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Stranger Songs
Tuesday March 25th, 2025 with Mike Regenstreif
Part 1 - Songs of Laura Nyro; Part 2 - Bringing It All Back Home Revisited

The themes on this edition of Stranger Songs are Songs of Laura Nyro and Bringing It All Back Home Revisited. 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
Part 1 – Songs of Laura Nyro (1947-1997)

Laura Nyro – who died of ovarian cancer in 1997 at age 49 – was a singer-songwriter from New York City who made a number of fine albums and whose songs were also done by artists from a variety of genres of music.
Eli's Comin'
Laura Nyro - Eli and the Thirteenth Confession - Columbia/Legacy
Stoney End
Darol Anger & Emy Phelps - Music of Our People - Darol Anger & Emy Phelps
Stoned Soul Picnic
Laura Love - Fourteen Days - Zoë
Wedding Bell Blues
Laura Nyro - More Than a New Discovery - Columbia
And When I Die
David Clayton-Thomas - In Concert: A Musical Biography - Justin Time Canadian
Upstairs by a Chinese Lamp
Billy Childs, Esperanza Spalding & Wayne Shorter - Map to the Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro - Sony Masterworks
fragment of The Stranger Song
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy Canadian
Save the Country
Laura Nyro - New York Tendaberry - Columbia/Legacy
Part 2 – Bringing It All Back Home Revisited

Bob Dylan’s Bringing It All Back Home was released 60 years ago this week on March 22, 1965. Even before Highway 61 Revisited, which came out later in 1965, Bringing It All Back Home marked Dylan’s first embrace of electric folk rock.

The songs from Bringing It All Back Home are presented here in their original order featuring various artists.
Subterranean Homesick Blues
Dave Van Ronk - To All My Friends in Far-Flung Places - Gazell
She Belongs to Me
The Flatlanders - Treasure of Love - Rack ‘Em
Maggie's Farm
Ian Hanchet - Dealin’ from the Bottom (of My Heart) - Ian Hanchet Canadian
Love Minus Zero/No Limit
Eliza Gilkyson - A Nod to Bob - Red House
Outlaw Blues
Queens of the Stone Age - Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan - Amnesty International
On the Road Again
Ben Sidran - Dylan Different - Bonsai
Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream
Taj Mahal & The Phantom Blues Band - Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan - Amnesty International
Mr. Tambourine Man
Jimmy LaFave - Trail Three - Music Road
Gates of Eden
Julie Felix - Starry Eyed and Laughing… Songs by Bob Dylan - Remarkable
It’s All Right, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
The Duhks - The Village: A Celebration of the Music of Greenwich Village - 429 Canadian
It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
Crowes Pasture - Edge of America - Crowes Pasture
An outtake from Bringing It All Back Home became the title song of an album released in 1965 by Joan Baez and one of her signature songs.
Farewell, Angelina
Joan Baez - Farewell, Angelina - Vanguard
fragment of The Stranger Song
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy Canadian
Interactive CKCU
John Coleman
Nice mix on both parts of the show .. Laura Nyro gone too soon. Bob turns the electric switch ON !! Great show!

11:04 AM, March 25th, 2025
Neil and his Dancing Labrador
Hiya Mike. Laura Nyro and Carole King were in continuous play in my youth. They drew me to all the other female vocalists that I discovered and continue to discover to this day.

11:57 AM, March 25th, 2025
N & DL
Enjoyed the first part of Bringing It All Back Home so much that I am excited for Part 2. I have been listening to a lot of Bob Dylan this past year; like a rediscovering.

12:00 PM, March 25th, 2025
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks John. Thanks Neil.

1:17 PM, March 25th, 2025
N & DL
You know Mike, I have not heard Laura Nyro for so very long, not even on CKCU. Lost all her recordings in the great uninsured flood in my house on Baribeau. I was in love with her music. So thank you very, very much for this trip down memory lane for me. So many great artists recorded her music over the years, but it is not the same as hearing that magical voice of hers. I literally had a crush on her !!

3:52 PM, March 25th, 2025
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Glad to be of service, Neil.

3:55 PM, March 25th, 2025
N & DL
I think Upstairs By A Chinese Lamp remains my favourite song of hers.

4:00 PM, March 25th, 2025
Mike Regenstreif (host)
It's a beautiful song.

4:01 PM, March 25th, 2025
N&DTDL
Excellent picks for this Dylan tribute !!!!!!!!

4:29 PM, March 25th, 2025
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks again, Neil. I'll be doing Highway 61 Revisited Revisited at the end of August.

4:34 PM, March 25th, 2025
Neil & Drake
Whooooooo Hoooooooo !!!!!!!

5:18 PM, March 25th, 2025