The Midnight Special, December 28, 2024

By Marilyn Rea Beyer |

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Playlist

  1. Traditional: “Midnight Special”; Leadbelly; Midnight Special; RCA Victor LPV-505
  2. Sykes, Jubilant: “Ring Dem Bells”; Jubilant Sykes; Wait For Me; Sony SK 89107
  3. Phil Ochs: “The Bells” (E.A. Poe/Ochs); Phil Ochs; All the News That’s Fit to Sing; All The News That’s Fit to Sing/Hannibal HNCD 4427
  4. William Pint & Felicia Dale: “Ring in the New Year”; Pint & Dale; When I See Winter Return; When I See Winter Return | Waterbug WBG CD 0039
  5. Elexa Dawson & Stanley Hotel: Wanderlust; Elexa Dawson & Stanley Hotel; Wanderlust; Turns Out Records 0
  6. Guy Davis: Don’t Know Where I’m Bound; Guy Davis; The Legend of Sugarbelly; M.C. Records MC-0094
  7. Kate McDonnell: You Won’t Blow Away; Kate McDonnell; Trapeze; katemcdonnell.com 9-6-2024
  8. Graham Chittenden: I Want to Be Old (Spoken); Graham Chittenden; Defeated; Macaw Studios amazon.com
  9. Strawbs: “Ringing Down the Years”; Strawbs; Acoustic Gold; Acoustic Gold | Witchwood Media wmcd 2052
  10. Zoe Mulford with Windborne: “Songs Stay Sung”; Zoe Mulford with Windborne; Pre-Release Download; “Songs Stay Sung” Azalea/9-4-2020
  11. Jonas Friddle: Two Tin Cans and a Fishing Line; Jonas Friddle; When the Water Was the Sky; jonasfriddle.com 2933919
  12. Jeff Black: “The End”; Jeff Black; A Walk In the Sun; A Walk In the Sun | Lotos Nile 8 58732 96639 5
  13. The Oh Boys: End of the Line; The Oh Boys; Listen to The Oh Boys; theohboys.bandcamp.com [2023]
  14. Peter Mulvey: Windshield; Peter Mulvey; More Notes from Elsewhere; Black Walnut 1 95269 27973 8
  15. Sarah De Valliere: The Healing; Sarah De Valliere; single; sarahdevalliere.com 3.4.2024
  16. Steve Dawson: Time to Let Some Light In; Steve Dawson; Ghosts; Pravda PR6437
  17. Jonas Friddle: “The Midnight Special – fretless banjo”; Jonas Friddle; Midnight Special Collection; Midnight Special Collection JFriddle | MS008
  18. Tom Lehrer: “(I’m Spending) Hanukkah in Santa Monica”; Tom Lehrer; The Remains of Tom Lehrer; The Remains of Tom Lehrer | Rhino R2 79831 3
  19. Ella Jenkins: “I Got a Harmonica for Hanukkah”; Ella Jenkins; Ray Nordstrand Memorial/ Old Town School Disc 1; WFMT Folkstage 10-29-05 1 of 3
  20. The Howard Levy 4: The Steroid Choro; The Howard Levy 4; The Howard Levy 4 – Live in Chicago; howardlevy.com 12-15-2023
  21. Layla Frankel: Hanukkah Honey; Layla Frankel; digital single; laylafrankel.com [2023]
  22. Rabbi Joe Black w/Maxwell St. Klezmer Band: “Ocho Kandelikas” (Flory Jagoda); Rabbi Joe Black w/Maxwell St. Klezmer Band; Eight Nights of Joy; Eight Nights of Joy | URJ Books and Music 951304
  23. Fred Small: “Not In Our Town”; Fred Small; Only Love; Only Love | Aquifer AQ 1004
  24. Halley Neal & Sam Robbins: Light One Candle (Yarrow); Halley Neal & Sam Robbins; You & Me on Christmas Eve; samrobbinsmusic.com 11242023
  25. Peter, Paul and Mary: Oh, Had I A Golden Thread (Seeger); Peter, Paul and Mary; In These Times; Rhino/Warner R2 73957
  26. John Jackson: “Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar” (Alton Delmore); John Jackson; Country Blues & Ditties; Arhoolie CD 471
