Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – August 27, 2024: Walking Blues

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/595/66546.html

Theme: “Walking Blues”

Robert Johnson- Walking Blues

The Complete Recordings (Columbia/Legacy)

Kate McGarrigle- Walking Song

Tell My Sister: Dancer with Bruised Knees (Nonesuch)

Mike Regenstreif, Bruce Murdoch & Sneezy Waters (2014)

Bruce Murdoch- I’d Walk a Thousand Miles

Sometimes I Wonder Why the World (Bruce Murdoch)

Ynana Rose- Midlife Walkin’ Blues

Under a Carhedral Sky (Ynana Rose Music)

Sneezy Waters & His Very Fine Band- Walkin’ Round Town

Live (Sneezy Waters)

Ronney Abramson & Mike Regenstreif (2016)

Ronney Abramson- Walking Me Home

Jukebox of Paris (Castor Island Music)

Mike Regenstreif & Arlo Guthrie (1996)

Arlo Guthrie- Walkin’ Down the Line

Pete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie Together In Concert (Rising Son)

Eddie Pennington- Walking the Strings

Walks the Strings…and Even Sings (Smithsonian Folkways)

Fats Domino- Walking to New Orleans

Fats Rocks (Bear Family)

Mike Regenstreif & Lucy Kaplansky (2012)

Lucy Kaplansky- These Boots are Made for Walking

Last Days of Summer (Lucyricky)

Beth DeSombre- Just Keep Walking

Holding the Threads (Beth DeSombre)

HotCha!- Walkin’ After Midnight

Dust Bowl Roots: Songs for the New Depression (HotCha!)

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee- That’s Why I’m Walking

Back to New Orleans (Fantasy)

Michael Jerome Browne, Mike Regenstreif & Eric Bibb (2005)

Michael Jerome Browne- Walk On

Double (Borealis)

Maria Muldaur- Walkin’ One and Only

Maria Muldaur (Reprise)

Gus Cannon- Walk Right In

Walk Right In (Stax)

Eric Bibb- Out Walkin’

Blues People (Stony Plain)

Tom Russell & Mike Regenstreif (2018)

Tom Russell- Walking On the Moon

Old Songs Yet to Sing (Frontera)

Mike Regenstreif & Bill Staines (1993)

Bill Staines- Walk Down By the Water

The First Million Miles (Rounder)

Mike Regenstreif & Jimmy LaFave (2017)

Jimmy LaFave & Ruthie Foster- Walk a Mile in My Shoes

Cimarron Manifesto (Red House)

Eliza Gilkyson & Mike Regenstreif on Zoom (2022)

Eliza Gilkyson- When You Walk On

Paradise Hotel (Red House)

James Keelaghan- Walk On

Second-Hand (Borealis)

The Marigolds- When I’m Walking with You

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

Mike Regenstreif & Quartette: Caitlin Hanford, Sylvia Tyson, Cindy Church & Gwen Swick (1997)

Quartette- I Walk These Rails

In the Beauty of the Day (Outside Music)

John McCutcheon- The Man Walking His Dog

22 Days (Appalsongs)

Arnie Naiman & Chris Coole- Walking the Dog

5 Strings Attached with No Backing (Merriweather)

Next week: Songs of Work and Jobs, Labour and Labour History, Volume 2.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday May 16, 2023: Remembering Gordon Lightfoot

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/595/60419.html

Theme: Remembering Gordon Lightfoot (1938-2023).

One of our greatest singer-songwriters – whose songs have done much to help define Canadian identity and culture – Gordon Lightfoot passed away on May 1st at age 84.

Gordon Lightfoot- Long River

The Original Lightfoot (EMI)

Bruce Cockburn- Ribbon of Darkness

Beautiful: A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot (Borealis/NorthernBlues)

Matthew Alexander- Steel Rail Blues

Soul River (Caravan)

Ilsey Juber- The Way I Feel

Ladies Sing Lightfoot (Sunset Blvd.)

