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Stranger Songs
Tuesday November 15th, 2022 with Mike Regenstreif
The 50th Anniversary of my first concert production.

This edition of Stranger Songs is an exercise in personal nostalgia. It was 50 years ago, on November 18, 1972, that I produced a concert for the first time. All the songs on this show are by artists I presented in concerts at various venues in Montreal in the 1970s, '80s and '90s. 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 New
Fool Like Me
Bruce Murdoch - Bruce Murdoch - Radio Canada International Canadian
Thanks Hank
Kevin Head - Live - Kevin Head Music Canadian
Ragged but Right
Danny Greenspoon - Unreleased live track – used with permission Canadian
Pearl River Turnaround
Chris Rawlings - Pearl Soupe - Cooking Fat Music Canadian
On the Rim of the World
Malvina Reynolds - Ear to the Ground: Topical Songs 1960-1978 - Smithsonian Folkways
The Goodnight Loving Trail
Utah Phillips - The Telling Takes Me Home - Philo
Travelin’ Lady
Rosalie Sorrels - Travelin’ Lady - Sire
Snoring Gobeil
Jean Carignan - Jean Carignan - Philo Canadian
Heart Like a Wheel
Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Tell My Sister: Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Nonesuch Canadian
Defying Gravity
Jesse Winchester - Learn to Love It - Stony Plain Canadian
Spanish Moss
Penny Lang - Ain’t Life Sweet - She-Wolf Canadian
Thinkin’ of Home
The Dumptrucks - Selections - Laughing Cactus Canadian New
Polly Wolly Doodle
Leon Redbone - On the Track - Warner Bros.
Rock Island Line
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Blues Masters, Vol. 5 - Storyville
You Gotta Know How
Odetta - Blues Everywhere I Go - M.C.
Louis Collins
"Philadelphia" Jerry Ricks - Deep in the Well - Rooster Blues
I Can't Help but Wonder Where I'm Bound
Tom Paxton - The Compleat Tom Paxton (Even Compleater) - Rhino Handmade
There’s a Light Beyond These Woods
Nanci Griffith - There’s a Light Beyond These Woods - Philo
Green, Green Rocky Road
Dave Van Ronk - …and the tin pan bended, and the story ended… - Smithsonian Folkways
St. James Infirmary
Arlo Guthrie - Here Come the Kids - Rising Son
Sentinel Crow
Quartette - In the Beauty of the Day - Outside Music Canadian
Gentle on My Mind
John Hartford - Live from Mountain Stage - Blue Plate Music
The Mary Ellen Carter
Stan Rogers - Between the Breaks…Live! - Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis Canadian
The Water is Wide
David Amram - A Tribute to Steve Goodman - Red Pajamas
Interactive CKCU
TBM
I'm looking forward to the show, Mike. Thank you :-) Bruce

4:35 PM, November 10th, 2022
Mike Regenstreif (host)
I couldn't have done that first concert without you, Bruce.

4:41 PM, November 10th, 2022
hillbilly
I'm just in in time!!! Cold on lake!;-) Happy Anniversary & thanks for ALL the work...& love!!

3:36 PM, November 15th, 2022
hb
Bobbie D must hav copied Bruce!!;-)

3:38 PM, November 15th, 2022
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Hillbilly.

3:38 PM, November 15th, 2022
Helen
Loving this show, Mike. I remember a lot of your concerts.

4:18 PM, November 15th, 2022
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Helen.

4:19 PM, November 15th, 2022
hb
We're Lucky we got you!!!;-) luv'n the list! You got great taste!

4:34 PM, November 15th, 2022
hb
up top pic?

4:35 PM, November 15th, 2022
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Hillbilly. The photo is me with Kate & Anna McGarrigle taken by Felicity Fanjoy at a concert I produced at Pollock Hall at McGill University in 1976.

4:38 PM, November 15th, 2022
Regis
Pretty cool stuff ! Thanks for sharing

4:46 PM, November 15th, 2022
Joan POll
No Bluegrass bands? Bobby Cussen Tro??

4:47 PM, November 15th, 2022
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Regis.

4:49 PM, November 15th, 2022
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Joan, the John Hartford track is bluegrass. I had 90 minutes for this show and could have filled about 8 hours without repeating an artist.

4:50 PM, November 15th, 2022
Penny
As usual a wonderful playlist filled with so many gems. Mike, thank you so much for all you do. I wonder if you could help, I'm looking for Bruce Murdoch's cd 'Sometimes I Wonder Why the World' Any ideas?

8:55 AM, November 20th, 2022