The Midnight Special, August 1, 2020

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The Midnight Special, July 18, 2020

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Playlist

(1)

Lead Belly: The Midnight Special

Last Sessions

Smithsonian Folkways 40068/71

(2)

Ian & Sylvia: Play One More

The Complete Vanguard Studio Recordings

Vanguard 196/99-2

(3)

Scott Cook: One More Time Around

Groove Revial 006

(4)

Trout Fishing in America: Sing It One More Time Like That

Over the Limit

Trout 8

(5)

Adrienne Young w/ Mike Gordon: Once More

Room to Grow

AddieBelle 81626-90652

(6)

Windborne (Jeremy Carter-Gordon, Lynn Rowan, Lauren Breunig, Will Rowan): Gimme Just a Little More Time

Recollections / Revolutions

Wand’ring Feet 00261-47946

(7)

The Goldcoast Singers: Plastic Jesus

Here They Are. . .

World Pacific 1806

(8)

The Establishment: A Consumer Guide to Religions

WFMT studio – October 6, 1965

WFMT Recording

(9)

Chris Lee Becker: If There’s a God

Imaginary Friends

Horton 020

(10)

Pete Morton w/ Full House: 7 Billion Eccentrics

Game of Life

Fellside 271

(11)

Abigail Lapell: Gonna Be Leaving

Getaway

Coax 022

(12)

(Mark) Haines & (Tom) Leighton: I’m On My Way

Optimists Jig

Borealis 139

(13)

Paint Your Wagon (Orig.B’way cast-Rufus Smith, et.al.): I’m On My Way

Paint Your Wagon

(Loewe/Lerner) RCA Victor 6024302

(14)

Joe Hickerson: I’m On My Way

With a Gathering of Friends

Folk-Legacy 39

(15)

Karen Jonas: Butter

Lucky Revisited

self 62582-74262

(16)

Megon McDonough: Butter

Greatest Hits

self 88295-55429

(17)

Robin Williamson: Butter

Songs for Children of All Ages

Flying Fish 438

(18)

I Draw Slow: Bread and Butter

White Wave Chapel

Pinecastle 1187

(19)

Paul Robeson w/ American People’s Chorus – Victor Symphony Orchestra: Ballad For Americans

Vanguard 117/18

(20)

Gamble Rogers: The Commercial Fishermen of Big Lake George / Disneyworld

(Earl of Old Town – July 25, 1975) WFMT recording

(21)

David Rovics & Chris Chandler w/ Samantha Parton: Wild Mountain Thyme

Convenience Store Troubadours

1-800-PRIMECD 82073 00402

(22)

The Last Word Quintet (Al Day – Bob Long – Marc Kelly Smith – Doug Loftstrom – Brian Gephart): Saving Grace

Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town

Self 88295-98964

(23)

Kristina Olsen: The Yellow Piper

The Truth of a Woman

Take a Break 2008

(24)

Andy Baker: Skywriter

North Country Sky

self 95269-00610

(25)

We’re About 9 (Brian Gundersdorf, Pat Klink, Katie Graybeal): Future Pilot

self 00261-39744

(26)

Bob Franke: Hard Love

One Evening in Chicago

Great Divide 1766

(27)

Rose Cousins: The Return (Love Comes Back)

Bravado

Outside 9132

(28)

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band: For You

Hammersmith Odeon, London ’75

Columbia 8287677995 2

(29)

Garnet Rogers: All That Is

Red House 160

(30)

Chris Moyse: Magician

Bitter Ballads & Cynical Prayers

self 94660-69262

(31)

Dust Poets: I Married a Magician

Lovesick Town

self 9628

(32)

Roberts & Barrand: The Two Magicians (Child #44)

Dark Ships in the Forest

Folk-Legacy CD-65

(33)

Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer: Love, the Magician

Drum Hat Buddha

Signature Sounds1266

(34)

Jim Stewart: Magician

private recording

(35)

Wolf & Clover: Si Bheag, Si Mhor

Wolf & Clover

: Si Bheag, Si Mhor (Turlough O’Carolan)

(36)

Man of La Mancha (new 2002 B’way cast-Brian Stokes Mitchell, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Ernie Sabella): Final Sequence / Finale (8:22 /1:50)

Man of La Mancha

(Mitch Leigh/Joe Darion) RCA Victor 09026-64007-2

(37)

Kim & Reggie Harris and Magpie: When I’m Gone (close)

Spoken in Love

Long Tail 003-2

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The Midnight Special, July 11, 2020

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Playlist

(1)

Lead Belly: The Midnight Special

Last Sessions

Smithsonian Folkways 40068/71

(2)

(Tommy) Byrd & (Kathy) Street: Smile Again

Love Circles ‘Round

self 25479-97592

(3)

