Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – August 26, 2025: Songs of August & Highway 61 Revisited – Revisited

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/595/71687.html

Themes: Part 1 – Songs of August; Part 2 – Highway 61 Revisited – Revisited.

Part 1 – Songs of August

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer with Chao Tran- August Flower

From China to Appalachia (Community Music)

Emily Triggs- Beautiful August

The Great Escape (Emily Triggs)

Jay Linden- August Night

Satchel (Jay Linden)

The Lucky Sisters- On an August Night

So Lucky (Patio)

Preservation Hall Jazz Band- August Nights

That’s It (Legacy)

Joan Baez- The 33rd of August

Blessed Are (Vanguard)

Jeanie Stahl- The August of Our Years

Mysteries (Daring)

Benny Carter- August Moon

Aspects (United Artists)

Part 2 – Highway 61 Revisited – Revisited.

It was 60 years ago, on August 30, 1965, that Bob Dylan released his monumental folk-rock album, Highway 61 Revisited.

Rory Block- Like a Rolling Stone

Positively 4th Street: A Tribute to Bob Dylan (Stony Plain)

Tim O’Brien- Tombstone Blues

Red On Blonde (Sugar Hill)

Ian Hanchet- It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry

Dealin’ from the Bottom (of My Heart) (Ian Hanchet)

Bob Dylan- From a Buick 6

Highway 61 Revisited (Columbia)

Ben Sidran- Ballad of a Thin Man

Dylan Different (Bonsai)

Emma Swift- Queen Jane Approximately

Blonde on the Tracks (Tiny Ghost/CRS)

Ray Benson- Highway 61 Revisited

Swingin’ and Skankin’ (Primary Wave Music)

Tom Russell & Joe Ely- Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues

Folk Hotel (Frontera)

Bill Camplin- Desolation Row

Bob Dylan Project One (Bill Camplin)

Bob Dylan recorded versions of the next three songs during the sessions for Highway 61 Revisited but did not include them on the album.

Lucinda Williams- Positively 4th Street

The Village: A Celebration of the Music of Greenwich Village (429)

Bob Dylan & The Hawks- Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window (single version)

Side Tracks (Columbia/Legacy)

Bob Dylan- Sitting On a Barbed Wire Fence

The Best of the Cutting Edge 1965-1966 (Columbia/Legacy)

Next week: Crazy Blues and Other Crazy Songs.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – May 6, 2025: The Banjo Special

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/595/70088.html

Theme: The Banjo Special.

Pete Seeger holding his banjo.

All the songs and tunes on this show feature the banjo.

Doc Watson- Rambling Hobo

Memories (Sugar Hill)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Foolish You

Tell My Sister: Kate & Anna McGarrigle (Nonesuch)

Michael Jerome Browne- Reverend Strut

Gettin’ Together (Borealis/Stony Plain)

John Hartford- Gentle on My Mind

Live from Mountain Stage (Blue Plate Music)

The Be Good Tanyas- Reuben

Chinatown (Nettwerk)

Mary Gick- Hills of Home

Six Tunes and a Song (Mary Gick)

Finest Kind- Going to the West

Lost in a Song (Fallen Angle)

Marc Nerenberg- Little Birdie: A Reimagined Traditional Song

Little Birdie: Birds, Beasts & Banjo Blues (Marc Nerenberg)

The Dumptrucks- Qu’Appelle

Selections (Laughing Cactus)

Pete Seeger- Monsieur Banjo

American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 4 (Smithsonian Folkways)

Last Forever with John Cohen- Dillard Chandler

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

Arnie Naiman- My Lucy Stars

My Lucky Stars (Merriweather)

Robert Thomas & the sessionmen- Springhill

The Way We Roll (Gas)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Redwinged Blackbird

Get Up and Do Right (Community Music)

Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five- Put ‘Em Down Blues

The Hot Fives & Hot Sevens, Vol. III (Columbia)

Paul Barbarin with Danny Barker- Eh La Bas

Paul Barbarin and His New Orleans Jazz (Collectables)

Mark Rubin – Jew of Oklahoma- Berish Katz Breakdown

Dispatches: Songs from a World Gone Mad (Rubinchik)

Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson- Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss

What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow (Nonesuch)

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings- Howdy Howdy

Woodland (Acony)

Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn- Railroad

Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn (Rounder)

Pharis & Jason Romero- Train on the Island

Tell ‘Em You Were Gold (Smithsonian Folkways)

Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project- Lazy John

Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project (Borealis)

Derroll Adams- The Mountain

Songs of the Banjoman (Wundertutte) 

Suzy Thompson- Lose My Blues

Suzy Sings Siebel Volume One (Suzy Thompson)

Jenny Whiteley- Banjo Girl

The Original Jenny Whiteley (Black Hen Music)

Tony Trischka & Steve Martin- Plunkin’ Rag

Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular (Rounder)

Next week: A Tribute to The Klezmatics.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – April 22, 2025: Songs for Earth 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/595/69923.html

Theme: Songs for Earth Day.