Gordon Lightfoot- Bitter Green

Songbook (Warner Archives/Rhino)

Johnny Cash- For Lovin’ Me

The Man in Black 1963-’69, Plus (Bear Family)

George Hamilton IV- Did She Mention My Name

In the 4th Dimension (RCA)

Stephen Fearing- Early Morning Rain

Vejpoesi (Stephen Fearing)

Gordon Lightfoot- Alberta Bound

Songbook (Warner Archives/Rhino)

Murray McLauchlan- Home from the Forest

Beautiful: A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot (Borealis/NorthernBlues)

Katy Moffatt- Canadian Railroad Trilogy

Ladies Sing Lightfoot (Sunset Blvd.)

Connie Kaldor- If You Could Read My Mind

Beautiful: A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot (Borealis/NorthernBlues)

Gordon Lightfoot- Cold on the Shoulder

Songbook (Warner Archives/Rhino)

The Kennedys- Cotton Jenny

Ladies Sing Lightfoot (Sunset Blvd.)

Special Consensus- Brave Mountaineers

Great Blue North (Compass)

John McLachlan with Marc Atkinson & Scott White- The Patriot’s Dream

50 Years Since Don Quixote: A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot (John McLachlan)

Gordon Lightfoot- The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Songbook (Warner Archives/Rhino)

Darling West- Sundown

Ladies Sing Lightfoot (Sunset Blvd.)

Tony Rice- Walls

Tony Rice Sings Gordon Lightfoot (Rounder) 

Quartette- Song for a Winter’s Night

Rocks and Roses (Outside Music)

Gordon Lightfoot- A Painter Passing Through

A Painter Passing Through (Reprise)

Next week: The traditional folk and blues songs of Bob Dylan.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday August 30, 2022: Festival of Flowers

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/595/57439.html

Theme: Festival of Flowers – all of the songs have something or other to do with flowers.

Tish Hinojosa- Festival of Flowers

Where Have All the Flowers Gone: The Songs of Pete Seeger, Volume 1 (Appleseed)

Mike Regenstreif & Priscilla Herdman (1978) photo: Ron Petronko

Priscilla Herdman- The Water Lily

The Water Lily (Philo)

Chris Rawlings- Iris of Flowers

Pearl Soupe (Cooking Fat Music)

Finest Kind- The Faded Roses of December

Lost in a Song (Fallen Angle)

Lynn Miles with Keith Glass- Black Flowers

Road (Lynn Miles)

The Haden Triplets- Wildwood Flower

The Family Songbook (Trimeter/Thirty Tigers)

The Smith Sisters- The Bramble and the Rose

Roadrunner (Flying Fish)

Kimmie Rhodes- Wild Roses

West Texas Heaven (Justice)

Mountain City Four- Erev Shel Shoshanim

Mountain City Four (Omnivore)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Sunflower

La vache qui pleure (Tribu)

Eric Andersen & Mike Regenstreif (2000)

Eric Andersen- Violets of Dawn

Woodstock Under the Stars (Y&T Music)

Last Forever- Who’ll Water My Flowers

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

Anne Hills- Thoughts in Flowers

Beauty Attends: The Heartsongs of Opal Whiteley (Collective Works)

Tiny Tim- Tiptoe Through the Tulips

God Bless Tiny Tim (Now Sounds)

Peter Rowan- Lotus Flower

My Aloha (Omnivore)

Caroline Doctorow- Cactus Flower

Little Lovin’ Darling (Narrow Lane)

Martyn Joseph- Flower Lady

Days of Decision: A Tribute to Phil Ochs (Pipe)

The Wailin' Jennys- Wildflowers

Fifteen (True North)

Mike Regenstreif & Missy Burgess (2014)

Missy Burgess- Just Like Roses Do

Lemon Pie (Missy Burgess)

Quartette- Rocks and Roses

Rocks and Roses (Outside Music)

Deirdre McCalla- Amaryllis

Endless Grace (MaidenRock)

Stan Rogers- The Flowers of Bermuda

Between the Breaks…Live! (Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis)

Hoyle Osborne- The Chrysanthemum

Live at the Diamond Belle (Ripple)

Next week: Songs of Work and Jobs, Labour and Labour History.