Julie and John Pennell: Blue Skies

Keep On Walkin’

JPE 0003

(4)

Ellis Delaney: Pie for Breakfast

Ordinary Love

Singing Crow 89577-78202

(5)

Lara Herscovitch: Shine Sister Shine

Highway Philosophers

La Rama 2007

(6)

Eric Andersen: Violets of Dawn

Woodstock Under the Stars

Y&T 17

(7)

Lisa Bigwood: In This Town

(private recording)

(8)

Pharis and Jason Romero: Hometown Blues

Bet on Love

Lula 2006

(9)

Sarah Jarosz: Hometown

World on the Ground

Rounder 11661-00913

(10)

David Mallett: This Town

Vanguard 79466

(11)

Michael Braunfeld: This Town

Full Circle

self 88295-23392

(12)

(David) Mitchell & (Robert) Webb: Train Stops

That Mitchell & Webb Sound, Series 5

BBC Audio

(13)

Reginald Gardiner: Trains

Time to Remember – The Classic Years: 1934

CollectorDirect 1699

(14)

Brooks Williams: Jump That Train

Work My Claim

Red Guitar Blue Music 2020

(15)

Eric Brace & Last Train Home: Taking Trains

Daytime Highs & Overnight Lows

Red Beet 0025

(16)

Zahra Glenda Baker and Michael J. Miles: Enough

Which Side Are You On?

Right Turn on Red 00261-48193

(17)

Grace Pettis: White Noise

(Mpress single)

(18)

Danny Schmidt: Black and Blue

(private single)

(19)

Ruthie Foster Big Band: Woke Up This Morning

Live at the Paramount

Blue Corn 2001

(20)

Crys Matthews: We Must Be Free

Battle Hymn for an Arm of Lovers

self 00261-45860

(21)

Ragtime (orig.B’way cast-Brian Stokes Mitchell): Make Them Hear You

Ragtime

(Stephen Faherty/Lynn Ahrens) RCA Victor 09026-68629-2

(22)

Sierra Hull: Everybody’s Talking

25 Trips

Rounder 11661-00579

(23)

Fred Neil: Everybody’s Talkin’

Capitol 294

(24)

My Fair Lady (orig.B’way cast-Rex Harrison-Julie Andrews): The Rain in Spain

My Fair Lady

Legacy 60539

(25)

Betty Elders: The Quiet

Peaceful Existence

Whistling Pig 1217

(26)

Hayley Sabella: Sorrow:Joy

Flew the Nest

self 195079-334634

(27)

Indigo Girls (Amy Ray & Emily Saliers): Sorrow and Joy

Look Long

Rounder 11661-00867

(28)

Terri Hendrix: Joy or Sorrow

Places in Between

Wilory 30003

(29)

Tret Fure: Too Far, Too Fast

(single, private release)

(30)

Watkins Family Hour (Sara & Sean Watkins): The Cure

Brother Sister

self 002

(31)

Dear World (orig.B’way cast-Angela Lansbury): Dear World

Dear World

Columbia 48220

(32)

Ronny Cox w/ Radoslav Lorkovic: Quintanaroo

Live at the Kitchen Sink

self no#

(33)

Bianca DeLeon: Nowhere Mexico

The Long Slow Decline of Carmelita

self 05996-8067-2

(34)

Ramblin’ Jack Elliott: South Coast

Red House 59

(35)

Peter Cook & Dudley Moore: The Ravens

The World of Pete & Dud

Laughing Stock 110

(36)

Carrie Newcomer: Impossible, Until It’s Not

The Point of Arrival

Available Light 05

(37)

Dave Van Ronk w/ The Hudson Dusters: Swing on a Star

A Crestomathy

Gazelle 2007/8

(38)

Amy White w/ Al Petteway: The Best Dog

Home Sweet Home

Fairewood 051

(39)

Teghan Devon: Little Lion

(Teghan Devon Himelfarb) self 88295-99119

(40)

Donna Adler: Rainbow Bridge

Remembering Butterflies

self 00261-48243

(41)

Pete Morton: I Live Your Love

A Golden Thread

Further 003

(42)

Storyhill (Chris Cunningham & John Hermanson): I Am a Lover

Where to Begin

self 1914

(43)

Ellie Grace: On the Side of Love

self 00261-47941

(44)

(Tommy) Byrd & (Kathy) Street: May the Light Shine Bright on You

Love Circles ‘Round

self 25479-97592

(45)

Kim & Reggie Harris and Magpie: When I’m Gone (close)

Spoken in Love

Long Tail 003-2

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The Midnight Special, July 4, 2020

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Playlist

(1)

Lead Belly: The Midnight Special

Last Sessions

Smithsonian Folkways 40068/71

(2)