Earth Day has been observed on April 22 since 1970.

Tom Paxton- Whose Garden Was This

Tom Paxton 6 (Elektra)

Tom Paxton, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Dry Times

All New (Community Music)

Tom Paxton & Anne Hills- There Goes the Mountain

Under American Skies (Appleseed)

Lynn Miles with Keith Glass- Black Flowers

Road (Lynn Miles)

The Rifters- The Dollar Worth of Mother Earth

The Enchanted World (Howlin’ Dog)

Mary Gick- Waltz for the Trees

Six Tunes and a Song (Mary Gick)

Laurie Lewis- Trees

Trees (Spruce & Maple Music)

Kronos Quartet & Lee Knight- Garbage

Long Time Passing: Kronos Quartet & Friends Celebrate Pete Seeger (Smithsonian Folkways)

Malvina Reynolds- Skagit Valley Forever

Ear to the Ground: Topical Songs 1960-1978 (Smithsonian Folkways)

The Malvinas- God Bless the Grass

God Bless the Grass (Soona Songs)

Pete Seeger- If It Can’t Be Reduced

At 89 (Appleseed)

Pat Humphries- To My Old Brown Earth

Seeds: The Songs of Pete Seeger, Volume 3 (Appleseed)

Kim & Reggie Harris & Magpie- We Belong to the Earth

Spoken in Love: Kim & Reggie Harris and Magpie in Concert (Long Tail)

Susan Werner- Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)

Classics (Sleeve Dog)

Tom Jones- Ol’ Mother Earth

Surrounded By Time (S-Curve)

HuDost- Fire of Eden

The Monkey in the Crown (Open Sesame Music)

Deb Seymour- Heart of the Earth

Sometimes You Gotta Wear Boots (Herkimer Productions)

Roy Zimmerman- Big Yellow Taxi

Road Map (Roy Zimmerman)

John McCutcheon- Earth

Cabin Fever: Songs from the Quarantine (Appalsongs)

Penny Lang- Power of the Earth

Somebody Else (She-Wolf)

Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer- Gentle Arms of Eden

Drum Hat Buddha (Signature Sounds)

Moonfruits- Brittle Earth

Salt (Co-Op)

Louis Armstrong- What a Wonderful World

What a Wonderful World (MCA)

Next week: “Dublin Blues” and Other Songs of Guy Clark.

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday August 10, 2024

Saturday Morning is an eclectic roots-oriented program on CKCU, 93.1 FM, in Ottawa 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. 

This episode of Saturday Morning was recorded and can be streamed on-demand, now or anytime, by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/66371.html

Emily Triggs- Beautiful August

The Great Escape (Emily Triggs)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer with Chao Tran- August Flower

From China to Appalachia (Community Music)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer with Chao Tran- High on a Mountain

From China to Appalachia (Community Music)

Laurie Lewis- Trees

Trees (Spruce & Maple Music)

Tiffany Williams & Dalton Mills- Gold Watch and Chain

Wasted Luck (Tiffany Williams & Dalton Mills)

The Haden Triplets- Single Girl, Married Girl

The Haden Triplets (Third Man)

Jesse Winchester- Rosy Shy

Jesse Winchester (Stony Plain)

Bruce Murdoch- (The Plains of) Jericho

Bruce Murdoch (Radio Canada International)

Sean Gagnier- Circle Harbor

Circle Harbor (Sean Gagnier)

Mike Regenstreif & Penny Lang (2005)

Penny Lang- Ain’t Life Sweet

Ain’t Life Sweet (She-Wolf)

Kevin Head- Everyone Needs a Backyard

Hear Them Callin’ (Kevin Head)

Madeleine Peyroux- Showman Dan

Let’s Walk (Thirty Tigers)

David Amram- East and West

Subway Night (RCA)

Ramblin’ Jack Elliott- If I Were a Carpenter

South Coast (Red House)

Tim Hardin- The Lady Came from Baltimore

Live in Concert (Polygram)

Tom Russell- Dance Hall Girls

Song of the West: The Cowboy Collection (HMG)

