Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday July 27, 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 was prerecorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/52841.html

Theme: Hourglass – Songs and Conversation with Murray McLauchlan

These 13 songs punctuated my conversation with Murray McLauchlan. The conversation was recorded June 14 on Zoom.

Tom Rush- Child’s Song
Tom Rush/Wrong End of the Rainbow (BGO)

Tom Rush- Old Man’s Song
Tom Rush/Wrong End of the Rainbow (BGO)

Murray McLauchlan- Farmer’s Song
Songs from the Street: The Best of Murray McLauchlan (True North)

Murray McLauchlan- Honky Red
Songs from the Street: The Best of Murray McLauchlan (True North)

Murray McLauchlan- The One Percent
Hourglass (True North)

Murray McLauchlan- A Thomson Day (For Tom Thomson)
Hourglass (True North)

Murray McLauchlan- America
Hourglass (True North)

Murray McLauchlan- Hourglass
Hourglass (True North)

Murray McLauchlan- I Live on a White Cloud (For George Floyd)
Hourglass (True North)

Murray McLauchlan- Lying By the Sea (For Alan Kurdi)
Hourglass (True North)

Murray McLauchlan- Pandemic Blues
Hourglass (True North)

Murray McLauchlan- Shining City On a Hill
Hourglass (True North)

Murray McLauchlan- Wishes
Hourglass (True North)

Next week: Celebrating David Amram and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott at 90

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And on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday July 20, 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 was prerecorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/52778.html

Theme: Remembering Mimi Fariña

Mimi Fariña – the younger sister of Joan Baez and the musical partner and widow of important singer, songwriter and author Richard Fariña – passed away 20 years ago this week on July 18, 2001 from cancer at the young age of 56. Most of the show is devoted to a concert recorded in 1988 for German radio.

Mimi & Richard Fariña- Pack Up Your Sorrows
Celebrations for a Grey Day (Vanguard)

Mimi was an activist and in 1974, she founded a non-profit organization called Bread & Roses in the San Francisco Bay area that presents more than 600 concerts per year in institutions ranging from children's day care centres and special needs schools, to hospitals, adult and juvenile detention facilities, homeless shelters, adult recovery centers, nursing homes and seniors’ day centres.

Mimi named her organization Bread & Roses after reading James Oppenheim’s poem, Bread & Roses, written in honor of the women garment workers on strike in 1912 in Lawrence, Massachusetts. The strike became known as the Bread & Roses strike because of its slogan – “Give us bread, but give us roses, too.” Mimi set the poem to music and it became the title song of Judy Collins’ 1976 album, Bread and Roses.

Judy Collins- Bread and Roses
Bread and Roses (Elektra)

The concert by Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger -- recorded February 2nd, 1988 by Michael Kleff for German radio -- is available on a CD called Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses. It is available from the Bread & Roses website at this link.

Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger- Best of Friends
Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses (Dogfish Music)
Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger- Children of Darkness
Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses (Dogfish Music)
Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger- I Can See Clearly Now
Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses (Dogfish Music)
Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger- Dandelion
Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses (Dogfish Music)
Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger- Old Woman
Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses (Dogfish Music)

Mimi & Richard Fariña- Dog Blue  
Celebrations for a Grey Day (Vanguard)

Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger- Mr. Rudy
Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses (Dogfish Music)
Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger- Come Get Me Shoes
Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses (Dogfish Music)
Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger- Less Than the Song
Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses (Dogfish Music)
Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger- Deep Feelings
Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses (Dogfish Music)

Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger- Sad Cities
Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses (Dogfish Music)
Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger- Mama Tried
Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses (Dogfish Music)
Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger- If My Eyes Were Blind
Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses (Dogfish Music)

Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger- Big Party
Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses (Dogfish Music)
Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger- Daniel Prayed
Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses (Dogfish Music)
Mimi Fariña with Lowell Levinger- Defying Gravity
Live in Germany: To Benefit Bread & Roses (Dogfish Music)

Joan Baez- Sweet Sir Galahad
Live at Woodstock (Craft)
Pete Seeger- The Quiet Joys of Brotherhood
God Bless the Grass (Columbia/Legacy)
Rhiannon Giddens- Birmingham Sunday
Freedom Highway (Nonesuch)
Caroline Doctorow- Reflections in a Crystal Wind
Another Country: The Songs of Mimi and Richard Fariña (Narrow Lane)

