Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – March 5, 2024: Title Characters

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/595/64157.html

Theme: Title Characters

Willie P. Bennett- Blackie and the Rodeo King

Blackie and the Rodeo King (Bnatural Music)

Jerry Jeff Walker- Mr. Bojangles

Gypsy Songman (Rykodisc)

Rosalie Sorrels- Feather Ben

Travelin’ Lady Rides Again (Green Linnet)

Eliza Gilkyson & Mike Regenstreif on Zoom (2022)

Eliza Gilkyson- Charlie Moore

Songs from the River Wind (Howlin’ Dog)

Guy Clark- Sis Draper

Cold Dog Soup (Sugar Hill)

Tom Russell & Mike Regenstreif (2000)

Tom Russell- Isaac Lewis

The Tom Russell Anthology: Veteran’s Day (Shout! Factory)

James Talley- The Love Song of Billy the Kid

Bandits, Ballads and Blues (Cimarron)

Furry Lewis- Billy Lyons and Stack O’Lee

Furry’s Blues: The Complete Vintage Recordings 1927-1929 (Document)

Emmylou Harris- Pancho and Lefty

Luxury Liner (Warner Bros./Rhino)

James Keelaghan- Jenny Bryce

Then Again (Jericho Beach Music)

Mike Regenstreif & Jesse Winchester (2006)

Jesse Winchester- Eulalie

Love Filling Station (Appleseed)

Crabtree & Mills- Miss Otis Regrets

Flight of Fancy (Free and Easy Music)

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

Tom Paxton- Victoria Dines Alone

Morning Again (Elektra)

Shelley Posen & Mike Regenstreif on Zoom (2023)

Shelley Posen- Having a Drink with Jane

The Old Songs Home (Well Done Music)

Mike Regenstreif & Michael Smith (2014)

Michael Smith- The Dutchman

Such Things are Finely Done (Tales from the Tavern)

Over the Moon- Darcy Farrow

Chinook Waltz (Borealis)

Staber & Chasnoff- Spanish Johnny

|Free to Dream (Bubkes)

Tom Mitchell & Mike Regenstreif (1999)

Tom Mitchell- Old Dan

When the Moon is Right (Truesongs)

John Prine- Sam Stone

Souvenirs (Oh Boy)

Tim Sparks- Me and Bobby McGee

Lost and Found (Acoustic Music)

Next week: The Art of the Long Song, Volume 2.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday January 10, 2023: Remembering Ian Tyson

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 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/595/58976.html

Theme: Remembering Ian Tyson (1933-2022).

Ian Tyson, who died on December 29th at age 89, was one of Canada’s greatest and most influential singers and songwriters – from his days in the 1960s and early-‘70s as half of the legendary folk duo Ian & Sylvia, through his focus on country music in the later Ian & Sylvia years and the early part of his solo career, and to his revitalization and virtual reinvention of cowboy music from the early-1980s through the 2000s. 

Two of the songs on the show were inspired by Ian Tyson, the rest were written, or co-written, by him.

Ian & Sylvia- Four Strong Winds

Four Strong Winds (Vanguard)

Fourtold- Four Rode By

Fourtold (Appleseed)

Judy Collins- Someday Soon

Who Knows Where the Time Goes (Elektra)

Bill Garrett- Red Velvet

Bill Garrett (Borealis)

Tom Russell- Short Grass

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

Bill Staines- The French Girl

Beneath Some Lucky Star (Red House)

Ian & Sylvia- Lonely Girls

Play One More (Vanguard)

“The Cowboy and the Umbrella” was written by Kim Wallach. In the liner notes to “Chatter of the Finches,” Kim writes that the song is “a fictionalized account of watching Ian Tyson judge the Kerrville Folk Festival in the ‘80s. I moved the setting to the bar at YO Ranch Hilton.”