Tio Chorinho- Frevo Corrido

Tempestuoso (Lulaworld)

Archie Fisher & Garnet Rogers- Riverboat

The Best Times After All: Live (Snow Goose Songs)

Archie Fisher & Garnet Rogers- Mary Ann

The Best Times After All: Live (Snow Goose Songs)

House of Hamill- The Highwayman

Wildfire (House of Hamill)

Janie Rothfield & Allan Carr- Love is Teasing

The Two of Us (Janie Rothfield & Allan Carr)

The Spain Brothers- The Leaving of Liverpool

Bright and Better Morning (The Spain Brothers)

The Proclaimers- Bonnie Lass

Linda Thompson: Proxy Music (StorySound)

Beth DeSombre- My Father’s Piano

Holding the Threads (Beth DeSombre)

John Stewart- Anna on a Memory

Cannons in the Rain (RCA)

Teni Rane- Firefly

Goldenrod (Teni Rane)

Lou Dominguez- Eddie Went to Nashville

Hanging at the Luna Star (Lou Dominguez)

Hana Zara- Our Work Here is Not Yet Done

Bloom Where You Fall (People of Orphalese)

Last Forever- In the Pines

You’ve Been a Friend to Me (Smithsonian Folkways)

Sonya Cohen Cramer- Black Jack Davey

You’ve Been a Friend to Me (Smithsonian Folkways)

Evenchick & Hucul- Child of the Mississippi

This is My Story (Melissa Hucul & Mark Evenchick) 

Gathering Time- Ripple

Old Friends (Triple-G)

Guy Davis & Mile Regenstreif (2006)

Guy Davis- In the Evening Time

The Legend of Sugarbelly (M.C.)

The Dumptrucks- Thinkin’ of Home

Selections (Laughing Cactus)

Me & My Uncle- Next Train Blues

Me & My Uncle (Laughing Cactus)

Michael ‘Earnie’ Taylor- I Just Fiddle All Day (The Busking Song)

Folk ‘n’ Western (Laughing Cactus)

Guy Clark- A Nickel for the Fiddler

Old No. 1 (Sugar Hill)

James Talley- When the Fiddler Packs His Case

Touchstones (Cimarron)

Ruth Moody- Michigan

Wanderer (Blue Muse/True North)

Catherine MacLellan & John Connolly- The Call

If It’s Alright With You: The Songs of Gene MacLellan (True North)

Hank Snow- Cure for the Blues

Cure for the Blues (RCA)

Colin James featuring Lucinda Williams- Protection

Chasing the Sun (Stony Plain)

Tracy Nelson- The Summer of the Silver Comet

Home Made Songs/Come See About Me (Flying Fish)

Chuck E. Weiss & Willie Dixon- Down the Road a Piece

Old Souls & Wolf Tickets (Slow River/Rykodisc)

Misty Blues- Yonder Come the Blues

I’m Too Old for Games: A Live Tribute to Odetta (Guitar One)

Odetta- Look the World Over

Blues Everywhere I Go (M.C.) 

Marc Nerenberg- The Coo-Coo: A Reimagined Traditional Song 

Little Birdie: Birds, Beasts & Banjo Blues (Marc Nerenberg)

Lemon Bucket Orkestra- Cuckoo

Cuckoo (Lemon Bucket Orkestra)

Ivan Strunin- Really the Blues

The First Day of December (Ivan Strunin)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on September 7. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – April 30, 2024: Remembering Pete Seeger

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/595/64978.html

Theme: Remembering Pete Seeger (1919-2014)

Pete Seeger – who died in 2014 at age 94 – was a folksinger, musician, songwriter, author and activist at the vanguard of the folk revival from the 1940s until his death. Virtually all of us who came into the folk scene over the past seven decades or more, stand on Pete’s shoulders.

Pete Seeger- Tomorrow is a Highway

If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope and Struggle (Smithsonian Folkways)

The Weavers- Kisses Sweeter Than Wine

The Weavers at Carnegie Hall (Vanguard)

Nanci Griffith with Odetta, The Indigo Girls, Kennedy Rose, John Prine, James Hooker, Barry & Holly Tashian, John Gorka, David Mallett, Marlin Griffith & Jim Rooney- Wimoweh (Mbube)

Other Voices/Other Rooms (Elektra)

Perla Batalla- Guantanamera

Discoteca Batalla (Mechuda Music)

Peter Paul & Mary- If I Had a Hammer

Peter Paul and Mary (Warner Bros.)

