The Midnight Special, April 26, 2025

By Marilyn Rea Beyer |

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Playlist

  1. Lead Belly: The Midnight Special THEME (excerpt 1); Lead Belly; Midnight Special; RCA Victor LPV-505
  2. Jason Wilber: Poet’s Life; Jason Wilber; Time Traveler; WilberTone Records WTR-011
  3. Peter Mulvey: The Trouble With Poets (Mulvey & Goodrich); Peter Mulvey; Notes from Elsewhere; Signature Sounds Sig 2008
  4. The Princes of Serendip: There is Nothing Like a Book; The Princes of Serendip; Yumpatiddly Bee: Silly Songs; Jaiya Records 6 30318 87469 9
  5. Henhouse Prowlers: Look Up to the Sky; Henhouse Prowlers; Unravel; Dark Shadow Recording DSR202501
  6. 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
  7. Phil Ochs: Knock on the Door; Phil Ochs; All The News That Fit to Sing; All The News That Fit to Sing | Hannibal HNCD 4427
  8. Annie & Rod Capps: Rhyme or Reason; Annie & Rod Capps; One Big Show; Yellow Room YRR005
  9. Liz Queler & Seth Farber: If Still Your Orchards Bear (Millay/Queler/Farber); Liz Queler & Seth Farber; The Edna Project; Red Wall Records RWR2929
  10. Windborne: Preacher and the Slave/Pie in the Sky (trad., Joe Hill); Windborne; WFMT’s Folkstage; Folkstage 07-20-19 1 of 2
  11. Utah Phillips: You Cannot Even Passively Participate (Savio); Utah Phillips; Making Speech Free; Free Dirt (re-issue) DIRT-CD-0063
  12. Erin Inglish: I Will Not Obey (Phillips/Inglish); Erin Inglish; single; erininglish.com bandcamp 4.8.2025
  13. Ferron: Stand Up; Ferron; Phantom Center; Earthbeat! 9 42576-2
  14. Steve Goodman: Talk Backwards; Steve Goodman; Affordable Art; Omnivore OVCD-337
  15. Riders in the Sky: The Ballad of Palindrome/The Scene; Riders in the Sky; A Great Big Western Howdy; Rounder CD 0430
  16. Dave Munsick: The Crow; Dave Munsick; Backtracks; thesongteller.com [2023]
  17. Kristin Chenoweth: I’m A Stranger Here Myself (Nash/Weil); Kristin Chenoweth; Let Yourself Go; Sony Classical Sony Sk89384
  18. Andrew Beyer: “The Midnight Special – organ”; Andrew Beyer; Midnight Special Collection; Midnight Special Collection AABeyer/MS 008
  19. John McCutcheon: Cultivo Una Rosa Blanca (Marti); John McCutcheon; Mightier Than the Sword; Appalsongs 1 88666 00009 8
  20. Dorothy Parker: The Lady’s Reward; Dorothy Parker; Poetry on Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work, Disc 1; Shout Factory D4K10029
  21. Val Leventhal: Get On With It; Val Leventhal; Sibling Revelry; valleventhal.bandcamp.com 6.5.2024
  22. Peggy Seeger: Slow (MacColl/Seeger); Peggy Seeger; Teleology; Proper Music RGPSCD5
  23. Gerome Ragni, James Rado, Galt McDermot: Easy To Be Hard (Ragni/Rado/McDermot); Lynn Kellogg & Orig. Broadway Cast; Hair: Orig. Broadway Cast Recording, Disc 1; RCA Victor 82876-56085-2
  24. Adela’s: Swindle; Adela’s; single; adelas.bandcamp.com 11.15.2024
  25. Owen Walsh: Kings & Pharaohs; Owen Walsh; On My Way; owenwalsh.com 112022
  26. Bob Dylan: Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright; Bob Dylan; Bob Dylan Revisited: The Remasters; Columbia CSH 56477
