The Midnight Special, May 23, 2020
Playlist
(1)
Lead Belly: The Midnight Special
Last Sessions
(2)
Michael Johnson: Here Comes the Sun
The Early Albums
(3)
Kelly Hunt: Sunshine Is Long Overdue
Even the Sparrow
(4)
The Early Risers (Putnam Smith & Ashley Storrow): Red Bird
Making Life Sweet
(5)
Steve Goodman: Red, Red Robin
Artistic Hair
(6)
Jan Krist & Jim Bizer: Some Sunny Day
Influence
(7)
Spoon River Antholgy (Cates-Aidman production – Betty Garrett): Lucinda Matlock
(8)
Naming the Twins (Robbie Smith & Kath Glauser): Oh Life!
Sweet Transitions
(9)
Callaghan: Crazy Beautiful Life
Acoustic Coffee House
(10)
Chicks with Dip: What a Wonderful World
(11)
Anya Turner & Robert Grusecki: A Party
(12)
Steve Goodman: Let’s Give a Party
Live at the Earl of Town
(13)
Scott Cook: Kitchen Dance Party On
Further Down the Line
(14)
Noel Coward: I Went to a Marvelous Party
The Noel Coward Album
(15)
Half A Sixpence (orig.cast Tommy Steele): The Party’s on the House
Half A Sixpence
(16)
Tom Paxton: Wasn’t That a Party
New Songs For Old Friends
(17)
My Fair Lady (orig.cast – Julie Andrews): I Could Have Danced All Night
My Fair Lady
(18)
Betty Comden & Adolph Green: The Party’s Over
Bells Are Ringing
(19)
Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain: How to Be Seventy (Samuel Clemens)
The Best of Hal Holbrook in Mark Twain Tonight!
(20)
John Gorka: People My Age
The Company You Keep
(21)
Win Stracke: I Have Led a Good Life
(22)
Terri Allard: Happy Endings
Makes No Sense
(23)
Electric Bonsai Band: Happy Endings (Romeo & Juliet)
Lounging in the Belly of the Beast
(24)
Eric Taylor: Happy Endings
Scuffletown
(25)
Cherish the Ladies: Crowley’s Reels / Tom Ward’s Downfall
New Day Dawning
(26)
Sons of the Never Wrong: Over There
King Fisher King
(27)
The Pines: There in Spirit
Above the Prairie
(28)
We’re About 9: The Hardest Thing to Prove
Future Pilot
(29)
Cardboard Ox (Tracie Potochnik & Steve Allain): Face to Face
Cardboard Ox
(30)
Atwater-Donnelly: The Spanish Lady
The World Is Old Tonight
(31)
Ernest Troost: Switchblade Heart
Live at McCabes
(32)
Amy White: Tinderbox Heart
Didn’t We Waltz
(33)
Jenny Ritter: You Are Also Them
Raised by Wolves
(34)
Elaine Romanelli: Forty Back
The Hour Before
(35)
Red Tail Ring: Fall Away Blues
(36)
Lori Lieberman: Stand For You
Ready for the Storm
(37)
Paul Sachs: The Best Hope Can Do
Love Is Love
(38)
Joseph Sobol: The Road Not Taken
Citternity
(39)
Geoff Bartley: Let Falling Stars. . .
