Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday March 23, 2021

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 – Episode #7 – was prerecorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/51327.html

Theme: A tribute to Ottawa folk music volunteer extraordinaire Bob Nesbitt, the founder and director of the Ottawa Grassroots Festival. Bob died of lung cancer at age 81 on February 27 and all of the music on this edition of Stranger Songs is by just some of the artists that Bob presented at the Ottawa Grassroots Festival over the years. Click here to read Bob's obituary in the Ottawa Citizen.

Lynn Miles- Million Brilliant
Downpour (Lynn Miles)

Moore & McGregor- Dancing Shoes
Dream with Me (Ivernia)
Connie Kaldor- Singer of the Sacred Heart
Out of the Blue (Coyote)
Sneezy Waters- Little Bird
Sneezy Waters Live (Sneezy Waters)

Shawna Caspi- Oleaster
Forest Fire (Shawna Caspi)
Old Man Luedecke- I Skipped a Stone
Easy Money (True North)
Ana Miura- Only One
Cool is the Daylight (Ana Miura)
Howie Hooper- A Telephone Ring
The Art of Procrastination (Howie Hooper)

Bob Nesbitt at the Ottawa Grassroots Festival (2017)

 

Durham County Poets- Chikkaboodah Stew
Chikkaboodah Stew (Durham County Poets)
Missy Burgess- Trouble in Mind
Missy Burgess with The Blue Train Live (Missy Burgess)
Vince Halfhide- Sonny Boy Said
Vince Halfhide (Vince Halfhide)

James Keelaghan- Cold Missouri Waters
History: The First 25 Years (Borealis)
Jessica Pearson & The East Wind- Think of Me
Grave and Garden Songs (Jessica Pearson & The East Wind)
Greg Kelly- I Only See the Sun
Ghosts (Greg Kelly)
Toasted Westerns- I Can’t Stop
Out to Lunch (Moo Music)

Russ Kelley- Whiskey Stone Blues
In Plain Sight (Ark Road Music Productions)
Tannis Slimmon- In and Out of Harmony
In and Out of Harmony (Tannis Slimmon)
Garnet Rogers- Old Campfires
Summer’s End (Snow Goose Songs)
Jamie Anderson- Remember Me
Songs from Home (Jamie Anderson)

Rick Fines- One Lone Loon
Solar Powered Too (Rick Fines)
Amanda Rheaume- Wolf of Time
Holding Patterns (Amanda Rheaume)
Ken Whiteley and the Beulah Band- Feel Just Like Goin’ On
Ken Whiteley and the Beulah Band (Borealis)

Chris White- Circle of Song
Music All Around (Chris White)

Next week – Songs Inspired by Bible Stories

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--Mike Regenstreif

Vince Halfhide – Vince Halfhide

VINCE HALFHIDE

Vince Halfhide

vincehalfhide.com

Master guitarist Vince Halfhide is a veteran Ottawa musician. Decades ago, he played with Terry Gillespie in Heaven’s Radio and in more recent years I’ve seen him as an MVP sideman for artists like Sneezy Waters and Missy Burgess. I’ve also seen him on occasion playing solo and quickly came to appreciate that he’s a fine singer-songwriter himself. I’ve long hoped that he’d release a CD that I can enjoy and share on the radio.

With the eponymously named Vince Halfhide, Vince has delivered that CD – a fine collection of 12 well-crafted original songs mostly in folk and acoustic blues veins.

The album open with “Memphis Rounder,” an infectious ragtime blues that hearkens back to the days when legends like Furry Lewis and Gus Cannon were playing for change on Beale Street in Memphis. Other tunes drawing on the blues include “Sonny Boy Said,” a tribute to delta blues legends Sonny Boy Wiliamson and Robert Johnson, and to blues mythology, featuring some hot licks from Vince’s guitar that are matched by Monkeyjunk’s Steve Marriner on harmonica, and “Devil Made Rock & Roll,” a heaven-and-hell tune on which Vince’s guitar and vocals are underpinned by producer Ken Whiteley on the organ and Rebecca Campbell’s haunting harmonies.

One of the most compelling of the folk-styled songs is “Teizo’s Song,” a ballad sung from the perspective of an immigrant who arrived in Canada from Japan in 1910 and worked hard to build a life for himself and his family only to lose his property, rights and freedoms – along with 22,000 other Japanese Canadians placed in internment camps – during the Second World War.

Other highlights include “Sleepy Little Town,” a gentle song that captures the scene in a quiet place far removed from urban life, and “The Junk Man’s Singing,” a character study featuring some nice fiddling by Rosalyn Dennett.

