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Stranger Songs
Tuesday October 11th, 2022 with Mike Regenstreif
Remembering Loretta Lynn (1932-2022) and Mary McCaslin (1946-2022)

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The themes on this edition of Stranger Songs are Remembering Loretta Lynn in Part 1 and Remembering Mary McCaslin in Part 2. 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
Legendary country singer Loretta Lynn died on October 4th at age 90. She came from humble beginnings as a coal miner’s daughter from Butcher Hollow, Kentucky. Loretta Lynn’s autobiography, the feature film that was based on it, and her signature song are called "Coal Miner’s Daughter."
Coal Miner's Daughter
Loretta Lynn - All Time Greatest Hits - MCA/Decca
I'm a Honky Tonk Girl
Eilen Jewell - Butcher Holler: A Tribute to Loretta Lynn - Signature Sounds
After the Fire is Gone
Ian & Sylvia - The Lost Tapes - Stony Plain Canadian
Fist City
Little Willies - For the Good Times - Milking Bull
Whispering Sea
Loretta Lynn - Full Circle - Sony/Legacy
She's Got You
Rhiannon Giddens - Tomorrow is My Turn - Nonesuch
Blue Kentucky Girl
Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers - Ramble in Music City: The Lost Concert 1990 - Nonesuch
You Ain’t Woman Enough
April Verch - Once a Day - Slab Town Canadian
Who’s Gonna Miss Me?
Loretta Lynn - Full Circle - Sony/Legacy
fragment of The Stranger Song
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy Canadian
Mary McCaslin was a folksinger, songwriter and pioneering open-tuning guitarist, who died on October 2, at age 75, following a seven-year battle with progressive supranuclear palsy. Mary was also an old friend who I first met circa 1973, when we both became part of a circle of friends centered around The Barn in North Ferrisburgh, Vermont, then the headquarters of Philo Records.
Music Strings/Oh Hollywood
Mary McCaslin - Way Out West - Philo
Way Out West
Caroline Doctorow - I Carry All I Own: The Songs of Mary McCaslin - Narrow Lane
Down the Road
Stan Rogers - From Coffee House to Concert Hall - Fogarty’s Cove Canadian
Circle of Friends
Sneezy Waters - Sneezy Waters - Sneezy Waters Canadian
Young Westley
Mary McCaslin - Way Out West - Philo
The Bramble and the Rose
Mary McCaslin & Jim Ringer - The Bramble and the Rose - Philo
Suzanne
Mary McCaslin - Rain: The Lost Album - Bear Family Canadian
Ballad of Weaverville
Mary McCaslin - Prairie in the Sky - Philo
Back to Salinas
Caroline Doctorow - I Carry All I Own: The Songs of Mary McCaslin - Narrow Lane
Prairie in the Sky
Tom Russell - Song of the West: The Cowboy Collection - HMG
My Love
Mary McCaslin - Prairie in the Sky - Philo
Someone Who Looks Me
Mary McCaslin - Broken Promises - Philo
Old Friends
Mary McCaslin - Old Friends - Philo
fragment of The Stranger Song
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy Canadian
Interactive CKCU
hillbilly
Sorry for your loss of Mary...

3:33 PM, October 11th, 2022
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Hillbilly.

3:38 PM, October 11th, 2022
hb
hung out & fished from outter banks, N. Carolina with an old Kentucky coal miner...he liked me cause I'm an old Union guy...great stories! "Just because we're peasants don't mean we're stupid"!;-) Great show!

4:01 PM, October 11th, 2022
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks again, HB.

4:02 PM, October 11th, 2022
hb
huge, huge Sneezy fan. a Treasure right here near hills & rivers...

4:20 PM, October 11th, 2022
hb
I sing, "Sawdust.." but not as goid as him...;-)

4:22 PM, October 11th, 2022
Mike Regenstreif (host)
After Sneezy recorded "Circle of Friends," I was able to connect him with Mary.

4:22 PM, October 11th, 2022
hb
Perfect & sublime ...

4:23 PM, October 11th, 2022
Laurie S.
A lovely tribute to Mary. I have fond memories of first seeing her at the Golem in Montreal when I was at McGill and then many times at Passim in Cambridge when I went to graduate school in Boston.

4:27 PM, October 11th, 2022
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Laurie.

4:28 PM, October 11th, 2022
hb
Mike, did you go to Bohemian Embassy in Toronto...Don Cullen's club?

4:33 PM, October 11th, 2022
Mike Regenstreif (host)
No, the Bohemian Embassy days were a little before my time. The Riverboat, Fiddler's Green, Egerton's and the Groaning Board were the Toronto folk clubs I got to.

4:37 PM, October 11th, 2022
hb
I was going in gr. 9...15... long story...still got membership card...Ian, before Sylvia, she was playing English folk songs , Lennie Bruce...t'was great for a kid treated as an Adult!;-)

4:48 PM, October 11th, 2022
Mike Regenstreif (host)
The late Mitch Podolak used to talk fondly about his early folk adventures at the Bohemian Embassy.

4:53 PM, October 11th, 2022
hb
Cuban Missile crisis then....Nakita & now Poo tin....spinnin wheel...eh? Peace! Glad you OK. goin fishin

5:00 PM, October 11th, 2022