Noel Paul Stookey- Not That Kind of Music

At Home: The Maine Tour (Neworld)

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

Precious Friend (Warner Bros.)

Bruce Cockburn- Turn, Turn, Turn

Rarities (True North)

Kronos Quartet with Sam Amidon, Brian Carpenter, Lee Knight & Aoife O'Donovan- Where Have All the Flowers Gone

Long Time Passing: Kronos Quartet & Friends Celebrate Pete Seeger (Smithsonian Folkways)

Magpie- Last Train to Nuremburg

Endless River (Long Tail)

Ken Whiteley- Quite Early Morning

Ken Whiteley and the Beulah Band (Borealis)

Pete Seeger- One Grain of Sand

Dangerous Songs!? (Columbia/Legacy)

Tom Paxton, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer (The Power of Song)

All New (Community Music)

Annie Patterson- Pastures of Plenty

Meet Me By the Moonlight (Annie Patterson)

Arlo Guthrie with Shenendoah- Sailing Down This Golden River

Outlasting the Blues (Rising Son)

Pete Seeger- Of Time and Rivers Flowing

Pete (Living Music)

Reggie Harris- High Over the Hudson

On Solid Ground (Reggie Harris Music)

Happy Traum- Empty Pocket Blues

I Walk the Road Again (Roaring Stream)

Rosalie Sorrels- Old Devil Time

Report from Grimes Creek (Green Linnet)

Penny Lang- Oh, Had I a Golden Thread

Carry On Children (She-Wolf)

Pete Seeger- Both Sides Now

Young vs. Old (Columbia)

John McCutcheon with Hot Rize- Well May the World Go

To Everyone in All the World: A Celebration of Pete Seeger (Appalsongs)

Next week: Songs for Mothers.

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday May 20, 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 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 recorded and can already be streamed on-demand at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/60547.html

 

Bob Dylan- Mr. Tambourine Man

The Real Royal Albert Hall 1966 Concert (Columbia/Legacy)

Mike Regenstreif & Bruce Cockburn (2017)

Bruce Cockburn- Push Comes to Shove

O Sun O Moon (True North)

Martha Trachtenberg with Dede Wyland- Ticket Back

It’s About Time (Mom and Pop)

Robinson & Rohe- Where I’m Coming From

Into the Night (Righteous Babe)

Michael Jerome Browne with Harrison Kennedy- Monday Morning Blues

Gettin’ Together (Borealis/Stony Plain)

Colleen Peterson- Richland Woman Blues

Beginning to Feel Like Home (Capitol)

Mississippi John Hurt- Pay Day

Mr. Hurt Goes to Washington (Sunset Blvd.)

Michael Jerome Browne with Mary Flower & John Sebastian- Coffee Blues

Gettin’ Together (Borealis/Stony Plain)

Happy & Artie Traum- Mississippi John

Hard Times in the Country (Rounder)

Daniel Janke- Remember My Name

Songs of Small Resistance (Northern Town Films)

Annie Capps- The Punch

How Can I Say This? (Yellow Room)

Bruce Murdoch- Daly’s Song

Matters of the Heart (Bruce Murdoch)

Linda Morrison- Barcelona

Line By Line (Heartstrung Music)

Alison Brown featuring Anat Cohen- Choro ‘Nuff

On Banjo (Compass)

Geoff Bartley- Baby Boomers

The Ballad of Billy Bridger (Magic Crow)

Hans Theessink & Big Daddy Wilson- Roll with the Punches

Pay Day (Blue Groove)

The Refugees- Good Vibrations

California (Wahubo/Longhouse)

William Prince- Take a Look Around

Stand in the Joy (Six Shooter)

Orit Shimoni- Sing Back to Me

Lorem Ipsum (Orit Shimoni)

Garnet Rogers- All That Is

Sparrow’s Wing (Snow Goose Songs)

Rachelle Garniez- Anthem

Gone to Glory (StorySound)

Iggy Pop- You Want It Darker

Here It Is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen (Blue Note)

Dom Flemons- Saddle It Around

Traveling Wildfire (Smithsonian Folkways)

Andy Hedges featuring Dom Flemons- Dodgin’ Joe

Roll On, Cowboys (Andy Hedges)

The Rifters- At the Foot of the Mountain

The Enchanted World (Howlin’ Dog)

Eliza Gilkyson & Mike Regenstreif on Zoom (2022)

Eliza Gilkyson- Wind River and You

Songs from the River Wind (Howlin’ Dog)

John Gorka- Mennonite Girl

True in Time (Red House)