One Kind Word
(40)
The Lucky Sisters: All That Is
So Lucky
(41)
Alice Peacock: In All Things
Live From Space
(42)
Mt. Thelonious (Ian Lubar-Alyssa Avery-Mark Wallace): The Prayer
A Little More Time
(43)
Spoon River Antholgy (Cates-Aidman production – Charles Aidman): Naomi Caryl Hirschhorn & Hal Lynch – song: Spoon River
(44)
Phil Ochs: Rehearsals for Retirement
Farewells & Fantasies
(45)
Ian McKellen: Prospero’s closing speech from “The Tempest”
(46)
Kim & Reggie Harris and Magpie: When I’m Gone (close)
Spoken in Love
Performer is composer unless otherwise noted. Song is album title unless otherwise noted. Album titles are in italics, composers in parentheses
The Midnight Special, May 16, 2020
Playlist
(1)
Lead Belly: The Midnight Special
Last Sessions
(2)
Ellis Delaney: Happy Life
Ordinary Love
(3)
Candide (1989 cast-Jerry Hadley, June Anderson, et.al.): Life Is Happiness Indeed
Candide
(4)
Andrew Kerr: Happy Life
Ain’t It Strange
(5)
The John Herald Band: Happy Sunny Side of Life
John Herald and The John Herald Band
(6)
Cosy Sheridan: Happiness Is Waiting
Eros
(7)
The Special Consensus: Looking Out My Back Door
Chicago Barn Dance
(8)
FY5 (Mike Finders, Aaron & Erin Youngberg: Back Door
Eat the Moon
(9)
Brownie McGhee: Back Door Stranger
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee 1938-41 – Getting Started
(10)
Bob Newhart: Nobody Will Ever Play Baseball
The Button Down Mind of Bob Newhart
(11)
Terry Cashman: Talkin’ Baseball (special Cubs version)
(12)
Chuck Brodsky: The Ballad of Eddie Klepp
Letters in the Dirt
(13)
The Mammals: Radio Signal
Nonet
(14)
Indigo Girls (Amy Ray & Emily Saliers): Country Radio
Look Long
(15)
Nick Nace: Back on the Radio
Wrestling with the Mystery
(16)
Harry Chapin: W*O*L*D*
Story of a Life
(17)
Joe Hickerson: WOAD
With a Gathering of Friends
(18)
Molly Tuttle: Helpless
(19)
Vance Gilbert: Helpless Man
Old White Men
(20)
The Raisin Pickers: I’m Helpless
Drivin’
(21)
Jerry Stiller & Anne Meara: Hershey Horowitz Meets Mary Elizabeth Doyle
Laugh When You Like
(22)
The King and I (50th anniversary cast – Barbara Cook): Hello Young Lovers
The King and I
(23)
Rachel Garlin: Capture Me
Modengreens
(24)
Jean Shepherd: My First Blind Date
Will Failure Spoil Jean Shepherd?
(25)
Company (orig.B’way cast): Have I Got a Girl for You
Company
(26)
Matt Watroba: Is It Love?
The Far Si
(27)
The Beatles: All You Need Is Love
1
(28)
John McCutcheon: John Prine
(29)
David Roth: John Prine’s Sonic Boom
(30)
John Prine: Boundless Love
The Tree of Forgiveness
(31)
Nell & Jim Band: By Stars and Sunrise
Western Sun
(32)
John Doyle: The Path of Stones
(33)
Pete Morton: The Farmer’s Boy
A Golden Thread
(34)
Gretchen Peters: Heaven Help the Child
The Night You Wrote That Song – The Songs of Mickey Newbury
(35)
Siobhan Quinn & Michael Bowers: God Bless the Child
One Day
(36)
Lui Collins: God Bless the Children
Moondancer
(37)
Sons of the Never Wrong: Set All God’s Children Free
3 Good Reasons
(38)
John Prine: I Have Met My Love Today
The Tree of Forgiveness
(39)
Judy Collins: In My Life
Forever – an Anthology
(40)
Jesse Palidofsky: Water the Seeds of Joy
Dancing Toward the Light
(41)
Richard Ruane: Joy That Carries Me
Things That Strangers Say
(42)
Garnet Rogers: The Joy of Living
At a High Window
(43)
Kim & Reggie Harris and Magpie: When I’m Gone (close)
Spoken in Love
Performer is composer unless otherwise noted. Song is album title unless otherwise noted. Album titles are in italics, composers in parentheses
The Midnight Special, May 9, 2020
Playlist
(1)
Lead Belly: The Midnight Special
Last Sessions
(2)
Anna Turner & Robert Gruseki: Good Times Are Just Around the Corner
(3)
Annie (orig.cast B’way-Andrea McArdle): Tomorrow
Annie
(4)
Don Lange: Take Your Care and Keep Your Distance
(5)
Ellie Grace: Right Now
On the Side of Love
(6)
Mame (orig.cast B’way cast-Angela Lansbury): Open a New Window
Mame
(7)