Find me on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday February 15, 2022: Part 1 – Remembering Tony Barrand and Norma Waterson; Part 2 – Love Songs

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/595/55205.html

Themes: Part 1 – Remembering Tony Barrand and Norma Waterson; Part 2 – Love Songs

In memory of Tony Barrand (1945-2022)

John Roberts & Tony Barrand- Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy
A Present from the Gentlemen (Golden Hind Music)
John Roberts & Tony Barrand- A Smuggler’s Song
A Present from the Gentlemen (Golden Hind Music)
John Roberts & Tony Barrand- A Pilgrim’s Way
Twiddlum Twaddlum (Golden Hind Music)

In memory of Norma Waterson (1939-2022)

The Watersons- I am a Rover
Troubadours of British Folk, Volume 1 (Rhino)
Waterson:Carthy- Polly’s Love
Common Tongue (Topic)
Norma Waterson- Black Muddy River
Norma Waterson (Hannibal)

Love Songs

Dave Van Ronk- Another Time and Place
Down in Washington Square (Smithsonian Folkways)
Reggie Harris & Colleen Kattau- Maybe It’s Love
On Solid Ground (Reggie Harris Music)
Steel Rail- Once in a While
Coming Home (Crossties)
Quartette- First Love Waltz
Rocks and Roses (Outside Music)

Miranda Mulholland- Heart Like a Wheel
By Appointment or Chance (Roaring Girl)
Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Foolish You
Tell My Sister: Kate & Anna McGarrigle (Nonesuch)
Chaim Tannenbaum- (Talk to Me of) Mendocino
Chaim Tannenbaum (StorySound)

Tom Russell & Mike Regenstreif (2018)

Eliza Gilkyson- Don’t Stop Lovin’ Me
Songs from the River Wind (Howlin’ Dog)
Tom Russell & The Norwegian Wind Ensemble- Finding You
Aztec Jazz (Frontera)
HuDost- Deliverance
Anthems of Home (HuDost Music)
Bruce Cockburn- Anything Anytime Anywhere
Greatest Hits (1970-2020) (True North)

Annabelle Chvostek- Dance Me to the End of Love
Dance Me to the End of Love – single (Annabelle Chvostek)
Nina Simone- Black is the Color of My True Love’s Hair
Nina Simone for Lovers: Deluxe Edition (Verve)
The Twangtown Paramours- Anyone But You
Double Down on a Bad Thing (Inside Edge)
Josie Bello- Love That’s Real
Resilience (Josie Bello)

Next week: Songs of Fats Waller

Find me on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday January 11, 2022: Songs of Winter

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/595/54825.html

Theme: Songs of Winter

Mike Regenstrif & Quartette: Caitlyn Hanford, Sylvia Tyson, Cindy Church, Gwen Swick (1997)

Quartette- Song for a Winter’s Night
Rocks and Roses (Outside Music)

Jesse Winchester- Snow
Jesse Winchester (Stony Plain)
Lynn Miles- Wintery Feeling
Winter (Lynn Miles)
Ronney Abramson- Long Lonely Winter
Stowaway (Castor Island Music)
Bill Garrett & Sue Lothrop- The Hill
Red Shoes (Borealis)
Sean Gagnier- (Song of the) Wheelhouse Door
Circle Harbor (Sean Gagnier)

Jenny Whiteley- Log Cabin in the Sky
The Original Jenny Whiteley (Black Hen)
RanchWriters- Winter Flood
RanchWriters (True North)

John Gorka & Mike Regenstreif (2012)

Steel Rail- A Thousand Miles of Snow
A Thousand Miles of Snow (Crossties)
John Gorka- Holed Up in Mason City
Bright Side of Down (Red House)
Rosalie Sorrels- Snowing On Raton
Borderline Heart (Green Linnet)

Herdman, Hills & Mangsen- The Druggist
At the Turning of the Year (Hand & Heart Music)
Noel Paul Stookey- Winter Wonderland
Winter Wonderland – single (Neworld Multimedia)
The Roches- My Winter Coat
Where Do I Come From: Selected Songs (StorySound)