Kim Wallach- The Cowboy and the Umbrella

Chatter of the Finches (Black Socks Press)

Wanda Fischer- Friends of Mine

Singing Along with the Radio (Wanda Fischer)

Tom Russell- Play One More

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

Anne Hills & Jan Burda- Wild Geese

Don’t Panic (Flying Fish)

Bill Morrissey & Greg Brown- Summer Wages

Friend of Mine (Philo)

Ian & Sylvia- Long Long Time to Get Old

Great Speckled Bird (Stony Plain)

Ian Tyson- Cowboys Don’t Cry

I Outgrew the Wagon (Stony Plain)

David Rea- The Gift

X 7 (Gitsu)

Ramblin' Jack Elliott- Will James

South Coast (Red House)

Michael Martin Murphey- Cowboy Pride

Cowboy Songs (Warner Bros.)

Corb Lund- Road to Las Cruces

Songs My Friends Wrote (New West)

Over the Moon- Moondancer

Moondancer (Over the Moon)

Ian Tyson- Lost Herd

Lost Herd (Stony Plain)

“I’ll Never Leave These Old Horses” was written by Tom Russell, a frequent songwriting collaborator of Ian Tyson’s. It was inspired by a conversation Tom had with Ian.

Tom Russell- I’ll Never Leave These Old Horses

Folk Hotel (Frontera)

Tom Russell & Ian Tyson- Navajo Rug

Cowboy’d All to Hell (Frontera)

Ian Tyson- Wolves No Longer Sing

Carnero Vaquero (Stony Plain)

Ian Tyson- ‘Til the Circle is Through

All the Good’Uns (Stony Plain)

Next week: Songs and Conversation with Shelley Posen.

Find me on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Canadian Spaces – CKCU – Saturday July 30, 2022

Canadian Spaces on CKCU in Ottawa is Canada’s longest-running folk music radio program. It is heard Saturday mornings from 10:00 am until noon (Eastern time). 

It was hosted for more than 33 years by the late Chopper McKinnon and is now hosted by Chris White and a rotating cast of co-hosts. 

This week’s show was hosted by Mike Regenstreif.

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

This show was recorded and is already available for on-demand listening. https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/129/57073.html

Guest: Lenka Lichtenberg.

Me & My Uncle- Me and My Uncle
Me & My Uncle (Laughing Cactus Music)
OXLIP- Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies (World Peach)
Pharis & Jason Romero- Train on the Island
Tell ‘Em You Were Gold (Smithsonian Folkways)
El Coyote- Satellite Lost
El Coyote (El Coyote)
Kim Beggs- They Shut the Greyhound Down
Steel and Wool (Out of a Paper Bag Productions)
Over the Moon- Someday Soon
Chinook Waltz (Borealis)
Tom Russell- Short Grass
Play One More: The Songs of Ian & Sylvia (True North)
Ian & Sylvia- Four Rode By
The Lost Tapes (Stony Plain)
Ken Whiteley- Farewell to Nova Scotia
Long Time Travelling (Ken Whiteley)
Conklin Céilí Band- Giant
A Three Legged Stool (Conklin Céilí Band)
Stan Rogers- Cliffs of Baccalieu
For the Family (Folk Tradition)

Ian Robb with Finest Kind- The Mary Ellen Carter
From Different Angels (Fallen Angle)

Ball and Chain & The Wreckers- I’m All Alone
Surrender (Ball and Chain)
Durham County Poets- Out of the Woods
Out of the Woods (Durham County Poets)

Boxcar Bos- Sidecar
Rye Whiskey (Fedora Upside Down)

The next five songs punctuated my conversation with Lenka Lichtenberg. The songs on Lenka’s new album, Thieves of Dreams, are settings of poems written by Anna Hana Friesová, her maternal grandmother, while she was a prisoner in the Terezin concentration camp in what was then Czechoslovakia during the Second World War and the Holocaust.