The Seldom Scene: Open Up the Window, Noah
At the Scene
(8)
Odetta & Larry: I Was Born About 10,000 Years Ago / The Biggest Thing
At the Tin Angel
(9)
The Arrogant Worms: History Is Made By Stupid People
C’est Cheese
(10)
Puppets of Castro: Extraordinary Things
Puppets of Castro
(11)
Tom Chapin w/ Michael Mark & Jon Cobert: Our Mothers Built This City
At the Turning Point
(12)
The Beatles: Your Mother Should Know
Magical Mystery Tour
(13)
Mike Nichols & Elaine May: Mother and Son
In Retrospect
(14)
Camille West: Mother Tongue
(15)
Sally Rogers & Howie Bursen: A Chat With Your Mother
When Howie Met Sally
(16)
The Special Consensus: Lake Shore Drive
Chicago Barn Dance
(17)
Martin, Bogan & The Armstrongs: Streets of Old Chicago
That Old Gang of Mine
(18)
David Williams: Chicago, Chicago By the Lake
Route 66
(19)
Pete Morton: Metropolitan Safari
A Golden Thread
(20)
The Special Consensus: Sweet Home Chicago
Chicago Barn Dance
(21)
South Pacific (orig.cast-Mary Martin): I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right out outa My Hair
South Pacific
(22)
Heather Styka: Wash Your Face
(23)
Anna Turner & Robert Gruseki: Handle Me with Care
(24)
Skinner & T’witch (Steve Skinner & Sandra Twichett): Singing on My Doorstep
(25)
Jan Krist: Frankenstein
Robin Hood
(26)
Vince Bell: Frankenstein
Phoenix
(27)
Uncle Bonsai: The Monster in the Closet
The Family Feast
(28)
Steve Goodman w/ Bob Hoban: Mama Tried
Live ’69
(29)
Braden Gates: Mama, I’ve Tried
Pictures of Us
(30)
Severn Darden: Oedipus
The Sound of My Own Voice and Other Noises
(31)
Mary Liz McNamara: Oedipus
Unhinged
(32)
The Haden Triplets: Gray Mother Dreaming
The Family Songbook
(33)
Pete Morton: Universal Basic Income
A Golden Thread
(34)
Charlie King & Karen Brandow: Trickle Up
The Distance Remaining
(35)
Mother Jones In Heaven (Vivian Nesbitt & John Dillon): Mothers
(36)
Eliza Gilkyson: Sooner or Later
20 20
(37)
Ellis Delaney: You Got This
Ordinary Love
(38)
Carrie Newcomer: You Can Do This Hard Thing
The Beautiful Not Yet
(39)
Mae Robertson & Don Jackson: Child of Mine
The Sun Upon the Lake Is Low
(40)
Cindy Ruenes: My Name Is Mom
Please Don’t Tell Me How to Dance
(41)
Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer: Dear Mom
A Parents’ Home Companion
(42)
Iris DeMent: When My Mornin’ Comes Around
The Way I Should
(43)
Ruthie Foster: Brand New Day
Live at the Paramount
(44)
Leo Kottke: All Through the Night
Ice Water
(45)
Dan Fogelberg: To the Morning
Home Free
(46)
Kim & Reggie Harris and Magpie: When I’m Gone (close)
Spoken in Love
Performer is composer unless otherwise noted. Song is album title unless otherwise noted. Album titles are in italics, composers in parentheses
The Midnight Special, May 2, 2020
Playlist
(1)
Lead Belly: The Midnight Special
Last Sessions
(2)
Pete Seeger: Turn! Turn! Turn!
Pete Seeger’s Greatest Hits
(3)
Noel Paul Stookey: In These Times
(4)
Rant Maggie Rant: Toast to a New Day / A Good Western Wind
Latitude
(5)
Gordon Bok w/ Bob Zentz: Turning Toward the Morning
Together Again for the First Time
(6)
Pete Morton: Oh Had I a Golden Thread
(7)
Nell & Jim Band (Nell Robinson & Jim Nunally): Woe Is Me
Western Sun
(8)
David Roth: Meet You Where You Are
(9)
Lara Herscovitch: In Your Corner
Highway Philosophers
(10)
Cosy Sheridan: Keep Your Overhead Low
The Horse King
(11)
David Buskin & Co.: A Folksinger Earns Every Dime
Big Times in a Small Town – The Vineyard Tapes
(12)
Jud Caswell: Get Poor Slow
Live! At The Seagull Shop
(13)
Danny Schmidt: 2020 Vision
(14)
Ellis Delaney: Bird on a Wire
Ordinary Love
(15)
Dear World (orig. B’way cast): The Spring of Next Year
Dear World
(16)
David Roth: When the Universe Is Ready
(17)
Pete Seeger: My Get Up and Go
Pete Seeger Now
(18)
Tom Paxton: Not Tonight Marie
Heroes
(19)
Pete Seeger: This Old Car
Pete Seeger Now
(20)
Odetta: Car-Car Song
Odetta & Larry at the Tin Angel
(21)
Rachael Sage: Ohio
Character (Acoustic)
(22)
Magpie: Kent