Short Sisters- Snow, Snow
A Planet Dancing Slow (Black Socks Press)
Rod MacDonald- The Coming of the Snow
After the War (Blue Flue Music)
Ian Hanchet- Girl from the North Country
Dealin’ from the Bottom (of My Heart) (Ian Hanchet)
Jodi Jean & Aylon- Winterlude
Bobfest (Jodi Jean & Aylon)

Jane Voss & Hoyle Osborne- Witch Hazel
Beyond the Boundaries (Ripple)
Sue Horowitz- January
Strings, Wings and Curious Things (Sue Horowitz)
Laurie MacAllister & David Glaser- Birches
The Lies the Poets Tell (Laurie MacAllister)
Bruce Cockburn- The Coldest Night of the Year
Greatest Hits (1970-2020) (True North)

Molly Mason, Mike Regenstreif & Jay Ungar (2005)

Jay Ungar & Molly Mason- The Snowstorm
The Pleasures of Winter (Fiddle & Dance)

Next week: Songs of Leonard Cohen – The Middle Years.

Find me on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday December 4, 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/128/54427.html

Bill Morrissey- Handsome Molly
Standing Eight (Philo)

Bill Morrissey- Avalon Blues
Songs of Mississippi John Hurt (Philo)
Hans Theessink & Big Daddy Wilson- Pay Day
Pay Day (Blue Groove)
Peter Keane- Stack O’Lee
Blues/Ballads/Cowboy Songs (Peter Keane)
Mississippi John Hurt- Candy Man
Mr. Hurt Goes to Washington (Sunset Blvd.)
Dave Van Ronk- Did You Hear John Hurt?
…and the tin pan bended, and the story ended… (Smithsonian Folkways)

Joni Mitchell- Jeremy
Archives – Volume 2: The Reprise Years (1968-1971) (Rhino)
Bonnie Raitt- That Song About the Midway
Streetlights (Warner Bros.)
Sloan Wainwright- Conversation
Uncovering (Sloan Wainwright)
Lilli Lewis- River
River – single (Louisiana Red Hot)
Joni Mitchell- Songs to Aging Children Come
Archives – Volume 2: The Reprise Years (1968-1971) (Rhino)

Mike Regenstreif & Bill Staines (1993)

Bill Staines- Highway North
Somebody Blue (Champlain)
Priscilla Herdman- Lovers and Losers
Forgotten Dreams (Flying Fish)
Bill Staines- Sueño
Sandstone Cathedrals (Mineral River)
Mason Daring & Jeanie Stahl- River
The Early Years (Daring)

Andy Statman- Long Journey Home
Old Brooklyn (Shefa)

Utah Phillips & Mike Regenstreif (1976) photo: Felicty Fanjoy

Ed Trickett- The Telling Takes Me Home
The Telling Takes Me Home (Folk-Legacy)
Utah Phillips- Rock Me to Sleep
The Telling Takes Me Home (Philo)
Rosalie Sorrels- I Remember Loving You
Travelin’ Lady Rides Again (Green Linnet)
Finest Kind- The Faded Roses of December
Lost in a Song (Fallen Angle)

Debi Smith- Fare Thee Well/10,000 Miles
Then and Now (Degan Music)
Joan Baez & Kate & Anna McGarrigle- Willie Moore
Ring Them Bells (Guardian)
Rufus Wainwright & Amsterdam Sinfonietta- Excursion à Venise
Rufus Wainwright & Amsterdam Sinfonietta Live (BMG/Modern)

Lynne Hanson- Trading in My Lonesome
River of Sand (Lynne Hanson)
Don Bray- Wise Heart
I Bless the Wounds (Don Bray)
Lynn Miles- Little Snowflake
Winter (Lynn Miles)

Stephen Fearing- Red Lights in the Rain
Every Soul’s a Sailor (Lowden Proud)
Roy Forbes- Edge of Blue
Edge of Blue (AKA)
Quartette- I’ll Keep You in My Heart
Rocks and Roses (Outside Music)
Over the Moon- When She Rides
Chinook Waltz (Borealis)

RanchWriters- Chilcoutin
RanchWriters (True North)

