The Midnight Special, May 3, 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. The Almanac Singers: Liza Jane (trad., Lampell/Seeger); The Almanac Singers; Songs for Political Action – Disc 3 The Almanac Singers; Bear Family Records BCD 15720-3 JL
  3. Pete Seeger: Darling Corey (Trad.); Pete Seeger; Pete Seeger’s Greatest Hits; Columbia CK 9416
  4. The Weavers: “Kisses Sweeter Than Wine” (Hays/Seeger); The Weavers; Kisses Sweeter Than Wine (CD2); Kisses Sweeter Than Wine (CD2) Omega/3021-22
  5. Pete Seeger & Lorre Wyatt: “Keep the Flame Alive”; Pete Seeger & Lorre Wyatt; A More Perfect Union; A More Perfect Union/Appleseed APR CD 1130
  6. Studs Terkel: Blessed Be The Nation – spoken (Seeger/Musselman); Studs Terkel; Where Have All the Flowers Gone? The Songs of Pete Seeger, Disc 1; Appleseed Records CD1024
  7. Pete Seeger: “We Shall Overcome” (Greatest Hits version); Pete Seeger; Greatest Hits; Columbia CK 9416
  8. Joe Jencks: Let Me Sing You A Song; Joe Jencks; Poets, Philosophers, Workers & Wanderers; Turtle Bear Music TBM-050117-1
  9. Richie Havens: Of Time and Rivers Flowing; Richie Havens; Where Have All the Flowers Gone? The Songs of Pete Seeger, Disc 1; Appleseed Records CD1024
  10. Pete Seeger: “Sailing Down My Golden River”; Pete Seeger; Pete; Living Music Pete / Living MUS 0032
  11. Peter, Paul, and Mary: All Mixed Up; Peter, Paul, and Mary; Flowers and Stones; Gold Castle D2-71339
  12. Peggy Seeger: No Place Like Home; Peggy Seeger; Teleology; Proper Music RGPSCD5
  13. Pete Seeger: There Is Mean Things Happening in This Land (Handcox); Pete Seeger; Gazette, Vol. 1; Smithsonian FA-2501
  14. Ernie Hendrickson, ft. Brian Wilkie: Bring Back Humble (live); Ernie Hendrickson, ft. Brian Wilkie; The Ernie Hendrickson Duo Live on Folkstage (2025); WFMT Folkstage 4.26.2025
  15. Pete Seeger/Bruce Springsteen: Intro to Eyes on the Prize (spoken); Pete Seeger/Bruce Springsteen; We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (promos); Columbia radio promo
  16. Bruce Springsteen: Eyes on the Prize (trad.); Bruce Springsteen; We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions; Columbia 82876 83568 2
  17. Sweet Honey in the Rock: Step By Step (Seeger/Hille/UMWA); Sweet Honey in the Rock; Where Have All the Flowers Gone? The Songs of Pete Seeger, Disc 1; Appleseed Records CD1024
  18. Pete Seeger: “Ode to Joy”; Pete Seeger; Dangerous Songs; Dangerous Songs | Columbia CK 65261
  19. Colby Maddox: “The Midnight Special – fiddle”; Colby Maddox; Midnight Special Collection; Midnight Special Collection CMaddox/MS 009
  20. Jill Sobule: A Good Life; Jill Sobule; California Years; Pinko Records PNK 0001
  21. Grainne Hunt: Let Go; Grainne Hunt; This Secret; grainnehunt.com
  22. Deb Talan: Rocks and Water (Talan/Tannen); Deb Talan; A Bird Flies Out; Deb Talan Music DTM03
  23. LoveSeat: Til The Water Goes Down; LoveSeat; Our Way; Reckless Pedestrian Records 4.25.2025
  24. Mark Dvorak: Promise of The Promised Land; Mark Dvorak; Time Ain’t Got Nothin’ on Me; Waterbug WB0098
  25. Bruce Cockburn: Into the Now; Bruce Cockburn; O Sun O Moon; True North TND811
  26. Allison Russell: Chicago – interview segment; Allison Russell; Comments to Marilyn Rea Beyer; WFMT 5.3.2025
  27. Birds of Chicago: Barley; Birds of Chicago; Real Midnight; Five Head Entertainment FHE009
  28. Pete Seeger: Oh, Had I A Golden Thread; Pete Seeger; A Link in the Chain, Disc 1; Columbia C2K 64772
  29. Allison Russell: Pete Seeger – interview segment; Allison Russell; Comments to Marilyn Rea Beyer; WFMT 5.3.2025
  30. Allison Russell & Annie Lenox: Superlover (Nero/Russell); Allison Russell & Annie Lenox; Superlover – single; Fantasy/Concord Records 3.25.2025
  31. Pete Seeger: “Turn, Turn, Turn”; Pete Seeger; Pete Seeger’s Greatest Hits; Columbia / Legacy CK 9416
  32. Judy Collins: Bells of Rhymney (Seeger/Davis); Judy Collins; Judy Collins 3 and 4; Wildflower WFL 1301-2
  33. Emma’s Revolution: Hammer (Pete Seeger); Emma’s Revolution; Roots, Rock & Revolution; Moving Forward Music MFM1334
  34. Pete Seeger: Monsieur Banjo (trad.); Pete Seeger; American Favorite Ballads: 4; Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40153
  35. Alison Krauss & Union Station: Forever (Castleman); Alison Krauss & Union Station; Arcadia; Down the Dirt Road Records DTR0018
  36. Gail Finnie Rundlett: “All That is Gold”; Gail Rundlett nee Finnie; Full Circle; BCN 10137-2
  37. Suzie Brown: More; Suzie Brown; Songs Worth Saving; Mule Kick Records pre-release
  38. Michael Lille: When the Devil Comes Knockin’; Michael Lille; Ashland Avenue; michaellille.com
  39. Ron Sowell: Everything That Goes Around Comes Around; Ron Sowell; Dance Till The Music Stops; Mountain Soul Records MSRCD-005
  40. Paul Brady: Jackson and Jane (Trad.); Paul Brady; Missing Liberty Tapes (1978); Compass Records Missing Liberty Tapes / 7 4335 2
  41. Kevin Burke & Open House, ft. Mark Graham: Jackson and Jane (Trad./Graham); Kevin Burke & Open House, ft. Mark Graham; Second Story; Green Linnet GLCD 1144
  42. Bob Newhart: An Infinite Number of Monkeys; Bob Newhart; Buttoned-down Mind Strikes Back; Warner 1393-2
  43. Mark Graham & Orville Johnson: Monkey With a Typewriter; Mark Graham & Orville Johnson; Kings of Mongrel Folk; Kings of Mongrel Folk mongrelfolk.com
  44. Olive Klug: Taking Punches From the Breeze; Olive Klug; Lost Dogs; oliveklug.com 4.25.2025
  45. Richard Shindell: Waist Deep in the Big Muddy (Seeger); Richard Shindell; Vuelta; Koch Records KOC-CD-9538
  46. Peggy Seeger: Sing About These Hard Times; Peggy Seeger; Teleology; Proper Music RGPSCD5
  47. Pete Seeger: How Can I Keep From Singing? (Lowry); Pete Seeger; Pete; Living Music LMUS 0032
  48. Ernie Hendrickson: After All of This is Over; Ernie Hendrickson; Live at Cafe Carpe, Disk 2; erniehendrickson.com 12.22.23
  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