Next week – Hourglass: Songs and conversation with Murray McLauchlan

Find me on Twitter. www.twitter.com/mikeregenstreif

And on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday July 17, 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/128/52768.html

 

Murray McLauchlan- Wishes
Hourglass (True North)

Hannah Shira Naiman- Vinegar Pie
Vinegar Pie – single (Rosietta)
Jared Rabin- Hey Mister Doctor
Cold Rain and Snow (Golden Twine Music)
David Holt- Ready for the Times to Get Better
David Holt & The Lightning Bolts (High Windy Audio)
Adeline- Red Prairie Dawn
Adeline (Owl)
Sons of the Never Wrong- Set Us to Prayin’
Undertaker’s Songbook (Sons 3)

Marc Nerenberg- Trouble in Mind
Times Ain’t Nuthin’ Like They Used to Be (Marc Nerenberg)
Michael J. Miles with Jackie Allen- When Things Go Wrong
New Century Suite (Right Turn On Red Music)
Harrison Kennedy- Takin’ It Back
Who U Tellin’? (Electro-Fi)

Allison Russell- Persephone
Outside Child (Fantasy)
Allison Russell- 4th Day Prayer
Outside Child (Fantasy)

Po’ Girl- Ain’t Life Sweet
Home to You (Nettwerk)
The Lucky Sisters- Stone + Sand + Sea + Sky
So Lucky (Patio)
Durham County Poets & Michael Jerome Browne- Diamonds on the Water
Grimshaw Road (Durham County Poets)
Penny Lang- High Muddy Water
Stone + Sand + Sea + Sky (Borealis)
The Greenbriar Boys- Roll On John
Big Apple Bluegrass (Vanguard)

Tom Russell- Tonight We Ride
Old Songs Yet to Sing (Frontera)
Ian Tyson- Gallo del Cielo
Old Corrals and Sagebrush & Other Cowboy Culture Classics (Stony Plain)

Reggie Harris- Standing in Freedom’s Name
On Solid Ground (Reggie Harris Music)
Tom Prasada-Rao- A Change is Gonna Come
A Change is Gonna Come – single (Simple Gift)
Eliza Gilkyson & Jimmy LaFave- Down by the Riverside
Secularia (Red House)

The Easy Riders featuring Terry Gilkyson- The Green Leaves of Summer
Folk Songs You’ll Like (Jasmine)
Al Grierson- The Petals
The Petals (Folkin’ Eh)

Annie Gallup- Little Theater
Oh Everything (Galway Bay Music)
Kate McDonnell- Pilgrim
Ballad of a Bad Girl (Dog Eared Discs)
Chris Ronald- City Girl
Light & Dark (Borealis)
Erin Ash Sullivan- Train from Gary
We Can Hear Each Other (Willoughby)
Amy Speace with The Orphan Brigade- Shotgun Hearts
There Used to Be Horses Here (Windbone)

Bùmarang- Shot of Jamie
Echo Land (Fallen Tree)

Mark Schatz & Bryan McDowell- There Ain’t Nobody Here but Us Chickens
Grit & Polish (Patuxent Music)
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown- Salt Pork, West Virginia
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown Sings Louis Jordan (Black & Blue)
Buster Poindexter & Soozie Tyrell- Saturday Night Fish Fry
Buster’s Happy Hour (Rhino)
Louis Jordan- Choo Choo Ch’Boogie
The Rock ‘n’ Roll Years 1955-1958 (Jasmine)

Guy Davis & Mike Regenstreif (2006)

Guy Davis- Badonkadonk Train
Be Ready When I Call You (M.C.)
Maria Muldaur with Tuba Skinny- Delta Bound
Let’s Get Happy Together (Stony Plain)
Odetta- Empty Pocket Blues
Sometimes I Feel Like Cryin’ (RCA)
Barbara Dane- Ain’t Nobody Got the Blues Like Me
Trouble In Mind (Dreadnaught)