Russ Kelley- Somewhere Later Down the Road

Crazy Shades of Blue (Ark Road Music Productions)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Fu-Fu-Fu-Fu-Fu

All Wigged Out: Songs from the Musical (Community Music)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Love is the Answer

All Wigged Out: Songs from the Musical (Community Music)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Franklin Tango

All Wigged Out: Songs from the Musical (Community Music)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Unsolicited Advice

All Wigged Out: Songs from the Musical (Community Music)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Closer to the Light

All Wigged Out: Songs from the Musical (Community Music)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Two Peas in a Pod

All Wigged Out: Songs from the Musical (Community Music)

Liz Miller- Bittersweet

Lucky Me (Liz Miller)

Tom Russell- Old Heart

Love & Fear (HighTone)

Lynn Miles- Hide Your Heart

tumbleWeedyWorld (True North)

Tom Mitchell- A Little Longer with You

When the Moon is Right (Truesongs)

Jim Wurster- Brand New Start

Three Silly Love Songs (Y&T Music)

Ian Robb & James Stephens- God and The Orange Clown

Declining …with thanks (Fallen Angle Music)

Bruce Cockburn- Orders

O Sun O Moon (True North)

Tim Grimm- I Don’t Know This World

The Little In-Between (Vault)

Too Sad for the Public with Ana Egge- Old Alabama

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

Shelley Posen with Erik Frandsen- It’s for You

Old Loves (Well Done Music)

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

Find me on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday April 22, 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 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 recorded and can already be streamed on-demand at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/60194.html

Judy Collins- Mr. Tambourine Man 

Live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art at the Temple of Dendur (Wildflower)

Mike Regenstreif & Tom Paxton (2001) photo: Janice Hanson

Tom Paxton- Whose Garden Was This

The Compleat Tom Paxton (Even Compleater) (Rhino Handmade)

The Rifters- The Dollar Worth of Mother Earth

The Enchanted World (Howlin' Dog)

Jaeger & Reid- Fire (For Greta)

Fire (For Greta) – single (Judi Jaeger & Bob Reid)

Debra Mann- Big Yellow Taxi

Full Circle: The Music of Joni Mitchell (Whaling City Sound)

Kuné- Earth I

Universal Echoes (Kuné)

Lynn Miles- Moody

tumbleWeedyWorld (True North)

Stephen Fearing- As the Crow Flies

Vejpoesi (Stephen Fearing)

Jason Lang- Carry On Children

Handled with Care (Famgroup/Genison Music)

Penny Lang- Ain’t Nobody Got the Blues Like Me

Live at the Yellow Door (She-Wolf)

Meredith Moon- Constellations

Constellations (True North)

Gordon Lightfoot- Sixteen Miles

The Original Lightfoot: The United Artists Years (EMI)

Chris Coole & John Showman- The Julia Belle Swain

Much Further Out Than Inevitable: A Fiddle and Banjo Tribute to Some Music of John Hartford (Chris Coole)

Dom Flemons- Tough Luck

Traveling Wildfire (Smithsonian Folkways)

Martin Hayes & The Common Ground Ensemble- Longford Tinker

Peggy’s Dream (Faction)

Colleen Kattau- In the Garden

In the Garden – single (Wind Light Studios)

Amelia Hogan- The Woodthrush’s Song

Taking Flight (Amelia Hogan)

Kuné- Earth II

Universal Echoes (Kuné)

Kuné- Earth III

Universal Echoes (Kuné)

Tom Chapin- This Pretty Planet II

This Pretty Planet (Sundance Music)

Eddie Redmayne & Cast- Wilkommen

Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club – London Cast Recording (Decca)

Jessie Buckley & Cast- Cabaret

Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club – London Cast Recording (Decca)

Coco Love Alcorn- Good News

Wonderland (Coco Love Alcorn)

Odetta- Freedom Trilogy: Oh Freedom/Come & Go with Me/I’m On My Way

Gonna Let It Shine (M.C.)