Woody Guthrie- Vigilante Man
Hard Travelin’: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 3 (Smithsonian Folkways)
Lilli Lewis- A Healing Inside
Americana (Louisiana Red Hot)
Chantel Kreviazuk with Garth Hudson- Tears of Rage
Garth Hudson Presents a Canadian Celebration of The Band: 10th Anniversary Edition (Curve Music)

Dean Friedman- Welcome to Stupid Town
American Lullaby (Real Life)
Yael Wand- That Need Be Done
Saltwater Heartwood (Yael Wand)

Judy Collins & Mike Regenstreif (2014)

Judy Collins- Finishing the Hat
A Love Letter to Stephen Sondheim (Wildflower)
Mandy Patinkin- Children and Art
Children and Art (Nonesuch)
Bernadette Peters- No One is Alone
I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight (Angel)
Judy Collins- Send in the Clowns
A Love Letter to Stephen Sondheim (Wildflower)

Tom Rush- Elder Green
Voices (Appleseed)
Maria Muldaur with Tuba Skinny- He Ain’t Got Rhythm
Let’s Get Happy Together (Stony Plain)
Corey Harris- That Will Never Happen No More
Insurrection Blues (M.C.)
Harrison Kennedy- Fo’ Day Train
Shame the Devil (Electro-Fi)

Mitch Greenhill- Air for Southie
Mitchology (Mitch Greenhill)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on January 1, 2022. 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

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday October 9, 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/128/53738.html

Braden Gates- Employee of the Month
Kitchen Days (Borealis)

Doug McArthur- Hills of Connemara
The Horses of the Sea: A Personal Exploration of Ireland (dougimac.com)
Christine Collister- The Lake Isle of Innisfree
I Am of Ireland: Yeats in Song (Merrow)
Brendan Nolan- The Hills of Isle au Haut
Live at the Side Door (Ould Segosha)
Makem & Spain- Barnyards of Delgaty
Four Pounds a Day (New Folk)

Anna Lynch- Apples in the Fall
Apples in the Fall (Anna Lynch)
Jack Hardy- Autumn
Bandolier (Great Divide)
Marshall Chapman- I Still Miss Someone
Songs I Can’t Live Without (Tallgirl)
Cosy Sheridan- Where Have You Gone Bluebird?
A Beautiful Sound (Cosy Sheridan)
Bok, Muir & Trickett- Turning Toward the Morning
Turning Toward the Morning (Folk-Legacy)

Mike Regenstrif & Quartette: Caitlyn Hanford, Sylvia Tyson, Cindy Church, Gwen Swick (1997)

Ina May Wool- Going Through the Pictures
Rewrite the Ending (Voice of Binky Music)
Erin Ash Sullivan- Fabric
We Can Hear Each Other (Willoughby)
Ronney Abramson- Moon’s Memory/Sometime
Stowaway (Castor Island Music)
Quartette- Rocks and Roses
Rocks and Roses (Outside Music)
Robin & Linda Williams- Roses and Time
A Better Day A-Coming (Oakenwold Recordings)

Shane Cook & The Woodcutters- Kyle’s Fiddle
Be Here for a While (Shane Cook)

Lisa Bastoni- Across the Great Divide
Across the Great Divide – single (Sweet Ondine Music)
Anne Hills- There’s a Light Beyond These Woods
There’s a Light Beyond These Woods – single (Hand & Heart Music)
Louise Mosrie Coombe- Late Night Grande Hotel
Late Night Grande Hotel – single (Zoe Cat Music)
Tom Prasada-Rao- It’s a Hard Life Wherever You Go
It’s a Hard Life Wherever You Go – single (Tom Prasada-Rao)
Nanci Griffith- Sing
The Loving Kind (Rounder)

Mike Regenstreif & Marc Nerenberg (2009)

Marc Nerenberg- Dink’s Song
Delia’s Gone: Murder Ballads & Other Songs of Love & Death (Marc Nerenberg)
Fred Neil- I’ve Got a Secret (Didn’t We Shake Sugaree)
The Many Sides of Fred Neil (EMI Collector’s Choice)
RanchWriters- Fred Neil
RanchWriters (True North)
Keith Sykes- Everybody’s Talkin’
Everybody’s Talkin’: A Tribute to Fred Neil (Y&T Music)

