Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday January 17, 2023: Songs and Conversation with Shelley Posen

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/595/59053.html

Theme: Songs and Conversation with Shelley Posen.

Shelley Posen is an Ottawa-based singer, songwriter and folklorist. For many years, he was a member of the acclaimed harmony trio, Finest Kind. Visit https://shelleyposen.com/ for more information about Shelley.

All of the songs on the show, except “The Night Pat Murphey Died,” were written by Shelley Posen.

Shelley Posen & Mike Regenstreif on Zoom.

Shelley Posen- Roseberry Road

Roseberry Road (Well Done Music)

Finest Kind- The Night Pat Murphey Died

Lost in a Song (Fallen Angle Music)

Jane Voss & Hoyle Osborne- Having a Drink with Jane

Sparkle and Shine (Front Hall)

Shelley Posen- So How Come You Don’t Have Tongue?

Manna (Well Done Music)

Shelley Posen- Akhehr

Mazel (Well Done Music)

Shelley Posen- Packed

Mazel (Well Done Music)

Shelley Posen- We’ll Get Through This

Old Loves (Well Done Music)

Shelley Posen- Long, Long Tunnel

Old Loves (Well Done Music)

Shelley Posen- I Want to Write a Standard

Old Loves (Well Done Music)

Shelley Posen- I Missed You in My Dreams Last Night

Old Loves (Well Done Music)

Shelley Posen with Erik Frandsen- It’s for You

Old Loves (Well Done Music)

Shelley Posen- Pompeii, Pompeii

Old Loves (Well Done Music)

Next week: Songs of – or inspired by – the Spanish Civil War.

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Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday October 18, 2022: Songs of Jimmie Rodgers

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 prerecorded and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/57953.html

Theme: Songs of Jimmie Rodgers (1897-1933). Rodgers, who died of tuberculosis in 1933 at age 35, was known as The Singing Brakeman and The Blue Yodeler and is widely regarded to be the father of country music.

Jimmie Rodgers- Ben Dewberry’s Final Run

First Sessions, 1927-28 (Rounder)

Merle Haggard- Train Whistle Blues

Same Train, A Different Time: Merle Haggard Sings the Great Songs of Jimmie Rodgers (Capitol)

Swing & Tears- Hobo’s Meditation

Swing & Tears (Swing & Tears)

John Sebastian- Waiting for a Train

Cheapo-Cheapo Productions Presents Real Live John Sebastian (Reprise)

Iris DeMent- Hobo Bill’s Last Ride

The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers: A Tribute (Egyptian/Columbia)

Jimmie Rodgers- My Rough and Rowdy Ways

On the Way Up, 1929 (Rounder)

Ian & Sylvia- Travelin’ Blues (listed as Jimmie’s Texas Blues)

The Lost Tapes (Stony Plain)

Jane Voss & Hoyle Osborne- Drunken Bar Room Blues (Gambling Bar Room Blues)

Never No More Blues (Ripple)

Jimmie Rodgers- T.B. Blues

America’s Blue Yodeler, 1930-1931 (Rounder)

Ramblin’ Jack Elliott- Whippin’ That Old T.B.

Ramblin’ Jack Elliott Sings Woody Guthrie and Jimmie Rodgers & Cowboy Songs (Monitor)

Maria Muldaur- Any Old Time

Maria Muldaur (Reprise)

Peter Keane- Nobody Knows but Me

Rural Electrification (Little Hat)

Diana Braithwaite & Chris Whiteley- He’s in the Jailhouse Now

Gold Cadillac (G-Three)

Jimmie Rodgers with Louis Armstrong- Blue Yodel No. 9

America’s Blue Yodeler, 1930-1931 (Rounder)

Odetta- Muleskinner Blues

Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues (Tradition)

Finest Kind- Why Should I Be Lonely?

For Honour & For Gain (Fallen Angle)

J.W. McClure- My Carolina Sunshine Girl

Interpretations of Jimmie Rodgers (J.W. McClure)

Doc Watson- My Blue Eyed Jane

Portrait (Sugar Hill)

Jimmie Rodgers- Gambling Polka Dot Blues

Down the Old Road, 1931-1932 (Rounder)

Leon Redbone- Roll Along Kentucky Moon

Sugar (Rounder)

Dakota Dave Hull & Sean Blackburn- Miss the Mississippi and You

North By Southwest (Arabica)

Robin & Linda Williams- Mississippi Delta Blues

Visions of Love (Sugar Hill)

Arlo Guthrie- When the Cactus is in Bloom

Son of the Wind (Rising Son)

Mary Chapin Carpenter- Somewhere Down Below the Mason Dixon Line

The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers: A Tribute (Egyptian/Columbia)