Kelly's Lot- Jealous Hearted Blues
Where or When (Kelly Zirbes)
Rob Lutes- That Bird Has My Wings
Come Around (Lucky Bear)
Donna Herula- I Got No Way Home
Bang at the Door (Donna Herula)
Jon Shain & FJ Ventre- Den Bosch Blues
Never Found a Way to Tame the Blues (Flyin’)

Socalled with The Kaiser Quartett- Oy Avram
Di Frosh and other Yiddish Songs (Membran)
Mark Rubin – Jew of Oklahoma- Yiddish Banjo Suite
The Triumph of Assimilation (Rubinchik)

Robin & Linda Williams- A Better Day A-Coming
A Better Day A-Coming (Oakenwold Recordings)
Noel Paul Stookey- Revolution (1X1)
Just Causes (Neworld)

Dave Clarke- In the Falling Dark
The Healing Garden (Crossties)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on August 14. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

Find me on Twitter. www.twitter.com/mikeregenstreif

And on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday July 13, 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 was prerecorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/52675.html

Theme: Songs About Refugees

Guest: Diana Jones

Moira Smiley SMILEY- Refugee
Unzip the Horizon (Moira Smiley Music)

Murray McLauchlan- Lying By the Sea (For Alan Kurdi)
Hourglass (True North)
Eric Bibb- Refugee Moan
Migration Blues (Stony Plain)
Kim Wallach- Refugee’s Lullaby
Chatter of the Finches (Black Socks Press)

Guy Davis- I’ve Looked Around
Be Ready When I Call You (M.C.)
Jabbour- Je tournais la clé
Carling Lake (Jabbour)
Eric Bogle- Refugee
At This Stage (Greentrax)

 

The next five songs punctuated my conversation with Diana Jones. The conversation was recorded on June 17 via Zoom.

Diana Jones- Song to a Refugee
Song to a Refugee (Goldmine)

Diana Jones- El Chaparral
Song to a Refugee (Goldmine)

Diana Jones, Steve Earle, Richard Thompson, Peggy Seeger & Zahara Phillips- We Believe You
Song to a Refugee (Goldmine)

Diana Jones- The Life I Left Behind
Song to a Refugee (Goldmine)

Diana Jones- The Sea is My Mother
Song to a Refugee (Goldmine)

Tom Russell- Across the Border
Appleseed’s 21st Anniversary: Roots and Branches (Appleseed)
Guy Clark- El Coyote
The Best of the Dualtone Years (Dualtone)
Los Texmaniacs with Rick Treviño- I am a Mexican
Cruzando Borders (Smithsonian Folkways)

Eric Andersen- Rain Falls Down in Amsterdam
Woodstock Under the Stars (Y&T Music)
Sultans of String featuring Ifrah Mansour- I Am a Refugee
Refuge (Sultans of String)

Sultans of String featuring Edmar Castaneda- Refuge
Refuge (Sultans of String)

Next week – Remembering Mimi Fariña

Find me on Twitter. www.twitter.com/mikeregenstreif

And on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday July 6, 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 was prerecorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/52602.html

Theme: The Fourth Stranger Songs Fantasy Concert, a whole show of music recorded live in concert while we look forward to returning to concerts, clubs and festivals.

Eric Andersen- Blue River
Woodstock Under the Stars (Y&T Music)

Ian & Sylvia- Summer Wages
The Lost Tapes (Stony Plain)
Tom Russell & The Norwegian Wind Ensemble- St. Olav’s Gate
Aztec Jazz (Frontera)
Rosalie Sorrels- Girls In Our Town
Then Came the Children (Green Linnet)

Joseph Spence- Out on the Rolling Sea
Encore: Unheard Recordings of Bahamian Guitar and Singing (Smithsonian Folkways)
Bill Staines- I Bid You Goodnight
Bridges (Red House)

Hoyle Osborne- Maple Leaf Rag
Live at The Diamond Belle (Ripple)

David Amram- Pull My Daisy
Pull My Daisy (Premier)
Asleep at the Wheel- Route 66
Live at Billy Bob’s Texas (Smith)