Michael Smith & Anne Hills: Spoon River

Paradise Lost and Found

Redwing 5406

(3)

*Naomi Caryl Hirshhorn & Hal Lynch: Spoon River

(song) (Hirshhorn-Aidman)

(4)

*Naomi Caryl Hirshhorn: He’s Gone Away

(song) (trad)

(5)

*Charles Aidman: The Hill

(6)

Gathering Sparks: Spirits in the Graveyard

Sparks

:Spirits in the Graveyard (June Lewis)

(7)

*Charles Aidman: Tom Beatty

(8)

Geoff Bartley: Play the Cards the Way They Lie

Blackbirds in the Pie

self 1004

(9)

*Charles Aidman: Benjamin Pantier

(10)

Craig Werth: Good Old Dog

The Spokes Man

self 00261-29283

(11)

*Joyce Van Patten: Mrs. Benjamin Pantier

(12)

The Once: My Husband’s Got No Courage

Row Upon Row of the People They Know

Borealis 212

(13)

*Joyce Van Patten: Margaret Fuller Slack

(14)

Working (orig.cast – David P. Kelly-Lynn Thigpen): If I Could’ve Been

Working

(Micki Grant) Fynsworth Alley 302062114-2

(15)

Joel Mabus: Soldier’s Joy (trad)

Flatpick & Clawhammer

Fossil 793

(16)

*Charles Aidman: Knowlt Hoheimer

(17)

Bob Gibson & Bob (Hamilton) Camp: Civil War Trilogy – First Batalion

At the Gate of Horn

Collectors’ Choice 227-2

(18)

*Betty Garrett: Lydia Pucket

(19)

*Robert Elston & Charles Aidman: Harry Williams

(20)

Phil Ochs: The War Is Over

Farewells & Fantasies

Elektra-Rhino 73518

(21)

*Robert Elston: Fiddler Jones

(22)

Tim O’Brien & Darrell Scott: Fiddler Jones

Memories and Moments

Full Skies 94504-79904

(23)

*Betty Garrett: Ollie McGee

(24)

*Charles Aidman: Fletcher McGee

(25)

Mort Shuman: Song for Old Lovers

My Death

Reprise 6358

(26)

*Robert Elston: Lucius Atherton

(27)

*Naomi Caryl Hirshhorn: Times Are Getting Hard

(song) (trad-Hirshhorn-Aidman)

(28)

*Charles Aidman: Eugene Carman

(29)

Leo Kottke: From the Cradle to the Grave

Greenhouse

One Way 21-18457

(30)

*Naomi Caryl Hirshhorn & Hal Lynch: The Water Is Wide

(song) (trad)

(31)

*Robert Elston & Joyce Van Patten: William and Emily

(32)

Aoife & Bobby Clancy: Kisses Sweeter Than Wine

Silvery Moon

Appleseed 1065

(33)

*Naomi Caryl Hirshhorn & Hal Lynch: Paper of Pins

(song)

(34)

*Charles Aidman: Roscoe Purkapile

(35)

*Betty Garrett: Mrs. Purkapile

(36)

Connie Kaldor: Choppy Water (Rocky Marriage Breakdown)

Small Cafe

Philo 1205

(37)

Kim & Reggie Harris: Let Me Fly

Steal Away

Appleseed 1022

(38)

*Charles Aidman: Shack Dye

(39)

*Hal Lynch: Freedom

(trad-Hirschhorn-Aidman)

(40)

Leyla McCalla w/ Rhiannon Giddens, Allison Russell: I Knew I Could Fly

Songs of Our Native Daughters

Smithsonian Folkways 40232

(41)

*Betty Garrett: Hannah Armstrong

(42)

Phil Ochs: That Was the President

I Ain’t Marching Anymore

Hannibal 4422

(43)

*Joyce Van Patten: Faith Metheny

(44)

Iris DeMent: Let the Mystery Be

Infamous Angel

Philo 1138

(45)

John Hasbrouck: Down to the River to Pray

Some These Days

Ruthless Rabbit 1964

(46)

Tom Paxton: About the Children

The Things I Notice Now

Collectables 6972

(47)

*Joyce Van Patten: Mrs. Charles Bliss

(48)

*Betty Garrett: Pauline Barrett

(49)

Priscilla Herdman: Lies

Seasons of Change

Flying Fish 309

(50)

*Robert Elston: The Village Atheist

(51)

Kirtana: Why the Sufis Whirl

This Embrace

Wild Dove 104

(52)

*Joyce Van Patten: Mabel Osborne

(53)

The Beatles: Eleanor Rigby

1

Capitol 724352932528

(54)

*Charles Aidman: Franklin Jones

(55)

*Naomi Caryl Hirschhorn: In the Night

(song)

