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Stranger Songs
Tuesday June 11th, 2024 with Mike Regenstreif
Songs for Fathers

The theme for the June 11 edition of Stranger Songs, in advance of Father’s Day, is Songs for Fathers. 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
My Father
Judy Collins - Forever: An Anthology - Elektra
Father's Day
Amy Speace - There Used to Be Horses Here - Windbone
What My Father Taught Me
Michael 'Earnie' Taylor - Folk ‘n’ Western - Laughing Cactus Music Canadian
Father's Shoes
Ben Sures - The Story That Lived Here - Ben Sures Canadian
Warm Hands
Boreal - Recorded for a future album release Canadian
I Brought My Father With Me
Michael Smith - Songs of a Catholic Childhood - J. O’Reilly Productions
Daddy Said
Nanci Griffith - Once In a Very Blue Moon - Philo
fragment of The Stranger Song
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy Canadian
Song for My Father
Steve Howell, Dan Sumner & Jason Weinheimer - Long Ago - Out of the Past
Randall Knife
Guy Clark - Craftsman - Philo
My Father was a Quiet Man
The Smith Sisters - A Canary’s Song - Flying Fish
Throwing Horseshoes at the Moon
Tom Russell - Old Songs Yet to Sing - Frontera
My Old Man
Chaim Tannenbaum - Joy of Living: A Tribute to Ewan MacColl - Compass Canadian
My Old Man
Rosanne Cash - Rhythm & Romance - Columbia
My Old Man
Ron Hynes - Get Back Change - Borealis Canadian
My Old Man
Steve Goodman - No Big Surprise: The Steve Goodman Anthology - Red Pajamas
My Dad Loves to Sing
Jamie Anderson - Better Than Chocolate - Tsunami Canadian
Bits and Pieces
Heather Anne Lomax - The Doman Tracks - Blackbird New
For EL
Brian Lemco - Seasons - Brian Lemco Music Canadian
Older Than My Old Man Now
Loudon Wainwright III - Older Than My Old Man Now - StorySound
A Father's Love
Ruby Lovett - It’s a Hard Life - Puff Bunny
Reverend Mr. Black
Tim Grimm - Names - Wind River
The Dreamer (A Song for My Father)
James Talley - Ballads, Bandits and Blues - Cimarron
fragment of The Stranger Song
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy Canadian
Interactive CKCU
Neil and his Dancing Labrador
Love your tribute shows, Mike. Again, looking forward to this one.

7:30 AM, June 11th, 2024
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Neil.

9:46 AM, June 11th, 2024
hillbilly
Randall knife, Guy Clark a great song, I tear up sooo many good ones

10:26 AM, June 11th, 2024
hillbilly
Nice pic! You guys lookin' good.

10:28 AM, June 11th, 2024
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Hillbilly. The photo with my father was taken a couple of years before he passed away in 2016.

2:26 PM, June 11th, 2024
Ron
Boreal will be at the Stewart Park Festival in Perth. The exact day and time has not yet been posted but the festival is on July 19-21.

3:51 PM, June 11th, 2024
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Ron. I would have mentioned it but this show was recorded before the Stewart Park Festival announced its lineup.

3:55 PM, June 11th, 2024
Robert Melanson
You got me with Loudon Wainwright!

4:46 PM, June 11th, 2024
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Robert.

4:48 PM, June 11th, 2024
Neil and his Dancing Labrador
I am simply speechless, Mike. Thank you for a very special show today that I will cherish for many replays. May tears cleanse the soul.

4:55 PM, June 11th, 2024
Bobby Calzone
I miss you Dad. I'm sorry...

4:56 PM, June 11th, 2024
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Neil. I hear you, Bobby. Tomorrow, June 12, would have been my father's 98th birthday.

5:02 PM, June 11th, 2024
Neil & DL
Happy B'Day to your Dad tomorrow, Mike. He would be proud of you and what you bring to others every week on The Mighty!

7:19 PM, June 11th, 2024
N & DL
And I hear you, Bobby. Peace.

7:20 PM, June 11th, 2024
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks again, Neil.

11:20 PM, June 11th, 2024
Neil Coupland
Fine collection of songs; especially pleased to see Tom Russell's warts and all tribute to his father..

5:15 AM, June 14th, 2024
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Neil C.

11:21 PM, June 14th, 2024