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Stranger Songs
Tuesday August 16th, 2022 with Mike Regenstreif
It's Lake Time

"It's Lake Time" is the theme for this edition of Stranger Songs. All the songs have something or other to do with lakes. 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
The Lake
Tim Grimm - The Turning Point - Cavalier Recordings
When I First Stepped in a Canoe
Shelley Posen - Roseberry Road - Well Done Music Canadian
Canoe Song
Connie Kaldor - Wood River - Coyote Canadian
Loon on the Lake
Ball & Chain - Bare Bones - Ball & Chain Canadian
Wounded Lake
Willie Dunn - Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies: The Willie Dunn Anthology - Light in the Attic Canadian
Lakes of Champlain
Martin Simpson - Prodigal Son - Compass
The Alphabet Songs of Lake Champlain
Marty Morrissey & Robert Resnik - Old & New Songs of Lake Champlain - Marty Morrissey & Robert Resnik
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Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy Canadian
Au Bord de Lac Bijou
Bill Garrett & Sue Lothrop - Red Shoes - Borealis Canadian
Lakes of Pontchartrain
Happy Traum - There’s a Bright Side Somewhere - Lark’s Nest Music New
Banks of the Pontchartrain
Nanci Griffith - The Last of the True Believers - Philo
Christian Island (Georgian Bay)
Gordon Lightfoot - Don Quixote - Reprise Canadian
White Squall
Stan Rogers - From Fresh Water - Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis Canadian
The Keweenaw Light
Deborah Robins - Home Fires - Zippety Whippet
Woodsmoke and Oranges
Ian Tamblyn - Through the Years [’76-‘92] - North Track Canadian
Phantom Ships That Pass in the Night
Lee Murdock - The Lost Lake Sailors - Depot
Lake George 1922
Huxtable, Christenson & Hood - Wallflowers - Philo
Summers at Rangeley Lake
David Woodhead - Sweets and Conundrums - Woodhead Music Canadian
Fishtrap Lake
Michael Jerling - Music Here Tonight - Fool’s Hill Music
North to Long Lake
Christopher Shaw - Adirondack Serenade - Twining Tree
This Lake
Night Sun - Home - Night Sun Canadian
Deep Lake
Bruce Cockburn - Speechless: The Instrumental Bruce Cockburn - True North Canadian
Interactive CKCU
hillbilly
Just came out of lake! Water's great! Music also! Thanks...stay cool!

4:01 PM, August 16th, 2022
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Hillbilly.

4:03 PM, August 16th, 2022
Sandy
Really enjoying the show Mike. The story about Nancy Griffith is very cool.

4:16 PM, August 16th, 2022
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Sandy.

4:17 PM, August 16th, 2022
hb
You got great stories! Used to go out in my teens with a beauty from Christian Island... Hung around Wasaga beach!;-)

4:18 PM, August 16th, 2022
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks again, HB. Sounds like you have some great stories, too.

4:21 PM, August 16th, 2022
hb
I spent time on Superior!!! Georgian Bay makes even "Salties" seasick! Shallow & real rough! Stories are all I got!;-) & a guitar & mouth harps!

4:40 PM, August 16th, 2022
Alan Agresti
What a wonderful story about Nanci writing her Ponchartrain song while at your place! It's a wonderful song, with fantastic production, on one of her very best albums. We all really miss her.

5:07 AM, August 27th, 2022