Stranger Songs
Tuesday June 14th, 2022 with Mike Regenstreif
Songs of Wade Hemsworth and Songs of Bill Morrissey
This edition of Stranger Songs features the work of two great songwriters: Wade Hemsworth (1916-2002) and Bill Morrissey (1951-2011).
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| fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy 
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| Songs of Wade Hemsworth: Wade Hemsworth, who died in 2002 at age 85, was probably the first important songwriter to come out of the Canadian folk music scene. Although Wade was not very prolific – he wrote less than 20 songs – many of those songs have become classics of Canadian folk music. After serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War, Wade worked as a surveyor in Northern Ontario, Quebec and Labrador and those experiences were the basis for many of his songs. He moved to Montreal in 1952 to work as a draftsman for the Canadian National Railway and began performing on the Montreal folk music scene. |
| The Black Fly Song Bill Staines - Just Play One Tune More - Folk-Legacy
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| In the Wintertime Wade Hemsworth - The Songs of Wade Hemsworth - Blackfly Music
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| Log Driver's Waltz Dan Berggren, John Kirk & Chris Shaw with Ann Downey - North River/North Woods - Sleeping Giant
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| Quiet on the River Wade Hemsworth with the Mountain City Four - Wade Hemsworth with the Mountain City Four - Peter Weldon
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| Songs of Bill Morrissey: Bill Morrissey, who died in 2011 at age 59, was one of the finest songwriters of my generation of folk musicians. Bill lived in New Hampshire and many of his songs reflect life in the mill towns of that part of New England. Bill also wrote an excellent novel, “Edson,” about a folksinger, not unlike himself, living in one of those mill towns. |
| Small Town on the River Bill Morrissey - Bill Morrissey - Philo |
| Handsome Molly Mark Erelli - Milltowns - Hillbilly Pilgrim |
| Texas Blues Lucy Kaplansky - The Tide - Red House |
| Barstow Bill Morrissey - Bill Morrissey - Philo |
| fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy
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| Songs of Wade Hemsworth |
| The Shining Birch Tree (Land of the Muskeg) Art Thieme - On the Wilderness Road - Folk-Legacy
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| Foolish You Fairport Convention - Old, New, Borrowed, Blue - Green Linnet
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| Song of the Old Rooster Wade Hemsworth - The Songs of Wade Hemsworth - Blackfly Music
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| Songs of Bill Morrissey |
| She’s That Kind of Mystery John Gorka - Bright Side of Down - Red House |
| Ice Fishing Bill Morrissey - North - Philo |
| Birches Laurie MacAllister & David Glaser - The Lies the Poets Tell - Laurie MacAllister |
| Songs of Wade Hemsworth |
| Wild Goose Rick Fielding - Lifeline - Folk-Legacy
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| Whitewater (The Log Jam Song) The Wakami Wailers - River Through the Pines - The Wakami Wailers
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| My Mother is the Ocean Sea Kate & Anna McGarrigle - CBC Variety 3 - CBC
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| The Story of the I’m Alone Wade Hemsworth with the Mountain City Four - Wade Hemsworth with the Mountain City Four - Peter Weldon
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| Songs of Bill Morrissey |
| I Wonder If I’ll Ever Leave Peter Keane - Walkin' Around - Flying Fish |
| Marigold Hall Cormac McCarthy - Picture Gallery Blues - Green Linnet |
| Long Gone Mark Erelli - Milltowns - Hillbilly Pilgrim |
| By the Grave of Baudelaire Bill Morrissey - Come Running - Turn and Spin Media |
| One more song of Wade Hemsworth |
| Our Last and Humble Home Wade Hemsworth with the Mountain City Four - Wade Hemsworth with the Mountain City Four - Peter Weldon
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Wonderful show, Mike. Two very different songwriters from different generations and yet it flows beautifully from song to song and set to set.
4:35 PM, June 14th, 2022