Stranger Songs
Tuesday November 11th, 2025 with Mike Regenstreif
Part 1 – Remembrance Day; Part 2 – Remembering Archie Fisher (1939-2025)
The themes on this edition of Stranger Songs are Remembrance Day and Remembering Archie Fisher.
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| fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy 
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| Remembrance Day in Canada is marked annually on November 11, the anniversary of the end of the First World War in 1918. |
| 11:11 Garnet Rogers - Sparrow’s Wing - Snow Goose Songs
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| In Flanders Fields Eric Bogle - A Toss of the Coin - Greentrax
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| Missing at the Somme Jimmy Rankin - Harvest Highway - Song Dog Music/Linus
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| Remembrance Day/Flowers of the Forest Bobby Watt - Watt Next? - Glenashdale Music
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| No Man’s Land Priscilla Herdman - Forgotten Dreams - Flying Fish |
| The Great War Mason Daring - The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th - Daring |
| Archie Fisher, who died on November First at age 86 from lung cancer, was one of Scotland’s greatest and most influential interpreters of traditional and contemporary folk songs and a great songwriter whose original material was decidedly in the tradition. He was also a folk music radio host for many years on the BBC. |
| Reynardine Archie Fisher - Archie Fisher - XTRA |
| Open the Door Softly Andrew & Casey Calhoun - Skeins - Waterbug |
| The Terror Time Small Potatoes - Time Flies - Folk Era |
| Farewell She Archie Fisher - Archie Fisher - XTRA |
| Dark Eyed Molly Eva Cassidy - American Tune - Blix Street |
| The Witch of the Westmorland Stan Rogers - Between the Breaks...Live! - Fogarty's Cove/Borealis
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| Jock Stewart Maria Dunn - Gathering - Distant Whisper
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| Coshieville Red Horse (John Gorka, Eliza Gilkyson & Lucy Kaplansky) - Red Horse - Red House |
| South Wind Archie Fisher - The Man with a Rhyme - Folk-Legacy |
| Borderland Archie Fisher & Garnet Rogers - Off the Map - Snow Goose Songs
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| Gunsmoke & Whisky Archie Fisher - Sunsets I’ve Galloped Into… - Snow Goose Songs |
| Make and Break Harbour Archie Fisher & Garnet Rogers - The Best Times After All: Live - Snow Goose Songs
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| The Final Trawl Archie Fisher & Garnet Rogers - The Best Times After All: Live - Snow Goose Songs
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| Bill Hosie Bill Staines - Looking for the Wind - Red House |
| Windward Away Archie Fisher - Windward Away - Red House |
| The Parting Glass Archie Fisher - A Silent Song - Red House |
| fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy
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Wonderful show! Archie Fisher was a real original.
3:15 PM, November 8th, 2025