Stranger Songs
Tuesday August 26th, 2025 with Mike Regenstreif
Part 1 – Songs of August; Part 2 – Highway 61 Revisited – Revisited
The themes this week on Stranger Songs are Songs of August in Part 1 and Highway 61 Revisited – Revisited in Part 2.
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| fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy 
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| Part 1: Songs of August |
| August Flower Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer with Chao Tran - From China to Appalachia - Community Music |
| Beautiful August Emily Triggs - The Great Escape - Emily Triggs
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| August Night Jay Linden - Satchel - Jay Linden
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| On an August Night The Lucky Sisters - So Lucky - Patio
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| August Nights Preservation Hall Jazz Band - That's It - Legacy |
| The 33rd of August Joan Baez - Blessed Are - Vanguard |
| The August of Our Years Jeanie Stahl - Mysteries - Daring |
| August Moon Benny Carter - Aspects - United Artists |
| fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy
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| Part 2: Highway 61 Revisited – Revisited
It was 60 years ago, on August 30, 1965, that Bob Dylan released his monumental folk-rock album, Highway 61 Revisited. |
| Like a Rolling Stone Rory Block - Positively 4th Street: A Tribute to Bob Dylan - Stony Plain |
| Tombstone Blues Tim O'Brien - Red On Blonde - Sugar Hill |
| It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry Ian Hanchet - Dealin’ from the Bottom (of My Heart) - Ian Hanchet
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| From a Buick 6 Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited - Columbia/Legacy |
| Ballad of a Thin Man Ben Sidran - Dylan Different - Bonsai |
| Queen Jane Approximately Emma Swift - Blonde on the Tracks - Tiny Ghost/CRS |
| Highway 61 Revisited Ray Benson - Swingin’ and Skankin’ . - Primary Wave Music |
| Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues Tom Russell & Joe Ely - Folk Hotel - Frontera |
| Desolation Row Bill Camplin - Bob Dylan Project One - Bill Camplin |
| Bob Dylan recorded versions of the next three songs during the Highway 61 Revisited sessions but did not include them on the album. |
| Positively 4th Street Lucinda Williams - The Village: A Celebration of the Music of Greenwich Village - 429 |
| Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window (single version) Bob Dylan & The Hawks - Side Tracks - Columbia/Legacy |
| Sitting On a Barbed Wire Fence Bob Dylan - The Best of the Cutting Edge 1965-1966 - Columbia/Legacy |
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August Flower was absolutely lovely! Love this theme for today.
3:34 PM, August 26th, 2025