper Moon
Chaim Tannenbaum (StorySound)

Patti Casey with Paul Asbell- Blue Moon
Just an Old Sweet Song (Long Shot Music)
Martha Seyler & Robert Resnik- Blue Moon of Kentucky
Martha Sings & Robert Plays (Martha Seyler & Robert Resnik)
Pat Alger- Once in a Very Blue Moon
True Love & Other Short Stories (Sugar Hill)

Noel Paul Stookey- I’ll Be Seeing You
Fazz: Now & Then (Neworld Multimedia)

Mike Regenstreif & Erik Frandsen (1976) photo: Felicity Fanjoy

Erik Frandsen- Dig That Moon
Antiques: New & Used (Erik Frandsen)
Nanci Griffith- Grapefruit Moon
Ruby’s Torch (Rounder)
Billie Holiday- I Wished On the Moon
Songs for Distingué Lovers (Verve)
Durham County Poets- The Moon Won’t Go Down
Hand Me Down Blues (Durham County Poets)

Ben Bullington- Ring Around the Moon
White Sulphur Springs (Ben Bullington)
Lily Henley- Alta Alta Va La Luna
Oras Dezaoradas (Lior Éditions)
Perla Batalla- Cuando Sale la Luna
Discoteca Batalla (Mechuda Music)
Tom Russell- Walking On the Moon
Old Songs Yet to Sing (Frontera)

Maggie & Terre Roche- Underneath the Moon
Where Do I Come From: Selected Songs (StorySound)
Kevin Head- Full Moon
Hear Them Callin’ (Kevin Head)
Ian Tyson- Horsethief Moon
Eighteen Inches of Rain (Stony Plain)

Mike Regenstreif, Tom Paxton & Joel Mabus (2001) phto: Janice Hanson

Joel Mabus- The Moon May Never Shine This Way Again
Time & Truth (Fossil)
Vance Gilbert- Unfamiliar Moon
Unfamiliar Moon (Disismye Music)
Missy Burgess- Drive to the Moon
Play Me Sweet (Missy Burgess)
David Francey- Big Texas Moon
Empty Train (Laker Music)

Lui Collins- Rooty Toot Toot for the Moon
Baptism of Fire (Green Linnet)

Next week: These Songs are for the Birds.

Find me on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday February 1, 2020

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 http://www.ckcufm.com/ on the web.

This episode of Saturday Morning can be streamed on-demand at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/46720.html

Eliza Meyer & Sam Gleaves- Hello Stranger

Hello Stranger (Eliza Meyer)

In memory of masterful singer-songwriter David Olney. David died January 18 of an apparent heart attack while performing at a festival in Florida. He was 71. I was already an admirer of David's songs and albums when I met him in 1997 when I was MC of the Rounder Records showcase at the Folk Alliance International conference in Toronto and he was one of the performers. His performance there was stunning. I took this photo during a late night showcase at the 2017 Folk Alliance International conference in Kansas City.

David Olney- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Women Across the River (Strictly Music)

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

Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions (Asylum)

The Wailin’ Jennys- Deeper Well

The Wailin’ Jennys (The Wailin’ Jennys)

Mimi Fariña- If My Eyes Were Blind

Solo (Philo)

David Olney- Women Across the River

Women Across the River (Strictly Music)

In memory of Bob Shane, the last of the original members of The Kingston Trio. Bob died January 26. He was 85.

The Kingston Trio- Scotch and Soda

The Kingston Trio (Capitol)

Stephen Mendel- Song for a Winter’s Night

Sing Me a Story (Stephen Mendel)

Miranda Mulholland- Heart Like a Wheel

By Appointment or Chance (Roaring Girl)

Catherine MacLellan- Coyote

Coyote (Catherine MacLellan)

Annette Wasilik- Chincoteague

Love & Fire (Azalea City)

SONiA disappear fear- Picture Perfect

Small House No Secrets Composer’s Cut (Disappear)

Don Bray- Thank You My Friend

I Bless the Wounds (Don Bray)

Sneezy Waters- Papa’s on the Housetop

Sneezy Waters (Sneezy Waters)

Lynne Hanson- Hemmingway’s Songbird

Just Words (Lynne Hanson)

David Francey- Night and Morning

The Broken Heart of Everything (Laker)

Extended feature: A Tribute to Sonny Terry (1911-1986) & Brownie McGhee (1915-1996). Some of the next 16 songs were written by Sonny Terry and/or Brownie McGhee. All were from their repertoire.

Peter, Paul & Mary- Tryin’ to Win

See What Tomorrow Brings (Warner Bros.)

John Jackon- Red River Blues

Front Porch Blues (Alligator)

The Whiteley Brothers- Custard Pie

Bluesology (Pyramid)

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- Rock Island Line

Blues Masters, Vol. 5 (Storyville)

Happy Traum- Careless Love Blues

Just for the Love of It (Lark’s Nest Music)

Andy Cohen- Spread the News Around

Road Be Kind (Earwig)

Odetta- Stranger Here

Sometimes I Feel Like Cryin’ (RCA)

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- Confusion

Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry Sing (Smithsonian Folkways)

Tim Williams- Sportin’ Life Blues

Evenings Among Friends (Cayuse)

Sweet Honey in the Rock- Midnight Special

A Tribute: Live! Jazz at Lincoln Centre (Appleseed)

Guy Davis & Fabrizio Poggi- Baby Please Don’t Go Back to New Orleans

Sonny & Brownie’s Last Train (M.C.)