Jimmie Rodgers- Yodeling My Way Back Home

Last Sessions, 1933 (Rounder)

Next week: Songs of Yip Harburg and Hoagy Carmichael.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday March 8, 2022: Voices of Women

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/595/55453.html

Theme: Voices of Women

Janis Ian- Stranger
The Light at the End of the Line (Rude Girl)

Diana Jones & Mike Regenstreif on Zoom (2021)

Diana Jones- Ask a Woman
Song to a Refugee (Goldmine)
Allison Russell- All of the Women
Outside Child (Fantasy)
Buffy Sainte-Marie- Little Wheel Spin and Spin
Medicine Songs (True North)

Odetta- Dink’s Blues
Blues Everywhere I Go (M.C.)
Jane Voss- Farther Down the Road
Farther Down the Road (Ripple)

Mama’s Broke- Oh Sun/Pale Night/Forgetting Reel
Narrow Line (Free Dirt)

Laura Smith & Mike Regenstreif (2013)

Laura Smith- I’m a Beauty
As Long As I’m Dreaming (Borealis)
Maria Dunn- Beautiful Fools
Joyful Banner Blazing (Distant Whisper)
SONiA disappear fear- Who I Am
By My Silence (Disappear Records)
Orit Shimoni- My Flying Shoes
Lorem Ipsum (Orit Shimoni)

Eliza Gilkyson- Wind River and You
Songs from the River Wind (Howlin’ Dog)
Rosalie Sorrels- The Pine
Live at the Great American Music Hall (Flying Fish)
Penny Lang- Come Across to You
Gather Honey (Borealis)

Lynn Miles- Old Soul
We’ll Look for Stars (Must Have Music)
Linda Morrison- Barcelona
Line By Line (Heartstrung Music)
Missy Burgess- Pour Me a Song
Pour Me a Song (Patio)
Kim Wallach- Hanging the Spoon
Chatter of the Finches (Black Socks Press)

Ronney Abramson & Mike Regenstreif (2016)

Bonnie Dobson- Southern Bound
Take Me for a Walk in the Morning Dew (Hornbeam)
Ronney Abramson- As Time Sneaks By
Stowaway (Castor Island Music)
Jana Pochop- The Hard Part
The Astronaut (Jana Pochop)
The Accidentals- Wide Open
Time Out Sessions #2 (The Accidentals)

Gina Forsyth- Down Yonder
Copper Rooster and Other Tunes and Tales (Waterbug)

Next week: Jack Kerouac @ 100

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--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday March 9, 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 #5 – was prerecorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/51142.html

 

 

Part 1: Original songs by a sampling of Canadian women

Orit Shimoni- Strange and Beautiful Things
Strange and Beautiful Things (Orit Shimoni)

Kat Goldman- The One to Dream
The Workingman’s Blues (Kat Goldman)
Lynne Hanson- Every Minute In Between
Just Words (Lynne Hanson)
Laura Smith- Middle America
As Long As I’m Dreaming (Borealis)

Lynn Miles- A Heart Can Only Take So Much
We’ll Look for Stars (Must Have Music)
Kerri Ough- Drawing Board
One Day Soon (Kerri Ough)
Ronney Abramson- Three O’Clock Ride
Three O’Clock Ride – single (Ronney Abramson)

Part 2: Songs of Malvina Reynolds

Pete Seeger- Little Boxes
Headlines & Footnotes: A Collection of Topical Songs (Smithsonian Folkways)
Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Petites boîtes (Little Boxes)
La vache qui pleure (Tribu)
John McCutcheon- Mrs. Clara Sullivan’s Letter
To Everyone in All the World: A Celebration of Pete Seeger (Appalsongs)
Malvina Reynolds- The Money Crop
Ear to the Ground: Topical Songs 1960-1978 (Smithsonian Folkways)

Jane Voss & Hoyle Osborne- On the Rim of the World
Pullin’ Through (Ripple)
Rosalie Sorrels- Rosie Jane
No Closing Chord: The Songs of Malvina Reynolds (Red House)
Robert Resnik & Gigi Weisman- Magic Penny
Sweet Potatoes and Home Grown Tomatoes (Fletcher Free Library)
Charlie Louvin- Turn Around
The Longest Train (Watermelon)

The Malvinas- God Bless the Grass
God Bless the Grass (Soona Songs)
Marianne Faithfull- What Have They Done to the Rain
Marianne Faithfull (Deram)
Malvina Reynolds- Skagit Valley Forever
Ear to the Ground: Topical Songs 1960-1978 (Smithsonian Folkways)
John Roberts & Tony Barrand- The Albatross
Mellow with Ale from the Horn (Golden Hind Music)

Bodie Wagner- The Bankers & the Diplomats (We Hate to See Them Go)
Vintage (Bodie Wagner)
Barbara Dane & The Chambers Brothers- It Isn’t Nice
Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs (Smithsonian Folkways)
Spook Handy- From Way Up Here
Dedicated to the Proposition: Pete, Woody & Me, Vol. II (Akashic)
Malvina Reynolds- This World
Ear to the Ground: Topical Songs 1960-1978 (Smithsonian Folkways)
Rosalie Sorrels- No Closing Chord
No Closing Chord: The Songs of Malvina Reynolds (Red House)

Next week – Irish and Irish-inspired songs.