Give Light
(23)
Thom Bishop: Four Killed at Kent
WFMT studio – August, 1974
(24)
Pete Seeger: If I Had a Hammer (Hammer Song)
The Smithsonian Folkways Collection
(25)
The David Bromberg Band: Take This Hammer
Big Road
(26)
Steve Earle: Steve’s Hammer (For Pete)
Washington Square Serenade
(27)
Chuck Brodsky: Curse of the Billy Goat
Tulips for Lunch
(28)
Steve Goodman: A Dying Cub Fan’s Last Request
Affordable Art
(29)
(Johnny) Wayne & (Frank) Shuster: A Shakespearean Baseball Game
Wayne & Shuster
(30)
John McCutcheon: I Am Here
Sermon on the Mound
(31)
Jan Krist: Robin Hood
(32)
Dar Williams: When I Was A Boy
The Honesty Room
(33)
Fred Small: Everything Possible
Everything Possible – Fred Small in Concert
(34)
Ellis Delaney: Start Where You Are
Ordinary Love
(35)
Peter Seeger & Lorre Wyatt: A Toast to the Times
A More Perfect Union
(36)
Gretchen Peters: The Night You Wrote That Song
(37)
Gene Raskin, Francesca, Theodore Bikel & Eric Weissberg: Those Were the Days
(38)
Sutton Foster: Once Upon a Time
Wish
(39)
Nell & Jim Band (Nell Robinson & Jim Nunally): In My Beautiful Dream
Western Sun
(40)
Lara Herscovitch: From a Dream
Highway Philosophers
(41)
Thom Bishop: What Goes Down
Orphans Pub- August 27, 1982
(42)
Pete Seeger: Quite Early Morning
The Smithsonian Folkways Collection
(43)
Kim & Reggie Harris and Magpie: When I’m Gone (close)
Spoken in Love
Performer is composer unless otherwise noted. Song is album title unless otherwise noted. Album titles are in italics, composers in parentheses
The Midnight Special, April 25, 2020
Playlist
(1)
Lead Belly: The Midnight Special
Last Sessions
(2)
Ruthie Foster Big Band: Joy Comes Back (I Want to Be Ready)
Live at the Paramount
(3)
(David) Buskin & (Robin) Batteau: Choose Joy
Red Shoes and Golden Hearts
(4)
Peter & Mary Alice Amidon w/ Jennifer Armstrong, Georgia Rose, & Suzannah Armstrong-Park: I Still Have Joy
Hymns & Ballads
(5)
Tim Harrison: Joy Alright
Wheatfield with Crows
(6)
Mia Arends & Michael Derning: Joy
Rough Magic
(7)
Randy Newman: Stay Away
(8)
Sebastian Cabot: It Ain’t Me Babe
Sebastian Cabot, actor, Bob Dylan, Poet
(9)
The Burns Sisters: Stay Away from Me
In This World
(10)
Crys Matthews & Heather Mae: Six Feet Apart
(11)
Rachel Garlin: Out There
Mondegreens
(12)
Tom Paxton: Little Lost Child
How Come the Sun
(13)
The David Bromberg Band: Lovin’ of the Game
Big Road
(14)
The Baseball Project (Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Scott McCaughey, Steve Wynn and Linda Pitmon): The Baseball Card Song
3rd
(15)
Jean Shepherd: Balls
Jean Shepherd and other foibles
(16)
Larry Kaplan: Baseball
Furthermore. . .
(17)
Damn Yankees (orig.cast-Russ Brown & cast): Heart
Damn Yankees
(18)
Bud Abbott & Lou Costello: Who’s On First
The Amercian Comedy Box 1915-1994
(19)
You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown (orig.cast): T.E.A.M. (The Baseball Game)
You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown
(20)
John Doyle w/ Cathy Jordan & John McCusker: Teelin Harbour
The Path of Stones
(21)
The Once: Three Fishers
The Once
(22)
Wm. Pint & Felicia Dale: Heaven’s a Bar
Seven Seas
(23)
Roy Zimmerman: The Liar Tweets Tonight
(24)
Martin Simpson w/ Jessica Ruby Simpson: The Turtle and the Asp
Red Roses
(25)
David Bromberg: Who Will the Next Fool Be
Big Road
(26)
Claudia Nygaard & Tom Dundee: Hello In There
(27)
Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well… (orig.cast-Elly Stone): Old Folks (Les Vieux)
Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well…
(28)
Paul Kelly w/ Kasey Chambers: When We’re Both Old and Mad
Songs from the South – 1985-2019 – Greatest Hits
(29)
Don Caron & Linda Gower: Confounds the Science
(30)
Jon Wilcox: Science Ain’t Gonna Save You Baby
Still Life
(31)
Li’L Abner (orig.B’way cast – Howard St. John): Progress Is the Root of All Evil
Li’L Abner
(32)
Joel Mabus: God Don’t Like It – I Don’t Either
Different Hymnal.