(56)

*Charles Aidman & Company: Dippold the Optician

(57)

Tom Russell w/ Iris DeMent: Box of Visions

The Long Way Around

Hightone 8081

(58)

*Charles Aidman: Alexander Throckmorton

(59)

Michael Smith: Last Days of Pompeii

Love Stories

Flying Fish 70404

(60)

*Betty Garrett: Amanda Barker

(61)

*Robert Elston: Willard Fluke

(62)

A.L. Lloyd: The Unfortunate Rake

Smithsonian Folkways 3805

(63)

*Joyce Van Patten: Lois Spears

(64)

Misty River: Life Is Good

Stories

self 005

(65)

Robert Elston: Abel Melveny

(66)

David Stoddard: Stuff

Get Off My Lawn

self no#

(67)

*Charles Aidman: Hod Put

(68)

*Robert Elston: Indignation Jones

(69)

*Joyce Van Patten: Minerva Jones

(70)

*Charles Aidman: Doctor Myers

(71)

*Betty Garrett: Mrs. Myers

(72)

*Charles Aidman: Willie Metcalf

(73)

*Naomi Caryl Hirshhorn: I Am, I Am

(song) (Hirshhorn-Aidman)

(74)

Pete Seeger: My Old Brown Earth

Pete

Seeger: My Old Brown Earth

(75)

*Charles Aidman: Barney Hainsfeather

(76)

Maxwell Street Klezmer Band, Donald Jacobs, clarinet: Undzer Toyrele (Our Beloved Torah)

Old Roots New World

Shanachie 67008

(77)

*Betty Garrett: Lucinda Matlock

(78)

Fred Holstein: Hymn Song (I Believe If I Lived My Life Again)

(Utah Phillips) Holstein 01

(79)

*Robert Elston: Petit, the Poet

(80)

Gordon Lightfoot: The Leaves of Grass

Sunday Concert

Bear Family

(81)

*Joyce Van Patten: Anne Rutledge

(82)

*Naomi Caryl Hirschhorn & Hal Lynch: Spoon River

(song) (reprise)

(83)

Iris DeMent: Our Town

Infamous Angel

Philo 1138

(84)

*Charles Aidman: Last Poem

Tomorrow Is My Birthday

)

(85)

Tom Paxton: The Parting Glass

Redemption Road

Pax 010

(86)

Kim & Reggie Harris and Magpie: When I’m Gone (close)

Spoken in Love

Long Tail 003-2

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The Midnight Special, June 27, 2020

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Playlist

(1)

Lead Belly: The Midnight Special

Last Sessions

Smithsonian Folkways 40068/71

(2)

Brant Miller: Highway of My Dreams

Roots, Rhymes & Branches

self 00261-48194

(3)

Lara Herscovitch: Highway Philosophers

La Rama 20-07

(4)

Julie & John Pennell: Gonna Hitch a Ride

Keep On Walkin’

JPE 0003

(5)

Pharis and Jason Romero: Roll on My Friend

Bet on Love

Lula 2006

(6)

Cabin Fever NW: One More Time Around

Nightjar

self 88295-97227

(7)

Eric Andersen with Inge Andersen & John Sebastian: Thirsty Boots

Woodstock Under the Stars

Y&T 17

(8)

Zahra Glenda Baker & Michael J. Miles: Shoes

Which Side Are You On

Right Turn on Red 00261-48193

(9)

Peter, Paul & Mary: No Easy Walk to Freedom

(Peter Yarrow) Gold Castle 171-001-2

(10)

Pete Morton: We Are the Trees By the Side of the Road

A Golden Thread

Further 003

(11)

Brant Miller: Trees Got You Covered

Roots, Rhymes & Branches

self 00261-48194

(12)

Colleen Kattau: When I Walk In the Woods

Besos Kisses

self 194660-736543

(13)

Jim Post – Tom Dundee – Mick Scott: The Medley – Stand in the Light

(Earl of Old Town – August 7, 1975) WFMT Recording

(14)

The Watkins Family Hour (Sara & Sean Watkins): Keep It Clean

Brother Sister

Family Hour 992

(15)

Frank Meyer: Dagnabit

Thangmaker 2004

(16)

Puppets of Castro (Andrew Lorand): Talking Like a Fool

Puppets of Castro

Trough 1307

(17)

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit: River

Reunions

Southeastern 9992

(18)

Sara Thomsen: River Dream

Song Like a Seed

self 89577-78162

(19)

Bill Staines: So Sang the River

The Second Million Miles

Red House 189

(20)

Eric Brace & Last Train Home: Hudson River

Daytime Highs & Overnight Lows

Red Beet 0025

(21)

Reggie Harris: High Over the Hudson

Folkstage – December 22, 2018

(WFMT recording)

