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Stranger Songs
Tuesday September 16th, 2025 with Mike Regenstreif
Pancho & Lefty & Other Songs of Townes Van Zandt

The theme this week on Stranger Songs is Pancho & Lefty and Other Songs of Townes Van Zandt. 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
Townes Van Zandt – who was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1944 and died in Smyrna, Tennessee on January 1, 1997 at age 52 – was one of the greatest Texas singer-songwriters. Many of his songs are enduring classics still sung by many artists.
Pancho & Lefty
Townes Van Zandt, Freddy Fender, Rubin Ramos & The Texas Revolution, Doug Sahm & Augie Meyer - Texas Rain: The Texas Hill Country Recordings - Tomato
Tecumseh Valley
Nanci Griffith & Arlo Guthrie - Other Voices/Other Rooms - Elektra
Colorado Girl
Bob Jensen - For the Sake of the Song - Bob Jensen Canadian
If I Needed You
Matthew Barber & Jill Barber - The Family Album - Outside Music Canadian
When She Don't Need Me
Catherine MacLennan - When the Wind Blows: The Songs of Townes Van Zandt - Appaloosa Canadian
Our Mother the Mountain
The Wainwright Sisters - Songs in the Dark - MapleMusic Canadian
Kathleen
Townes Van Zandt - Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas - Tomato
fragment of The Stranger Song
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy Canadian
For the Sake of the Song
David Olney with Daniel Seymour - Evermore: The Final Live in Holland Sessions I - Strictly Country
Rex's Blues
Kate & Edith - Live at Kelso Hall - Kate & Edith Canadian
No Lonesome Tune
Saul Broudy - Travels with Broudy - Saul Broudy
Waiting Around to Die
The Be Good Tanyas - Chinatown - Nettwerk Canadian
Columbine
Townes Van Zandt - Townes Van Zandt - Tomato
Night Dawn (Silver Dollar)
David Broza - Night Dawn: The Unpublished Poetry of Townes Van Zandt - S-Curve
Snowin' on Raton
Gretchen Peters & Tom Russell - One to the Heart, One to the Head - Frontera/Scarlet Letter
Snow Don't Fall
John Gorka - Writing in the Margins - Red House
Sad Cinderella
Townes Van Zandt - The Late Great Townes Van Zandt - Tomato
No Place to Fall
Lucy Kaplansky - The Lucy Story: unreleased and rare tracks, 1976-2023 - Lucyricky
(Quicksilver Dreams of) Maria
Steve Earle - Townes: The Basics - New West
To Live is to Fly
Guy Clark - Old Friends - Sugar Hill
Brother Flower
Townes Van Zandt & Kimmie Rhodes - Texas Rain: The Texas Hill Country Recordings - Tomato
White Freightliner
Colleen Rennison - See the Sky About to Rain - Black Hen Music Canadian
Pancho & Lefty
Emmylou Harris - Luxury Liner - Warner Bros./Rhino
Interactive CKCU
John Coleman
Great show once again Mike. Great songs of Townes Van Zandt .. perfect revisit !! perfect too for winding down the Summer of 2025.

10:06 AM, September 12th, 2025
Mike Regenstreif (host)
Thanks John.

10:35 AM, September 12th, 2025