(33)
Danny Schmidt: A Prayer for the Sane
(34)
John Flynn: Papa Gene’s Blues
(35)
Archie Fisher: Jock Stewart
The Man With a Rhyme
(36)
Jim Photoglo w/ Freebo: Sparks in the Radio
Folkstage – May 14, 2005
(37)
Trio Dhoore (Koen, Hartwin, Ward Dhoore): Heuvelland
August
(38)
Ian Foster & Nancy Hynes: Siena
(39)
Pete Morton with Full House: When We Sing Together
Game of Life
(40)
Small Potatoes: Simple Faith
(41)
Shelley Posen w/ John Sheard, p: Long Long Tunnel
(42)
Eileen McGann: Love & Light Surround Me
Light
(43)
Kim & Reggie Harris and Magpie: When I’m Gone (close)
Spoken in Love
Performer is composer unless otherwise noted. Song is album title unless otherwise noted. Album titles are in italics, composers in parentheses
WFMT Classical Music Tour to Vienna and Salzburg
Join Carl Grapentine and WFMT travel partner, Travelex International, next spring on a music-filled and breathtaking tour to beautiful Vienna and Salzburg.
The Midnight Special, April 18, 2020
Playlist
(1)
Lead Belly: The Midnight Special
Last Sessions
(2)
Tom Rush: Mother Earth
No Regrets – The Very Best of Tom Rush
(3)
Betsy Rose: Mother Earth
Sacred Ground
(4)
Eliza Gilkyson: Beautiful World of Mine
20 20
(5)
Frankie Armstrong: Message from Mother Earth
Ways of Seeing
(6)
Greg Brown: Earth Is a Woman
Hymns to What Is Left
(7)
Kim & Reggie Harris and Magpie: We Belong to the Earth
Spoken in Love
(8)
John Prine with intro (2010): Your Flag Decal Won’t Get You Into Heaven Anymore
In Person & On Stage
(9)
David Bromberg Band: Standing in the Need of Prayer
Big Road
(10)
(Peter) Ekstrom & (Michael) Quinn: The Flag Song
The Front Page Follies
(11)
Peter Mulvey: Take Down Your Flag
Life Every Voice
(12)
Jan Krist: Dr. Wu Who?
Robin Hood
(13)
Judy Garland fr. Ziegfield Girl: We Must Have Music
Collectors’ Gems from the M-G-M Films: Judy Garland
(14)
Martin Swinger: Music in the Rafters
Moon
(15)
Carla Sciaky: The Song That Bird Sings
Awakening
(16)
Sara Thomsen w/ Paula Pedersen: Let Me Sing for You
Song Like a Seed
(17)
Ellis Paul: The Hero in You
(18)
Jordi Baizan: Heroes All Around Us
Free and Fine
(19)
Corin Raymond and The Sundowners: A Big Truck Brought It
Paper Nickels
(20)
Magpie: Rachel
Songs for the Earth: A Tribute to Rachel Carson
(21)
Emma’s Revolution (Pat Humphries & Sandy O): Silent Spring
One
(22)
Walkin’ Jim Stoltz: Song for Rachel
Little Piece of Time
(23)
Ellis Paul: Rachel Carson
The Hero in You
(24)
John Doyle: The Rambler from Clare
The Path of Stones
(25)
Ian Tyson: Rambler Gambler
Ian & Sylvia – The Complete Vanguard Studio Recordings
(26)
David Bromberg Band: Diamond Lil
Big Road
(27)
John Prine: Illegal Smile
John Prine
(28)
Jon Spear: Time Machine Weed
Dusty Streets
(29)
Robin Bienemann: Vampires Are Not Zombies
Songs About Lessons Learnt
(30)
David Mitchell & Robert Webb w/ Olivia Colman: Zombie Poppins
That Mitchell & Webb Sound, Series Three
(31)
Duck’s Breath Mystery Theatre: Caffeine Zombie
Out of Season
(32)
Steve Goodman: Vegematic
Affordable Art