Jenny Whiteley- Needle in a Haystack

Hopetown (Black Hen Music)

Tim Grimm- Lonesome All the Time

The Little In-Between (Vault)

Ray Lemelin- Grandma’s Hands

Dark/Out of Phase (Ray Lemelin)

Eric Bibb featuring Harrison Kennedy- Call Me By My Name

Ridin’ (Stony Plain)

Dakota Dave Hull- Oh, Didn’t Ramble

Better Late Than Never: The Classic American Guitar-Banjo (Arabica)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- All Wigged Out

All Wigged Out: Songs from the Musical (Community Music)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Amy’s of Denmark

All Wigged Out: Songs from the Musical (Community Music)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Car Wash

All Wigged Out: Songs from the Musical (Community Music)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Tipsy All the Time

All Wigged Out: Songs from the Musical (Community Music)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Where’d You Get That Hat

All Wigged Out: Songs from the Musical (Community Music)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Jesus is My Backstreet Driver

All Wigged Out: Songs from the Musical (Community Music)

Tom Russell & Mike Regenstreif (2005)

Tom Russell- Pork Roast and Poetry

Tribute to the Travelin’ Lady Rosalie Sorrels (Tribute to Rosalie Sorrels)

Rosalie Sorrels- Singing in the Country

Report from Grimes Creek (Green Linnet)

Andy Hedges & Tom Russell- Old Dolores

Roll On, Cowboys (Andy Hedges)

Chaim Tannenbaum- Brooklyn 1955

Chaim Tannenbaum (StorySound)

Aaron Nathans & Michael G. Ronstadt- Flatbush Sunset

Hello World (Crooked Cyclone)

Mike Ward- The Currency of Forgiveness

Love Never Rests (Psychosongs)

Grace Morrison- Oh, Colorado

Maybe Modern (Grace Morrison)

Chris Coole- Where the Light Begins

The Old Man and the C Chord (Chris Coole)

Greg Greenway- That’s Where the Hope Comes From

Between Hello & Goodbye (Greg Greenway)

Polky- Kolomyjka

Songs from Home (Polky)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on May 20. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm. 

Find me on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday January 3, 2023: Songs of Tom Paxton

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 iNn 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/595/58909.html

Theme: Songs of Tom Paxton.

Note: On January 1st, from 7-10 pm (ET), the Greenwich Village Folk Festival is presenting a free, on-line concert celebrating Tom Paxton featuring Dan Boling; Tom Chapin; Judy Collins; The Don Juans; Cliff Eberhardt; Jackson Emmer; Eric Erickson; Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer; Tim Grimm; Janis Ian; Christine Lavin; Chris Lowe; Kathy Mattea; Amanda McBroom; John McCutcheon; Holly Near; Noel Paul Stookey & Peter Yarrow; Josh White, Jr.; and Tom Paxton – with MCs Ron Olesko of the Folk Music Notebook and Mike Regenstreif. You can watch the concert at … https://greenwichvillagefolkfestival.org/

Mike Regenstreif & Tom Paxton (2009)

Tom Paxton- Wish I Had a Troubadour

The Compleat Tom Paxton (Even Compleater) (Rhino Handmade)

Nanci Griffith- Can’t Help But Wonder Where I’m Bound

Other Voices/Other Rooms (Elektra)

Doc Watson- Leaving London

Portrait (Sugar Hill)

Cindy Mangsen- Outward Bound

Long Time Traveling (Compass Rose Music)

Tom Paxton- Victoria Dines Alone

Morning Again (Elektra)

Peter, Paul & Mary- The Last Thing On My Mind

See What Tomorrow Brings (Warner Bros.)

Pete Seeger- (My) Ramblin’ Boy

We Shall Overcome: The Complete Carnegie Hall Concert, June 8, 1963 (Columbia)

Tom Paxton- Has Annie Been in Tonight

Up & Up (Mountain Railroad)

Bob Dylan- Annie’s Going to Sing Her Song

Another Self Portrait 1969-1971: The Bootleg Series Vol. 10 (Columbia/Legacy)

Tom Paxton- When Annie Took Me Home

New Songs for Old Friends (Reprise)

Geoff Bartley- Central Square

Blackbirds in the Pie (Geoff Bartley)

Judy Collins- The Hostage

True Stories and Other Dreams (Elektra)

Magpie- What If, No Matter

A Tiding (Longtail)

Tom Paxton, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- When the Big Bad Books Go ‘Boo!’

All New (Community Music)

Mike Regenstreif, Anne Hills & Tom Paxton (2001)

Anne Hills- Mother

The Things I Notice Now: Anne Hills sings the songs of Tom Paxton (Appleseed)

Tim Grimm- Fare Thee Well, Cisco

Thank You Tom Paxton (Vault)

Dave Van Ronk- Did You Hear John Hurt?