Anna McGarrigle & Lily Lanken- Jacques et Gilles
Sing Me the Songs: Celebrating the Works of Kate McGarrigle (Nonesuch)
Linda Thompson & Richard Thompson- Go Leave
Sing Me the Songs: Celebrating the Works of Kate McGarrigle (Nonesuch)
Anna McGarrigle, Chaim Tannenbaum, Lily Lanken, Rufus Wainwright & Martha Wainwright- Dink’s Song
Sing Me the Songs: Celebrating the Works of Kate McGarrigle (Nonesuch)

The Wailin' Jennys- Bring Me Little Water Sylvie
Live at The Mauch Chunk Opera House (Outside)
Saul Broudy- Cool Colorado
Ten Great Years at Kerrville, Volume One (Silverwolf)
Eric Taylor with Nanci Griffith- Mission Door
Live at the Red Shack (Blue Ruby)

Mike Regenstreif & Missy Burgess (2014)

Debi Smith- Intertwined
Deep Tracks (Degan Music)
Missy Burgess- Picture in a Frame
Missy Burgess with The Blue Train Live (Missy Burgess)
Lynn Miles with Keith Glass- Rust
Road (Lynn Miles)
Bob Franke- A Healing in This Night
The Other Evening in Chicago (Waterbug)

Hoyle Osborne- The Entertainer
Live at The Diamond Belle (Ripple)

Next week – Songs About Refugees with guest Diana Jones

Find me on Twitter. www.twitter.com/mikeregenstreif

And on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday June 29, 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 was prerecorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/52513.html

 

Theme: Dance Music

Shelley Posen- Dance With Me
Roseberry Road (Well Done Music)

Wade Hemsworth with the Mountain City Four (lead vocal: Kate McGarrigle)- The Log Driver’s Waltz
Wade Hemsworth with the Mountain City Four (Peter Weldon)
Garnet Rogers- Under the Summer Moonlight
Sparrow’s Wing (Snow Goose Songs)
Bill Staines- Roseville Fair
The First Million Miles (Rounder)
Moore & McGregor- Dancing Shoes
Dream with Me (Ivernia)

Missy Burgess- Dance Me Slow
Play Me Sweet (Missy Burgess)
Bebop Cowboys with Chris Whiteley- Dancing on a Saturday Night
Canadian Dance Hall (Bebop Cowboys)
Nat King Cole- Let’s Face the Music and Dance
The Extraordinary Nat King Cole (Capitol)

Eric Bibb- Juke Dance
Blues, Ballads & Work Songs (Opus 3)

Sylvie Simmons- Keep Dancing
Blue on Blue (Compass)
Tower of Song- Take This Waltz
In City and in Forest (Tower of Song)
Perla Batalla featuring Bill Gable- Dance Me to the End of Love
Bird on the Wire: The Songs of Leonard Cohen (Mechuda Music)
Leonard Cohen- Thanks for the Dance
Thanks for the Dance (Columbia/Legacy)

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

Priscilla Herdman- Waltzing with Bears
Stardreamer (Alacazam)
Natalie Merchant with The Klezmatics- The Dancing Bear
Leave Your Sleep (Nonesuch)
Don Armstrong- Annabelle Teaching Her Daddy to Dance
Mother Don’t Give Up on Me Now (Ronstadt Record Co.)
Rick Fines- Scared to Dance
Solar Powered Too (Rick Fines)

Jerry Jeff Walker- Mr. Bojangles
Gypsy Songman (Rykodisc)
Kim Wallach- The Poor Boys Dance
Chatter of the Finches (Black Socks Press)
Ken Tizzard & Amelia Curran- St. John’s Waltz
A Good Dog is Lost: A Collection of Ron Hynes Songs (Ken Tizzard)

Papa John Kolstad with Wildman Mike Turk- Barnyard Dance
Beans Taste Fine (Wampus Cat)
Jackie Washington- I’m Happy Darling Dancing with You
The World of Jackie Washington (Borealis)
Carole Laure- Save the Last Dance for Me
Western Shadows (Trans-Canada)

Barry Mtterhoff- Polkas
Silk City (Flying Fish)

Next week – The Fourth Stranger Songs Fantasy Concert

Find me on Twitter. www.twitter.com/mikeregenstreif

And on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday June 22, 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 was prerecorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/52448.html

Theme: Summer Songs

The Wailin' Jennys- Summertime
Live at The Mauch Chunk Opera House (Outside)

