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Saturday January 6th, 2018 with Mike Regenstreif
Extended feature: Songs from Mike Regenstreif's "Top 17 for 2017."

This week's show includes lots of great folk-rooted and folk-branched music. The extended feature is Songs from Mike Regenstreif's "Top 17 for 2017." Visit the Folk Roots/Folk Branches blog at https://frfb.blogspot.com for reviews of the Top 17.
At the Turning of the Year
Herdman, Hills & Mangsen - At the Turning of the Year - Hand & Heart Music
Song to Woody
Crowes Pasture - Rambling Round: A Woody Guthrie Tribute - Crowes Pasture
Time Passes Slowly
Caroline Doctorow - Dreaming in Vinyl - Narrow Lane
I Threw It All Away
Sneezy Waters - Sneezy Waters Live - Sneezy Waters Canadian
Simple Twist of Fate
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks - Columbia
The Story of the I'm Alone
Wade Hemsworth with the Mountain City Four - Wade Hemsworth with the Mountain City Four - Peter Weldon Canadian New
Cold Front
The LYNNeS - Heartbreak Song for the Radio - The LYNNeS Canadian New
Home on the River
Caroline Cotter - Home on the River - Caroline Cotter Music New
Birches
Bill Morrissey - The Essential Collection - Rounder
Nazarene Guitar
John Gorka - True in Time - Red House New
Songs from Mike Regenstreif's Top 17 for 2017. https://frfb.blogspot.ca/2017/12/top-17-for-2017.html
Number 17: Julian Fauth- The Weak and the Wicked, the Hard and the Strong
Casey Jones
Julian Fauth - The Weak and the Wicked, the Hard and the Strong - Electro-Fi Canadian
Number 16: Duke Robillard- Duke Robillard and his Dames of Rhythm
https://frfb.blogspot.ca/2017/10/duke-robillard-duke-robillard-and-his.html
Squeeze Me
Duke Robillard & Madeleine Peyroux - Duke Robillard and his Dames of Rhythm - M.C. New
Number 15: Jim Kweskin- Unjugged
Spike Driver Blues
Jim Kweskin - Unjugged - Hornbeam New
Number 14: Guy Davis & Fabrizio Poggi- Sonny & Brownie's Last Train
https://frfb.blogspot.ca/2017/03/guy-davis-fabrizio-poggi-sonny-brownies.html
Freight Train
Guy Davis & Fabrizio Poggi - Sonny & Brownie’s Last Train - M.C.
Number 13: Bruce Cockburn- Bone On Bone
https://frfb.blogspot.ca/2017/09/bruce-cockburn-bone-on-bone.html
Stab at Matter
Bruce Cockburn - Bone On Bone - True North Canadian
Number 12: Tom Paxton- Boat in the Water
https://frfb.blogspot.ca/2017/04/tom-paxton-boat-in-water.html
A Daughter in Denver
Tom Paxton - Boat in the Water - Pax
Number 11: Orit Shimoni- Songs for My Father
https://frfb.blogspot.ca/2017/12/orit-shimoni-songs-for-my-father.html
HaYavin
Orit Shimoni - Songs for My Father - Orit Shimoni Canadian
Number 10: Moore & McGregor- Dream with Me
https://frfb.blogspot.ca/2017/01/moore-mcgregor-dream-with-me.html
Back on the Farm
Moore & McGregor - Dream with Me - Ivernia Canadian
Number 9: Eric Bibb- Migration Blues
https://frfb.blogspot.ca/2017/04/eric-bibb-migration-blues.html
Four Years, No Rain
Eric Bibb - Migration Blues - Stony Plain Canadian
Number 8: Too Sad for the Public- Oysters Ice Cream Lemonade: American Folk Fantasies Written and Arranged by Dick Connette
https://frfb.blogspot.ca/2017/07/too-sad-for-public-vol-1-oysters-ice.html
Black River Falls
Too Sad for the Public w/Suzzy Roche - Oysters Ice Cream Lemonade: American Folk Fantasies Written and Arranged by Dick Connette - StorySound
Number 7: Jayme Stone- Jayme Stone's Folklife
https://frfb.blogspot.ca/2017/04/jayme-stones-folklife_9.html
Mwen Pas Danse
Jayme Stone, Moira Smiley, Sumaia Jackson, Joe Phillips & Nick Fraser - Jayme Stone's Folklife - Borealis Canadian
Number 6: The Klezmatics- Apikorsim/Heretics
https://frfb.blogspot.ca/2017/01/the-klezmatics-apikorsimheretics.html
Kermeshl in Ades (Party in Odessa)
The Klezmatics - Apikorsim/Heretics - World Village
Number 5: Tom Russell- Play One More: The Songs of Ian & Sylvia
https://frfb.blogspot.ca/2017/05/tom-russell-play-one-more-songs-of-ian.html
Wild Geese
Tom Russell - Play One More: The Songs of Ian & Sylvia - True North Canadian
Number 4: Various Artists- Tribute to the Travelin’ Lady Rosalie Sorrels
https://frfb.blogspot.ca/2017/10/various-artists-tribute-to-travelin.html
Hitchhiker in the Rain
Barbara Higbie - Tribute to the Travelin’ Lady Rosalie Sorrels - Tribute to Rosalie Sorrels
High Flyin’ Wonder
Eilen Jewell & Nina Gerber - Tribute to the Travelin’ Lady Rosalie Sorrels - Tribute to Rosalie Sorrels
Number 3: Various Artists- Big Bend Killing: The Appalachian Ballad Tradition
https://frfb.blogspot.ca/2017/12/various-artists-big-bend-killing.html
Pretty Polly
Amythyst Kiah w/Roy Andrade - Big Bend Killing: The Appalachian Ballad Tradition - Great Smoky Mountain Association New
The Parting Glass
Rosanne Cash - Big Bend Killing: The Appalachian Ballad Tradition - Great Smoky Mountain Association New
Number 2: Tom Russell- Folk Hotel
https://frfb.blogspot.ca/2017/08/tom-russell-folk-hotel.html
The Dram House Down in Gutter Lane
Tom Russell - Folk Hotel - Frontera
Number 1: Various Artists- Woody Guthrie: The Tribute Concerts
https://frfb.blogspot.ca/2017/10/woody-guthrie-tribute-concerts-carnegie.html
Pretty Boy Floyd
Tom Paxton - Woody Guthrie: The Tribute Concerts - Bear Family New
Goin’ Down the Road (Ain’t Gonna Be Treated This A-Way)
Country Joe McDonald, Arlo Guthrie, Jack Elliott & Pete Seeger - Woody Guthrie: The Tribute Concerts - Bear Family New
Rain on Your Thunder (The Spanish Imposition)
Ray Harris & Shannon Rose - Kinda Sets the Tone - Ray Harris Canadian
Rider’s Song (Cordoba)
Howard Gladstone & Laura Fernandez - Hourglass - Sonic Peach Canadian
Ballad of the Absent Mare
Perla Batalla & David Hidalgo - Bird on the Wire: The Songs of Leonard Cohen - Mechuda Canadian
Turtle Dove
Ranky Tanky - Ranky Tanky - Resilience New
Sios Dhan an Abhainn
Kyle Carey - The Art of Forgetting - Riverboat New
Walkin' Round Town
Sneezy Waters - Sneezy Waters Live - Sneezy Waters Canadian
Interactive CKCU
Sharon
Loving the show this cold, cold morning. Thanks Mike.

7:38 AM, January 6th, 2018
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Sharon. Stay warm!

7:41 AM, January 6th, 2018
Ray Harris
Thanks for the spin - in such fine company!

10:24 AM, January 7th, 2018