(22)

The Watkins Family Hour (Sara & Sean Watkins): Accidentally Like a Martyr

Brother Sister

Family Hour 992

(23)

Van Morrison: Crazy Love

Moondance

Warner Bros. 3103-2

(24)

Ellis Delaney: Ordinary Love

Singing Crow 893577-78202

(25)

Jonell Mosser w/ John Hall: Ordinary Splendor

Little Black Dress

self 00261-48096

(26)

Theodore Bikel: Kum Aher Du Filozof (Come Here, My Philosopher)

Treasury of Yiddish Folk & Theatre Songs

Elektra-Rhino7827

(27)

Alan Watts (philosopher): On ourselves (from the WFMT archives)

WFMT recording

(28)

Severn Darden: Metaphysics Lecture (A Short Talk on the Universe)

The Sound of My Own Voice (and Other Noises)

(recorded at the Second City, January 30, 1961) Mercury 6202

(29)

Big Bill Broonzy: Louise, Louise Blues

Big Bill Blues

Vogue 600041

(30)

Paul Siebel: Louise

Woodsmoke and Oranges

Elektra import 8122-76507-2

(31)

Son of Town Hall (David Berkeley & Ben Parker): Louise

The Adventures of Son of Town Hall

self 43563-11803

(32)

Lucinda Williams: When the Way Gets Dark

Good Souls Better Angels

Highway 20 44216-97119

(33)

Cabin Fever NW: Nightjar

(Caldwell-Bochsler-Johnson) self 88295-97227

(34)

Trapezoid: Night Song

Cool of the Day

Sugar Hill 1132

(35)

Scott Fab: Oh Night

Someday Soon Somehow

self 88295-97787

(36)

Florence Foster Jenkins w/ Cosme McMoon, piano: Queen of the Night area

The Glory (????) of the Human Voice

BMG 09026-61175-2

(37)

Julie and John Pennell: From Our Wandering

Keep On Walkin’

JPE 0003

(38)

Sutton Foster w/ Megan McGinnis: A Quiet Thing

Take Me to the World

Ghostlight 83356-02

(39)

University Park Children’s Ensemble led by Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer: Hush

Pillow Full of Wishes

Rounder 8086

(40)

Carly Simon w/ Ben & Sally Taylor: You Can Close Your Eyes

Into White

Columbia 82876-86138-2

(41)

Kim & Reggie Harris and Magpie: When I’m Gone (close)

Spoken in Love

Long Tail 003-2

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The Midnight Special, June 20, 2020

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Playlist

(1)

Lead Belly: The Midnight Special

Last Sessions

Smithsonian Folkways 40068/71

(2)

Zero Mostel (with Lois Winter & Lillian Clark): Father’s Day

Songs My Mother Never Sang

Vanguard 79229

(3)

Electric Bonsai Band: I Am My Dad

But I’m Happy Now

Yellow Tail 10004

(4)

Haines & Leighton: A Lot Like Me

Optimist’s Jig

Borealis 139

(5)

Catie Curtis: Dad’s Yard

Truth From Lies

Hear 9402

(6)

Kat Eggleston: My Father’s Garden

Second Nature

Waterbug 005

(7)

Darrell Scott: My Father’s House

Family Tree

Sugar Hill 3894

(8)

Happy Traum: Daddy’s Violin

Bright Morning Stars

Greenhays 103

(9)

David Davis & The Warrior River Boys: I Can Hear Daddy Play the Fiddle

Two Dimes & A Nickel

Rebel 1827

(10)

Tim O’Brien & Steve Martin: Daddy Played the Banjo

The Crow

Share 83629 82130

(11)

Kristina Olsen: My Father’s Piano

Kristina Olsen

Philo 1147

(12)

Marty Feldman: My Father’s Shirt

The Crazy World of Marty Feldman

Brit. Decca 134

(13)

Cliff Eberhardt: My Father’s Shoes

Long Road

” Windham Hill 1092

(14)

Gina Britt: Daddy’s Shoes

Chronical – Friends and Music

Pine Castle 1230

(15)

David Mallett: Daddy’s Oldsmobile

Parallel Lives

Flying Fish 670

(16)

Robert Earl Keen: Daddy Had a Buick

Bigger Piece of Sky

Sugar Hill 1037

(17)

Annie Gallup: My Father Loves Poetry

Bookish

self 93447-42012

(18)

Working (orig.cast-Bob Gutman): Fathers and Sons

Working

(Stephen Schwartz) Fynsworth Alley 3020621142

(19)

Andrew McKnight: Sons and Fathers

Treasures in My Chest

Catalooch 00261-48005

(20)

Dan Weber: Goodbye to Dad

Ash and Bone

Eight Ball 00261-34792

(21)

Claudia Nygaard: His Left Side

Let the Storm Roll In

Bet the Ranch 2-511

(22)

Audra McDonald w/ the NY Philharmonic: Summertime

Sing Happy

Decca 80028495-02

(23)

Allan Sherman: Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh! (orig.version)

My Son the Box

Rhino 7891

(24)

Sheldon Harnick & Jerry Bock: Summer Is

Hidden Treasures 1949-2013

Harbinger 3002

(25)

The Early Risers (Ashley Storrow & Putnam Smith): Anything More Than Summer

Making Life Sweet

Itchy Sabot 2019

(26)

Chris LaVancher: Summer Nights

Big Fat Love

self 181924-569459

(27)

Jud Caswell: Summer Doesn’t Have a Reason

Lost & Found

Alderdown 0401

(28)

Kim & Reggie Harris and Magpie: When I’m Gone (close)

Spoken in Love

Long Tail 003-2

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Finland’s Savonlinna Opera Festival

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Maggie Clennon Reberg and Firebird Tours invite you to experience the culture of Sweden and Finland on a Scandinavian adventure that culminates in the renowned Savonlinna Opera Festival.

The Midnight Special, June 13, 2020

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Playlist

(1)

Lead Belly: The Midnight Special

Last Sessions

Smithsonian Folkways 40068/71

(2)

Joe Crookston: Bird by Bird

Able Baker Charlie & Dog

Milagrito 78

(3)

Gordon Bok: A Little Road and a Stone to Roll

Return to the Land

Folk-Legacy 118

(4)

Joan Baez w/ Jeffrey Shurtleff: One Day at a Time

Vanguard 79310-2

(5)

Jaspar Lepak: When the New Day Comes

Close to Me

self 191061-665168

(6)

John McCutcheon: When All of This Is Over

Cabin Fever – Songs from the Quarantine

Appalsongs no#

(7)

Laura Cortese & The Dance Cards: From the Ashes

BitterBetter

Compass 7475-2

(8)

Ellis Delaney: The Finest Adventure

Ordinary Love

Singing Crow 89577-78202

(9)

Jack Williams: Young at Heart

Don’t Let Go

Wind River4039

(10)

David Piper: Hold It Like a Baby

Trail

Trough 1326

(11)

Brooks Williams: My Turn Now

Work My Claim

Red Guitar Blue Music 2020

(12)

Tim Readman: Going on Zoom

by Tom Paxton) private recording

(13)

John McCutcheon: Six Feet Away

Cabin Fever – Songs from the Quarantine

Appalsongs no#

(14)

Audra McDonald: Facebook Song

Sing Happy

Decca 0028495-02

(15)

Heather Styka: Twenty Dollar Bill

Folkstage – June 6, 2020

WFMT recording

(16)

Heather Pierson: Beside the Firelight

private recording

(17)

Paula Cole: Undertow (One Life Lost)

Revolution

675 label 88295-91910

(18)

Zoe Boekbinder w/ Ani DiFranco: Just Another Link in the Chain

Long Time Gone – The Prison Music Project

Righteous Babe 094

(19)

Saro Lynch-Thomason & Sam Gleaves: No More, No More

I Have Known Women

Strictly Country Records 83

(20)

Lily Tomlin: Mr. Veedle

This Is a Recording

Laugh.com 1114

(21)

David Bromberg Band: Just Because You Didn’t Answer

Big Road

Red House 315

(22)

Steve Goodman: Answering Machine Tape

Santa Ana Winds

Omnivore 344

(23)

John Doyle: Her Long Hair Flowing Down

The Path of Stones

Compass 74739-2

(24)

Tom Paxton: When You Shook Your Long Hair Down

New Songs for Old Friends

Morello 44

(25)

John Hartford: The Girl with the Long Brown Hair

Country Legends – John Hartford

Buddha 74465-99837-2

(26)

Four Bitchin’ Babes (Christine Lavin, Sally Fingerette, Julie Gold, Megon McDonough): Bald Headed Men

Buy Me Bring Me Take Me Don’t Mess My Hair…

Philo 1150

(27)

The King and I (orig.B’way cast-Yul Brenner): A Puzzlement

The King and I

Decca 012157982-2

(28)

Pharis and Jason Romero w/ John Reischman, mando: Kind Girl

Bet on Love

Lula 2006

(29)

Amy Speace: Kindness

Me and the Ghost of Charlemagne

Windbone 00219

(30)

Guy Davis: We All Need More Kindness in This World

Legacy

Red House 175

(31)

Aaron Smith and the Coal Biters: Kindness

The Way the World Turns

self 88295-31755

(32)

Claudia Schmidt: Be Nice

Spinning

Pragmavision 43157-37775

(33)

Nell (Robinson) & Jim (Nunally) Band: Handsome Medley – Handsome Cabin Boy / Handsome Molly

Western Sun

Whippoorwill 0590

(34)

Laura Smith: My Bonny

B’tween the Earth and My Soul

Cornermuse 50235-2 (March 18, 1952 – March 7, 2020)

(35)

Gordon Bok, Ann Mayo Muir, Ed Trickett: Fear a Bhata (The Boatman)

The First Fifteen Years, Volume II

Folk-Legacy 1004

(36)

Jenny Reynolds: The Way We Say Goodbye

Any Kind of Angel

self 00261-48218

(37)

Louisa Branscomb: Ain’t No Good Goodbye

Gonna Love Anyway

Compass 74738-2

(38)

Ellis Paul: How You Say Goodbye

The Storyteller’s Suitcase

Rosella 881131-009656

(39)

Steel Rail (Tod Gorr, Ellen Shizgal, Dave Clark): If By Midnight

Coming Home

Crossties 1006

(40)

Hot Pickin’ 57s: Midnight on the Highway

Hot Picks

self 88295-94116

(41)

Garnet Rogers: Night Drive

All That Is

Red House 160

(42)

The Wailin’ Jennys: Bright Morning Stars

Red House 234

(43)

Kim & Reggie Harris and Magpie: When I’m Gone (close)

Spoken in Love

Long Tail 003-2

Performer is composer unless otherwise noted. Song is album title unless otherwise noted. Album titles are in italics, composers in parentheses

The Midnight Special, June 6, 2020

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Playlist

(1)

Lead Belly: The Midnight Special

Last Sessions

Smithsonian Folkways 40068/71

(2)

Eric Andersen: My Land Is a Good Land

‘Bout Changes & Things

Vanguard 79206

(3)

Iris DeMent: Wasteland of the Free

The Way I Should

Warner Bros. 946188-2

(4)

Kim & Reggie Harris: In the Heat of the Summer

Folk Era 1412

(5)

Tom Paxton: Clarissa Jones

Morning Again

Elektra import 812276509-2

(6)

Ruthie Foster Big Band: The Ghetto

Live at the Paramount

Blue Corn 2001

(7)

Judy Collins: It Isn’t Nice

Fifth Album

7300-2

(8)

Sally Rogers & Claudia Schmidt: Still on the Bridge

We Are Welcomed

Pragmavision 00261-44066

(9)

Roy Zimmerman: DWB

The Faucet’s on Fire!

Metaphor 925

(10)

Lord Richard Buckley: His Majesty the Policeman

Bad Rapping of the Marquis De Sade

World Pacific 21889

(11)

Jan Hammarlund: A Policeman Needs a Riot

Uncovered Malvina Reynolds

Skordemane 09

(12)

Big Bill Broonzy: Police Station Blues

All the Classic Sides 1928-1937

JSP 7718

(13)

Billie Holiday: Strange Fruit

The Definitive Billie Holiday – Ken Burns Jazz

Verve 314549 081-2

(14)

Ben Bedford: Land of the Shadows (for Emmett Till)

Hopeful Sky 202

(15)

Bob Gibson: The Ballad of Fred and Mark

Bob Gibson

:The Ballad of Fred and Mark (B.Gibson/Marion Fischer)

(16)

Julie Gold: Tiger in New Jersey

Try Love

Gadfly 263

(17)

Vincent Cross: Michael Brown

Old Songs for Modern Folk

Rescue Dog 90394-17067

(18)

Peter Mulvey: Song for Michael Brown

Lift Every Voice

self no#

(19)

Avenue Q (orig.cast): Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist

Avenue Q

(Robert Lopez/Jeff Marx) Victor 82876-55923-2

(20)

Big Bill Broonzy: Black, Brown & White

Big Bill Blues

Vogue 600041

(21)

Jimmie Driftwood: What Is The Color Of The Soul Of Man?

Voice Of The People

Monument 8006

(22)

Amythyst Kiah, Rhiannon Giddens, Leyla McCalla, Allison Russell: Blood and Bones

Songs of Our Native Daughters

Smithsonian Folkways 40232

(23)

Len Chandler: To Be a Man

Columbia 9259

(24)

Phil Ochs: Outside of a Small Circle of Friends

Farewells & Fantasies

Rhino R2-73518

(25)

Thom Bishop aka Junior Burke: Somebody Feels the Water

The Wireless Wonder

Stuff 1222

(26)

Puppets of Castro (Andrew Lorand): Mr. Smith

Puppets of Castro

Trough 1307

(27)

Eliza Gilkyson: Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Roses at the End of Time

Red House 238

(28)

Pete Morton: The Grenfell Carol

A Golden Thread

Further 003

(29)