But my very favorite song is “Cobalt Miner’s Daughter,” a beautiful love song set in northern Ontario.

Vince will be launching Vince Halfhide with a concert on Friday September 7, 8 pm, at the Westboro Masonic Hall in Ottawa. Tickets are available at his website.

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–Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday August 18, 2018

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 … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/38929.html

Extended feature: Paul Simon.

Dave Fry- Giant

Troubadour (Dave Fry)

In memory of Aretha Franklin

Aretha Franklin- A Change is Gonna Come

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (Rhino)

Aretha Franklin- Respect

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (Rhino)

El Coyote- Lighten Up Diane

El Coyote (El Coyote)

Tom Russell- Alkali

Old Songs Yet to Sing (Frontera)

Eliza Gilkyson- Solitary Singer

Secularia (Red House)

Jimmy LaFave- Minstrel Boy Howling at the Moon

Peace Town (Music Road)

David Kaufman- The Fire Next Time (1970)

Second Promise (Sun-Street)

Kate McGarrigle- Annie

Tell My Sister (Nonesuch)

Chaim Tannenbaum- (Talk to Me of) Mendocino

Chaim Tannenbaum (StorySound)

Bob Dylan- Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right

Live 1962-1966: Rare Performances from the Copyright Collections (Columbia/Legacy)

Orit Shimoni- Hallelujah

Lost and Found on the Road to Nowhere (Orit Shimoni)

Jory Nash- Sister Station

Wilderness Years (Thin Man Records)

David Olney- Always the Stranger

This Side or the Other (Black Hen)

Zoe Speaks- Wings of a Dove

Wings (Redbird)

Joe Jencks- Shuttle & Loom

The Forgotten: Recovered Treasures from the Pen of Si Kahn (Turtle Bear Music)

Grit Laskin- Sewing Machines

Unabashedly Folk (Borealis)

Mustard's Retreat- I’m Gonna Walk It with You

Make Your Own Luck (Yellow Room)

Lucy Wainwright Roche & Suzzy Roche- Bleecker Street

Mud & Apples (Lucy Wainwright Roche & Suzzy Roche)

Eva Cassidy- Kathy’s Song

Time After Time (Blix Street)

Dawn Tyler Watson & Paul Deslauriers- Homeward Bound

En Duo (Justin Time)

Simon & Garfunkel- The Sound of Silence

Sounds of Silence (Columbia)

Caroline Doctorow- The Dangling Conversation

Dreaming in Vinyl (Narrow Lane)

Kate Campbell- America

The K.O.A. Tapes (Vol.1) (Large River Music)

Simon & Garfunkel- The Boxer

Bridge Over Troubled Water (Columbia)

Johnny Cash- Bridge Over Troubled Water

American IV: The Man Comes Around (American)

The Perusasions- Slip Sliding Away

No Frills (Rounder)

The Wailin Jennys- Loves Me Like a Rock

Fifteen (True North)

Paul Simon- Take Me to the Mardi Gras

There Goes Rhymin’ Simon (Warner Bros.)

Carrie Elkin- American Tune

The Penny Collector (Carrie Elkin) 

Melody Walker & Jacob Groopman- Graceland

We Made It Home (Maker/Mender Records)

John Stewart & Darwin's Army- Boy in the Bubble

John Stewart & Darwin’s Army (Appleseed)

Ladysmith Black Mambazo- Homeless

Live at the Royal Albert Hall (Shanachie)

Paul Simon- Diamonds on the Souls of Her Shoes

Graceland (Warner Bros.)

Sophie Milman- Shpatsir In Vald (A Walk in the Forest)

Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II (Six Degrees)

Theodore Bikel- Partizaner-March (March of the Partisans)

While I’m Here (Red House)

Leonard Cohen- The Partisan

Songs from a Room (Columbia/Legacy)

Psoy Korolenko & Isaac Rosenberg- A Shturemvint (A Storm Wind)

Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II (Six Degrees)

Vince Halfhide- Cobalt Miner’s Daughter

Vince Halfhide (Vince Halfhide)

Vince Halfhide- Sonny Boy Said

Vince Halfhide (Vince Halfhide)

Kaia Kater- Harlem’s Little Blackbird

Nine Pin (Kaia Kater)

Reggie Harris- Harlem Renaissance

Ready to Go (Reggie Harris Music)

Dakota Dave Hull- Movin’ Day

This Earthly Life (Arabica)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on September 15.

Find me on Twitter. @MikeRegenstreif

And on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif