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Stranger Songs
Tuesday August 8th, 2023 with Mike Regenstreif
He was a Friend of Mine: Thinking of Dave Van Ronk

The theme on this edition of Stranger Songs is "He was a Friend of Mine: Thinking of Dave Van Ronk" – a tremendously influential artist, both to his contemporaries on the folk scene in the late 1950s and ‘60s – and to countless others who came along later. 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
St. James Infirmary
Dave Van Ronk - …and the tin pan bended, and the story ended… - Smithsonian Folkways
House of the Rising Sun
Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan - Columbia/Legacy
Song to Woody
Dave Van Ronk - Somebody Else, Not Me - Philo
Bamboo
Peter, Paul & Mary - Peter, Paul and Mary - Warner Bros.
Sunday Street
Peter Keane - Another Kind of Blue - Broken White
Sheridan Square Rag
Dakota Dave Hull - Under the North Star - Arabica
fragment of The Stranger Song
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy Canadian
Green Green Rocky Road
Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Emmylou Harris & Loudon Wainwright III - The McGarrigle Hour - Hannibal Canadian
Zen Koans Gonna Rise Again
Tex König - Königsblende - Music Cellar Canadian
He was a Friend of Mine
Hans Theessink - Songs from the Southland - Blue Groove
Stealin'
Dave Van Ronk & The Ragtime Jug Stompers - Ragtime Jug Stompers - Oldays
Van Ronk
Tom Russell - Hotwalker - HighTone
Bird on the Wire
Dave Van Ronk - Van Ronk - Polydor Canadian
Four Strong WInds
Dave Van Ronk - Live in Monterey - Omnivore Canadian
Urge for Going
Dave Van Ronk - …and the tin pan bended, and the story ended… - Smithsonian Folkways Canadian
Dave Van Ronk's Last Cigar
David Massengill - Dave on Dave: A Tribute to Dave Van Ronk - Gadfly
Another Time and Place
The Village Dudes - Another Time and Place - Blue Flute Music
Two Sleepy People
Dave Van Ronk & Christine Lavin - Hummin’ to Myself - Gazell
Cocaine
Dave Van Ronk - Live at Sir George Williams University - Just a Memory Canadian
Gaslight Rag
Dave Van Ronk - Two Sides of Dave Van Ronk - Fantasy
The Mayor of MacDougal Street
Tom Paxton - Redemption Road - Pax
The Entertainer
Dave Van Ronk - Somebody Else, Not Me - Philo
Interactive CKCU
Arne
How about “Somebody Else, Not Me”? 😉

6:19 PM, August 2nd, 2023
Mike Regenstreif (host)
A good one, Arne. So many songs to choose from in a limited time frame.

6:49 PM, August 2nd, 2023
kiyohide kunizaki
thanks from tokyo folklore center

8:20 PM, August 2nd, 2023
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Klyohide.

9:37 AM, August 3rd, 2023
Hipster Huck
Great show, Mike. Great story about Green Green Rocky Road. Dave Van Ronk was great and always a class act.

4:03 PM, August 8th, 2023
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Huck,

4:04 PM, August 8th, 2023
PeterB
Great, interesting, program today! Many things I have never heard. Only issue is too much happy homework. q;^) THANK YOU!

4:53 PM, August 8th, 2023
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Peter.

4:56 PM, August 8th, 2023
hillbilly
✊🎶🎵👍

4:57 PM, August 8th, 2023
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Hillbilly.

4:57 PM, August 8th, 2023
David Dalle
Hey what was playing at around 545?

5:53 PM, August 8th, 2023
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Sorry, David, I've no idea. My show was over at 5.

6:29 PM, August 8th, 2023