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. 

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--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday December 6, 2022: Songs of Eric Andersen

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU in Ottawa on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5 pm (Eastern time) and is also available 24/7 for on-demand streaming.

CKCU can be heard live at 93.1 FM in Ottawa and https://www.ckcufm.com/ on the web.

This episode of Stranger Songs was recorded and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/58558.html

Theme: Songs of Eric Andersen

Eric Andersen, who will turn 80 on February 14, and who is still actively performing and writing, has been a significant singer-songwriter since he started on the folk scene in the early-1960s. I’ve known Eric for about 40 years – the first time he played at the Golem, the folk club I was then running in Montreal, was on February 12, 1983.

Eric Andersen & Mike Regenstreif (2000)

Eric Andersen- Thirsty Boots

Woodstock Under the Stars (Y&T Music)

Pete Seeger- My Land is a Good Land

God Bless the Grass (Columbia/Legacy)

Peter, Paul & Mary- Rolling Home

Album 1700 (Warner Bros.)

Eric Andersen- I Shall Go Unbounded

Woodstock Under the Stars (Y&T Music)

Mary Chapin Carpenter- Violets of Dawn

Tribute to a Songpoet: Songs of Eric Andersen (Y&T Music) or The Village: A Celebration of Greenwich Village (429)

The Kennedys- Waves of Freedom

Tribute to a Songpoet: Songs of Eric Andersen (Y&T Music)

Cliff Eberhardt- Dusty Box Car Wall

Tribute to a Songpoet: Songs of Eric Andersen (Y&T Music)

Dom Flemons- Song to J.C.B.

Tribute to a Songpoet: Songs of Eric Andersen (Y&T Music)

Happy Traum- Mary, I’m Coming Back Home

Tribute to a Songpoet: Songs of Eric Andersen (Y&T Music) or There’s a Bright Side Somewhere (Lark’s Nest Music)

Denice Franke- Baby, I’m Lonesome

Tribute to a Songpoet: Songs of Eric Andersen (Y&T Music)

Eric Andersen- Sign of a Desperate Man

Eric Andersen (Warner Bros.)

Alice Howe- Is It Really Love at All

Tribute to a Songpoet: Songs of Eric Andersen (Y&T Music)

David Buskin & Robin Batteau- Wind and Sand

Tribute to a Songpoet: Songs of Eric Andersen (Y&T Music)

Linda Ronstadt- (I Ain’t Always Been) Faithful

Tribute to a Songpoet: Songs of Eric Andersen (Y&T Music) or Linda Ronstadt (Capitol)

Jim Wurster- Sheila

Tribute to a Songpoet: Songs of Eric Andersen (Y&T Music)

Amy Helm- Blue River

Tribute to a Songpoet: Songs of Eric Andersen (Y&T Music)

Lucy Kaplansky- Eyes of the Immigrant

Tribute to a Songpoet: Songs of Eric Andersen (Y&T Music)

Eric Andersen- Rain Falls Down in Amsterdam

Woodstock Under the Stars (Y&T Music)

Eric Andersen (2019)

Eric Andersen- Just a Country Dream

A Country Dream (Vanguard)

Next week: Joni Mitchell.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday November 2, 2021: Show Us the Money, Please

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/595/53994.html

Theme: Show Us the Money, Please

CKCU is listener-supported community radio and this edition of Stranger Songs will be heard during CKCU’s 2021 Funding Drive. All donations are greatly needed and greatly appreciated. To donate to Stranger Songs and CKCU, visit … https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/CKCU/p2p/CKCU-2021-funding-drive/team/stranger-songs/

Dom Flemons- One Dollar Bill
Dom Flemons Presents Black Cowboys (Smithsonian Folkways)

Sneezy Waters & Mike Regenstreif (2013)

Sneezy Waters- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime
Sneezy Waters (Sneezy Waters)
Derek Lamb- The Money Rolls In
She was Poor but She was Honest (Smithsonian Folkways)
Odetta- Empty Pocket Blues
Sometimes I Feel Like Cryin’ (RCA)

Old Man Luedecke- Easy Money
Easy Money (True North)
John Stewart- Easy Money
Cannons in the Rain/Wingless Angels (One Way)

Dolly Parton- Cash on the Barrelhead
The Grass is Blue (Sugar Hill)
Valerie Smith- A Dollar Looked Mighty Good
Renaissance (Bell Buckle)

Oscar Brand- A Dollar Ain’t a Dollar Anymore
Pie in the Sky (Tradition)
Grit Laskin- Sing for a Penny
Earthly Concerns (Borealis)
Bonnie Dobson- Living on Plastic
Take Me for a Walk in the Morning Dew (Hornbeam)

