Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – April 22, 2025: Songs for Earth Day

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.

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Theme: Songs for Earth Day.

Earth Day has been observed on April 22 since 1970.

Tom Paxton- Whose Garden Was This

Tom Paxton 6 (Elektra)

Tom Paxton, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Dry Times

All New (Community Music)

Tom Paxton & Anne Hills- There Goes the Mountain

Under American Skies (Appleseed)

Lynn Miles with Keith Glass- Black Flowers

Road (Lynn Miles)

The Rifters- The Dollar Worth of Mother Earth

The Enchanted World (Howlin’ Dog)

Mary Gick- Waltz for the Trees

Six Tunes and a Song (Mary Gick)

Laurie Lewis- Trees

Trees (Spruce & Maple Music)

Kronos Quartet & Lee Knight- Garbage

Long Time Passing: Kronos Quartet & Friends Celebrate Pete Seeger (Smithsonian Folkways)

Malvina Reynolds- Skagit Valley Forever

Ear to the Ground: Topical Songs 1960-1978 (Smithsonian Folkways)

The Malvinas- God Bless the Grass

God Bless the Grass (Soona Songs)

Pete Seeger- If It Can’t Be Reduced

At 89 (Appleseed)

Pat Humphries- To My Old Brown Earth

Seeds: The Songs of Pete Seeger, Volume 3 (Appleseed)

Kim & Reggie Harris & Magpie- We Belong to the Earth

Spoken in Love: Kim & Reggie Harris and Magpie in Concert (Long Tail)

Susan Werner- Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)

Classics (Sleeve Dog)

Tom Jones- Ol’ Mother Earth

Surrounded By Time (S-Curve)

HuDost- Fire of Eden

The Monkey in the Crown (Open Sesame Music)

Deb Seymour- Heart of the Earth

Sometimes You Gotta Wear Boots (Herkimer Productions)

Roy Zimmerman- Big Yellow Taxi

Road Map (Roy Zimmerman)

John McCutcheon- Earth

Cabin Fever: Songs from the Quarantine (Appalsongs)

Penny Lang- Power of the Earth

Somebody Else (She-Wolf)

Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer- Gentle Arms of Eden

Drum Hat Buddha (Signature Sounds)

Moonfruits- Brittle Earth

Salt (Co-Op)

Louis Armstrong- What a Wonderful World

What a Wonderful World (MCA)

Next week: “Dublin Blues” and Other Songs of Guy Clark.

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday April 22, 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/128/60194.html

Judy Collins- Mr. Tambourine Man 

Live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art at the Temple of Dendur (Wildflower)

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

Tom Paxton- Whose Garden Was This

The Compleat Tom Paxton (Even Compleater) (Rhino Handmade)

The Rifters- The Dollar Worth of Mother Earth

The Enchanted World (Howlin' Dog)

Jaeger & Reid- Fire (For Greta)

Fire (For Greta) – single (Judi Jaeger & Bob Reid)

Debra Mann- Big Yellow Taxi

Full Circle: The Music of Joni Mitchell (Whaling City Sound)

Kuné- Earth I

Universal Echoes (Kuné)

Lynn Miles- Moody

tumbleWeedyWorld (True North)

Stephen Fearing- As the Crow Flies

Vejpoesi (Stephen Fearing)

Jason Lang- Carry On Children

Handled with Care (Famgroup/Genison Music)

Penny Lang- Ain’t Nobody Got the Blues Like Me

Live at the Yellow Door (She-Wolf)

Meredith Moon- Constellations

Constellations (True North)

Gordon Lightfoot- Sixteen Miles

The Original Lightfoot: The United Artists Years (EMI)

Chris Coole & John Showman- The Julia Belle Swain

Much Further Out Than Inevitable: A Fiddle and Banjo Tribute to Some Music of John Hartford (Chris Coole)

Dom Flemons- Tough Luck

Traveling Wildfire (Smithsonian Folkways)

Martin Hayes & The Common Ground Ensemble- Longford Tinker

Peggy’s Dream (Faction)

Colleen Kattau- In the Garden

In the Garden – single (Wind Light Studios)

Amelia Hogan- The Woodthrush’s Song

Taking Flight (Amelia Hogan)

Kuné- Earth II

Universal Echoes (Kuné)

Kuné- Earth III

Universal Echoes (Kuné)

Tom Chapin- This Pretty Planet II

This Pretty Planet (Sundance Music)

Eddie Redmayne & Cast- Wilkommen

Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club – London Cast Recording (Decca)

Jessie Buckley & Cast- Cabaret

Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club – London Cast Recording (Decca)

Coco Love Alcorn- Good News

Wonderland (Coco Love Alcorn)

Odetta- Freedom Trilogy: Oh Freedom/Come & Go with Me/I’m On My Way

Gonna Let It Shine (M.C.)

Jenny Whiteley- Needle in a Haystack

Hopetown (Black Hen Music)

Tim Grimm- Lonesome All the Time

The Little In-Between (Vault)

Ray Lemelin- Grandma’s Hands

Dark/Out of Phase (Ray Lemelin)

Eric Bibb featuring Harrison Kennedy- Call Me By My Name

Ridin’ (Stony Plain)

Dakota Dave Hull- Oh, Didn’t Ramble

Better Late Than Never: The Classic American Guitar-Banjo (Arabica)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- All Wigged Out

All Wigged Out: Songs from the Musical (Community Music)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Amy’s of Denmark

All Wigged Out: Songs from the Musical (Community Music)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Car Wash

All Wigged Out: Songs from the Musical (Community Music)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Tipsy All the Time

All Wigged Out: Songs from the Musical (Community Music)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Where’d You Get That Hat

All Wigged Out: Songs from the Musical (Community Music)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- Jesus is My Backstreet Driver

All Wigged Out: Songs from the Musical (Community Music)

Tom Russell & Mike Regenstreif (2005)

Tom Russell- Pork Roast and Poetry

Tribute to the Travelin’ Lady Rosalie Sorrels (Tribute to Rosalie Sorrels)

Rosalie Sorrels- Singing in the Country

Report from Grimes Creek (Green Linnet)

Andy Hedges & Tom Russell- Old Dolores

Roll On, Cowboys (Andy Hedges)

Chaim Tannenbaum- Brooklyn 1955

Chaim Tannenbaum (StorySound)

Aaron Nathans & Michael G. Ronstadt- Flatbush Sunset

Hello World (Crooked Cyclone)

Mike Ward- The Currency of Forgiveness

Love Never Rests (Psychosongs)

Grace Morrison- Oh, Colorado

Maybe Modern (Grace Morrison)

Chris Coole- Where the Light Begins

The Old Man and the C Chord (Chris Coole)

Greg Greenway- That’s Where the Hope Comes From

Between Hello & Goodbye (Greg Greenway)

Polky- Kolomyjka

Songs from Home (Polky)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on May 20. I also host Stranger Songs on CKCU every Tuesday from 3:30-5 pm. 

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--Mike Regenstreif