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee with Chris Barber- No Worries on My Mind

London, 1958 (Jasmine)

Penny Lang- Trouble in Mind

Gather Honey (Borealis)

Durham County Poets- I’ve Been Living with the Blues

Hand Me Down Blues (Durham County Poets)

Robert Jones & Matt Watroba- Walk On

Common Chords (Common Chords Records)

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- That’s Why I’m Walking

Back to New Orleans (Fantasy)

Susan Werner- Napoleon

NOLA: Susan Werner Goes to New Orleans (Sleeve Dog)

Michael Doucet- Walking on a Mardi Gras Day

Lâcher Prise (Compass)

Lyle Lovett- God Will

Lyle Lovett (Curb/MCA)

Judy Collins & Jonas Fjeld with Chatham County Line- The Fallow Way

Winter Stories (Wildflower/Cleopatra)

John Prine- Storm Windows

Souvenirs (Oh Boy)

Leonard Cohen- Moving On

Thanks for the Dance (Columbia/Legacy)

Perla Batalla- So Long, Marianne

Bird on the Wire: The Songs of Leonard Cohen (Mechuda Music)

Vance Gilbert- Pie & Whiskey

Good Good Man (Disismye Music)

Tom Russell- Canadian Whiskey

Old Songs Yet to Sing (Frontera)

Windborne- Chilly Winds

Recollections/Revolutions (Wand’ring Feet Records)

Leigh Cline- Galatia

Galatia (Scimitar)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on February 29. The extended feature will be Songs of Phil Ochs.

Find me on Twitter. @MikeRegenstreif

And on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday July 22, 2017

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 at 93.1 FM in Ottawa and http://www.ckcufm.com/ on the web.

This episode of Saturday Morning can be streamed on-demand at http://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/33334.html.

Extended theme – Songs of Joni Mitchell.

Jayme Stone, Dom Flemons & Ron Miles- Buttermilk

Jayme Stone’s Folklife (Borealis)

Karen Dalton- Same Old Man

In My Own Time (Light in the Attic)

Too Sad for the Public w/Suzzy Roche- Black River Falls

Oysters Ice Cream Lemonade: American Folk Fantasies Written and Arranged by Dick Connette (StorySound)

Ben Bullington- Lazy Moon

Lazy Moon (Ben Bullington)

Tim Grimm & the Family Band- Thirteen Years

A Stranger in This Time (Vault)

Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer- I Go Like the Raven

Drum Hat Buddha (Signature Sounds)

Billy & Bryn Bright- Jerusalem Café

Billy & Bryn Bright (Blue Corn)

Joe Jencks- Let Me Sing You a Song

Poets, Philosophers, Workers & Wanderers (Turtle Bear Music)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Well May the World Go/Letter from Pete’s Banjo

Get Up and Do Right (Community Music)

Pete Seeger w/Arlo Guthrie & Shenendoah- Precious Friend You Will Be There

Precious Friend (Warner Bros.)

Deborah Robins- The Keweenaw Light

Home Fires (Zippety Whippet)

The Malvinas- How Can I Keep from Singing

God Bless the Grass (Soona Songs)

Mason Daring & Jeanie Stahl- River

The Early Years (Daring)

Tom Russell- When the Wolves No Longer Sing

Play One More: The Songs of Ian & Sylvia (True North)

Tom Russell- Up in the Old Hotel

Folk Hotel (Frontera)

Louis Armstrong- I Guess I’ll Get the Papers and Go Home

What a Wonderful World (MCA)

Tom Rush- Tin Angel

The Circle Game (Elektra)

Judy Collins- Chelsea Morning

Forever: An Anthology (Elektra)

Ian & Sylvia- The Circle Game

So Much for Dreaming (Vanguard)

Joni Mitchell- For Free

Ladies of the Canyon (Reprise)

Caroline Herring- Cactus Tree

Golden Apples of the Sun (Signature Sounds)

Dave Van Ronk- That Song About the Midway

Sunday Street (Philo)

Tigger Outlaw- Songs to Aging Children

Alice’s Restaurant soundtrack (Ryko)

Mike Beck- Carey

Mariposa Wind (Reata)

Joni Mitchell- Little Green

Blue (Reprise)

Marjan Cornille- A Case of You

Won’t You Try (Munich)

Robin & Linda Williams- Urge for Going

Back 40 (Red House)

Bob Dylan- Big Yellow Taxi

Dylan (Columbia/Legacy)

Robinlee Garber- Amelia

Resilience (Robinlee Garber)

Joni Mitchell- The Silky Veils of Ardor

Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter (Asylum)

Pete Seeger- Both Sides Now

Young vs. Old (Columbia)

Lynn Miles w/Keith Glass- My Road

Road (Lynn Miles)

Jack Williams- Banks of the Edisto

Far Away, Long Ago (Wind River)

John McCutcheon- Between Good and Gone

Trolling for Dreams (Appalseeds)

Vance Gilbert- Old White Men

Old White Men (Disismye Music)

Jean Ritchie & Sons- My Dear Companion

Mountain Born (Greenhays)

J. Reissner- Drunk Companion

Portrait in Blue (J. Reissner)

Claire Lynch- If Wishes Were Horses

Crowd Favorites (Rounder)

The Sherman Holmes Project- Rock of Ages

The Richmond Sessions (M.C.)

Andy Cohen- Road Be Kind

Road Be Kind (Earwig)

Andy Cohen- Windy and Warm

Road Be Kind (Earwig)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on August 19. The extended theme will be Songs of Tom Russell.

Find me on Twitter. @MikeRegenstreif

And on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif