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Stranger Songs
Tuesday August 1st, 2023 with Mike Regenstreif
Art & Artists

The theme on this edition of Stranger Songs is "Art & Artists" – every song has something or other to do with visual arts and/or artists. Click on LISTEN NOW to hear this show. Click on LISTEN to hear the current CKCU broadcast.
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Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy Canadian
When I Paint My Masterpiece
Bob Dylan - Shadow Kingdom - Columbia/Legacy New
The Gallery
Joni Mitchell - Clouds - Reprise Canadian
A Thomson Day (For Tom Thomson)
Murray McLauchlan - Hourglass - True North Canadian
A.Y.
Ian Tamblyn - Walking in the Footsteps: Celebrating the Group of Seven - Art Gallery of Sudbury Canadian
Phil Brown
David Mallett - Inches & Miles 1977-1980 - Flying Fish
Hommage à Grungie
Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Tell My Sister – Dancer with Bruised Knees - Nonesuch Canadian
Mona Lisa
Nikki Parrott - Unforgettable: The Nat King Cole Songbook - Venus
fragment of The Stranger Song
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy Canadian
Salvador Dali
Jay Linden - Ordinary Sunrise - Americana North Canadian New
René and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog After the War
Rain Perry - Internal Combustion - Precipitous
Monet Refuses the Operation
John McCutcheon - Cabin Fever: Songs from the Quarantine - Appalsongs
The Painter
Michael Johnathon - The Painter - PoetMan
My Daughter and Vincent Van Gogh
Anne Hills - Points of View - Appleseed
Vincent
Priscilla Herdman - Into the Stars - Stardreamer Music
Picasso and Me
Gretchen Peters - Gretchen Peters - Valley Entertainment
Picasso’s Mandolin
Guy Clark - Boats to Build - Asylum
Waving to Picasso
Jamie O'Reilly - Swimming Deeper - Bird Avenue Publishing
Paint Me, Redouté
June Tabor - Rosa Mundi - Green Linnet
Gauguin
Judy Collins - Paradise - Wildflower
The Painter's Song
Doug McArthur - Letters from the Coast/Sisteron - Snow Goose Songs Canadian
The Gift
Ian Tyson - All the Good’Uns - Stony Plain Canadian
Fine Artiste Blues
R. Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders - R. Crumb’s Music Sampler - MQ Publications
Interactive CKCU
Robert Melanson
Aaaaaah! Been waiting for this all day! Always comforting to hear your show. Reminds me of my days listening to you in Montréal. So, heres à "Little Glass of Wine" ;) to my favorite caretaker of folk, and fellow ex-Montrealer!

3:35 PM, July 25th, 2023
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Robert.

10:55 PM, July 25th, 2023
Holly Mandelkern
What amazing pictures these songs are painting. Lovely.

4:22 PM, August 1st, 2023
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Holly.

4:25 PM, August 1st, 2023
gentlegypsie
Genuine Flower, Vincent van Gough, shadow'd by turbulent friendship w/ Gauguin in a jealous rage, Gauguin sliced Vincent's ear. History be Redeem'd, Gough took the shame his heart of Grace, a Blessing in Light of tragedy the true Painter kept his holy to the end. the Masterpiece of all Time

4:56 PM, August 1st, 2023
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks for the insight, gentlegypsie.

5:43 PM, August 1st, 2023