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March 4, 2000

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

  2. Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer: Happytown (All Right With Me) (Carter) Tanglewood Tree SIGNATURE SOUNDS SIG 1257 (800-694-5354)

  3. Marlene Dietrich: Well, All Right (S.Wyche/M.Watts) Dietrich In Rio Columbia AWS 316

  4. Mary Black: Don't Say Okay (Shane Howard) Speaking With the Angel Curb D2-77958

  5. John Prine: Spanish Pipedream John Prine Atlantic 19156-2

  6. The Weavers: Good Old Bowling Green (trad/Weavers) Wasn't That A Time VANGUARD VCD4-147/50

  7. Erik Darling: Sunshine Baby Child, Child WIND RIVER WR4013CD (877-365-5372)

  8. Elizabeth Cotton: Freight Train Live! ARHOOLIE 1089

  9. Rhonda Vincent: Passing of the Train (Jim Rushing/Gene Nelson) Back Home Again ROUNDER CD 11661-0460-2

  10. Original Cast: Just a Housewife (Craig Carnelia) Working Columbia JS 35411

  11. Anne Lister: Devil In the Garden Singing On the Wind Hearthfire 005CD (34 Nightingale House, Thomas More St., London E1 9VA)

  12. Linda Allen: The Bargain The Long Way Home October Rose OR 1012 (306-734-7979)

  13. Joyce Woodson: I Need a Wife (Woodson/Annie Hughes) Capistrano Girl Radish RAD 972 (615-383-1688)

  14. The Blue Ridge Buddies: Three Nights Drunk Mike Seeger's: 'Close to Home' SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS SFCD 40097

  15. The Limeliters: Pretty Far Out (trad/Limeliters) Sing Out! Collector's Choice CCM024-2

  16. No Strings Attached: The Mole Catcher (trad) / Bass Drill (R. Marchany) Isles of Langerhans Enessay 002

  17. Tom Paxton: Johnny Got a Gun Wearing the Time SUGAR HILL SHCD 1045

  18. Tom Waits: Georgia Lee Mule Variations (Waits/Kathleen Brennan) Anti/Epitaph 86547-2

  19. Voices: I Need a Gun (Matt Yanny-Tillar) Step By Step StepbyStep no# (847-982-1590)

  20. Les Barker: Cosmo the Fairly Accurate Knife Thrower A Cardi and Bloke Mrs Ackroyd DOG 011 (PO Box 95, So.Dist.Office, Manchester M20 4LB)

  21. Mary Black: Cut By Wire (Geoff Bartley/John Gorka) Speaking With the Angel Curb D2-77958

  22. Freda Epstein & Acoustic AttaTude: Potter's Wheel (Bill Danoff) Midnight at Cabell Hall RED HOUSE RHRCD 55

  23. John Stewart: The Wheel Within the Clay Deep In the Neon Homecoming HCCD 00750

  24. Bok-Muir-Trickett: Fashioned in the Clay (Elmer Beal, Jr.) Fashioned in the Clay FOLK LEGACY FSI-104

  25. Mick Moloney: Jigs: Sheehy's / Taylor's (trad) Strings Attached GREEN LINNET SIF 1027

  26. Golden Bough: Ballyconnell Fair (trad) Song of the Celts Golden Bough GBCD 217 (PO Box 818, Pacifica, CA 94044)

  27. Al Petteway & Amy White: She Moved Through the Faire (trad) Racing Hearts FAIREWOOD FW021 (301-270-3538)

  28. Eric Anderson: Eyes of the Immigrant You Can't Relive the Past APPLESEED APRCD 1032 (610-701-5755)

  29. Maria Dunn: New York 1849 From Where I Stand MariaDunn MARCD01 (780-430-8560)

  30. Liz Carroll: Lament of the First Generation Lost In the Loop GREEN LINNET GLCD 1199

  31. Original Cast: Home Thoughts From Abroad Beyond the Fringe '64 Capitol ST-11654

  32. Kevin So: Just Like You (I'm an American) Along the Way WingBone WB-6978-2 (800-937-3397)

  33. Steve Key: Heinz 57 American Scatter Seeds Steve Key no# (615-833-6248 or email)

  34. Richard Shindell: The Grocer's Broom Somewhere Near Patterson SIGNATURE SOUNDS SIG 1256

  35. Tom Waits: House Where Nobody Lives Mule Variations Anti/Epitaph 86547-2

  36. Spike Milligan: Another Lot Milligan Preserved EMI NTS 114

  37. Joyce Woodson: Something to Hold Onto (Woodson/F.Koller) Capistrano Girl

  38. Johnsmith: Down a Gravel Road to the Four Directions Blue Pine no# (800-BUY-MY-CD)

  39. Kevin Briody: Walnuts & Rice When No One's Watching Tune-Me no# (203-431-0099)

  40. Barton & Sweeney: Take a Little Less On the Timeline Tinderbox TB10332 (1 Plaza South, Suite 156, Tahlequah, OK 74464)

  41. Tom Waits: Take It With Me (Waits/Kathleen Brennan) Mule Variations Anti/Epitaph 86547-2

  42. 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 ( ).

RICH'S PICKS:

*Mary Black, Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer, Linda Allen, Anne Lister, Tom Waits, Richard Shindell, Johnsmith, Maria Dunn
*recording of special merit

These concerts were mentioned on the program:

Mick Maloney's Irish Music & Dance Festival with Zan McLeod, Jerry O'Sullivan, Marie & Martin Reilly at Fermilab in Batavia, Saturday, March 11 at 8. 630-840-ARTS

Golden Bough will perform at Center Stage of Dominican University, Lund Auditorium, 7900 W. Division St. River Forest, Saturday, March 11 at 7:30. 708-524-6942

Cooper, Nelson & Early and friends, including Cindy Selhart, Ken Brown and the Colman Cloonan Band with Brighid Malone in their annual Bar:None show, a non-alcoholic St. Patrick's celebraton, Friday, March 10 at 7:30 at the Villa Park VFW. 630-584-1262 or 773-262-9321

Gordon Bok, Anne Mayo Muir and Ed Trickett at the Old Town School of Folk Music, 4544 N. Lincoln, Friday, March 24. 773-728-6000

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