Lenka Lichtenberg- Miracles
Thieves of Dreams (Six Degrees)

Lenka Lichtenberg- That monster, custom
Thieves of Dreams (Six Degrees)

Lenka Lichtenberg- What is this place?
Thieves of Dreams (Six Degrees)

Lenka Lichtenberg- Run, run, you little human
Thieves of Dreams (Six Degrees)

Lenka Lichtenberg with Jana Renée Friesová- I have my own grief

Thieves of Dreams (Six Degrees)

Lisa Null passed away from cancer at age 79 on July 19.

Lisa Null- I’m Going Home to Georgia
Legacies (Folk-Legacy)
Bruce Cockburn- One Day I Walk
Greatest Hits (1970-2020) (True North)
Stephen Mendel- The Parting Glass
Sing Me a Story (Stephen Mendel)

I’ll be hosting Canadian Spaces next on August 27. I also host Stranger Songs every Tuesday from 3:30 to 5 pm; and the Saturday Morning show from 7 to 10 am, once every 4 weeks with my next slot on August 13th.

Find me on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday November 9, 2021: Addendums to Past Themes

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/595/54109.html

Theme: Addendums to Past Themes

Whenever I choose a theme for Stranger Songs, it’s inevitable that time constraints mean that I can’t begin to include all the possible songs or versions of songs that would fit the theme. This being funding drive time, I thought it would be fun to look at some past themes and choose a couple of songs or versions of songs that weren’t included when the theme originally aired.

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/

Leonard Cohen- Blessed is the Memory
Songs of Leonard Cohen (Columbia/Legacy)
Perla Batalla- Famous Blue Raincoat
Bird on the Wire: The Songs of Leonard Cohen (Mechuda Music)

Emmylou Harris, Dolores Keane & Mary Black- Sonny’s Dream
Songbird: Rare Tracks and Forgotten Gems (Rhino)
Pressgang Mutiny- Stormalong John
Across the Western Ocean (Pressgang Mutiny)

Malvina Reynolds- I Don’t Mind Failing
Malvina Reynolds … Sings the Truth (Columbia)
Reggie Harris- It Isn’t Nice
On Solid Ground (Reggie Harris Music)

Lightnin' Hopkins- Trouble in Mind
Autobiography in Blues (Tradition)
Tom Russell- Scars on his Ankles
Folk Hotel (Frontera)

The Everly Brothers- Cathy’s Clown
A Date with The Everly Brothers (Warner Bros.)
Over the Moon- Kentucky
Chinook Waltz (Borealis)

Andy Cohen- I Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Have None of My Jelly Roll
Tryin’ to Get Home (Earwig)
Louis Armstrong & Velma Middleton- St. Louis Blues
Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy (Columbia/Legacy)

Mike Regenstreif & Murray McLauchlan on Zoom (2021)

Murray McLauchlan- Sweeping the Spotlight Away
Songs from the Street: The Best of Murray McLauchlan (True North)
Murray McLauchlan- Out Past the Timberline
Songs from the Street: The Best of Murray McLauchlan (True North)

Stan Rogers- Northwest Passage
Northwest Passage (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)
Ian Robb with Finest Kind- The Mary Ellen Carter
From Different Angels (Fallen Angle)

Katherine Rondeau- Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here With You
Unfortunate Point of View (Katherine Rondeau)
Colin James- It Takes a Train to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
Open Road (Stony Plain)

Next week: The Guitar

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

And on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday November 6, 2021

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/128/54085.html

Mitch Greenhill- The Boy By the Chocolate Mill
Mitchology (Mitch Greenhill)

Peter Keane- Weary Blues
Blues/Ballads/Cowboy Songs (Peter Keane)
Doc Watson- The Clouds Gwine Roll Away
The Village Out West: The Lost Tapes of Alan Oakes – Field Recordings of the 1960s California Folk Music Scene (Smithsonian Folkways)
Bett Padgett- 500 Miles
Turning Over Stones (Ceilidhe’s Music)
Bob Jensen with James Keelaghan- My Skies
For the Sake of the Song (Bob Jensen)

