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Stranger Songs
Tuesday September 3rd, 2024 with Mike Regenstreif
Songs of Work and Jobs, Labour and Labour History, Volume 2

The theme for this edition of Stranger Songs – airing on the day after Labour Day – is Songs of Work and Jobs, Labour and Labour History, Volume 2. 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
The first show on this theme aired on the day after Labour Day in 2022. That show is available at this link if you’d like to hear it or hear it again. https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/57488.html
Back When Times Were Hard (performed by Si Kahn)
Various Artists - Labor Day: A tribute to hardworking people everywhere - Strictly Country New
Go to Work On Monday One More Time (performed by John McCutcheon)
Various Artists - Labor Day: A tribute to hardworking people everywhere - Strictly Country New
The Old Labor Hall (performed by Joe Jencks)
Various Artists - Labor Day: A tribute to hardworking people everywhere - Strictly Country New
The Workers Song
The Longest Johns - Smoke + Oakum - Decca
Silken Dreams
Herdman, Hills & Mangsen - Voices - Flying Fish
Forty Hours
James Talley - Journey: The Second Voyage - Cimarron
Gonna Be an Engineer
Peggy Seeger - The Folkways Years 1955-1992: Songs of Love and Politics - Smithsonian Folkways
fragment of The Stranger Song
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy Canadian
Song for a Worker
Diana Jones - Museum of Appalachia Recordings - Proper
The Lingan Strike
Maria Dunn - For a Song - Distant Whisper Music Canadian
Dark as a Dungeon
Mountain City Four - Mountain City Four - Omnivore Canadian
Aunt Molly Jackson Defines Folk Songs Once and For All/I Am a Union Woman
Rosalie Sorrels - The Long Memory - Red House
The Charge on Mother Jones
Utah Phillips - The Long Memory - Red House
The Most Dangerous Woman in America
Tom Russell - Blood and Candle Smoke - Shout! Factory
Working in the Vineyard
Jesse Winchester - Let the Rough Side Drag - Stony Plain Canadian
Trucker’s Café
Sylvia Tyson - You Were On My Mind - Stony Plain Canadian
Farmer's Song
Murray McLauchlan - Songs from the Street: The Best of Murray McLauchlan - True North Canadian
The Field Behind the Plow
Stan Rogers - Northwest Passage - Fogarty's Cove/Borealis Canadian
No More Fish, No Fishermen
Shelley Posen - The Old Songs Home - Well Done Music Canadian
There is Power in a Union
John McCutcheon - Joe Hill's Last Will - Appalsongs
The Rebel Girl
Magpie - Endless River - Long Tail
Joe Hill's Will
Country Cooking with The Fiction Brothers - Country Cooking with The Fiction Brothers - Flying Fish
Work Song
Nat Adderley - Work Song - Riverside
Interactive CKCU
John Coleman
Great show as usual Mike. Loved The Field Behind the Plow in there as well. Touching all bases with it. Much appreciated.

11:42 AM, September 2nd, 2024
hillbilly L586
Happy Labour Day! Thanks for your Work! Up the Workers!

9:36 PM, September 2nd, 2024
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks John. Thanks Hillbilly.

10:41 PM, September 2nd, 2024
Neil and his Dancing Labrador
Another great concept show, Mike. You are the Master!! I am looking forward to the show later today. As always, thanks for your passion and the many hours you invest in curating your show!!

7:57 AM, September 3rd, 2024
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Neil.

10:04 AM, September 3rd, 2024
Neil & DL
All my best to you Glen, on this sunny Labour Day !!! HOLD FAST, my friend !

3:37 PM, September 3rd, 2024
Bobby Calzone
Compared to me sitting here listening to the radio, I'd say Mike sure is the hardest worker I've seen: Caretaker of Folk! Happy labor day 🔨 🛠

3:37 PM, September 3rd, 2024
Fat Finger Dad
Sorry for the typo, Glenn.

3:39 PM, September 3rd, 2024
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Bobby. I worked a lot harder before I retired from my day job in 2021.

3:40 PM, September 3rd, 2024
Moms Forever
Peggy Seeger just nails it big time !!!! Moms always should have had a union from Day 1 !!!!

4:07 PM, September 3rd, 2024
Scottish Dancer
I am with Bobby........Caretaker indeed !!!!!! Respect always, Mike !!

4:10 PM, September 3rd, 2024
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Indeed, Moms Forever.

4:11 PM, September 3rd, 2024
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Scottish Dancer.

4:26 PM, September 3rd, 2024
gypsieGigi
Excellente.! Mike makin' Musical History Songs o' Storytellers of Old Mockin' the Muck ... o' the Privileged Pickle'd. MaMa cried a Long Tear

4:35 PM, September 3rd, 2024
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks gypsieGigi.

4:36 PM, September 3rd, 2024
Thirsty Scot
You know Mike. You are also The Historian !! I learn from you with every show. And for that, I am eternally grateful !! It seems the older we become, the more we thirst for knowledge and understanding. You deliver on the history of us all........in spades, mon ami !! Thx, Mike

4:49 PM, September 3rd, 2024
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks Thirsty Scot.

4:50 PM, September 3rd, 2024