Murray McLauchlan- A Thomson Day (For Tom Thomson)
Hourglass (True North)
Donna Adler- Dollar Lake
Remembering Butterflies (Donna Adler)
Alec Fraser, Jr..- Will Ye Go Lassie Go
On the Wings of the Wind (Alec Fraser, Jr.)
Sloan Wainwright- Red Maple Tree
Red Maple Tree (Sloan Wainwright)

Rob Lutes- Shediac Bridge
Come Around (Lucky Bear)
Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Swimming Song
Tell My Sister: Kate & Anna McGarrigle (Nonesuch)
Gordon Lightfoot- Summertime Dream
Songbook (Warner Archives/Rhino)

Tom Mitchell & Mike Regenstreif (1999)

Chaim Tannenbaum- Brooklyn 1955
Chaim Tannenbaum (StorySound)
Kat Goldman- Summersong
Gypsy Girl (Kat Goldman)
Tom Mitchell- Nuts for Bolts
Unreleased 1976 live recording – used with permission

Montreal- A Summer’s Night
A Summer’s Night (Stormy Forest)
Bill Morrissey- Summer Night
Standing Eight (Philo)
Tom Russell- The Night the Chinese Restaurant Burned Down
Play One More: The Songs of Ian & Sylvia (True North)
Vince Halfhide- Fireflies
Vince Halfhide (Vince Halfhide)

Jesse Winchester- Mississippi You’re On My Mind
Learn to Love It (Stony Plain)
Victor Anthony- Summer Way Down South
Mystery Loves Company (Victor Anthony)
James Talley- Alabama Summertime
Blackjack Choir (Cimmaron)

Shelley Posen- Canoeing My Troubles Away
Roseberry Road (Well Done Music)
Gathering Time- Ripple
Old Friends (Triple-G Records)
Maria Dunn- Music in the Meadow
Gathering (Distant Whisper)
David Mallett- Summer of My Dreams
Midnight on the Water (North Road)
Night Sun- Summer Songs
One Moment of Grace (Borealis)

Arni Egilsson- Summertime
Basses Loaded (Cambria)

Next week – Dance Music

Find me on Twitter. www.twitter.com/mikeregenstreif

And on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday June 19, 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/128/52408.html

 

Donna Adler- Emily’s Café
Remembering Butterflies (Donna Adler)

Mike Regenstreif & Bill Morrissey (2005)

Cliff Eberhardt- When We Were Kings (Bill)
Knew Things (Tin Pan Ally)
Bill Morrissey- Small Town on the River
Bill Morrissey (Philo)
Lucy Kaplansky- Texas Blues
The Tide (Red House)

Murray McLauchaln- Pandemic Blues
Hourglass (True North)
Chris Ronald- Please Don’t Come for Me Now
Light & Dark (Borealis)

Amy Speace with The Orphan Brigade- Father’s Day
There Used to Be Horses Here (Windbone)
Michael ‘Earnie’ Taylor- What My Father Taught Me
Folk ‘n’ Western (Laughing Cactus Music)
Michael Smith- I Brought My Father With Me
Songs of a Catholic Childhood (J. O’Reilly Productions)

Diana Jones- Song to a Refugee
Song to a Refugee (Goldmine)

Joseph Spence- Run Come See Jerusalem
Encore: Unheard Recordings of Bahamian Guitar and Singing (Smithsonian Folkways)
Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Travellin’ On For Jesus
Tell My Sister: Kate & Anna McGarrigle (Nonesuch)

Allison Russell- Montreal
Outside Child (Fantasy)
Allison Russell- Nightflyer
Outside Child (Fantasy)

Oscar Peterson- Hymn to Freedom
Night Train (Verve)

Erin Ash Sullivan- Spring Come Running
We Can Hear Each Other (Willoughby)
Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi- Waterbound
They’re Calling Me Home (Nonesuch)
Adeline- Whitehorse Breakdown
Adeline (Owl)

Mark Schatz & Bryan McDowell- One Too Many Mornings
Grit & Polish (Patuxent Music)
Howard Gladstone with Bob Cohen- She Belongs to Me
She Belongs to Me – single (Howard Gladstone)
Ladysmith Black Mambazo & Dolly Parton- Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door
Heavenly (Shanachie)

