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September 4, 1999

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  1. Lead Belly: The Midnight Special Last Sessions SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS SFCD-40068/71

  2. Gerry & George Armstrong: Simple Gifts (trad) Wheel of the Year FLYING FISH FF 70594

  3. Jenny Armstrong: Carry the Song (Bob Bowker) Dancing In the Circle June Appal JA01 (800-943-SONG)

  4. Gerry Armstrong & Family: How Can I Keep From Singing (trad) Wheel of the Year FLYING FISH FF 70594

  5. Ian Robb & friends: Singer's Farewell (Robb/Wesley/Denson) Rose & Crown FOLK LEGACY FSI-106

  6. Gerry Armstrong: Mairi's Wedding (trad) Simple Gifts Folkways FA 2335

  7. Gerry & George Armstrong: Golden Ring (trad) Wheel of the Year FLYING FISH FF 70594

  8. The New Golden Ring: Sundown (trad) Five Days Singing, Volume I FOLK LEGACY CD-41

  9. Jenny Armstrong: Psalm Of Life (Longfellow/Lotus Dickey) The Leaves Entwine Depot DEP 014 (630-557-2742)

  10. Howie Mitchell: I'm Sad and I'm Lonesome (trad) Howie Mitchell FOLK LEGACY FSI-2

  11. The New Golden Ring: The Jute Mill Song (Mary Brookbank) Five Days Singing, Volume 2 FOLK LEGACY CD-42

  12. Gerry Armstrong: The Parson story and song (trad) (Old Town School 10/20/73) WFMT recording

  13. The Golden Ring: When Jesus Wept (trad) Golden Ring FOLK LEGACY CD-16

  14. Gerry & George Armstrong: The Rolling Hills of the Border (Matt McGinn) (Holsteins Old Town School Anniversary concert 3/20/82) WFMT recording

  15. Gerry & George Armstrong & Family: Leezie Lindsay The Wheel of the Year FLYING FISH FF 70594

  16. Peggy Seeger: I Built My Lady a Fine Brick House (trad) Penelope Isn't Waiting Any More ROUNDER 4011

  17. Gerard Hoffnung: The Bricklayer Timeless Hoffnung BBC Records REB 87M

  18. Still on the Hill: Jazz Dancer (Donna Henschell) Still On The Hill Pingleblobber 9901 (800-BUY-MY-CD or email.)

  19. Denice Franke: Saints You Don't Know Me de nICE gIRL DF002 (713-526-8270 or email.)

  20. Susan Werner: St. Mary's of Regret Last of the Good Straight Girls Private Music 01005821262

  21. Anne Hills & Michael Smith: Disappearing Heart (Hills/Smith/D.Torrell) Paradise Lost & Found Redwing RWMCD 5406 (PO Box 577575, Chicago, IL 60657) REDWING

  22. Steve Gillette: Two Men In the Building Texas & Tennessee REDWING RWMCD 5404

  23. Joel Mabus: Chairman of the Board Rhyme Schemes Fossil 1097 (PO Box 306, Portage, MI 49081 or A HREF="mailto:fossil@pobox.com">email.)

  24. Odetta & Larry: I Was Born 10,000 Years Ago (trad) Odetta Fantasy 8345

  25. David Massengill: One For the Loons Twilight the Taj Majal PLUMP PL8901-2 (800-PLUMPCD)

  26. Paul Geremia: How'd He Do It? The Devil's Music RED HOUSE RHRCD 127

  27. Pete Morton: Learning of a Miracle Courage, Love and Grace FLYING FISH CDFF 654

  28. Doris Day: High Hopes (VanHeusen/Cahn) Academy Award Winning Songs, Vol. 3 1958-69 RHINO R2 72278

  29. Cooper, Nelson & Early: Bruton Town (trad) Bright Gold Porcupine PPCD-1514 (630-584-1262)

  30. George & Gerry Armstrong: Jealous Brothers (trad) Simple Gifts Folkways FA 2335A

  31. Cindy Mangsen: Clerk Saunders (trad) Songs of Experience REDWING RWMCD 5403

  32. Leigh Hilger: Blow Bugle Blow (Tennyson/Hilger) Casting Shadows Ind.Songwriters ISG5001 (888-495-6575)

  33. Sparky & Rhonda Rucker: Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho (trad/arr.Rucker) Treasures and Tears FLYING FISH FF 70534

  34. Flanders & Swann: Ill Wind The Complete Flanders & Swann EMI CDS 7974642

  35. Gerry Armstrong: Blow Ye Winds I-O (trad) Simple Gifts Folkways FA 2335

  36. Kat Eggleston: Flower of Northumberland (trad) Outside Eden WATERBUG WBG 0028

  37. George & Gerry Armstrong: Mantle So Green (trad) The Wheel of the Year FLYING FISH FF 70594

  38. Gerry Armstrong: The Seven Joys of Mary (trad) Simple Gifts Folkways FA 2335

  39. Lead Belly: Mary Don't You Weep (trad) Last Sessions Smithsonian Folkways SFCD40068/71

  40. The Golden Ring: Babe of Bethlehem (trad) Golden Ring: A Gathering of Friends for Making Music FOLK LEGACY CD-16

  41. Eric Bogle: Love Song of a Simple Man Scraps of Paper Larrikin LRF-104

  42. Stacey Earle: Simple Gearle Simple Gearle Gearle Records 1 (PO Box 739, Ashland City, TN 37015)

  43. Chuck Suchy: Simply Fly Different Line of Time Little Bluestem LBR 102 (701-663-7682)

  44. The Golden Ring: Simple Gifts (trad) (introduced by Gerry Armstrong) Simple Gifts FOLK LEGACY CD-16

  45. Richard Dyer-Bennet: The Lonesome Valley (trad) Dyer-Bennet #1 Smithsonian Folkways SFCD 40078

  46. Anita Silvert: All Roads Converge Midwest Girl Balancing Act BAM-003 P.O. Box 512, Yardley, PA 19067 (215-369-0220) or email.

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

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RICH'S PICKS:

Chuck Suchy, Still On the Hill, Anne Hills & Michael Smith
These concerts were mentioned on the program:

Fox Valley Folk Festival, Island Park, Geneva Illinois. A partial list of artists: Kat Eggleston, David Massengill, Paul Geremia, Anne Hills, Cindy Mangsen & Steve Gillette, Sparky Rucker, Lou & Peter Berryman, Special Consensus, Lee Murdock. Monday, September 6, 11A-6P. 630-844-3655 or website.

Anne Hills & Michael Smith in a CD release party at Fitzgerald's, 6615 Roosevelt Rd., Berwyn, Wednesday, September 8. 708-788-2118