  27. Anne Hills: Mole in the Ground (Trad.); Anne Hills w/Jan Burda; Don’t Panic; Don’t Panic/Flying Fish FFCD 70608
  28. Anne Hills: Over The Mountain (Macon); Anne Hills w/Jan Burda; Don’t Panic; Don’t Panic/Flying Fish FFCD 70608
  29. Anne Hills: Long Time Travelin’ (Trad.); Anne Hills w/Jan Burda; Don’t Panic; Don’t Panic/Flying Fish FFCD 70608
  30. Yocontalie Jackson & the Jennifer Tibbets Singers: Kwanzaa’s Pure Light; Yocontalie Jackson & the Jennifer Tibbets Singers; Kwanzaa’s Pure Light – single; EBS Originals ebsoriginals.com/kpl
  31. Sultans of String: Sing for Kwanzaa (Bona/McKhool); Sultans of String, feat. Richard Bona & Waleed Abdulhamid; Christmas Caravan; McKhool/Laliberte MCK2075
  32. Fannie Lou Hamer: Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning (Davis); Fannie Lou Hamer; Songs My Mother Taught Me; Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40216
  33. Barnstar!: Anybody Got a Light? (Armerding); Barnstar!; Furious Kindness; barnstar.bandcamp.com none
  34. Steve “Q” Quinn: “The Midnight Special – Harmonica Greasy” (Traditional); Steve “Q” Quinn; Midnight Special Collection; Midnight Special Collection | Midnight Special Collection SQuinn/MS013
  35. Dan+Claudia Zanes w/Grace & Phillip Ferrell: In These Troubled Times; Dan+Claudia Zanes; Let Love Be Your Guide; Smithsonian Folkways SFW45086
  36. Pete Seeger: From Way Up Here (Tchaikovsky, Seeger, Reynolds); Pete Seeger; God Bless the Grass; Columbia CL2432
  37. David Mallett: Garden Song; Dave Mallett; Inches & Miles; Inches & Miles | Flying Fish FF70110CD
  38. David Mallett: Summer of My Dreams; David Mallett; Parallel Lives; Flying Fish FF CD 670
  39. David Mallett: Wild in the Sixties; David Mallett; Ambition; Flying Fish CD FF 674
  40. David Mallett: I Knew This Place; David Mallett; Inches & Miles; Flying Fish FF70110CD
  41. David Mallett: The Next Time I Leave Here; David Mallett; Ambition; Flying Fish CD FF 674
  42. Sarah Jarosz: When the Lights Go Out; Sarah Jarosz; Polaroid Lovers; Rounder 116610253
  43. Matt The Electrician: “When the Lights Went Out”; Matt the Electrician; We Imagined an Ending; matttheelectrician.com 6 14511 86642 2
  44. Kim & Reggie Harris and Magpie: “When I’m Gone” (Phil Ochs); Kim & Reggie Harris and Magpie; Spoken in Love; Spoken in Love | Long Tail LT003-2 CD
  45. Anita Silvert: Midnight Special NYE 1997 – “All Roads Converge”; ; New Year’s Eve on WFMT’s The Midnight Special; WFMT
  46. Richard Dyer-Bennett: “Lonesome Valley” (Guthrie); Richard Dyer-Bennet; Richard Dyer-Bennet, Vol. 1; Richard Dyer-Bennet, Vol. 1 | Smithsonian Folkways SF CD 40078
  47. Company: “If We Only Have Love”; Original Broadway Cast; Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris; Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris | Sony Classical/Columbia/Legacy SK 89998
  48. Steve Goodman: “You Better Get It While You Can”; Steve Goodman; Santa Ana Winds ( 1988/2019 Reissue); Omnivore Recordings OVCD-344
  49. Laura Love: I Still Believe (Unplugged); Laura Love; She Loved Red; Laura Love 88295 68276
  50. Andrew Beyer: “The Midnight Special – cigar box slide”; Andrew Beyer; Midnight Special Collection; Midnight Special Collection AABeyer/MS 004