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Various Artists – Tribute to the Travelin’ Lady Rosalie Sorrels

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Tribute to the Travelin’ Lady Rosalie Sorrels

rosaliesorrelstribute.com

I was honored to enjoy a long friendship with the late and great folksinger and songwriter Rosalie Sorrels (1933-2017). I was still in high school, circa 1970, when I first encountered her at the Back Door, a Montreal coffeehouse that existed from 1969 to 1971. It was during that Back Door gig that Rosalie wrote “Travelin’ Lady,” her signature song.

By 1972, as a college student in Montreal, I began producing folk concerts in Montreal and my first concert with Rosalie was a double bill with Utah Phillips in 1973. There would be many more concerts with Rosalie in Montreal, and in the late-‘70s and early-‘80s, when I ran a small booking agency for a select roster of folk music artists, Rosalie was one of my clients.

As I noted in an essay in June when she passed away, “Rosalie taught me much about the endurance of the human spirit and that adversities and personal tragedies can be the basis for cathartic art. And she taught me how to recognize greatness in songs.”

And, as Eliza Gilkyson writes in the notes to her track on Tribute to the Travelin’ Lady Rosalie Sorrels, “Any folksinger of my generation must claim Rosalie Sorrels as a foundational influence.”

Tribute to the Travelin’ Lady Rosalie Sorrels is a 4-CD set encompassing 44 songs by almost as many artists. About half the songs are performed by artists I know – including several old friends – and about half are by artists from Rosalie’s home state of Idaho who fell under her spell. At least two years in the making, most of the songs were written by Rosalie. A few others were songs from her vast repertoire, two were written in tribute to her, and a couple are original songs by the late Guy Clark and the late Jimmy LaFave that I can easily imagine hearing Rosalie do.

The album begins with Tom Russell’s “Pork Roast and Poetry,” an original by Tom in which he describes an evening spent visiting with Rosalie at the cabin her father built in Idaho at Grimes Creek. Having spent more than a few evenings in decades long past visiting with Rosalie and sampling her cooking, I can attest to the absolute authenticity of the song.

There are so many great performances on these four CDs that I can barely begin calling attention to all of them. But some of the songs that touched me deepest include Robin and Linda Williams’ rendition of “Borderline Heart,” the title track of one of my favorites of Rosalie’s albums; Eliza Gilkyson’s interpretation of “Travelin’ Lady,” Rosalie signature song written the same week I first met her and the title track from two great albums; Terry Garthwaite’s version of “Apple of My Eye,” a poignant song written for Rosalie’s daughter Shelley (and hearing Terry sing it brought back fond memories of the concert I produced with Rosalie, Terry and Bobbie Louise Hawkins); Laurie Lewis’ version of “Last Go Round”; Peter Rowan’s version of “Go With Me,” a lovely song from If I Could Be the Rain, the first LP of Rosalie’s I ever heard in the late-‘60s; Barbara Higbie’s interpretation of “Hitchhiker in the Rain,” Rosalie’s heartbreaking remembrance of her late son David; John Gorka’s take on “Song for My Birthday,” a song about Rosalie independent spirit; and Jane Voss and Hoyle Osborne’s performance of “Delia Rose,” a song written for a young child.

Rosalie Sorrels & Mike Regenstreif (1993)

And that’s just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. There are so many more great songs and wonderful performances – including some which take the songs in different directions from Rosalie’s original versions.

Kudos are particularly due to Idaho singer Rocci Johnson for spearheading this wonderful project (and for her rocking version of “Occasional Man”).

And the four CDs and booklet come in a beautifully designed boxed set inspired by Rosalie’s legendary scrapbook, and filled with photos from it.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday May 27, 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/128/32500.html.

Extended feature – Songs of Bruce “Utah” Phillips

This program was dedicated to the memory of the late Jimmy LaFave (1955-2017). I wrote about Jimmy’s passing on the Folk Roots/Folk Branches blog.