(33)
John Prine: Spanish Pipedream
In Person & On Stage
(34)
Adrianna Ciccone w/ Neil Perlman, p: Le Brandy Culotte
The Back of Winter
(35)
Alastair Moock w/ Sean Staples: Planting Seeds
Be a Pain
(36)
Mavis Staples: Sow Good Seeds
One True Vine
(37)
Garnet Rogers: Seeds of Hope
All That Is
(38)
Eliza Gilkyson: We Are Not Alone
20 20
(39)
Pete Seeger: From Way Up Here
God Bless the Grass
(40)
Valerie Smith w/ Claire Lynch & Irene Kelley: From a Distance
(41)
Jan Krist: Dear Alison
Robin Hood
(42)
Eliza Gilkyson: Promises to Keep
20 20
(43)
Kim & Reggie Harris and Magpie: When I’m Gone (close)
Spoken in Love
Performer is composer unless otherwise noted. Song is album title unless otherwise noted. Album titles are in italics, composers in parentheses
The Midnight Special, April 11, 2020
Playlist
(1)
Lead Belly: The Midnight Special
Last Sessions
(2)
Eve Goldberg: Let Me Rise
A Kinder Season
(3)
Dan Cunningham: Rise to Thee
Country Roads
(4)
Tommy Sands: We Will Rise Again
Beyond the Shadows
(5)
Claudia Schmidt: We Will Rise and Go Together (Come Thou Font of Every Blessing)
Stages Music Hall – April 5, 1980
(6)
John Prine: Please Don’t Bury Me
Souvenirs
(7)
Malvina Reynolds: Bury Me in My Overalls
Ear to the Ground
(8)
Jonas Fjeld w/ Judy Collins & Dave Wilson: Bury Me With My Guitar On
Winter Stories
(9)
Bonnie Raitt: Angel from Montgomery
Streetlights
(10)
Adam Carroll: Crescent City Angels
I Walked In Them Shoes
(11)
Anne Hills: Donna from Mobile
Don’t Explain
(12)
John Prine: The Lonesome Friends of Science
The Tree of Forgiveness
(13)
Heinz Wolf: Administerium and the Science of Unclear Physics
Guide Cats for the Blind
(14)
John Prine: It’s a Big Old Goofy World
The Missing Years
(15)
John Prine: Glory of True Love
Fair & Square
(16)
Mark Dvorak: The Glory of Love
Let Love Go On
(17)
John Prine: Love Love Love
German Afternoons
(18)
Shelley Posen And We Sang Ha Lakhma AnyaManna Well Done 02: And We Sang Ha Lakhma Anya
Manna
(19)
Georgia Sea Island Singers: Moses Don’t Get Lost
Get In Union
(20)
Brother Sun: Where Are You Moses
Weights & Wings
(21)
Kate McDonnell: Go Down Moses
Where the Mangoes Are
(22)
Pete Seeger: Oh, Mary Don’t You Weep
Live at Newport
(23)
(Jamie) Dailey & (Darrin) Vincent: Moses Smote the Water
Singing from the Heart
(24)
David Steinberg: Moses
Disguised as a Normal Person
(25)
Paul Robeson: Go Down Moses
Ballad for Americans
(26)
John Prine: That’s the Way That the World Goes Round
Bruised Orange
(27)
Peter Keane: Round and Round
Another Kind of Blue
(28)
New York, New York – Brenda Presseley: The World Goes ‘Round
And the World Goes ‘Round – The Songs of Kander & Ebb
(29)
John Prine: Donald and Lydia
John Prine
(30)
Zoe Mulford: Songs of Love and Distance
Traveling Moon
(31)
John Prine: Aimless Love
(32)
Johnny Cash: Paradise
Personal File
(33)
June Carter Cash: The L&N Don’t Stop Here Anymore
Press On
(34)
John Prine: Paradise
The Singing Mailman Delivers
(35)
Joel Mabus: Everybody’s Grace
Different Hymnals.
