The Midnight Special, July 4, 2020
Playlist
(1)
Lead Belly: The Midnight Special
Last Sessions
(2)
Michael Smith & Anne Hills: Spoon River
Paradise Lost and Found
(3)
*Naomi Caryl Hirshhorn & Hal Lynch: Spoon River
(4)
*Naomi Caryl Hirshhorn: He’s Gone Away
(5)
*Charles Aidman: The Hill
(6)
Gathering Sparks: Spirits in the Graveyard
Sparks
(7)
*Charles Aidman: Tom Beatty
(8)
Geoff Bartley: Play the Cards the Way They Lie
Blackbirds in the Pie
(9)
*Charles Aidman: Benjamin Pantier
(10)
Craig Werth: Good Old Dog
The Spokes Man
(11)
*Joyce Van Patten: Mrs. Benjamin Pantier
(12)
The Once: My Husband’s Got No Courage
Row Upon Row of the People They Know
(13)
*Joyce Van Patten: Margaret Fuller Slack
(14)
Working (orig.cast – David P. Kelly-Lynn Thigpen): If I Could’ve Been
Working
(15)
Joel Mabus: Soldier’s Joy (trad)
Flatpick & Clawhammer
(16)
*Charles Aidman: Knowlt Hoheimer
(17)
Bob Gibson & Bob (Hamilton) Camp: Civil War Trilogy – First Batalion
At the Gate of Horn
(18)
*Betty Garrett: Lydia Pucket
(19)
*Robert Elston & Charles Aidman: Harry Williams
(20)
Phil Ochs: The War Is Over
Farewells & Fantasies
(21)
*Robert Elston: Fiddler Jones
(22)
Tim O’Brien & Darrell Scott: Fiddler Jones
Memories and Moments
(23)
*Betty Garrett: Ollie McGee
(24)
*Charles Aidman: Fletcher McGee
(25)
Mort Shuman: Song for Old Lovers
My Death
(26)
*Robert Elston: Lucius Atherton
(27)
*Naomi Caryl Hirshhorn: Times Are Getting Hard
(28)
*Charles Aidman: Eugene Carman
(29)
Leo Kottke: From the Cradle to the Grave
Greenhouse
(30)
*Naomi Caryl Hirshhorn & Hal Lynch: The Water Is Wide
(31)
*Robert Elston & Joyce Van Patten: William and Emily
(32)
Aoife & Bobby Clancy: Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
Silvery Moon
(33)
*Naomi Caryl Hirshhorn & Hal Lynch: Paper of Pins
(34)
*Charles Aidman: Roscoe Purkapile
(35)
*Betty Garrett: Mrs. Purkapile
(36)
Connie Kaldor: Choppy Water (Rocky Marriage Breakdown)
Small Cafe
(37)
Kim & Reggie Harris: Let Me Fly
Steal Away
(38)
*Charles Aidman: Shack Dye
(39)
*Hal Lynch: Freedom
(40)
Leyla McCalla w/ Rhiannon Giddens, Allison Russell: I Knew I Could Fly
Songs of Our Native Daughters
(41)
*Betty Garrett: Hannah Armstrong
(42)
Phil Ochs: That Was the President
I Ain’t Marching Anymore
(43)
*Joyce Van Patten: Faith Metheny
(44)
Iris DeMent: Let the Mystery Be
Infamous Angel
(45)
John Hasbrouck: Down to the River to Pray
Some These Days
(46)
Tom Paxton: About the Children
The Things I Notice Now
(47)
*Joyce Van Patten: Mrs. Charles Bliss
(48)
*Betty Garrett: Pauline Barrett
(49)
Priscilla Herdman: Lies
Seasons of Change
(50)
*Robert Elston: The Village Atheist
(51)
Kirtana: Why the Sufis Whirl
This Embrace
(52)
*Joyce Van Patten: Mabel Osborne
(53)
The Beatles: Eleanor Rigby
1
(54)
*Charles Aidman: Franklin Jones
(55)
*Naomi Caryl Hirschhorn: In the Night
(56)
*Charles Aidman & Company: Dippold the Optician
(57)
Tom Russell w/ Iris DeMent: Box of Visions
The Long Way Around
(58)
*Charles Aidman: Alexander Throckmorton
(59)
Michael Smith: Last Days of Pompeii
Love Stories
(60)
*Betty Garrett: Amanda Barker
(61)
*Robert Elston: Willard Fluke
(62)
A.L. Lloyd: The Unfortunate Rake
(63)
*Joyce Van Patten: Lois Spears
(64)
Misty River: Life Is Good
Stories
(65)
Robert Elston: Abel Melveny
(66)
David Stoddard: Stuff
Get Off My Lawn
(67)
*Charles Aidman: Hod Put
(68)
*Robert Elston: Indignation Jones
(69)
*Joyce Van Patten: Minerva Jones
(70)
*Charles Aidman: Doctor Myers
(71)
*Betty Garrett: Mrs. Myers
(72)
*Charles Aidman: Willie Metcalf
(73)
*Naomi Caryl Hirshhorn: I Am, I Am
(74)
Pete Seeger: My Old Brown Earth
Pete
(75)
*Charles Aidman: Barney Hainsfeather
(76)
Maxwell Street Klezmer Band, Donald Jacobs, clarinet: Undzer Toyrele (Our Beloved Torah)
Old Roots New World
(77)
*Betty Garrett: Lucinda Matlock
(78)
Fred Holstein: Hymn Song (I Believe If I Lived My Life Again)
(79)
*Robert Elston: Petit, the Poet
(80)
Gordon Lightfoot: The Leaves of Grass
Sunday Concert
(81)
*Joyce Van Patten: Anne Rutledge
(82)
*Naomi Caryl Hirschhorn & Hal Lynch: Spoon River
(83)
Iris DeMent: Our Town
Infamous Angel
(84)
*Charles Aidman: Last Poem
Tomorrow Is My Birthday
(85)
Tom Paxton: The Parting Glass
Redemption Road
(86)
Kim & Reggie Harris and Magpie: When I’m Gone (close)
Spoken in Love
Performer is composer unless otherwise noted. Song is album title unless otherwise noted. Album titles are in italics, composers in parentheses