Brant Miller: No Interest in That

Roots, Rhymes & Branches

self 100

(30)

Michael Johnson: You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught

The Early Albums

MJ Blue 99001

(31)

Daryl Mosley: Do What the Good Book Says

The Secret of Life

Pinecastle 1241

(32)

Eliza Gilkyson: A Hard Rain’s a Gonna Fall

20 20

Red House 316

(33)

Pat Wictor & Deborah Latz: William Butler Yeats Visits Lincoln Park and Escapes Unscathed

Counterpoise

Duology 001

(34)

Joe Jencks: For What It’s Worth

The Candle and the Flame

Turtle Bear 072707-1

(35)

Schooner Fare: We the People

Outer Green 8885

(36)

Claudia Schmidt: My Quarantine Prayer

(private recording)

(37)

Robert Jones w/ Matt Watroba: I Wrestled with the Angel

Common Chords

(38)

Paul Robeson w/ Alan Booth,piano: Balm in Gilead

Live at Carnegie Hall

Vanguard 72020-2

(39)

Brant Miller: Love Is a Living Thing

Roots, Rhymes & Branches

self 100

(40)

John McCutcheon: Vespers

Cabin Fever- Songs from the Quarantine

Appalsongs no#

(41)

The Persuasions: Blowin’ in the Wind

Knockin’ on Bob’s Door

Zoho

(42)

Steve Turner: Peace Descends

Rim of the Wheel

Tradition Bearers 1104

(43)

Tom Paxton: Peace Will Come

(Holsteins, Chicago – 6/83) WFMT recording

(44)

Kim & Reggie Harris and Magpie: When I’m Gone (close)

Spoken in Love

Long Tail 003-2

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The Midnight Special, May 30, 2020 – Pledge Drive

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Playlist

(1)

Lead Belly: The Midnight Special

Last Sessions

Smithsonian Folkways 40068/71

(2)

Bob Gibson: Joy, Joy

Joy Joy! The Young and Wonderful Bob Gibson

Riverside 9909-2

(3)

Bonnie Koloc: With a Little Help from My Friends

Beginnings

Mr. Biscuit 04

(4)

Steve Goodman: Somebody Else’s Troubles

Buddha 7446599626-2

(5)

Bob Gibson: Uptown Saturday Night

Hogeye 003

(6)

Bonnie Koloc: Jazzman

Seems Like Yesterday

Mr. Biscuit 06

(7)

Steve Goodman: Jazzman

Steve Goodman

:Jazzman (Eddie Holstein)

(8)

John Prine: Good Time

The Singing Mailman Delivers

Oh Boy 040

(9)

Bonnie Koloc: Both Sides Now

Beginnings

Mr. Biscuit 04

(10)

John Prine SouvenirsSouvenirs Oh Boy 021: Souvenirs

Souvenirs

Oh Boy 021

(11)

Steve Goodman: Family Tree

Live at the Earl of Old Town

Red Pajamas 017

(12)

Bonnie Koloc: Crumbs in the Butter

Here to Sing

Mr. Biscuit 03

(13)

Steve Goodman: The Auctioneer

Live ’69

Omnivore 369

(14)

Gibson & Camp: Daddy Roll ‘Em

At the Gate of Horn

Collectors’ Choice 227-2

(15)

Steve Goodman: Better Get It While You Can (Ballad of Carl Martin)

Santa Ana Winds

Omnivore 344

(16)

Bonnie Koloc: Angel from Montgomery

Rediscovered

Mr. Biscuit 05

(17)

Steve Goodman: City of New Orleans

Artistic Hair

Omnivore 336

(18)

Bob Gibson: To Morrow

Stops Along the Way

self 1004

(19)

John Prine: Paradise

The Singing Mailman Delivers

Oh Boy 040

(20)

Bob Gibson: Michael Row Your Boat Ashore

Stops Along the Way

self 1004

(21)

Bonnie Koloc: We Are Ships

Seems Like Yesterday

Mr. Biscuit 06

(22)

Bonnie Koloc: Song for David

Beginnings

Mr. Biscuit 04

(23)

Steve Goodman: I’ll Fly Away

Artistic Hair

Omnivore 336

(24)

Bob Gibson: Sing Us Some of the Old Songs

Stops Along the Way

self 1004

(25)

John Prine: God Only Knows

The Tree of Forgiveness

Oh Boy 046

(26)

Bonnie Koloc: I’ve Got to Believe

Visual Voice

Naim 052

(27)

Kim & Reggie Harris and Magpie: When I’m Gone (close)

Spoken in Love

Long Tail 003-2

Performer is composer unless otherwise noted. Song is album title unless otherwise noted. Album titles are in italics, composers in parentheses