Chuck McDermott- Belvedere

Gin & Rosewater (Amber Gate)

Mike Regenstreif & Jimmy LaFave (2017)

Jimmy LaFave- One Too Many Mornings

Trail (Bohemia Beat)

Gretchen Peters w/Tom Russell- Guadalupe

One to the Heart, One to the Head (Scarlet Letter/Frontera)

Jimmy LaFave- On a Bus to St. Cloud

Favorites 1992-2001 (Music Road)

Christine Albert- Keep Me in Your Heart

Everything’s Beautiful Now (MoonHouse)

Jimmy LaFave- Buffalo Return to the Plains

Favorites 1992-2001 (Music Road)

Andrew Calhoun & Campground featuring Casey Calhoun- Turkle Dove

Bound to Go (Waterbug)

Eric Bibb- Mornin’ Train

Migration Blues (Stony Plain)

Happy Traum- Things are Coming My Way

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

Bessie Jones & the Georgia Sea Island Singers- Sheep Sheep Don’t You Know the Road

Get In Union: Recordings By Alan Lomax 1959-1966 (Tompkins Square)

Jayme Stone, Moira Smiley, Sumaia Jackson, Joe Phillips, Felicity Williams & Nick Fraser- There is More Love Somewhere

Jayme Stone’s Folklife (Borealis)

Bill Garrett & Sue Lothrop- The Hill

Red Shoes (Borealis)

Moore & McGregor- Dancing Shoes

Dream with Me (Ivernia)

Tom Russell- The Night the Chinese Restaurant Burned Down

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

Doug McArthur- Stumble from Vesuvio

Tears Like Rain (Doug McArthur)

Lynne Hanson- Stronger

Uneven Ground (Song Shop)

Lynn Miles- Black Flowers

Black Flowers Volume 1-2 (True North)

Magpie, Dan Schatz, Emma's Revolution- Singing Through the Hard Times

Singing Through the Hard Times: A Tribute to Utah Phillips (Righteous Babe)

Fred Holstein- The Telling Takes Me Home

Fred Holstein: A Collection (Fred Holstein)

Finest Kind- The Goodnight-Loving Trail

Lost in a Song (Fallen Angle)

Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard- The Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia

Hazel & Alice (Rounder)

Utah Phillips- She’ll Never Be Mine

The Telling Takes Me Home (Philo)

Utah Phillips & Mike Regenstreif (2005)

Rosalie Sorrels- Rock Me to Sleep

Travelin’ Lady (Sire)

Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen- Going Away

Live in Concert (Compass Rose)

Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin- Walking Through Your Town in the Snow

Heart Songs: The Old Time Country Songs of Utah Phillips (Rounder)

Finest Kind- The Faded Roses of December

Lost in a Song (Fallen Angle)

Priscilla Herdman & Utah Phillips- I Remember Loving You

Darkness into Light (Flying Fish)

John McCutcheon- All Used Up

Singing Through the Hard Times: A Tribute to Utah Phillips (Righteous Babe)

Mark Ross- Look for Me in Butte

Singing Through the Hard Times: A Tribute to Utah Phillips (Righteous Babe)

Kate MacLeod- Nevada Jane

Long Gone: Utah Remembers Bruce “Utah” Phillips (Waterbug)

Bruce Brackney- Hood River, Roll On

Singing Through the Hard Times: A Tribute to Utah Phillips (Righteous Babe)

Utah Phillips- Eddy’s Song

The Telling Takes Me Home (Philo)

Michael Earnie Taylor Orchestra- Rock Salt and Nails

$3 Pants (Laughing Cactus Music)

Penny Lang- If I Could be the Rain

Stone + Sand + Sea + Sky (Borealis)

Brent Bradford- I Think of You

Long Gone: Utah Remembers Bruce “Utah” Phillips (Waterbug)

Rosalie Sorrels- Ashes on the Sea

Strangers in Another Country: The Songs of Bruce “Utah” Phillips (Red House)

Utah Phillips- Wabash Cannonball/Tolono

Good Though! (Philo)

Durham County Poets- The Outside Cat

Grimshaw Road (Durham County Poets)

The Vaudvillian- James St. Turnaround

Bringing Satan Down (Busted Flat)

Diana Braithwaite & Chris Whiteley- Travelin’ Blues

Morning Sun (Electro-Fi)

Jane Voss & Hoyle Osborne- Gateway Blues (Blues for Bessie)

Get to the Heart (Ripple)

The Eisenhauers- Rather Have You Around

The Road We Once Knew (Black Hen)

Sam Gleaves & Tyler Hughes- I Washed My Face in the Morning Dew

Sam Gleaves & Tyler Hughes (Community Music)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on June 24.

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--Mike Regenstreif