Mary Lou Fulton- The Ballad of Suaqui
We’ll Tell Stories (Infinidad)
Tzimmes- Cuando El Rey Nimrod (When King Nimrod)
The Road Never Travelled (Big Tzimmes Productions)

John McCutcheon- Ghost Town
Bucket List (Appalseed)
Shawna Caspi- Ghost Town
Hurricane Coming (Shawna Caspi)

Dave Clarke- River Valley
The Healing Garden (Crossties)

Mike Regenstreif & Lynn Miles (2013)

Lynn Miles with Keith Glass- Fearless Heart
Road (Lynn Miles)
Jonathan Edwards- Right Where I Am
Right Where I Am (Rising)

Mary Chapin Carpenter- This Shirt
One Night Lonely (Lambent Light)
El Coyote- Leaving Thunder
El Coyote (El Coyote)
Eric Lambert- The Weight
Beating the Odds (Woodpicker Tunes)

The Pogues- Dirty Old Town
Rum Sodomy & the Lash (WEA)
Finny McConnell- A Pair of Brown Eyes
The Dark Streets of Love (True North)
Séan McCann- Chariot
Shantyman (Séan McCann)

Guy Davis- I Thought I Heard the Devil Call My Name
Be Ready When I Call You (M.C.)
Elly Wininger- Black Snake Moan
The Blues Never End (Earwig)
Maria Muldaur with Tuba Skinny- Swing You Sinners
Let’s Get Happy Together (Stony Plain)
Diana Braithwaite & Chris Whiteley- Boogie Train
Scrap Metal Blues (Electro-Fi)
Sue Foley- Boogie Real Low
Pinky’s Blues (Stony Plain)

Jay McShann- Jumpin’ with McShann
After Hours (Storyville)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on November 6. 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

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday April 20, 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 #11 – was prerecorded at home and can already be streamed on-demand by clicking on “Listen Now” at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/51656.html

Theme: Celebrating Spring

Garnet Rogers- Old Campfires
Summer’s End (Snow Goose Songs)
Kim Wallach- Come, Spring
Chatter of the Finches (Black Socks Press)
Richie Havens- Here Comes the Sun
Alarm Clock (Stormy Forest)
Tommy Makem & Liam Clancy- Rambles of Spring
The Makem & Clancy Collection (Shanachie)

Wade Hemsworth with the Mountain City Four- The Blackfly Song
Wade Hemsworth with the Mountain City Four (Peter Weldon)
Connie Kaldor- Spring on the Prairies
Wood River (Coyote)
Ian Tyson- Springtime
Cowboyography (Stony Plain)
David Mallett- Greenin’ Up
Midnight on the Water (North Road)

Bruce Cockburn- April in Memphis
Crowing Ignites (True North)

Rosalie Sorrels with Mitch Greenhill- Go With Me
If I Could Be the Rain (Folk-Legacy)
Mark Stepakoff featuring Rose Polenzani- April Fools
Any Port in a Storm (Mark Stepakoff)
Finest Kind- April Morning
Heart’s Delight (Fallen Angle)
Tex König- One Morning in May
Königsblende (Music Cellar)
Grace Griffith- May Morning
Passing Through (Blix Street)

Mike Regenstreif & Tom Paxton (2009)

Tom Paxton- Virginia Morning
Redemption Road (Pax)
Rod MacDonald- Second Spring
Boulevard (Blue Flute Music)
Jacques Brel- Au Printemps
The Very Best of Jacques Brel (Select)
Frida's Brow- Spring
Frida’s Brow (Frida’s Brow)

Marie Lynn-Hammond- Flying/Spring of ‘44
Marie-Lynn Hammond/Vignettes (Vignettes Media)
Quartette- Spring of ‘45
Work of the Heart (Denon)
Mark Perry- Springtime
Recollections (Northern Sky)

