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Stranger Songs
Tuesday August 22nd, 2023 with Mike Regenstreif
Remembering Robbie Robertson (1943-2023)

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The theme on this edition of Stranger Songs is "Remembering Robbie Robertson," the great guitarist and principal songwriter for The Band. He died on August 9, at age 80, following what his family said was a long illness. (Photo: Don Dixon/The Band website) 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
Caledonia Mission
The Band - Music from Big Pink - Capitol Canadian
The Weight
The Staple Singers - Stax Profiles - Stax Canadian
Chest Fever
Colin Linden (with Rick Danko) - When the Spirit Comes - True North Canadian
To Kingdom Come
The Band - Music from Big Pink - Capitol Canadian
Come Love
Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks - Testimony - Universal Canadian
Who Do You Love
The Band & Ronnie Hawkins - The Last Waltz - Rhino
Going Down to See Bessie (Bessie Smith)
Happy & Artie Traum - Double-Back - Capitol Canadian
Highway 61 Revisited
Bob Dylan & The Band - Before the Flood - Columbia/Legacy
Up On Cripple Creek
The Band - Before the Flood - Columbia/Legacy Canadian
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Jack Williams - Four Good Days - Wind River Canadian
The Unfaithful Servant
Rosanne Cash - Endless Highway: The Music of The Band - 429 Canadian
Rockin’ Chair
The Band - The Band - Capitol Canadian
The Shape I’m In
The Band - Stage Fright - Capitol Canadian
Daniel and the Sacred Harp
Barrence Whitfield & Tom Russell - Cowboy Mambo - Stony Plain Canadian
Stage Fright
Colleen Rennison - See the Sky About to Rain - Black Hen Canadian
Somewhere Down the Crazy River
Robbie Robertson - Testimony - Universal Canadian
Ophelia
David Clayton-Thomas - Canadiana - Antoinette Canadian
Acadian Driftwood
The Roches - Endless Highway: The Music of The Band - 429 Canadian
The Saga of Pepote Rouge
The Band - Islands - Capitol Canadian
The Weight
The Band - Music from Big Pink - Capitol Canadian
Interactive CKCU
hillbilly
Thank You! Sooo Much! What a guy! I go back to Yonge St. & 'The Hawk'! ✊

3:13 PM, August 22nd, 2023
JoanneHurley
Good show. Lots of memories.

3:33 PM, August 22nd, 2023
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Hillbilly, thanks Joanne.

3:34 PM, August 22nd, 2023
Eloise
Bob n The Band, Tour Revisited up n' down dat HighWay 61 ... Comin' for the Killin' wit his Gun to get Everything. huh. Better Run. Somewhere down the Crazy River ~ Revealin' Song, yee-yah, mister Mike. "Once they were Brothers" "Brothers No More" - the Big Fall-out geeze Louise.

4:20 PM, August 22nd, 2023
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Eloise.

4:21 PM, August 22nd, 2023
Sean
Nice show Mike

4:49 PM, August 22nd, 2023
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Sean.

4:50 PM, August 22nd, 2023
eloise
Tribute of Masterpieces, Songbook at the Garden Gate, La Luna cries ... Brave Native Foot, walkin' wit the Devil nine-nine 2023 . Night time Sacrifice suffurin' snakes in his Rockin' Chair. Ghost n' his Guitar-Strings, still a-Singin' take a load off, Robbie. Rest in Beauty

5:04 PM, August 22nd, 2023