Somebody Else, Not Me (Philo)

Tom Paxton & The DonJuans- Bottle of Wine

Live (Pax)

Josh White, Jr.- (Coming Through) And Loving You

By Request (Silverwolf)

Kate Wolf- Hold on to Me, Babe

Looking Back at You (Rhino)

Patrick Sky- Everytime

Patrick Sky (Vanguard)

Tom Paxton- Comedians and Angels

Comedians & Angels (Appleseed)

Tom Paxton- The Honor of Your Company

Wearing the Time (Sugar Hill)

Next week: Remembering Ian Tyson

Find me on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday June 18, 2022

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 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/128/56601.html

Mike Regenstreif & Maria Dunn (2017)

Maria Dunn- Heart in Hand
Joyful Banner Blazing (Distant Whisper)

Tom Paxton, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Pete’s Shoulders (The Power of Song)
All New (Community Music)
Noel Paul Stookey- Not That Kind of Music
Just Causes (Neworld Multimedia)
Reggie Harris- High Over the Hudson
On Solid Ground (Reggie Harris Music)
Pete Seeger with Arlo Guthrie & Shenendoah- Precious Friend You Will Be There
Precious Friend (Warner Bros.)

Conklin Céilí Band- Augustus and Catherine
A Three Legged Stool (Conklin Céilí Band)
Bill Gallaher & Jake Galbraith- The Hold Up
The Last Battle: The Best of Bill Gallaher & Jake Galbraith (Theatre Erebus)

Geoff Bartley- Bird with a Broken Wing
Keep Your Eyes on the Road (Magic Crow)
Jack Williams- We’re All Alike
A Tickle in My Soul (Wind River)
Mollie O'Brien & Rich Moore- Central Square
Love Runner (Remington Road)

Bill Garrett & Sue Lothrop- Red Shoes
Red Shoes (Borealis)
Bruce Murdoch- I Sit and Count the Stars
Matters of the Heart (Bruce Murdoch)
Ronney Abramson- The Best Friend I’ve Ever Known
Stowaway (Castor Island Music)

Diana Jones- Crossing Borders
Crossing Borders – single (Diana Jones)
Lenka Lichtenberg- Utíkej, utíkej ?lov??e/Run, run, you little human
Thieves of Dreams (Six Degrees)
Tom Paxton, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- To the Ones Who Gave It All
All New (Community Music)

Tom Russell & Mike Regenstreif (2005)

Corb Lund- Blue Wing
Songs My Friends Wrote (New West)
Nanci Griffith- St. Olav’s Gate (Tom Russell)
The Last of the True Believers (Philo)
Tom Russell- The Sparrow of Swansea (For Dylan Thomas)
Folk Hotel (Frontera)
The Wardens- Sold Out at the Ironwood
Sold Out at the Ironwood (The Wardens)

Deirdre McCalla- I Do Not Walk This Path Alone
Endless Grace (MaidenRock)
Reggie Harris- Hickory Hill
Ready to Go (Reggie Harris Music)
Theresa Thomason, Henrique Eisenmann & Paul Winter- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Paul Winter Consort: Concert in the Barn (Living Music)
Catherine Russell- Juneteenth Jamboree/Royal Garden Blues
Cat (World Village)

Mama's Broke- Just Pick One
Narrow Line (Free Dirt)
Hilary Hawke with Reed Stutz- Crossing the River
Lilygild (Hilary Hawke)
Kim Beggs- Down By the River
Steel and Wool (Out of a Paper Bag Productions)
Steve Lundquist- Appalachian Style
My Life in Song (Steve Lundquist)

Edie Carey- The Cypress and the Oak
The Veil (Edie Carey)

Ken Whiteley- Long Time Travelling
Long Time Travelling (Ken Whiteley)
Marianne Flemming- Small Hope Bay
Across the Hemisphere (Marianne Flemming Music)
Barney Bentall- Cody Road
Cosmic Dreamer (True North)

Tom Paxton, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Guild D25
All New (Community Music)
Peter Lehndorff- Reunion
Don’t Be Discouraged (Peter Lehndorff)
John Gorka- Arroyo Seco
True in Time (Red House)
Eliza Gilkyson- The Hill Behind This Town
Songs From the River Wind (Howlin’ Dog)

Lucy Kaplansky- Independence Day
Last Days of Summer (Lucyricky)
Amy Speace- Blues for Joy
Tuscon (Windbone)
Amanda Rheaume- The Spaces In Between
The Spaces In Between (Ishkõdé)

Judy Collins & Mike Regenstreif (2014)

Judy Collins- Pacing the Cage
Portrait of an American Girl (Wildflower)
Durham County Poets- What We Got Going On
Out of the Woods (Durham County Poets)
Lynne Hanson- Hundred Mile Wind
Ice Cream in November (Panda Cave)