(36)
Danny Schmidt: Stained Glass
Parables & Primes
(37)
Ralph McTell: Jesus Wept
Sand in Your Shoes
(38)
The New Golden Ring: Calvary
Five Days Singing, Volume II
(39)
Garnet Rogers: Crucifixion
Speaking Softly in the Dark
(40)
Joel Mabus: Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone / Let It Shine
Different Hymnals.
(41)
Mary Chapin Carpenter: My Heaven
Between Here and Gone
(42)
John Prine: When I Get to Heaven
The Tree of Forgiveness
(43)
Kim & Reggie Harris and Magpie: When I’m Gone (close)
Spoken in Love
Performer is composer unless otherwise noted. Song is album title unless otherwise noted. Album titles are in italics, composers in parentheses
The Midnight Special, April 4, 2020
Playlist
(1)
Lead Belly: The Midnight Special
Last Sessions
(2)
Si Kahn: People Like You
In My Heart – Si Kahn at 75 – The Europe Sessions
(3)
John Prine: Everybody
Diamonds in the Rough
(4)
Pete Seeger: To Everyone in All the World
Pete
(5)
Vance Gilbert: God Bless Everyone
Bad Dog Buffet
(6)
Greg Greenway w/ Kim & Reggie Harris: I Love Everybody
The Midnight Special Folk Festival, Harris Theatre, September 17, 2006
(7)
Tom Rush: Heaven Knows
Voices
(8)
John Prine: Fish and Whistle
Bruised Orange
(9)
Tom Rush: The Circle Game
(10)
Ian & Sylvia: Child Apart
The Complete Vanguard Studio Recordings
(11)
Mark Erelli & Alastair Moock: Everybody Was a Kid
Be a Pain
(12)
Bruce Springsteen: Growin’ Up
Springsteen on Broadway
(13)
Joni Mitchell: Songs to Aging Children Come
Clouds – The Studio Albums 1968-1979
(14)
Caitriona O’leary: Both Sides Now (in Irish)
(15)
Red Hen: Both Sides of the Road
New Old Time
(16)
Fred Neil: Other Side of This Life
Bleecker & MacDougal
(17)
Dave Van Ronk: Clouds (Both Sides Now)
A Chrestomathy
(18)
Larry & Nicole Rand: Livin’ At Wit’s End
(19)
Dale Ann Bradley: Stuck in the Middle with You
Old Southern Porches
(20)
Noel Paul Stookey: Cabin Fever Waltz
At Home
(21)
Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen: Homelessness
Being There
(22)
Elise Witt: The Homeless Olympics
Mezzanine
(23)
Tom Paxton: We Can Have the Olympics Over at Our House
One Million Lawyers and Other Disasters
(24)
Lou & Peter Berryman: Elderlyville
Some Days
(25)
Eddy Lawrence: Out of Her Rocking Chair
Eddy & The Abstract Truth
(26)
Don White: Meet Betty Mae / More Alive
Live at the Guthrie Center
(27)
John Prine: Hello In There
John Prine
(28)
David Mitchell & Robert Webb: Bleach
That Mitchell & Webb Sound: Series Four
(29)
John Hartford: (Good Old Electric) Washing Machine (circa 1943)
Country Legends – John Hartford
(30)
Alastair Moock: Be a Pain
(31)
Lennie Galant: Be the Change
If We Had a Fire
(32)
Dan McKinnon: Change for the Better
Just Another Day
(33)
Bob Dylan: Murder Most Foul
(34)
Martyn Joseph: That Was the President
Days of Decision – A Tribute to Phil Ochs
(35)
Adrianna Ciccone: The Back of Winter
(36)
Poor Man’s Gambit: La Ridee Six set – La Ridee Six Temps
Land of Sunshine
(37)
Katie Dahl w/ Sue Demel: I Already Knew
(38)
Adie Grey: Tell All the People You Love
Grandpa’s Advice
(39)
Tret Fure: Grace of God
The Horizon
(40)
Rj Cowdery: I’ll Fly Away
In This Light
(41)
Kim & Reggie Harris and Magpie: When I’m Gone (close)
Spoken in Love
Performer is composer unless otherwise noted. Song is album title unless otherwise noted. Album titles are in italics, composers in parentheses
The Midnight Special, March 28, 2020
Playlist
(1)
Lead Belly: The Midnight Special
Last Sessions
(2)
Ellie Grace: Up
On the Side of Love
(3)
Mary Poppins Returns (orig.soundtrk-Angela Lansbury, Ben Winshaw, & cast): Nowhere to Go But Up
Mary Poppins Returns
(4)
Circle of Women: We Shall Lift Each Other Up
Circle of Women
(5)
Laura Smith: I Built a Boat
Everything Is Moving
(6)
Stan Rogers: Mary Ellen Carter
Between the Breaks. . . Live!
