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Stranger Songs
Tuesday August 20th, 2024 with Mike Regenstreif
Murder Ballads

The theme for this edition of Stranger Songs is Murder Ballads. 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
Tom Dula
Bill Morrissey & Greg Brown - Friend of Mine - Philo
The Greenwood Sidie (The Cruel Mother)
Ian & Sylvia - Four Strong WInds - Vanguard Canadian
Four Rode By
Fourtold - Fourtold - Appleseed Canadian
Claude Dallas
Ian Tyson - Cowboyography - Stony Plain Canadian
El Paso
Tom Russell - Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs - HighTone
Duncan and Brady
Dave Van Ronk - Down in Washington Square - Smithsonian Folkways
John Hardy
Saul Broudy - Travels with Broudy - Saul Broudy
Louis Collins
Rory Block - Avalon: A Tribute to Mississippi John Hurt - Stony Plain
Stack O'Lee
Clarksdale Moan - Dewittville Blues - Clarksdale Moan Canadian
Delia
Martin Grosswendt - Pay Day! - Martin Grosswendt
Sugarbelly
Guy Davis - The Legend of Sugarbelly - M.C. New
Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair
Bessie Smith - Bessie Smith: The Absolutely Essential 3 CD Collection - Big3
Murder in the First Degree
Victoria Spivey - Queen Victoria - Frank Goldy
The Murder of Leo Frank
Mark Rubin - The Triumph of Assimilation - Rubinchik
Little Sadie
Marc Nerenberg - Deliaโ€™s Gone: Murder Ballads & Other Songs of Love & Death - Marc Nerenberg Canadian
Sam Hall
Mountain City Four - Mountain City Four - Omnivore Canadian
The Banks of the Ohio
Doc & Merle Watson - Doc Watson On Stage - Vanguard
Pretty Polly
The Kossoy Sisters - Hop On Pretty Girls - Living Folk
The Ballad of Hollis Brown
Karan Casey - Hieroglyphs That Tell the Tale - Vertical
Mary Hamilton
Wendy Grossman - The Last Trip Home - Riverlark
fragment of The Stranger Song
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy Canadian
Interactive CKCU
hb
๐ŸŽต๐ŸŽถ๐Ÿ‘ knew a pool shark - would sing El Paso to throw other guys shot off....worked great...

3:53 PM, August 20th, 2024
Neil & The Dancing Labrador
Howdy me amigo, Mike! Murder Ballads Show is perfect for me today after my experience dealing with Clic Sante (QC Non- Health Care) yesterday. I almost became one of your selections on the playlist today!! That aside.......always a delight to have you on my airwaves, my friend!!!

3:54 PM, August 20th, 2024
N & DL
hahaha Hillbilly Right in the side pocket with that one!!

3:55 PM, August 20th, 2024
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Hillbilly, was that pool shark's name Leon?

4:02 PM, August 20th, 2024
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Neil. Sorry about your experience but glad it didn't lead to getting you locked up.

4:04 PM, August 20th, 2024
Bobby Calzone
Howdy Hillbilly ! Howzabout ร  game of pool, eh? Pretty much like playing with "health" care up here in Mont Laurier ! Howdy St Michael! You stay alone, now, ya hear!

4:16 PM, August 20th, 2024
Bobby Calzone
Alive. You are definitely not alone... how bout etrraterrestial songs,eh? ๐Ÿ˜‰

4:17 PM, August 20th, 2024
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Bobby. Etrraterrestial songs? I've already done a show of moon songs and a show of sun songs.

4:20 PM, August 20th, 2024
Bobby Calzone
I think ypu got 3 of em right here, eh?

4:20 PM, August 20th, 2024
Bc
Well, then , a show of stars? Skies?...

4:22 PM, August 20th, 2024
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Stars and skies -- might work. I'll add them to my list of potential ideas.

4:28 PM, August 20th, 2024
Bc
and/or...

4:29 PM, August 20th, 2024
Bc
Boy, I just put ร  star on my homework! ;)

4:36 PM, August 20th, 2024
hillbilly
Shark's name qas Tony Smith. Played violin busking in Yorkville villsge, Toronto. I remember him playing for Glenn Gould who was sitting at a patio table on Avenue rd. in a black winter coat & gloves in summertime...

4:39 PM, August 20th, 2024
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Hillbilly, I once saw a doc about Glenn Gould. I seem to remember something about the coat and gloves.

4:41 PM, August 20th, 2024
hb
His piano & low, beatup special stool are in the Museum of Civilization....or used to be...

4:45 PM, August 20th, 2024
hb
He was a famous hypochondriac...hung in a bar on top of hotel @ Bloor & Avenue rd...manipulated a stock option to bar folk & made a lot a coin...just to see if he could....had a famous affair with a well known woman....long story.... I was hanging around village @ 15....

4:49 PM, August 20th, 2024
Mike Regenstreif (host)
You've got some great stories to tell, Hillbilly.

4:58 PM, August 20th, 2024
Andy Cohen
Hi Mike! Thank you for playing Wendy's rendition of Mary Hamilton. Every little bit helps!

2:30 PM, August 31st, 2024