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Stranger Songs
Tuesday August 9th, 2022 with Mike Regenstreif
“Acapella Stella” and other a cappella songs.

The theme on this edition of Stranger Songs is “Acapella Stella” and other a cappella songs. All the songs on this show are performed a cappella – that is the singers are not be accompanied by musical instruments. 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
Acapella Stella
Maddy Prior & The Girls - Bib & Tuck - Park
Dig My Grave
Chaim Tannenbaum, Dane Lanken, Kate & Anna McGarrigle - The McGarrigle Hour - Hannibal Canadian
Down to the River to Pray
Allison Krauss - O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Mercury
O Death
Ralph Stanley - O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Mercury
I Can’t Stand Up Alone
Jesse Winchester - Learn to Love It - Stony Plain Canadian
Homeless
Paul Simon & Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Graceland - Warner Bros.
Rain Rain Beautiful Rain
Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Live at the Royal Albert Hall - Shanachie
Blues Stay Away from Me
Blue Flame String Band - Blue Flame String Band - Flying Fish
Beautiful Fools
Maria Dunn - Joyful Banner Blazing - Distant Whisper Canadian
fragment of The Stranger Song
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy Canadian
John Barleycorn
Finest Kind - Silks & Spices - Fallen Angle Canadian
John Barleycorn Deconstructed
Finest Kind - For Honour & For Gain - Fallen Angle Canadian
Sammy's Bar
Garnet Rogers - Summer Lightning: Live - Snow Goose Songs Canadian
Roll Away
Pressgang Mutiny - Across the Western Ocean - Pressgang Mutiny Canadian
Shallow Brown
Coope, Boyes & Simpson - Coope, Boyes & Simpson - World Music Network
A Sailor's Prayer
Rod MacDonald - No Commercial Traffic - Solstice
Oh Freedom
Kim & Reggie Harris - Steal Away: Songs of the Underground Railroad - Appleseed
Ain't I a Woman
Priscilla Herdman - Darkness Into Light - Flying Fish
Honey in the Rock
The Short Sisters - Love and Transportation - Black Socks Press
Rivers of Babylon
Sweet Honey in the Rock - Selections 1976-1988 - Flying Fish
Light of a Clear Blue Morning
The Wailin' Jennys - Fifteen - True North Canadian
Never Turning Back
Penny Lang - Carry On Children - She-Wolf Canadian
When I'm Gone
Windborne - Of Hard Times & Harmony - Wand’ring Feet New
Solitude
Sneezy Waters - Sneezy Waters - Sneezy Waters Canadian
Foreign Affair
The Manhattan Transfer - The Manhattan Transfer Anthology: Down in Birdland - Rhino
The Toast
Rosalie Sorrels - What Ever Happened to the Girl That Was - Paramount
Last Call
Dave Van Ronk - Going Back to Brooklyn - HighTone
fragment of The Stranger Song
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy Canadian
Interactive CKCU
hillbilly
In Quinnville, qc. we sing NW Passage by Stan Rogers as our National anthem...alcohol is usually involved...its cold up here...;-)

9:07 AM, August 9th, 2022
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Yup, Hillbilly, love Northwest Passage. Have played it twice on Stranger Songs in the past year.

2:56 PM, August 9th, 2022
Helen
Voices only and so so good.

4:22 PM, August 9th, 2022
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Helen.

4:25 PM, August 9th, 2022
jason
That's the best version of phil's When I'm Gone I've ever heard. thank you for introducing me to the wimborne.

11:50 AM, August 10th, 2022
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Glad to be of service, Jason.

12:02 PM, August 10th, 2022