James Gordon- When I Stayed Home
When I Stayed Home (James Gordon)
Dean Friedman- Halfway Normal World
American Lullaby (Real Life)
Carole Wise- New Frontier
The Long Way Home (Soulful Cricket)

Ian & Sylvia- You Were On My Mind
Northern Journey (Vanguard)
Sylvia Tyson- River Road
River Road & Other Stories (Outside Music)
Quartette- Arkansas Travelogue
Rocks and Roses (Outside Music)

Deborah Robins- The Three Ravens
Lone Journey (Zippety Whippet Music)
Roy Forbes- If I Were a Raven
Strikin’ Matches Live! (AKA)
Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer- I Go Like the Raven
Drum Hat Buddha (Signature Sounds)

Q&A- You Never Let Me Down
Demo Listen Derby (Sonic Peach)
T. Buckley- Father’s Child
Frame By Frame (Fallen Tree)

Orrin Star- Waltzing Matilda/By the Rivers of Babylon
No Frets Barred (Flying Fish)

Brooksie Wells- Sweet Remembrance
Stops Time (Down Home Dive)
Ina May Wool- Rewrite the Ending
Rewrite the Ending (Voice of Binky Music)
Peter Keane- Almost Gone
Blues/Ballads/Cowboy Songs (Peter Keane)
Mala Oreen- Ragged Queen
Awake (Tourbo)

Mike Regenstreif & Garnet Rogers (2006)

Kaia Kater- The Right One
Grenades (Smithsonian Folkways)
Connie Kaldor- Whistle Gone
Love is a Truck (Coyote)
Garnet Rogers- Old Campfires
Summer’s End (Snow Goose Songs)

Socalled with The Kaiser Quartett- Yiddish Meydl
Di Frosh and other Yiddish Songs (Membran)
Martha Wainwright- Getting Older
Love Will Be Reborn (Peremone)

Ian Tamblyn- St. Kilda
Voice in the Wilderness (North Track)
Kate Weekes- A Day Called Summer
Taken By Surprise (Artiste Extrordinaire Originals)

Priscilla Herdman- No Man’s Land
Forgotten Dreams (Flying Fish)
Eric Bogle with John Munro- In Flanders Fields
A Toss of the Coin (Greentrax)
Garnet Rogers- 11:11
Sparrow’s Wing (Snow Goose Songs)

Dave Clarke- Remember When
The Healing Garden (Crossties)

Corey Harris- Boats Up River
The Insurrection Blues (M.C.)
Peter Keane- Special Rider Blues
Blues/Ballads/Cowboy Songs (Peter Keane)
Judy Henske- I Know You Rider
The Elektra Albums (Ace)
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- Key to the Highway
Working Man Blues (Sunset Blvd.)

Over the Moon- Lonesome Bluebird
Chinook Waltz (Borealis)
Missy Burgess- Time
Missy Burgess with The Blue Train Live (Missy Burgess)

Lynne Hanson- Shadowland
Shadowland – single (Lynne Hanson)
Colin James- Raging River
Open Road (Stony Plain)
Maria Muldaur- I’m Vaccinated and Ready for Love
I’m Vaccinated and Ready for Love – single (Stony Plain)

Laura Love- Heart of Nat Turner
Uppity (Octoroon Biography)
Reggie Harris- Tree of Life
On Solid Ground (Reggie Harris Music)
Odetta- Freedom Trilogy: Oh Freedom, Come & Go with Me, I’m On My Way
Gonna Let It Shine (M.C.)

Leonard Cohen- Listen to the Hummingbird
Thanks for the Dance (Columbia/Legacy)
Anne Hills- Alexandra Leaving
Points of View (Appleseed)

Canadian Brass- Hallelujah
Canadiana (Linus/Canadian Brass)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on December 4. 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