The Midnight Special, August 10, 2025

By Marilyn Rea Beyer |

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  1. Lead Belly: The Midnight Special THEME (excerpt 1); Lead Belly; Midnight Special; RCA Victor LPV-505
  2. Rhiannon Giddens, Crys Matthews & the Resistance Revival Chorus: How I Long for Peace (Seeger); Rhiannon Giddens, Crys Matthews & the Resistance Revival Chorus; How I Long for Peace (single); Nonesuch 9.2024
  3. Pete Seeger: Down By The Riverside (Trad.); Pete Seeger, Odetta, Joan Baez, Theo Bikel, Bernice Johnson; Live at Newport; Vanguard VCD 77008
  4. Henry Davis Singers: Peace in the Valley (Dorsey); Henry Davis Singers; Wade in the Water, Vol. 4; Smithsonian Folkways CD SF40076-4
  5. Wendy & DB, ft. Anne Harris: Peace in the Valley; Wendy & DB, ft. Anne Harris; Back Home; Tigerlily 7.5.2024
  6. Ernie Hendrickson: Peace and Love (whatever happened); Ernie Hendrickson; One for the Dreamers; erniehendrickson.com 789577713314
  7. Lucy Kaplansky: (What’s so Funny ’bout) Peace, Love and Understanding?; Lucy Kaplansky; Flesh and Bone; Red House RHR CD 92
  8. Owen Walsh: Is Paris Burning; Owen Walsh; On My Way; owenwalsh.com 112022
  9. Anne Hills: I Come and Stand at Every Door (Seeger, et al); Anne Hills; Where Have All the Flowers Gone? vol. 2 (various); Appleseed CD 1024
  10. Kemp Harris: This is America, Right; Kemp Harris; The American Chronicles; Righteous Mischief 1 95269 35533 3
  11. Becky Buller: Tell the Truth (Shame the Devil); Becky Buller w/The Fairfield Four; Distance & Time; Distance & Time | Dark Shadow Recording DSR202002
  12. Alice Peacock: Paranoid; Alice Peacock; Live From SPACE; Peacock Music 53089 10022
  13. Holly Near: “I Ain’t Afraid”; Holly Near; Edge; hollynear.com [2000]
  14. Tekla Waterfield: I Am Alive; Tekla Waterfield; Mother Mind; Oliver Blue Studios OBS5414
  15. Bob Franke: Still Small Voice; Bob Franke; Brief Histories; Flying Fish FF 70495
  16. Elexa Dawson: Roots Grow; Elexa Dawson; Stay Put; Turns Out pre-release
  17. Owen Walsh: The Midnight Special (Trad.); Owen Walsh; The Midnight Special “exclusive”; single 1.31.2024
  18. Leonard Cohen: “Everybody Knows”; Leonard Cohen; I’m Your Man; Columbia I’m Your Man / CK 44191
  19. Darryl Purpose: Dangerous Game; Darryl Purpose; Same River Twice; Tangible cardboard
  20. Randy Newman: Political Science; Randy Newman; Guilty, thirty Years of Randy Newman, Disc 1; Rhino R2 75567-1
  21. Tom Lehrer: So Long, Mom (A Song for WW III); Tom Lehrer; The Remains of Tom Lehrer, Disc 3; Rhino 79831 3
  22. Joe Crookston: Abel, Baker, Charlie & Dog; Joe Crookston; Able, Baker, Charlie & Dog; Milagrito jbjo78
  23. Utah Phillips: Utah Phillips on Enola Gay play; Utah Phillips; Starlight On the Rails, Disc 4; AP Press AKA 041CD 4
  24. Utah Phillips: Enola Gay; Utah Phillips; Starlight On the Rails, Disc 4; AP Press AKA 041CD 4
  25. Pres. Harry S. Truman: The First Atomic Bomb Attack on Japan; Pres. Harry S. Truman; Great Speeches of the 20th Century, Box 2; Rhino RWB 70567 2
  26. Utah Phillips: There Shall Come Soft Rains (Teasdale); Utah Phillips; I’ve Got to Know; Alcazar ALC 114
  27. Tom Lehrer: Wernher Von Braun; Tom Lehrer; The Remains of Tom Lehrer, Disc 3; Rhino R2 79831
  28. Jim Page: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Russian Roulette; Jim Page; The Best of Broadside 1962-1988, Disc 1; Smithsonian Folkways SFW 40130 CD3
  29. Lorna & Ian Campbell: The Sun is Burning; Lorna & Ian Campbell; The Midnight Special 45s, Volume 2; Topic STOP 102
  30. Mark Rubin: Horrors of the War; Mark Rubin; Dispatch: Songs from a World Gone Mad; Jew of Oklahoma 4.29.25
  31. Small Potatoes: “1000 Candles, 1000 Cranes”; Small Potatoes; Waltz of the Wallflowers; smallpotatoesmusic.com [2000]
  32. Shinobu Sato: Cranes Over Hiroshima (Small); Shinobu Sato; Little Signs of Autumn; Waterbug WBG 003
  33. Kate McDonnell: Enola Gay; Kate McDonnell; Next; Waterbug WBG 0038
  34. Stephen Schuch: Midnight Special (Piano Only); Stephen Schuch; single; Stephen Schuch [2022]
  35. Owen Walsh: Bad Dream; Owen Walsh; On My Way; Wrong Road Records 101
  36. Mike Ward: Left to Ourselves; Mike Ward; The Time That Remains; Psychosongs 7 55491 33969 5
  37. Dan Navarro: Tar Pit; Dan Navarro; Horizon Line; Red Hen EGG19
  38. Kemp Harris: In for the Kill; Kemp Harris; The American Chronicles; Righteous Mischief 1 95269 35533 3
  39. Patty Griffin: The End; Patty Griffin; Crown of Roses; Thirty Tigers PGM004
  40. Asante: People Get Ready (Mayfield/a capella); Asante; An American Love Story; PBS Warner 9 47397 2
  41. Emma’s Revolution: “Peace, Salaam, Shalom”; Emma’s Revolution; One; emmasrevolution.com [2001]
  42. Heather Pierson & Leah Boyd: Peaceful Means; Heather Pierson & Leah Boyd; Peaceful Means; peacefulmeans.net 1 95269 28463 3
  43. David Lindes: Peace With a Lion; David Lindes; Peace With a Lion; davidlindes.net 3.27.2025
  44. Amy Speace: If You Fall; Amy Speace; Tucson; Proper/Windbone 8 43563 14990 4
  45. Carla Gover: Angels Gather Round; Carla Gover; Kentucky Queen; Redbird Records RRCD2023
  46. Geyer Street Sheiks: “Great Dream from Heaven” (Joseph Spence); Geyer Street Sheiks; Great Dream; BJAM CD 101
  47. Molasses Creek: Strangest Dream/Find the Cost of Freedom Medley (McCurdy/Stills); Molasses Creek (Kim France/Gerald Hampton/Gary Mitchell/Fiddler Dave Tweedie); Strangest Dream; Soundside Records MC008
  48. Peggy Seeger: “How I Long For Peace”; Peggy Seeger; First Farewell; First Farewell | Red Grape RGPSCD4
  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