The Midnight Special, May 2, 2020

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Playlist

(1)

Lead Belly: The Midnight Special

Last Sessions

Smithsonian Folkways 40068/71

(2)

Pete Seeger: Turn! Turn! Turn!

Pete Seeger’s Greatest Hits

Legacy 65711

(3)

Noel Paul Stookey: In These Times

self no#

(4)

Rant Maggie Rant: Toast to a New Day / A Good Western Wind

Latitude

self 09015-64434

(5)

Gordon Bok w/ Bob Zentz: Turning Toward the Morning

Together Again for the First Time

Timberhead Music 21

(6)

Pete Morton: Oh Had I a Golden Thread

(Pete Seeger) Further 024545-885828

(7)

Nell & Jim Band (Nell Robinson & Jim Nunally): Woe Is Me

Western Sun

Whipporwill 0590

(8)

David Roth: Meet You Where You Are

Stockfish 357-4095-2

(9)

Lara Herscovitch: In Your Corner

Highway Philosophers

La Rama 2002

(10)

Cosy Sheridan: Keep Your Overhead Low

The Horse King

Waterbug 102

(11)

David Buskin & Co.: A Folksinger Earns Every Dime

Big Times in a Small Town – The Vineyard Tapes

Philo 1155

(12)

Jud Caswell: Get Poor Slow

Live! At The Seagull Shop

self 88295-94774

(13)

Danny Schmidt: 2020 Vision

(private recording)

(14)

Ellis Delaney: Bird on a Wire

Ordinary Love

Singing Crow

(15)

Dear World (orig. B’way cast): The Spring of Next Year

Dear World

Sony 48220

(16)

David Roth: When the Universe Is Ready

(D.Roth-Grant Baldwin) (private recording)

(17)

Pete Seeger: My Get Up and Go

Pete Seeger Now

Omni 125

(18)

Tom Paxton: Not Tonight Marie

Heroes

Vanguard 79411

(19)

Pete Seeger: This Old Car

Pete Seeger Now

Omni 125

(20)

Odetta: Car-Car Song

Odetta & Larry at the Tin Angel

Fantasy 565-2

(21)

Rachael Sage: Ohio

Character (Acoustic)

Mpress

(22)

Magpie: Kent

Give Light

Long Tail

(23)

Thom Bishop: Four Killed at Kent

WFMT studio – August, 1974

WFMT recording

(24)

Pete Seeger: If I Had a Hammer (Hammer Song)

The Smithsonian Folkways Collection

Smithsonian Folkways 40225

(25)

The David Bromberg Band: Take This Hammer

Big Road

Red House 315

(26)

Steve Earle: Steve’s Hammer (For Pete)

Washington Square Serenade

New-West 6128

(27)

Chuck Brodsky: Curse of the Billy Goat

Tulips for Lunch

Brodsky 8022

(28)

Steve Goodman: A Dying Cub Fan’s Last Request

Affordable Art

Omnivore 337

(29)

(Johnny) Wayne & (Frank) Shuster: A Shakespearean Baseball Game

Wayne & Shuster

Columbia 8231

(30)

John McCutcheon: I Am Here

Sermon on the Mound

Appalsongs 2008

(31)

Jan Krist: Robin Hood

Yellow Room 023

(32)

Dar Williams: When I Was A Boy

The Honesty Room

Razor & Tie 2816

(33)

Fred Small: Everything Possible

Everything Possible – Fred Small in Concert

Flying Fish 70625

(34)

Ellis Delaney: Start Where You Are

Ordinary Love

Singing Crow

(35)

Peter Seeger & Lorre Wyatt: A Toast to the Times

A More Perfect Union

Appleseed 1130

(36)

Gretchen Peters: The Night You Wrote That Song

(Mickey Newbury) Scarlet Letter13

(37)

Gene Raskin, Francesca, Theodore Bikel & Eric Weissberg: Those Were the Days

(Gene Raskin) Alcazar 45 rpm

(38)

Sutton Foster: Once Upon a Time

Wish

Ghostlight 83316

(39)

Nell & Jim Band (Nell Robinson & Jim Nunally): In My Beautiful Dream

Western Sun

Whipporwill 0590

(40)

Lara Herscovitch: From a Dream

Highway Philosophers

La Rama 2002

(41)

Thom Bishop: What Goes Down

Orphans Pub- August 27, 1982

WFMT recording

(42)

Pete Seeger: Quite Early Morning

The Smithsonian Folkways Collection

Smithsonian Folkways 40225

(43)

Kim & Reggie Harris and Magpie: When I’m Gone (close)

Spoken in Love

Long Tail 003-2

Performer is composer unless otherwise noted. Song is album title unless otherwise noted. Album titles are in italics, composers in parentheses