(7)
Michele Brourman: Social Distance Blues
(8)
Lily Tomlin: Obscene Phone Call
This Is a Recording
(9)
My Fair Lady (orig.London cast-Leonard Weir): On the Street Where You Live
My Fair Lady
(10)
Shel Silverstein: Standing on the Outside of Your Shelter
Inside Folk Songs
(11)
Marty Robbins: Don’t Let Me Touch You
The Essential Marty Robbins
(12)
Austin Lounge Lizards: The Drugs I Need
(13)
Max Morath: Cures, by a Curious Curist
Drugstore Cabaret
(14)
Win Stracke: Lydia Pinkham
Songs of Old Town
(15)
Connie Kaldor: All Up to You
Everyday Moments
(16)
The Steeldrivers: Lonely and Being Alone
Bad for You
(17)
Robin & Linda Williams: Together All Alone
Sugar for Sugar
(18)
Della Mae: I Like It When You’re Home
Headlight
(19)
Heather Pierson: Toilet Paper Blues
(20)
Justin Farren: The Toilet Paper Song
Folkstage – August 26, 2017
(21)
Clancy Bros. & Tommy Makem: They’re Moving Father’s Grave To Build a Sewer
Recorded Live The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem In Ireland!
(22)
Tom Lehrer: I Got It From Agnes
The Remains of Tom Lehrer
(23)
Woody Guthrie: Wash-y Wash Wash
Songs to Grow On For Mother and Child
(24)
Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer w/ Tom Paxton: Germs
Bon Appetit!
(25)
Woody Guthrie & family: Cleano
Woody’s 20 Grow Big Songs
(26)
Carolann Solebello: Wash Me Clean
Threshold
(27)
Beyond the Fringe (Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett, Paxton Whitehead): The End of the World
Beyond the Fringe ’64
(28)
Monty Python’s Spamalot: Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
Monty Python’s Spamalot
(29)
Cindy Cashdollar w/ Amy Helm: Ring Them Bells
Waltz for Abilene
(30)
Deliverance (orig.soundtrk-Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandell): Dueling Banjos
Deliverance
(31)
Annie Get Your Gun (1966 recording – Ethel Merman & Bruce Yarnell): Anything You Can Do
Annie Get Your Gun
(32)
The Chieftains (Paddy Maloney & Carlos Nunez): Dueling Chanters (Sixpenny Money / Polka Vilagarcia)
Santiago
(33)
Eric Weissberg and Deliverance: ‘Til the End of the World Rolls Around
Rural Free Delivery
(34)
Kenny Rogers: The Gambler
Great 20 Years
(35)
Geoff Bartley: Play the Cards the Way They Lie
Blackbirds in the Pie
(36)
Eric Taylor: Game Is Gone
Scuffletown
(37)
Blackbeard’s Tea Party: Stand Up Now
Reprobates
(38)
Poor Man’s Gambit: The Ballad of Accounting
Land of Sunshine
(39)
Sultans of String – Duke Redbird: The Power of the Land
Refuge
(40)
Trip McCool (aka Dennis Dougherty): My Hands
Hang Me Out to Dry
(41)
Cindy Ruenes w/ Brian Pearson: Hands
Please Don’t Tell Me House to Dance
(42)
Tom Smith: I’m Gonna Use My Hands
Planting in a Drought
(43)
Ragtime (orig.B’way cast-Marin Mazzie-Peter Friedman): Our Children
Ragtime
(44)
Caroline Doctorow: Children of Darkness
Another Country
(45)
Tom Chapin w/ Michael Mark & Jon Cobert: Walk the World Now, Chidren
Turning Point
(46)
Martyn Joseph: There But for Fortune
Days of Decision – A Tribute to Phil Ochs
(47)
Dana Robinson: Safe Home
Avenue of the Saints
(48)
James Keelaghan: Safe Home
House of Cards
(49)
Johnsmith: Safe Home
Gravity of Grace
(50)
Kim & Reggie Harris and Magpie: When I’m Gone (close)
Spoken in Love
Performer is composer unless otherwise noted. Song is album title unless otherwise noted. Album titles are in italics, composers in parentheses