Eleni Mandell- I Believe in Spring
Snakebite (Zedtone)
Erin McKeown- They Say It’s Spring
Sing You Sinners (Nettwerk)
Banjo Nickaru & Western Scooches- When the Red, Red Robin
Very Next Thing (On the Bol)
Lew London- Swingtime in Springtime
Swingtime in Springtime (Philo)
Suzy Bogguss- Jumping Into Spring
Swing (Compadre)

Modern Jazz Quartet- I’ll Remember April
European Concert (Atlantic)

Next week – April in Paris

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Ian & Sylvia – The Lost Tapes

IAN & SYLVIA

The Lost Tapes

Stony Plain Records

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As I wrote in 2017 when Tom Russell released Play One More: The Songs of Ian & Sylvia, “I got into record collecting as a kid in the 1960s and Ian & Sylvia’s LPs had a huge impact on me. They were a big part of my introduction to traditional folk music and to original, folk-based songwriting. By 1966, I owned all of their early LPs and kept on buying the new ones as they came out later in the ‘60s and early-‘70s. And I got to see them play live a couple of times. I still return to their music often – particularly the first five albums.

“As a music journalist, I’ve written about the CD reissues of the Ian & Sylvia LPs and about both Ian Tyson’s and Sylvia Tyson’s solo albums. I’ve seen both of them live on many occasions and, in the 1990s, I produced a couple of shows in Montreal with Sylvia (a stage setting of Timothy Findlay’s “The Pianoman’s Daughter” and a concert with Quartette, her group with three other great women singers). And I’ve done long (and separate) radio interviews with both Ian and Sylvia that have included extensive looks back at their Ian & Sylvia years.”

Ian had a weekly TV show on CTV in Canada from 1970 until 1975 – it was called “Nashville North” the first season before being renamed “The Ian Tyson Show” – that I always watched whenever I was home on the nights it aired (this was before the days of VCRs) and Sylvia was on the show often. Recently, Sylvia rediscovered a trove of live tapes from that era and worked with producer Danny Greenspoon (an old friend who started out on the Montreal folk scene around the same time as me) on assembling The Lost Tapes, a wonderful two-CD collection. Although there are no recording sources listed in the liner notes, I’m guessing most – if not all – of these tracks are from The Ian Tyson Show.

The first CD is labeled “Classics” and indeed all of these songs are both familiar – Ian & Sylvia recorded 10 of them on LPs back in the day – and fresh in these arrangements some of which have a fuller band sound than the original recordings.

Among my favorites on the first disc are versions of the traditional “When First Unto This Country” and “Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies,” on which their harmonies and Sylvia’s autoharp playing shine; “Darcy Farrow,” written by Steve Gillette and Tom Campbell in the style of a traditional folksong; and Ian’s classics “Four Rode By,” “Four Strong Winds” and “Summer Wages.”

I also enjoyed their versions of “The French Song,” a hit for Lucille Starr, and traditional songs “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” and “I’ll Fly Away,” all of which are not on earlier Ian & Sylvia albums.

The 13 songs – many of them country classics – on the second CD labeled “Previously Unreleased” are also not on earlier Ian & Sylvia albums.

Some of my favorites the this disc include a countrified version of Tom Paxton’s “The Last Thing On My Mind”; Lefty Frizzell’s “That’s the Way Love Goes,” a then-current hit for Johnny Rodriguez; an uncharacteristic version of “Come On in My Kitchen,” a Robert Johnson blues; and Jimmie Rodgers’ “Jimmie’s Texas Blues.”

There are also duets of Sylvia singing with Lucille Starr on “Crying Time” and “Silver Threads and Golden Needles.”

The album ends with Ian singing lead on “The Goodnight Loving Trail,” Utah Phillips’ great song about a used-up cowboy relegated to chuckwagon duty on cattle drives in the 1860s. This performance of “The Goodnight Loving Trail” was a precursor to the decades Ian would spend – beginning in the 1980s and continuing to this day – as perhaps the greatest writer and interpreter of authentic cowboy music.

This album is a nice reminder of the historic importance of Ian & Sylvia to folk music and to the emergence of country rock.

Ian & Sylvia’s The Lost Tapes will be released on September 6.

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