David Essig & Mike Regenstreif (2014)

David Essig- Quiet Money
A Stone in My Pocket (Peregrin Songs)
Rosalie Sorrels- The Money Crop
No Closing Chord: The Songs of Malvina Reynolds (Red House)
David Francey- Money Boys
Empty Train (Laker Music)

El Coyote- Tip Jar
El Coyote (El Coyote)
Rick Whitelaw- Bottom Dollar
Polishing the Stone (Rick Whitelaw)
Diana Jones- All My Money On You
My Remembrance of You (Newsong Recordings)

Dakota Dave Hull & Sean Blackburn- Money
River of Swing (Arabica)
The Lovin' Spoonful- Money
Everything Playing (Sony/Legacy)
Deborah Holland- Money
Vancouver (RageOn)

Tom Russell & Mike Regenstreif (2005)

Tom Russell- Throwing Horseshoes at the Moon
Old Songs Yet to Sing (Frontera)
Nanci Griffith- Money Changes Everything
The Loving Kind (Rounder)
Martin Grosswendt- I Will Turn Your Money Green
Pay Day! (Martin Grosswendt)

Hans Theessink & Terry Evans- I Need Money
Delta Time (Delta Groove)
John Lee Hooker- I Need Some Money
Anthology: 50 Years (Shout! Factory)

Lisa Null- Follow the Money
Legacies (Folk-Legacy)

Next week: Addendums to Past Themes (CKCU Funding Drive)

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--Mike Regenstreif

Jayme Stone’s Folklife

JAYME STONE’S FOLKLIFE

Jayme Stone’s Folklife

Borealis Records

jaymestone.com

borealisrecords.com

A little over two years ago, the masterful banjo player Jayme Stone released Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project, an superb album in which he and a revolving cast of singers and musicians reimagined 19 songs – mostly traditional folksongs – that had been collected by legendary folklorist Alan Lomax (1915-2002) over a period of many years. As I noted in my review, “it is an extraordinary collection at once timeless, traditional and utterly contemporary.”

Although the CD featured different musicians and singers on different tracks Jayme worked with more focused smaller groups when taking the Lomax Project out on the road. The superb Lomax Project concert that I got to see and hear – March 16, 2016 in Ottawa at the National Arts Centre Fourth Stage – featured Jayme with primary lead singer and accordionist Moira Smiley, bassist Joe Phillips and fiddler Sumaia Jackson. Moira and Joe had each appeared on about a third of the tracks on Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project while Sumaia was recruited sometime after the recording was completed.

While I went into that concert wondering if Jayme, Moira, Joe and Sumaia would be credible performing the often complex arrangements that had been played by other combinations of musicians on the CD, it was quickly obvious that the four had formed a wonderful, tight performing unit. It was one of the finest concerts I’ve seen in recent years.

Jayme Stone’s Folklife is the follow-up to the Lomax Project CD. At about 43 minutes and 10 songs it’s a shorter CD than the first one (which had 19 songs and clocked in at 66 minutes). But it’s a tighter, more focused group with nine of the 10 songs featuring the core group of Jayme, Moira, Joe and Sumaia – sometimes augmented by drummer Nick Fraser and/or harmony singers Felicity Williams and Denzel Sinclaire. And although most of the songs come from Lomax field recordings, there are a couple here that came through other collectors.

Although each of these tracks is a terrific performance highlighted by great playing and Moira’s charismatic lead vocals, a few of my very favorites include “Mwen Pas Danse” with its bouncy, breezy Caribbean rhythms; “Hey, Lally Lally Lo,” which I learned at summer camp in the 1960s as a singalong song that we’d improvise verses to, but which Moira turns into a sexy torch song; and the a cappella finale, “Wait on the Rising Sun,” with Moira’s lead vocals supported by Jayme, Sumaia, Joe, Felicity and Denzel in glorious harmonies.

“Buttermilk” is the only song on Jayme Stone’s Folklife not to feature the core musicians. On this song Jayme, on banjo, is joined by Dom Flemons who sings and plays guitar and quills (a panpipe flute made from cane reeds) and jazz musician Ron Miles on cornet. It’s a delightful, energetic performance on which you can also hear percussive bones playing – I assume by Dom who I’ve seen play them during his days with the Carolina Chocolate Drops.

As I said about Jayme Stone's Lomax Project, this album is “an extraordinary collection at once timeless, traditional and utterly contemporary.”

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--Mike Regenstreif