The theme on this edition of Stranger Songs is The Yellow Door at 60.
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| fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy 
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| The Yellow Door Coffee House in Montreal – now Canada’s longest running folk venue – started presenting folk music performers in the fall of 1966 – 60 years ago.
I first got to the Yellow Door as a high school student in 1969. One night, after I’d been a Yellow Door regular for a while, Chuck Baker – who ran the Yellow Door from the late-1960s until well into the 1980s – drafted me to be a Yellow Door volunteer. Over the next few years, I sold tickets at the door, or served coffee behind the counter, or MCed the show – particularly the Sunday night hootenannies. All the music on this show is by artists that I saw and got to know back in the day at the Yellow Door. It is but a small sampling. |
| The Brand New Tennessee Waltz Jesse Winchester - Jesse Winchester - Stony Plain
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| Walk with Me in the Sunshine John Foley - Words & Music 1975-1990 - Christine Foley
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| Ain’t Life Sweet Penny Lang - Ain’t Life Sweet - She-Wolf
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| Sea Fever Tex König - Königsblende - Music Cellar
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| Shenandoah Jack Nissenson - Mountain City Four - Omnivore
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| San Mescalito Sean Gagnier - Circle Harbor - Sean Gagnier
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| Snowdon Bruce Murdoch - Bruce Murdoch - Radio Canada International
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| fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy
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| Three O’Clock Ride Ronney Abramson - Three O’Clock Ride – single - Ronney Abramson
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| Highway North Bill Staines - Somebody Blue - Champlain |
| Crossties on a Railroad Bill Garrett - Bill Garrett - Borealis
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| Red Clay Halo Caitlin Hanford - Bluer Skies - Denon
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| Barcelona Linda Morrison - Line By Line - Heartstrung Music
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| Rocking Chair Ride Christopher Kearney - Christopher Kearney - Capitol
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| No Lonesome Tune Saul Broudy - Travels with Broudy - Saul Broudy |
| I Wish I was a Mole in the Ground Marc Nerenberg - On the Street Again - Marc Nerenberg
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| Tears Like Rain Doug McArthur - Smoke & Whiskey - Doug McArthur
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| Travelin’ Man Paul Geremia - Just Enough - Folkways |
| Calgary Song Humphrey & The Dumptrucks - Six Days of Paper - Boot
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| Ragged but Right Danny Greenspoon - Unreleased live track – used with permission
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| Everyone Needs a Backyard Kevin Head - Hear Them Callin' - Kevin Head
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| Pearl River Turnaround Chris Rawlings - Pearl Soupe - Cooking Fat Music
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| The Mary Ellen Carter Stan Rogers - Between the Breaks…Live! - Fogarty's Cove/Borealis
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| fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy
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And that’s how we met you too Miike. Were’nt those the days my friend. Keep on Truckin’!
9:48 PM, September 14th, 2026