Kate McDonnell- Ballad of a Bad Girl
Ballad of a Bad Girl (Dog Eared Discs)
Donna Herula- Bang at the Door
Bang at the Door (Donna Herula)
Rob Lutes- Knives
Come Around (Lucky Bear)
Kelly’s Lot- Stronger
Where or When (Kelly Zirbes)

Catherine Russell & Mike Regenstreif (2007)

Catherine Russell- Juneteenth Jamboree/Royal Garden Blues
Cat (World Village)
Loudon Wainwright III with Vince Giordano & The Nighthawks- I’d Rather Lead a Band
I’d Rather Lead a Band (Search Party)
Maria Muldaur with Tuba Skinny- Be Your Natural Self
Let’s Get Happy Together (Stony Plain)
Jeff Healey- Sing You Sinners
The Best of the Stony Plain Years: Vintage Jazz, Swing and Blues (Stony Plain)
Annabelle Chvostek- D’être humain
String of Pearls (Annabelle Chvostek)

Dave Clarke- The Healing Garden
The Healing Garden (Crossties)

David Essig- The Way Hate Walks
Tremble and Weep (Appaloosa)
SONiA disappear fear- By My Silence
By My Silence (Disappear)

Willie Dunn- Charlie
Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies: The Willie Dunn Anthology (Light in the Attic)
Buffy Sainte-Marie- My Country ‘tis of thy People You’re Dying
Medicine Songs (True North)

Guy Davis- God’s Gonna Make Things Over
Be Ready When I Call You (M.C.)
Reggie Harris- Sing Out/March On/Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ‘Round
On Solid Ground (Reggie Harris Music)

Mark Rubin – Jew of Oklahoma- A Day of Revenge
The Triumph of Assimilation (Rubinchik)
Sophie Milman- Taybls Briv (Taybl’s Letter to Her Husband at the Front)
Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II (Six Degrees)

Sons of the Never Wrong- Muddy Muddy River
Undertaker’s Songbook (Sons 3)
The Slowinks- Stay With Me Awhile
Stay With Me Awhile (weewerk)
Lorenzo Wolff featuring Osei Essed- There’s a Rugged Road
Down Where the Valleys are Low: Another Otherworld for Judee Sill (StorySound)
Jackson Browne- My Cleveland Heart
My Cleveland Heart – single (Inside Recordings)
Steve Marriner- Long Way Down
Hope Dies Last (Stony Plain)

Bùmarang- Weasel
Echo Land (Fallen Tree)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on July 17. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

Find me on Twitter. www.twitter.com/mikeregenstreif

And on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday June 15, 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 was prerecorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/52334.html

Theme: Working in the Coalmine – Coal mining, traditionally, has been one of the most environmentally destructive sources of fuel. As well, coal mining has been one of the most dangerous occupations with untold numbers of miners being killed over the decades in both large-scale disasters and smaller accidents. Coal mining has also been one of the most dangerous occupations in terms of long-term health effects in the way that coal dust eventually destroys the lungs of miners. As well, the coal industry has been one of the most exploitative of its workers. The songs on this show address those issues.

Allen Toussaint- Working in the Coalmine
From a Whisper to a Scream (Kent)

Mary Hott with The Carpenter Ants- They Built a Railroad
Devil in the Hills: Coal Country Reckoning (Mary Hott)
Last Forever- Pay Day at Coal Creek
No Place Like Home/Last Forever (2nd Story Sound)
Kronos Quartet with Lee Knight- Which Side Are You On?
Long Time Passing: Kronos Quartet & Friends Celebrate Pete Seeger (Smithsonian Folkways)
Frida’s Brow- Canary in a Coal Mine
Frida’s Brow (Frida’s Brow)

Fourtold- Ballad of Springhill
Fourtold (Appleseed)
Matt Anderson- Coal Mining Blues
Coal Mining Blues (Busted Flat)

Judy Collins- Red-Winged Blackbird
Judy Collins 3 & 4 (Wildflower)
Priscilla Herdman- The Coming of the Roads
Darkness into Light (Flying Fish)
Laurie MacAllister- Coal Tattoo
The Things I Choose to Do (Laurie MacAllister)