Mitch Greenhill- The Places Where Friends Used to Be
Mitchology (Mitch Greenhill)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on July 16. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

Find me on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday July 20, 2019

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/128/43915.html

Graham Lindsey w/From Away- Cook’s in the Kitchen Again

Tradhead (Wavelength Media)

Shari Ulrich- Canada

Back to Shore (Borealis)

David Newland- Out Upon the Land

Northbound: The Northwest Passage in Story and Song (David Newland)

James Gordon- You Want to Feel Heard

The Heritage Hall Sessions (Borealis)

John Stewart- Armstrong

Airdream Believer (Shanachie)

The Marigolds- Trip to the Moon

That’s the State I’m In (The Marigolds)

Sylvia Tyson- Walking on the Moon

You Were On My Mind (Stony Plain)

Chaim Tannenbaum- It’s Only a Paper Moon

Chaim Tannenbaum (StorySound)

Maggie & Terre Roche- Underneath the Moon

Where Do I Come From: Selected Songs (StorySound)

Kim Wallach- Dark and Rainy Night

Chatter of the Finches (Black Socks Press)

Tom Paxton- Central Square

Redemption Road (Pax)

Deborah Robins- The Water is Wide

Lone Journey (Zippety Whippet Music)

Tim Grimm- Staying in Love

Heart Land Again (Vault)

Guy Forsyth & Jesska Bailey- The Messenger

Conspirators (Small & Nimble Records)

El Coyote- Time Will Tell

El Coyote (El Coyote)

Tom Russell- Hand-Raised Wolverines

October in the Railroad Earth (Frontera)

Extended feature: Songs of Si Kahn – the next 15 songs were written by Si Kahn.

Rude Girls- Crossing the Border

Mixed Messages (Flying Fish)

Priscilla Herdman- Traveler

Seasons of Change (Flying Fish)

Mara Levine- Upstream

Facets of Folk (Mara’s Creations)

Si Kahn- Down on the River

Bristol Bay (Strictly Country)

Mike Regenstreif & Si Kahn (1995)

Kathy Mattea- Gone, Gonna Rise Again

Calling Me Home (Sugar Hill)

The Looping Brothers- Baltimore Blues

It’s a Dog’s Life (Strictly Country)

Blue Rose- Wild Rose of the Mountain

Blue Rose (Sugar Hill)

Si Kahn & The Looping Brothers- Brookside Strike

Aragon Mill: The Bluegrass Sessions (Strictly Country)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- What Will I Leave

Voice on the Wind (Rounder)

Bob Bossin- People Like You

Gabriola V0R1X0 (Nick)

Si Kahn & The Looping Brothers- Rock Me, Roll Me

Aragon Mill: The Bluegrass Sessions (Strictly Country)

Vivian Nesbitt & John Dillon- Stitch and Sew

The Songs of Mother Jones: A Musical by Si Kahn (MotherJonesInHeaven.com)

Joe Jencks- Who Will Speak for Me

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

Amythyst Kiah- Aragon Mill

Dig (Amythyst Kiah)

Si Kahn & The Looping Brothers- Goodbye Monday Blues

Aragon Mill: The Bluegrass Sessions (Strictly Country)

Tim Henderson- Miss Amelia Harris, Spinster

Among the Best (Snake Hollow Music)

Tom Mitchell- Church and Paydays

1976 live recording – used with permission

Penny Lang- Ain’t Life Sweet

Ain’t Life Sweet (She-Wolf)

Ben Bullington- I’ve Got to Leave You Now

Ben Bullington (Ben Bullington)

Lynn Miles- More

Downpour (Lynn Miles)

Laura Smith- Inspiration

Everything is Moving (Borealis)

Meg Tennant- A Day of Grace

Echoed Light (Meg Tennant)

Sussex- Truth and Lies

Parade Day (Lucky Bear)

Susan Werner- NOLA

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

Martin Grosswendt & Susanne Salem-Schatz- Mama Lou

New Songs, Old Hats (Martin Grosswendt & Susanne Salem-Schatz)

Wynton Marsalis w/Catherine Russell- Make Me a Pallet on the Floor

Bolden: Music from the Original Soundtrack (Blue Engine)

David G. Smith- Straw Houses

Who Cares (Hey Dave Music)

Sussex- Eagle on the Moon

Parade Day (Lucky Bear)

The Confabulation- Windy Apples

Tunnels and Visions (Woodhead Music)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on August 17.

Find me on Twitter. @MikeRegenstreif

And on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif