Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – June 17, 2025: Music for 88 Keys

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/595/70697.html

Theme: Music for 88 Keys – all of the songs and instrumentals feature the piano as a primary instrument.

Philip Dyson- The Entertainer

Scott Joplin, The King of Ragtime: Complete Piano Works (Decca)

Perla Batalla- Sisters of Mercy

A Letter to Leonard Cohen: Tribute to a Friend (Mechuda Music)

Chaim Tannenbaum- Time On My Hands

The McGarrigle Hour (Hannibal)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Talk to Me of Mendocino

Tell My Sister: Kate & Anna McGarrigle (Nonesuch)

Pink Martini with Rufus Wainwright & The Von Trapps- Kitty Come Home

Get Happy (Audiogram)

Last Forever- Lonesome Day

Acres of Diamonds (StorySound)

Hoyle Osborne- The Baltimore Todalo

Panazon: Pan American Café Music (Ripple)

Odetta & Dr. John- Oh Papa

Blues Everywhere I Go (M.C.)

Jay McShann with Johnnie Johnson- Kansas City (Revisited)

Goin’ to Kansas City (Stony Plain)

Alberta Hunter- Always

Amtrak Blues (Columbia)

Tom Waits- Tom Traubert’s Blues

Small Change (Asylum)

Mary Chapin Carpenter with Anais Mitchell- Home is a Song

Personal History (Lambent Light/Thirty Tigers)

Rosalie Sorrels- Moments of Happiness

Moments of Happiness (Philo)

Suzie Brown- Songs are My Tears

Songs Worth Saving (Suzie Brown)

Jesse Winchester- The Easy Way

Third Down, 110 to Go (Stony Plain)

Lee Hunter & The Gatherers- Farewell, Farewell

Beneath My Feet (Birds Tale)

Penny Lang- Nama Says

Yes (She-Wolf)

Julian Fauth- Bad John

The Weak and the Wicked, the Hard and the Strong (Electro-Fi)

Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon- Chicago House Rent Party

Songs of Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon (Folkways)

Count Basie & Oscar Peterson- S & J Blues

Satch and Josh (Pablo)

Next week: 1965.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – November 12, 2024: Remembering Barbara Dane (1927-2024)

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/595/67642.html

Theme: Remembering Barbara Dane (1927-2024).

Barbara Dane, the folk, blues and jazz singer – and political activist – died at home in Oakland, California on October 20 at age 97. Barbara was born in Detroit in 1927 and began singing at demonstrations for racial equality and labor rights while still a teenager. She remained an activist for those causes, as well as for peace and women’s rights all of her life.

In 2017, I had the honor of interviewing Barbara on stage during the Wisdom of the Elders panel at the Folk Alliance International conference in Kansas City. She truly had a remarkable and inspiring life.

Mike Regenstreif & Barbara Dane (2017)

Barbara Dane- Stranger’s Blues

Barbara Dane Sings the Blues (Folkways)

Barbara Dane- Nine Hundred Miles

Anthology of American Folk Songs (Tradition)

Barbara Dane- When I was a Young Girl

Anthology of American Folk Songs (Tradition)

Barbara Dane & Doc Watson- You Don’t Know Me/You Don’t Know My Mind

Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs (Smithsonian Folkways)

Barbara Dane & Pete Seeger- Solidarity Forever

Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs (Smithsonian Folkways)

Barbara Dane with Jesse Cahn, Pablo Menendez & Johnny Harper- Oh, Had I a Golden Thread

Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs (Smithsonian Folkways)

Barbara Dane & The Chambers Brothers- It Isn’t Nice

Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs (Smithsonian Folkways)

Barbara Dane & The Chambers Brothers- Come By Here

Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs (Smithsonian Folkways)

Barbara Dane with Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon- Walking Blues

Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs (Smithsonian Folkways)

Barbara Dane & Lightnin' Hopkins- Sometimes I Believe She Loves Me

Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs (Smithsonian Folkways)

Barbara Dane- Ain’t Nobody Got the Blues Like Me

Trouble In Mind (Dreadnaught)

Barbara Dane- Prescription for the Blues

Trouble In Mind (Dreadnaught)

Barbara Dane with Earl 'Fatha' Hines & His Orchestra- Livin’ with the Blues

Livin’ with the Blues (Dreadnaught)

Barbara Dane- Basin Street Blues

Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs (Smithsonian Folkways)

Barbara Dane- Mama Yancey’s Advice

Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs (Smithsonian Folkways)

Barbara Dane with Earl 'Fatha' Hines & His Orchestra- Mecca Flat Blues

Livin’ with the Blues (Dreadnaught)

Barbara Dane- Deportees (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)

Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs (Smithsonian Folkways)

Barbara Dane & Pete Seeger- We Shall Not Be Moved

Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs (Smithsonian Folkways)

Barbara Dane & The Chambers Brothers- This Little Light of Mine

Hot Jazz, Cool Blues & Hard-Hitting Songs (Smithsonian Folkways)

Next week: Immigration, Part 1 – The Man from God Knows Where.

