[mplpost] playlist: Folk Roots/Folk Branches - January 24, 2002

[Mike Regenstreif]

FOLK ROOTS/FOLK BRANCHES with Mike Regenstreif

Thursday mornings (9-11:30 eastern) on CKUT (90.3 FM) in Montreal

         Folk Roots/Folk Branches is the only broadly-defined, 
folk-oriented program on Montreal radio.  The CKUT signal extends 
throughout the Montreal area and into parts of northern New York, northern 
Vermont and Eastern Ontario.

         CKUT can also be heard worldwide in RealAudio from the Folk 
Roots/Folk Branches web site.

         http://www.ckutfolk.com

January 24, 2002

Guest: Jack Nissenson

         This program was dedicated to the memory of Wade Hemsworth.  Wade, 
a past guest on Folk Roots/Folk Branches, was the dean of Canada’s 
folk-rooted songwriters.  He died on Saturday at the age of 85.

RORY BLOCK & KELLY JOE PHELPS- Pretty Polly
         I’m Every Woman (Rounder)

         The next nine songs were written by Wade Hemsworth.  Jack 
Nissenson, a founding member of The Mountain City Four, Montreal’s 
legendary folk group of the 1960s, joined me in the studio to talk about 
Wade’s life and songs.

WADE HEMSWORTH- Shing Birch Tree (The Land of the Muskeg)
         A Folksong Portrait of Canada (Mercury)
WAKAMI WAILERS- Whitewater (The Log Jam Song)
         River Through the Pines (Imakaw)
KATE & ANNA McGARRIGLE & CHAIM TANNENBAUM- The Wild Goose
         Variety Recordings 3 (CBC)

BILL STAINES- The Black Fly Song
         Just Play One Tune More (Folk-Legacy)
KATE & ANNA McGARRIGLE- Foolish You
         Kate & Anna McGarrigle (Hannibal)
WADE HEMSWORTH- The Story of the I’m Alone
         The Songs of Wade Hemsworth (Black Fly Music)

JACK NISSENSON- The Log Driver’s Waltz
         Live at CKUT

WADE HEMSWORTH- Quiet on the River
         The Songs of Wade Hemsworth (Black Fly Music)
KATE & ANNA McGARRIGLE- My Mother is the Ocean Sea
         Variety Recordings 3 (CBC)

         John Jackson, the great Virginia songster, also died this 
week.  He was 77.

JOHN JACKSON- Railroad Bill
         Front Porch Blues (Alligator)
JOHN JACKSON- John Henry
         The Harry Smith Connection: A Live Tribute to the Anthology of 
American Folk Music (Smithsonian Folkways)

KATHY KALLICK & PETER ROWAN- Hello Stranger
         My Mother’s Voice (Copper Creek)
BOBBY HORTON- Mighty Big River
         Mark Twain: Original Soundtrack (Columbia/Legacy)
JIM POST- Mighty Big River
         Mark Twain Out West Vol. II (Jim Post)
KEVIN CONWAY- Mark Twain: Two Unacountable Freaks
         Mark Twain: Original Soundtrack (Columbia/Legacy)
MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER- Halley Came to Jackson
         Shooting Straight in the Dark (Columbia)

JIM WATSON & ALICE GERRARD- Leaving Home
         Don’t Tell Me, I Don’t Know (Barker)
CAROLINE DOCTOROW- Fire in New Town
         That Changes Everything (Narrow Lane)
JOHN HARTFORD- Where the Old Red River Flows
         Steam Powered Aereo-Takes (Rounder)

         Friday January 25: David Francey and Rick Haworth & Mario Legare 
at the Adair Hall Coffee House in Ste. Anne de Bellvue. Call 514-457-8653.

DAVID FRANCEY- Saturday Night
         Far End of Summer (Laker)

         Saturday February 2: Charlie Sohmer and Tannis Slimmon at the 
Yellow Door. Call 514-398-4886.

CHARLIE SOHMER- Goodbye, Goodbye
         The Kiss Before the Calm (Glowing Hearts)
TANNIS SLIMMON- There’s a Lift
         Oak Lake (Tannis Slimmon)

NANCI GRIFFITH- Julie Ann
         Poet In My Window (Philo)
BRUCE COCKBURN- Anything Anytime Anywhere
         Anything Anytime Anywhere (True North)

MIMI & RICHARD FARIÑA- A Swallow Song
         The Complete Vanguard Recordings (Vanguard)
JUDY FRANKEL- Los Bilbilicos (The Nightingales)
         Sephardic Songs of Love and Hope (Judy Frankel)
CHAVA ALBERSTEIN- High Atop a Mountain
         Foreign Letters (Rounder)

         Sunday January 27: "A Celebration of Jewish Music" with Brave Old 
World, Les Frères Edery and I Musici de Montréal at the Outremont Theatre. 
Call 514-345-2610.

BRAVE OLD WORLD- The Dance (Doc’s Bulgar)
         Blood Oranges (Red House)

         Wednesday February 6: Duke Robillard at Café Campus. Call 
514-844-1010.

DUKE ROBILLARD- Living with the Blues
         Living with the Blues (Stony Plain)
SONNY TERRY & BROWNIE McGHEE- Trouble in Mind
         Absolutely the Best (Fuel 2000/True North)
PETER KEANE- Wind’s Gonna Blow My Blues Away
         Milton Street (Broken White)

JAMES KEELAGHAN- Sinatra and I
         Home (Jericho Beach)
SUSAN WERNER- Barbed Wire Boys
         New Non-Fiction (Susan Werner)

OZZIE KOTANI- He’Ai Na Kalani
         To Honor A Queen (Dancing Cat)

Coming up on Folk Roots/Folk Branches…

Januray 31- 8th Annual All-Request Anniversary Special
February 7- Guest: Bruce Cockburn
February 14- Love Songs Special
February 21- Black History Month Special

         Questions/comments are always welcome.



	Mike Regenstreif

	Host/Producer: Folk Roots/Folk Branches -- CKUT, Montreal
	Reviewer/Feature Writer: Montreal Gazette
	Reviewer/Feature Writer: Sing Out! Magazine

	mike@ckutfolk.com

	235 Metcalfe Ave. # 402
	Westmount, Quebec
	H3Z 2H8

	http://www.ckutfolk.com

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