Stranger Songs
Tuesday September 27th, 2022 with Mike Regenstreif
Songs of The Mountain City Four and Kate & Anna McGarrigle
The theme on this edition of Stranger Songs is "Songs of The Mountain City Four and Kate & Anna McGarrigle." The Mountain City Four was a folk group in Montreal in the 1960s that included Anna McGarrigle, the late Kate McGarrigle, the late Jack Nissenson, and Peter Weldon. The Mountain City Four never released an album back in the day but there is a selection of live and home recordings and Peter Weldon has assembled them on a CD – just called Mountain City Four – that was released on September 23.
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| fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy 
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| Motherless Children Mountain City Four - Mountain City Four - Omnivore
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| Willie Moore Kate & Anna McGarrigle & Roma Baran - Tell My Sister - Nonesuch
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| (Talk to Me of) Mendocino Chaim Tannenbaum - Chaim Tannenbaum - StorySound
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| Heart Like a Wheel Katie Moore - Montebello - Katie Moore
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| Blue Moon of Kentucky Mountain City Four - Mountain City Four - Omnivore
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| Kiss and Say Goodbye Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Tell My Sister: Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Nonesuch
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| Come a Long Way Robert Resnik - Playing Favorites - Thunder Ridge
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| Cool River Maria Muldaur - Waitress in a Donut Shop - Reprise
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| En Filant Ma Quenouile Mountain City Four - Mountain City Four - Omnivore
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| fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy
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| You’ve Got to Walk That Lonesome Valley Mountain City Four - Mountain City Four - Omnivore
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| My Town Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Tell My Sister: Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Nonesuch
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| Go Leave Linda Thompson & Richard Thompson - Sing Me the Songs: Celebrating the Works of Kate McGarrigle - Nonesuch
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| Complainte pour Ste-Catherine Kevin Roth - Dulcimer Man - Folkways
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| Reuben Ranzo Mountain City Four - Mountain City Four - Omnivore
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| Matapedia Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Matapedia - Hannibal
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| Tell My Sister Martha Wainwright - Sing Me the Songs: Celebrating the Works of Kate McGarrigle - Nonesuch
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| Walking Song Rufus Wainwright - Sing Me the Songs: Celebrating the Works of Kate McGarrigle - Nonesuch
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| This Train Mountain City Four - Mountain City Four - Omnivore
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| Goin’ Back to Harlan Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Matapedia - Hannibal
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| You Tell Me That I'm Falling Down Linda Ronstadt - Prisoner in Disguise - Asylum
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| Sun Son Judy Collins - Times of Our Lives - Elektra
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| V’Là L’Bon Vent Mountain City Four - Mountain City Four - Omnivore
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| Dancer with Bruised Knees Kate & Anna McGarrigle with Joe Boyd - Tell My Sister: Dancer with Bruised Knees - Nonesuch
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| Johnny's Gone to Hilo Kate McGarrigle, Martha Wainwright & Lily Lanken with Anna McGarrigle, Rufus & Loudon Wainwright, Chaim Tannenbaum, and Dane & Sylvan Lanken - The McGarrigle Hour - Hannibal
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| Fifteen of the 16 songs on the Mountain City Four CD were recorded between 1963 and 1970, but the last song, “Shenendoah” was recorded at a show at La Sala Rossa in Montreal in 2012 that featured original Mountain City Four members Peter Weldon and Jack Nissenson with Peter’s daughter, Kathleen Weldon, and Anna’s daughter, Lily Lanken, subbing for Kate & Anna, along with Jane McGarrigle, John Knowles, Marvin Segal, Andrew Cowan and Stephen Barry. |
| Shenendoah Mountain City Four - Mountain City Four - Omnivore
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I have played "Tell My Sister" and "Sing Me The Songs" obsessively for years (along with the Kate & Anna McGarrigle records. Mountain City Four will join the rotation. Great show, Mike.
11:10 AM, September 27th, 2022