  27. Susan Cattaneo: Broken Things; Susan Cattaneo; All is Quiet; Jersey Girl Music susancattaneo.com 7 00261 48921 6
  28. Jenny Reynolds: Dance For Me; Jenny Reynolds; Any Kind of Angel; jennyreynolds.com 7 00261 48218 7
  29. Jess Klein: Soda Water; Jess Klein; Quarter for the Jukebox; jessklein.com
  30. Mark Dvorak: Trying to Get the Balance Right (Duhan) w/intro.; Mark Dvorak; Live & Alone; Ten Fingers TF2101
  31. Beautiful William: There Will Come Soft Rains (Teasdale/Harrington/Wilder); Beautiful William; There Will Come Soft Rains; beautifulwilliam.com/ 12.2.2017
  32. Jennifer Armstrong: Lake Isle of Innisfree (Yeats/Sobol); Jennifer Armstrong; Open the Door; Yellow Moon Press YMP0001
  33. Owen Walsh: The Midnight Special (Trad.); Owen Walsh; The Midnight Special “exclusive”; single 1.31.2024
  34. Jake Blount: Didn’t It Rain (Trad.); Jake Blount; The New Faith; Smithsonian Folkways SFW 40247
  35. The New Students: No More Water; The New Students; single; thenewstudents.com 4.22.2025
  36. Robert Frost: Fire and Ice; Robert Frost; Reading His Own Poems; soundmark itunes [2014]
  37. Dead Artist Collective: Fire and Ice (Frost/Knox); Dead Artist Collective; Dead Artist Collective; Dead Artist Collective none
  38. Po’ Girl: “Malaise Days” (Trish Klein/Allison Russell); Po’ Girl; Po’ Girl; High Tone HCD 8161
  39. Allison Russell: Springtime; Allison Russell; The Returner; Fantasy Records 8 88072 52409 5
  40. Tom Russell: The Man From God Knows Where; Tom Russell; The Man From God Knows Where; Hightone HCD 8099
  41. Iris DeMent: Wayfaring Stranger (trad.); Iris DeMent; The Man From God Knows Where; Hightone HCD 8099
  42. Tom Russell, Walt Whitman (1889): The Man From God Knows Where/America; Tom Russell, Walt Whitman (1889); The Man From God Knows Where; Hightone HCD 8099
  43. Tom Russell: The Man From God Know Where (revisited); Tom Russell; The Man From God Knows Where; Hightone HCD 8099
  44. Dave Van Ronk: The Outcast (Russell); Dave Van Ronk; The Man From God Knows Where; Hightone HCD 8099
  45. Bob Gibson: I Hear America Singing (Silverstein); Bob Gibson; Makin’ A Mess: Bob Gibson Sings Silverstein; Asylum Records 61697-2
  46. Cheryl Wheeler: Intro to Pop Tarts & Spam; Cheryl Wheeler; Greetings from Cheryl Wheeler Live; DIAS Records DIAS1002
  47. Cheryl Wheeler: Pop Tarts & Spam; Cheryl Wheeler; Greetings from Cheryl Wheeler Live; DIAS Records DIAS1002
  48. Cheryl Wheeler: Outro to Pop Tarts & Spam; Cheryl Wheeler; Greetings from Cheryl Wheeler Live; DIAS Records DIAS1002
  49. Cheryl Wheeler: Kenny’s Song w/intro.; Cheryl Wheeler; Greetings from Cheryl Wheeler – Live; Dias DIAS 1002
  50. Val Leventhal: Everything Sings; Val Leventhal; Sibling Revelry; valleventhal.bandcamp.com 6.5.2024
  51. Eric Andersen: Mingle With the Universe (Lord Byron); Eric Andersen; Mingle With the Universe: The World of Lord Byron; Meyer Records No. 213
  52. Laura Love: I Still Believe (Unplugged); Laura Love; She Loved Red; Laura Love 88295 68276
  53. Andrew Beyer: “The Midnight Special – cigar box slide”; Andrew Beyer; Midnight Special Collection; Midnight Special Collection AABeyer/MS 004