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Stranger Songs
Tuesday July 13th, 2021 with Mike Regenstreif
Songs About Refugees. Guest: Diana Jones.

Our theme on this week’s show is Songs About Refugees and the show includes a conversation with Diana Jones whose superb new album, Song to a Refugee, includes 13 songs Diana has written about refugees. Click on LISTEN NOW to hear this show. Click on LISTEN to hear the current CKCU broadcast.
fragment of The Stranger Song
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy Canadian
Refugee
Moira Smiley - Unzip the Horizon - Moira Smiley Music
Lying By the Sea (For Alan Kurdi)
Murray McLauchlan - Hourglass - True North Canadian New
Refugee Moan
Eric Bibb - Migration Blues - Stony Plain
Refugee’s Lullaby
Kim Wallach - Chatter of the Finches - Black Socks Press
I’ve Looked Around
Guy Davis - Be Ready When I Call You - M.C. New
Je tournais la clé
Jabbour - Carling Lake - Jabbour Canadian New
Refugee
Eric Bogle - At This Stage - Greentrax
fragment of The Stranger Song
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy Canadian
The conversation with Diana Jones was recorded June 17, 2021.
Song to a Refugee
Diana Jones - Song to a Refugee - Goldmine New
Conversation, Part 1
Mike Regenstreif & Diana Jones - Canadian
El Chaparral
Diana Jones - Song to a Refugee - Goldmine New
Conversation, Part 2
Mike Regenstreif & Diana Jones - Canadian
We Believe You (featuring Steve Earle, Richard Thompson, Peggy Seeger & Zahara Phillips)
Diana Jones - Song to a Refugee - Goldmine New
Conversation, Part 3
Mike Regenstreif & Diana Jones - Canadian
The Life I Left Behind
Diana Jones - Song to a Refugee - Goldmine New
Conversation, Part 4
Mike Regenstreif & Diana Jones - Canadian
The Sea is My Mother
Diana Jones - Song to a Refugee - Goldmine New
Conversation, Part 5
Mike Regenstreif & Diana Jones - Canadian
Across the Border
Tom Russell - Appleseed’s 21st Anniversary: Roots and Branches - Appleseed
El Coyote
Guy Clark - The Best of the Dualtone Years - Dualtone
I am a Mexican
Los Texmaniacs with Rick Treviño - Cruzando Borders - Smithsonian Folkways
Rain Falls Down in Amsterdam
Eric Andersen - Woodstock Under the Stars - Y&T Music
I am a Refugee
Sultans of String featuring Ifrah Mansour - Refuge - Sultans of String Canadian
Refuge
Sultans of String featuring Edmar Castaneda - Refuge - Sultans of String Canadian
Interactive CKCU
Joanne Hurley
Good show today, Mike. Very moving stuff. Looking forward to next week.

1:33 PM, July 13th, 2021
hillbilly
gonna listen....thanks

1:45 PM, July 13th, 2021
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Joanne. Thanks Hillbilly.

2:52 PM, July 13th, 2021
Helen
Thanks Mike. This is a very moving program. Diana Jones's CD is excellent.

3:50 PM, July 13th, 2021
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Helen.

4:05 PM, July 13th, 2021
Marion
thank you for this compilation-- glad I found it and your show

1:16 PM, July 20th, 2021
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Marion.

9:09 AM, July 23rd, 2021