Tom Paxton- Dogs at Midnight
Tom Paxton 6 (Elektra)
The Friends of Fiddler's Green- Down in the Coalmine
This Side of the Ocean (FOFG)
Jez Lowe with The Bad Pennies- These Coal Town Days
Live at the Davy Lamp (Tantobie)

Joni Mitchell- Dark as a Dungeon
Archives – Volume 1: The Early Years (1963-1967) (Rhino)
Mose Scarlett with Ken Whiteley- Nine Pound Hammer
The Fundamental Things (Pyramid)
Oscar Brown, Jr..- Sixteen Tons
The Voice of Cool (Not Now Music)

Jim Ringer- Paradise
Waitin’ for the Hard Times to Go (Folk-Legacy)
Susie Glaze- West Virginia Mine Disaster
Dear Jean: Artists Celebrate Jean Ritchie (Compass)
Glen Reid- The L&N Don’t Stop Here Anymore
Wildcats Howlin’ (Royston Road Music)
Kathy Mattea- Blue Diamond Mines
Coal (Captain Potato)

Mary Hott with The Carpenter Ants- Annabelle Lee
Devil in the Hills: Coal Country Reckoning (Mary Hott)
Undertakin' Daddies- Pictou County Coal
Post Atomic Hillbilly (Caribou)
Andy & Judy- St. Paul Mine
Let Us Sing (Andy & Judy Daigle)
Annie Lou- Fire in the Hole
End Zone (Annie Lou)

Next week – Summer Songs

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Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday June 8, 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 was prerecorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/52246.html

Theme: Thinking About Elvis. Elvis Presley, who died in 1977 at the very young age of 42, is probably the most mythologized figure in the history of popular music. This show features a few of Elvis’s recordings, some versions of songs from his repertoire performed by other artists, and some songs that were at least partially inspired Elvis.

Doug McArthur- Boots & Saddles
Tears Like Rain (Doug McArthur)

Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys- Blue Moon of Kentucky
Live Recordings 1956-1959 (Smithsonian Folkways)
Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup- That’s All Right (Mama)
Mean Ole Frisco (Collectables)
Elvis Presley- Treat Me Nice
Elvis Presley Sings Leiber & Stoller (RCA/Legacy)
Diana Braithwaite & Chris Whiteley- Hound Dog
Gold Cadillac (G-Three)
The Persuasions- Return to Sender
Comin’ At Ya (Flying Fish)
Elvis Presley- Jailhouse Rock
Elvis Presley Sings Leiber & Stoller (RCA/Legacy)
Gillian Welch- Elvis Presley Blues
Time (The Revelator) (Acony/Stony Plain)

Jesse Winchester & Mike Regenstreif (2006)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Tryin’ to Get to You
Pronto Monto (Ominivore)
Stephen Barry Band- Mystery Train
Live (Fix it in the Mix Music)
Elvis Presley- Don’t Be Cruel
50 Worldwide Gold Hits (BMG)
Jesse Winchester- Just Like New
Gentleman of Leisure (Sugar Hill)

Ian & Sylvia- Swing Down, Chariot
Northern Journey (Vanguard)
Elvis Presley- Saved
Elvis Presley Sings Leiber & Stoller (RCA/Legacy)
Kate Campbell- Tupelo’s Too Far
The Portable Kate Campbell (Compadre)

Carl Perkins- Blue Suede Shoes
The Rockin’ Guitar Man (Jasmine)
Holly Cole- Viva Las Vegas
Night (Rumpus Room)
Elvis Presley- Poor Boy
For LP Fans Only (RCA)
Mary Coughlan- Heartbreak Hotel
Uncertain Pleasures (EastWest)
Jimmy LaFave- Elvis Loved His Momma
Texoma (Bohemia Beat)

Linda Ronstadt- Love Me Tender
Living in the USA (Asylum)
Elvis Presley- All Shook Up
50 Worldwide Gold Hits (BMG)
Arlo Guthrie- Can’t Help Falling in Love
More Together Again in Concert (Rising Son)
Ken Tizzard- King is Gone
All Together Now (Ken Tizzard)

Elvis Presley- Suspicious Minds
From Elvis in Memphis (RCA)

Next week – Working in the Coal Mine

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