The Midnight Special, September 13, 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. Bill Monroe & the Bluegrass Boys: Blue Moon of Kentucky; Bill Monroe & the Bluegrass Boys; The Early Years; Vanguard 79518-2
  3. Joseph Houck: To Hear Them Play; Joseph Houck; Blue Ridge Mountain Waterfalls; josephhouckmusic.com 9.18.2025
  4. Guy Clark: Picasso’s Mandolin; Guy Clark; Boats to Build; Asylum 61442-2
  5. Shawn Camp: The Checkered Shirt Band (Camp/Clark); Shawn Camp; The Ghost of Sis Draper; Skeeter Bit 71891 19540 5
  6. Guy Clark: Sis Draper; Guy Clark; Cold Dog Soup; Sugar Hill SUG-CD 1063
  7. Shawn Camp: The Death of Sis Draper (Camp/Clark); Shawn Camp; The Ghost of Sis Draper; Skeeter Bit 71891 19540 5
  8. Shawn Camp: The Death of Sis Draper, Part Two (Camp/Clark); Shawn Camp; The Ghost of Sis Draper; Skeeter Bit 71891 19540 5
  9. Kathy Kallick Band: Tear Stained Letter (Thompson); Kathy Kallick Band; FoxHounds; Live Oak Records Live Oak 601
  10. Richard Thompson: Miss Patsy; Richard Thompson; Front Parlour Ballads; Cooking Vinyl CKV-CD-4725
  11. The Onlies: Cumberland Gap (Trad.); The Onlies; You Climb the Mountain; TheOnlies.com 9.19.2025
  12. Special Consensus: Walls of Time (Monroe); Special Consensus; Roads & Rails; Shy Town Records STR CD 1001
  13. Dar Williams w/Daisy Mayhem: Put the Coins on His Eyes; Dar Williams w/Daisy Mayhem; Hummingbird Highway; Righteous Babe Records RBR [9.12.25]
  14. Diyet & The Love Soldiers: When You Were King (acoustic); Diyet & The Love Soldiers; Seeds of Dreaming; diyetmusic.com 6 20969 98376 5
  15. The Zozo Sisters: One I Love is Gone (Monroe); The Zozo Sisters: Linda Ronstadt, Ann Savoy; Adieu False Heart; Vanguard Records 79808-2
  16. Tim O’Brien: 900 Miles (Trad.); Tim O’Brien; Long Journey Home: A Century after the 1925 Mountain City Fiddlers Convention; Appalsongs AS2025
  17. Gina Forsyth: Jerusalem Ridge – instrumental (Monroe); Gina Forsyth; Copper Rooster and Other Tunes & Tales; Waterbug WBG125
  18. Ray Nordstrand and Studs Terkel: Ray Nordstrand comes to WFMT; Ray Nordstrand; Studs Terkel Tribute to Bernie Jacobs; WFMT [1977]
  19. Corky Siegel: “Midnight Radio”; Corky Siegel; Out of the Blue; Stuff Stuff / SR81-111
  20. Bonnie Koloc: Introduction to Ray Nordstrand; Bonnie Koloc; Interviews for 70th Anniversary; WFMT 5.15.2023
  21. Bonnie Koloc: Skylark (Carmichael/Mercer); Bonnie Koloc; Here to Sing; Mr. Biscuit Mr. Biscuit 03
  22. Emily White: Radio; Emily White; Songs You Didn’t Know I Wrote About You; Squeezed Fresh 1 94171163890
  23. Michael Smith: Coffeehouse Days; Michael Smith; Michael, Margaret, Pat & Kate; MPS 1 CD
  24. Ray Nordstrand, et al.: The Midnight Special – Chicago Songwriters 11.13.1976 (excerpt); Nordstrand, Jon Calhoun, Terry Callier, Tom Dundee; Midnight Special Archives;
  25. Fred Holstein & Steve Goodman: Streets of London (live); Fred Holstein & Steve Goodman; Midnight Special: New Year’s Eve 1972, Live Stuff, Disc 1; WFMT
  26. Ed Holstein: How Ray Ruined My Life; Ed Holstein; WFMT’s Folkstage Ray Nordstrand Memorial (10.29.05), Disc 1; WFMT 10.29.05
  27. The Don Stiernberg Quartet: The Best Things in Life are Free (Henderson); The Don Stiernberg Quartet; The Swingin’ est; donstiernberg.bandcamp.com
  28. Tret Fure: Louder Than the Guns; Tret Fure; single; Tomboy Girl Records [2021]
  29. Cheryl Wheeler: If It Were Up to Me (I’d Take Away the Guns); Cheryl Wheeler; Sylvia Hotel; Philo 11671-1212-2
  30. Kathy Kallick: “Stronger Cup”; Kathy Kallick; Call Me a Taxi; Sugar Hill Call Me A Taxi / SH CD 3856
  31. Heather Maloney: One Hundred Pennies; Heather Maloney; No Shortcuts- Live at the Academy; Signature Sounds Single – advance
  32. Jano Brandisi: Postcard; Jano Brandisi; Pony Girl; JanoBrandisi.Bandcamp.com 7 55491 24442 2
  33. Robbie Fulks: Nobody Cares; Robbie Fulks; Now Then; Compass Records 7 4852 2
  34. Becky Buller, John McCutcheon, Tim O’Brien: Rocky Road to Dinah’s House (Trad.); Becky Buller, John McCutcheon, Tim O’Brien; Long Journey Home: A Century after the 1925 Mountain City Fiddlers Convention; Appalsongs AS2025
  35. Bruce Molsky w/Stash Wyslouch: Bachelor’s Hall (Trad.); Bruce Molsky w/Stash Wyslouch; Long Journey Home: A Century after the 1925 Mountain City Fiddlers Convention; Appalsongs AS2025
  36. Fox Crossing Stringband: Good News (Pafralides); Fox Crossing Stringband; Bluegrass on my Mind; foxcrossingstringband.com 1 95269 19071 2
  37. Jethro Burns & Howard Levy: “Intro to ‘Take the A Train’”; Jethro Burns & Howard Levy; From the Vaults Vol. 3: 1983 Super Sessions of Swing; Balkan Samba 013
  38. Jethro Burns & Howard Levy: “Take the A Train” (Billy Strayhorn); Jethro Burns & Howard Levy; From the Vaults Vol. 3: 1983 Super Sessions of Swing; Balkan Samba 013
  39. John Prine: Please Don’t Bury Me; John Prine; Tribute to Steve Goodman; Red Pajamas Records – RPJ 004
  40. Stephen Wright: Hitchhiking; Stephen Wright; The American Comedy Box Disk 2; Rhino R2 71617 – 2
  41. Barnstar!: Troubadour Blues; Barnstar!; C’Mon!; C’mon! .wearebarnstar.com
  42. Doc Watson: “Your Lone Journey” (Doc & Rosa Lee Watson); Doc Watson; My Dear Old Southern Home; My Dear Old Southern Home/Sugar Hill SH CD 3795
  43. Iris DeMent: Wayfaring Stranger (trad.); Iris DeMent; The Man From God Knows Where; Hightone HCD 8099
  44. Laura Love: I Still Believe (Unplugged); Laura Love; She Loved Red; Laura Love 88295 68276
  45. Andrew Beyer: “The Midnight Special – cigar box slide”; Andrew Beyer; Midnight Special Collection; Midnight Special Collection AABeyer/MS 004