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday February 26, 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/128/55354.html

Bruce Cockburn- Wondering Where the Lions Are
Greatest Hits (1970-2020) (True North)

Mike Regenstreif & Arlo Guthrie (1996)

Arlo Guthrie- Buffalo Gals
Son of the Wind (Rising Son)
Eliza Gilkyson- Buffalo Gals Redux
Songs from the River Wind (Howlin’ Dog)
Buffao Gals Band- Little Sugar Creek
Where the Heart Wants to Go (Buffao Gals Band)
Annie & Rod Capps- Build the Fire
When They Fall (Maynard Music)

Tom Mitchell- You Save Everything
When the Moon is Right (Truesongs)
Ronney Abramson- Three O’Clock Ride
Three O’Clock Ride – single (Castor Island Music)
Tom Paxton- What a Friend You Are
Comedians & Angels (Appleseed)
Steel Rail- Paper Girl
Coming Home (Crossties)

Dom Flemons- He’s a Lone Ranger
Dom Flemons Presents Black Cowboys (Smithsonian Folkways)
Over the Moon- John Ware
Chinook Waltz (Borealis)
Odetta- When I was a Cowboy
Lookin’ for a Home: Thanks to Leadbelly (M.C.)

Kenny 'Blues Boss' Wayne- Stewball
Blues from Chicago to Paris: A Tribute to Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon (Stony Plain)
Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon- John Henry
Songs of Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon (Folkways)
Dave Van Ronk & The Ragtime Jug Stompers- K.C. Moan
Ragtime Jug Stompers (Oldays)

Mike Mullins- Hallelujah
8-String Sketches (Rubber Chicken)

James Gordon- Crybabies Caravan
Crybabies Caravan – single (James Gordon)

Bruce Murdoch- (If I Had) Wings
Bruce Murdoch (Radio Canada International)
Eliza Gilkyson- Farthest End
Songs from the River Wind (Howlin’ Dog)
Stephen Mendel- Ready for the Storm
Sing Me a Story (Stephen Mendel)

Mike Regenstreif & Garnet Rogers (2006)

Garnet Rogers- Corrina, Corrina
Night Drive (Snow Goose Songs)
Bob Dylan- Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (Columbia/Legacy)
Ralph McTell- West 4th Street and Jones
Hill of Beans (Leola)
Kevin Hearn & Thin Buckle with Garth Hudson- You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere
Garth Hudson Presents a Canadian Celebration of The Band: 10th Anniversary Edition (Curve Music)

Janis Ian- Nina
The Light at the End of the Line (Rude Girl)
Nina Simone- Stars
The Montreux Years (BMG)
Tom Russell & The Norwegian Wind Ensemble- Nina Simone
Aztec Jazz (Frontera)

The StorySound All-Stars: Rachelle Garniez, Chaim Tannenbaum, Dick Connette, Ana Egge, Amanda Homi, Connie Kirch, Daisy Press, Terry Radigan, Lucy Wainwright Roche, Suzzy Roche, Loudon Wainwright III & Lorenzo Wolf- Dangerous Business
Dangerous Business – single (StorySound)
Noel Paul Stookey- Fun Police
Fazz: Now & Then (Neworld Multimedia)

RanchWriters- Earl’s Taxi
RanchWriters (True North)

Don Armstrong- Annabelle Teaching Her Daddy to Dance
Mother Don’t Give Up on Me Now (Ronstadt Record Co.)
Annabelle Chvostek- Dance Me to the End of Love
Dance Me to the End of Love – single (Annabelle Chvostek)
Leonard Cohen- Thanks for the Dance
Thanks for the Dance (Columbia/Legacy)
Lynne Hanson- Hip Like Cohen
Hip Like Cohen – single (Lynne Hanson)

Eliza Gilkyson & Mike Regenstreif (2006)

Eliza Gilkyson- Charlie Moore
Songs from the River Wind (Howlin’ Dog)
Sally Potter- May the Light of Love
Summer’s Child (Sally Potter)
David Roth- Last Day On This Earth
Last Day On This Earth (Maythelight Music)

Jana Pochop- Head Spin
The Astronaut (Jana Pochop)
Jordi Baizan- Palm Reader
The Love in You (Berkalin)
Maria Dunn- Declan’s Song (The Good Life)
Joyful Banner Blazing (Distant Whisper)

Folkapotamus- We’ll Dance Again
We’ll Dance Again (PhatCat)
Isabel & The Uncommons- Distance
Distance – single (Isabel Fryszberg)
Karen Morand & The Bosco Boys- Ghost Hotel
Ghost Hotel (Karen Morand)
Keith Glass Band- Different World
Different World – single (Stump)

Artie Traum & Pat Alger- From the Heart
From the Heart (Rounder)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on March 26. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm.

Find me on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif