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.

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/595/69923.html

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

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – February 25, 2025: A Tribute to Nina Simone

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/595/69011.html

Theme: A Tribute to Nina Simone (1933-2003).

Nina Simone – who died in 2003 at age 70 – was a singer, songwriter, and pianist whose music encompassed classical, jazz, blues, folk, gospel and pop styles. She was also an activist and was often referred to as “the High Priestess of Soul.”

Nina Simone- Suzanne

To Love Somebody (RCA)

Nina Simone- Rags and Old Iron

Forbidden Fruit (Colpix)

Oscar Brown, Jr.- Work Song

The Voice of Cool (Not Now Music)

Nina Simone- Forbidden Fruit

Forbidden Fruit (Colpix)

Nina Simone- Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues

To Love Somebody (RCA)

Tom Russell & The Norwegian Wind Ensemble- Nina Simone

Aztec Jazz (Frontera)

Linda Tillery & The Cultural Heritage Choir- See Line Woman

Front Porch Music (EarthBeat!)

Susan Werner- House of the Rising Sun

NOLA: Susan Werner Goes to New Orleans (Sleeve Dog)

Missy Burgess- Trouble in Mind

Missy Burgess with The Blue Train Live (Missy Burgess)

Sneezy Waters- Solitude

Sneezy Waters (Sneezy Waters)

Nina Simone- The Gal from Joe’s

Nina Simone Sings Ellington (Colpix)

Odetta- When I was a Young Girl

Odetta at Carnegie Hall (Vanguard)

Rufus Wainwright- Hush Little Baby

Folkocracy (BMG)

Nina Simone- Silver City Bound

Folksy Nina (Colpix)

Nina Simone- Mississippi Goddam

The Best of Broadside 1962-1988 (Smithsonian Folkways)

Nina Simone- Stars

The Montreux Years (BMG)

Janis Ian- Nina

The Light at the End of the Line (Rude Girl)

Willie Nelson- Come Ye

Last Leaf on the Tree (Legacy)

Nina Simone- Balm in Gilead

Baltimore (Epic/Legacy)

Ledisi- I’m Going Back Home

Ledisi Sings Nina (BMG)

Nina Simone- I Shall Be Released

To Love Somebody (RCA)

Next week: A Tribute to Fats Domino on Mardi Gras Day.

--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday November 1, 2022: Radio

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.

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Theme: Radio.

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Joni Mitchell- You Turn Me On, I’m a Radio

The Asylum Years 1972-1975: Miles of Aisles (Rhino)

Danny Marks- Man on the Radio

Man on the Radio – single (Danny Marks)

Nanci Griffith- Listen to the Radio

Winter Marquee (Rounder)

Tom Lewis & Mike Regenstreif (2006) photo: David Shapiro

Tom Lewis- Radio Times

360º: All Points of the Compass (Borealis)

Jamie Anderson- Public Radio

Better Than Chocolate (Tsunami)

The LYNNeS- Heartbreak Song for the Radio

Heartbreak Song for the Radio (The LYNNeS)

Small Potatoes- Turn Your Radio On

Raw (Small Potatoes)

Emily White- Radio

Radio – single (Emily White)

Amelia Curran- Song on the Radio

They Promised You Mercy (Six Shooter)

Blackie & The Rodeo Kings- Song on the Radio

Bark (True North)

Wanda Fischer & Mike Regenstreif (2017)

Wanda Fischer, Eric Erickson & Matt Watroba- Late Night Radio

Singing Along with the Radio (Wanda Fischer)

Katy Moffatt- Midnight Radio

Midnight Radio (True North)

Dave Alvin- Border Radio

Live from Austin TX (New West)

Aengus Finnan- One Hand on the Radio

North Wind (Borealis)

The Short Sisters- Ten Pound Radio

Live from Four States (Black Socks Press)

Rod MacDonald- Distant Radios

Highway to Nowhere (Shanachie)

Clela- Angels on the Radio

More Love and Happiness (Clela)

Matt Patershuk- Turn the Radio Up

An Honest Effort (Black Hen)

Susan Werner- Barn Radio

Flyover Country (Susan Werner)

Erin Ash Sullivan- Radio Show

We Can Hear Each Other (Willoughby)

Bruce Cockburn- Radio Shoes

Inner City Front: Deluxe Edition (True North)

Next week: Addendums to Past Themes.

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--Mike Regenstreif

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday March 1, 2022: Part 1 – Solidarity with the people of Ukraine; Part 2 – I Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans (on Mardi Gras Day).

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/595/55400.html

Themes: Part 1 – Solidarity with the people of Ukraine. Part 2 – I Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans (on Mardi Gras Day).

Part 1 – Solidarity with the people of Ukraine

Paul Konoplenko- Our Ukraine
A Folksong Portrait of Canada (Mercury/Smithsonian Folkways)
The Mando Boys- Ukrainian Medley: Liturgical Music and Dance Tunes
The Mando Boys Live: Holstein Lust (Borderland Productions)

Michael Alpert & Julian Kytasty- Chernobyl
Night Songs from a Neighboring Village: Ballads of the Ukrainian & Yiddish Heartland (Oriente Musik)
Michael Alpert & Julian Kytasty- Night Songs
Night Songs from a Neighboring Village: Ballads of the Ukrainian & Yiddish Heartland (Oriente Musik)
The Malvinas- The Ukrainian Song
God Bless the Grass (Soona Songs)

Finjan- Azoi Tantzt Men Odessa (This is How We Dance in Odessa)
Dancing on Water (Rounder)

Part 2 – I Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans (on Mardi Gras Day)

Brenda Lewis- Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans
Far & Near (Brenda Lewis)
Paul Simon- Take Me to the Mardi Gras
There Goes Rhymin’ Simon (Warner Bros.)
Dr. John- Iko Iko
Dr. John’s Gumbo (Atco)
Kermit Ruffins & Irvin Mayfield featuring Dr. Michael White- Drop Me Off in New Orleans
A Beautiful World (Basin Street)

Mike Regenstreif & Marc Nerenberg (2009)

Marc Nerenberg with Noah Zacharin- On the Street Again, Revisted
On the Street Again, Revisted – single (Marc Nerenberg)
Chris Rawlings & Anne Lederman- Cindy Cindy 2.0
A Whistle, a Tune, a Song and a Dance (Cooking Fat Music)
Susan Werner- NOLA
NOLA: Susan Werner Goes to New Orleans (Sleeve Dog)
Long John Baldry- Midnight in New Orleans
The Best of the Stony Plain Years (Stony Plain)

Jennifer Warnes- I Am the Big Easy
Another Time, Another Place (BMG)
Mark Brine- Wrong Side of Bourbon St. Blues
New Blue Yodel (re:signed)
Victor Mecyssne (Victor Anthony)- Going to New Orleans
Hush Money (Sweetfish)

Larry Johnson- The Beat from Rampart Street
Fast and Funky (Blue Goose)
Little Brother Montgomery’s State Street Swingers- South Rampart St. Parade
Goodbye Mister Blues (Delmark)
David Roe- I Wish I was in New Orleans
Angel of New Orleans (David Roe)

The Preservation Hall Jazz Band & The Del McCoury Band- Milenberg Joys
American Legacies (McCoury)

Next week: Voices of Women.

Find me on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday April 25, 2020

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 live at 93.1 FM in Ottawa and http://www.ckcufm.com/ on the web.

This episode of Saturday Morning was prerecorded at home and be streamed on-demand at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/47623.html

Rachael Sage- Open the Door

Character (MPress Records)

Tom Russell- Honky Tonk Quarantine

Unreleased – used with permission

Mary Gauthier- Mercy Now

Mercy Now (Lost Highway)

Ian Hanchet- I Shall Be Released

Dealin’ from the Bottom (of My Heart) (Ian Hanchet)

Moore & McGregor- Don’t Let Us Get Sick

Dream with Me (Ivernia)

Eliza Gilkyson- Promises to Keep

2020 (Red House)

Rachelle Garniez- My Sister and I

Gone to Glory (StorySound)

Corin Raymond- Half Past Remembered

Dirty Mansions (Local Rascal Records)

Stephen Mendel- Lucky Old Sun

Sing Me a Story (Stephen Mendel)

Missy Burgess with the Blue Train- If I Fall in Love Again

Live (Missy Burgess)

Diana Jones- Better Times will Come

Better Times will Come (Proper)

Steve Forbert- Good Time Charlie’s Got the Blues

Early Morning Rain (Blue Rose Music)

Tracy Grammer- If I Needed You

If I Needed You – single (Tracy Grammer)

Tom Russell & The Norwegian Wind Ensemble- Guadalupe

Aztec Jazz (Frontera)

Stephen Barry Band- Pickin’ the Blues

Live (Fix it in the Mix Music)

Extended feature: Songs of John Prine (1946-2020). The next 16 songs were written by John Prine, one of our greatest folk-rooted singer-songwriters. John passed away on April 7 from COVID-19. He was 73.

Steve Goodman & John Prine- Souvenirs

Affordable Art (Red Pajamas)

Joan Baez- Hello in There

Diamonds & Rust (A&M)

Tim Grimm- Sam Stone

Names (Wind River)

John Prine- Fish and Whistle

Souvenirs (Oh Boy)

Nicky Mehta- All the Best

Unreleased – used with permission

Valdy & Gary Fjellgaard- Speed of the Sound of Loneliness

Contenders Two: Still in the Running (Stony Plain)

Allison Brown- Angel from Montgomery

Everything That Shined (Allison Brown)

John Prine- Blue Umbrella

Souvenirs (Oh Boy)

Leo Gillespie- Aimless Love

Leo Gillespie (Leo Gillespie)

Tim & Mollie O'Brien- Unwed Fathers

Sugar Hill Records: A Retrospective (Sugar Hill)

Mark Haines & Tom Leighton- That’s the Way the World Goes Round

Hand to Hand (Borealis)

John Prine- Caravan of Fools

The Tree of Forgiveness (Oh Boy)

Rob Lutes- Rocky Mountain Time

Walk in the Dark (Lucky Bear)

Bonnie Koloc- Sabu Visits the Twin Cities Alone

Timeless (Mr. Biscuit)

Johnny Cash- Paradise

Personal File (Columbia/Legacy)

John Prine- When I Get to Heaven

The Tree of Forgiveness (Oh Boy)

Susan Werner- House of the Rising Sun

NOLA: Susan Werner Goes to New Orleans (Sleeve Dog)

Guy Van Duser & Billy Novick- New Orleans Farewell

Lovely Sunday Afternoon (Daring)

Shelley Posen- Long, Long Tunnel

Unreleased – used with permission

Rosalie Sorrels- I Think of You

My Last Go Round (Red House)

Magpie- Old Devil Time

A Tiding (Longtail Records)

Pete Seeger & Arlo Gruthrie- Quite Early Morning

Together In Concert (Rising Son)

Deborah Holland- Will I Ever Be Loved

Fine, Thank You (Rage On Records)

Adam Karch- Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right

Everything Can Change (Bros)

Kat Goldman- Harvard Boys

Gypsy Girl (Kat Goldman)

Jackie Washington- The Joint is Jumpin’

The World of Jackie Washington (Borealis)

Martin, Bogan & Armstrong- Let’s Give a Party

That Old Gang of Mine/Martin, Bogan & Armstrong (Flying Fish)

Missy Burgess with the Blue Train- Basket O’ Blues

Live (Missy Burgess)

Rory Block- Prove It on Me

Prove It on Me (Stony Plain)

Katy Hobgood Ray featuring Dave Ray- Little Children’s Blues

I Dream of Water (Out of the Past Music)

Ken Whiteley- Lay My Burden by the River

Calm in the Eye of the Storm (Borealis)

Andy Statman- Raw Ride

Monroe Bus (Shefa)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on May 16 (for Alan Surmachynski) and on May 23.

Find me on Twitter. @MikeRegenstreif

And on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday January 4, 2020

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 live 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 … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/46359.html

Paul Winter Consort & Dimitri Pokrovsky Ensemble- Minuit/Auld Lang Syne
Everybody Under the Sun: Voices of Solstice (Living Music)

Judy Collins & Jonas Fjeld w/Chatham County Line- Northwest Passage

Winter Stories (Wildflower/Cleopatra)

David Newland- Poor William Braine

Northbound: The Northwest Passage in Story and Song (David Newland)

Jeanie Stahl- Lord Franklin

Mysteries (Daring)

John Prine- Souvenirs

Souvenirs (Oh Boy)

David Francey- Lonely Road

The Broken Heart of Everything (Laker)

Catherine MacLellan- The Road is Divided

Coyote (Catherine MacLellan)

Gathering Sparks- Feathers and Wings

All That’s Real (Borealis)

Gumbo, Grits & Gravy- Gumbo, Grits & Gravy

Gumbo, Grits & Gravy (Triple G Records)

The Lonesome Ace Stringband- Going to German

Modern Old-Time Sounds for the Bluegrass & Folksong Jamboree (Lonesome Ace Stringband)

Dick Weissman- Headed West

No Ceiling (Dick Weissman)

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer- High on a Mountain

Wahoo! (Community Music)

Jack Hardy- Orphan from Madrid/Guernica

Landmark (Prime CD)

Eric Andersen- Rain Falls Down in Amsterdam

The Essential Eric Andersen (Real Gone Music)

Tom Paxton- A Thousand Years

Morning Again (Elektra)

Ellen Bukstel & Nick Annis- By My Silence

Legacy of Love (Ellen Bukstel)

Extended feature: Songs from my Top 19 folk-rooted or folk-branched albums of 2019. Visit https://frfb.blogspot.com/2019/12/top-19-for-2019.html to see annotations for each of these albums.

Number 19

Windborne- The Terror Time

Recollections/Revolutions (Wand’ring Feet Records)

Number 18

Bruce Cockburn: The Wind in the Valley

Crowing Ignites (True North)

Number 17

Michael Peter Smith- Ahab’s Compliments

Fifteen Songs from Moby Dick (Michael Peter Smith)

Number 16

Michael Jerome Browne- Where is the Song?

That’s Where It’s At! (Borealis)

Number 15

Durham County Poets- The Moon Won’t Go Down

Hand Me Down Blues (Durham County Poets)

Number 14

Aviva Chernick- La Serena (The Siren)

La Serena (Aviva Chernick)

Number 13

Daniel Kahn with Vanya Zhuk- Historical Novel

Bulat Blues (Oriente Musik)

Number 12

Lisa Gutkin, Aaron Halva & Company- Broadway and the Arrest

Indecent: Original Broadway Cast Recording (Yellow Sound Label)

Number 11

Ian & Sylvia- Nancy Whiskey

The Lost Tapes (Stony Plain)

Number 10

Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash- Careless Love

Travelin’ Thru: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 15, 1967-1969 (Columbia Legacy)

Number 9

Our Native Daughters (performed by Leyla McCalla with Rhiannon Giddens & Allison Russell- I Knew I Could Fly

Songs of Our Native Daughters (Smithsonian Folkways)

Number 8

Archie Fisher & Garnet Rogers- Here Tonight

The Best Times After All: Live (Snow Goose Songs)

Number 7

Shelley Posen- Walking in the Rain

Ontario Moon (Well Done Music)

Number 6

Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi- Ten Thousand Voices

There is No Other (Nonesuch)

Number 5

John McCutcheon- Letter to Eve

To Everyone in All the World: A Celebration of Pete Seeger (Appalsongs)

Number 4

Susan Werner- A Moment (Trees)

NOLA: Susan Werner Goes to New Orleans (Sleeve Dog)

Number 3

SONiA disappear fear- Who I Am

By My Silence (Disappear Records)

Number 2

Tom Russell- Highway 46

October in the Railroad Earth (Frontera)

Number 1

Leonard Cohen- Happens to the Heart

Thanks for the Dance (Columbia/Legacy)

Dave Van Ronk- The Fresno Shuffle

Hummin’ to Myself (Gazell)

Barbara Dane- Ain’t Gonna Give Nobody None of My Jellyroll

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

Kim Wallach- Hanging the Spoon

Chatter of the Finches (Black Socks Press)

Sussex- Bap Mountain Rag

The Ocean Wide (Lucky Bear)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on February 1.

Find me on Twitter. @MikeRegenstreif

And on Facebook. facebook.com/mikeregenstreif

--Mike Regenstreif