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April 8, 2000

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

  2. Beausoleil: One-Step a Choupique (D.McGee/M.Doucet) Cajunization RHINO R2 75633

  3. Steve Goodman: Three-Legged Man (Shel Silverstein) Artistic Hair RED PAJAMAS RPJ-001CD

  4. Dan Sorkin: Three-Handed Brown (E.Sheldon/D.Powell) Folk Singing One Mercury MG 20861

  5. The Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band: Alton's Two-Step (trad/arr.M.Savoy) Sam's Big Rooster ARHOOLIE 481 (10341 San Pablo Ave., El Cerrito, CA 94530)

  6. Karen Mueller: 30-Year Jig (Roger Tallroth) Still Point Streamline SL104CD (PO Box 80565, Minneapolis, MN 55408)

  7. Ed Miller: Rivers and Reivers (trad/Miller) Lowlander Wellfield CD023 (512-472-6036)

  8. Win Stracke: Down By the Embarrass (trad/Stracke) Songs of Oldtown Flair S-912

  9. Kate Wolf: Like a River The Kate Wolf Anthology RHINO R2 75596

  10. Tom Russell: Sitting Bull In Venice The Man From God Knows Where HIGHTONE HCD8099

  11. Dick Gaughan: Geronimo's Cadillac (M.Murphy/C.Quattro) Sail On APPLESEED 1016 (610-701-5755)

  12. The New Lost City Ramblers (Tracy Schwarz): The Sioux Indians (trad) Remembrance Of Things To Come Verve Folkways FTS-3018

  13. Buffy Sainte-Marie: Now That the Buffalo's Gone The Best Of Buffy Sainte-Marie VANGUARD VCD-3/4

  14. Jack Hardy: I Ought To Know Omens 1 800 PRIME CD PCD69

  15. Tom Paxton: What Did You Learn In School Today? The Best of Tom Paxton RHINO R2 73515

  16. John McCutcheon & Tom Chapin: I Don't Care (McCutcheon) Doing Our Job ROUNDER CD 0411

  17. New Middle Class: Television Sky (Mike Borok) New Middle Class 2nd Mortgage 2M003 (PO Box 708, Jefferson Valley, NY 10535)

  18. Wayne and Shuster: I Was A TV Addict Wayne & Shuster Columbia CS-8231

  19. Hot Soup: Dig Down Deep (Libby Roderick) Soup Happens SOUPer Music SMD049 (PO Box 412, Columbia, MD 21045)

  20. The Nields: Keys to the Kingdom (Nerissa Nields) The Nields Zoe (Rounder) 01143-1007-2

  21. Sweet Honey in the Rock: Where Are the Keys to the Kingdom? Live At Carnegie Hall FLYING FISH FF 70106

  22. Original Cast: April In Fairbanks (Murray Grand) New Faces of 1956 RCA Victor LOC-1025

  23. David Mallett: April Vital Signs FLYING FISH FF 373

  24. Hamilton Camp: April Come She Will (Paul Simon) Welcome To Hamilton Camp Warner Bros WS 1753

  25. Small Potatoes: 1000 Candles, 1000 Cranes (Rich Prezioso) Waltz of the Wallflowers WIND RIVER WR401CD (877-365-5372)

  26. Hugh Blumenfeld: When Disneyland Comes To Hiroshima Mr. Jekyll & Dr. Hyde private pressing

  27. Tom Lehrer: So Long, Mom That Was the Week That Was REPRISE 6179-2

  28. Steve Goodman: A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request Affordable Art RED PAJAMAS RPJ-002CD (800-521-2112)

  29. Wayne and Shuster: A Shakespearean Baseball Game Wayne & Shuster Columbia CS-8231

  30. Original Cast: Remember (Sondheim) A Little Night Music Columbia SK 65284

  31. Hot Soup: (Don't Know What Was) The Last Thing On My Mind (Paxton/Trainor) Soup Happens SOUPer SMD 049

  32. Original Cast: Try To Remember (Tom Jones/Harvey Schmidt) The Fantasticks Polydor 821 943-2 Y-1

  33. Cindy Mangsen & Steve Gillette: Hole In My Shoe (Mike Jordan) The Light of the Day COMPASS ROSE CRM-7CD (PO Box 1501, Bennington, VT 05201)

  34. Stacey Earle: Just Another Day Simple Gearle Gearl no# (PO Box 739, Ashland City, TN 37015)

  35. Tom Russell: El Llano Estacado (trad/Russell) Cowboy Real PHILO CDPH 1146

  36. Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer: Cat-Eye Willie Claims His Lover (Carter) Tanglewood Tree SIGNATURE SOUNDS SIG 1257 (800-694-5354)

  37. Art Thieme: The Cowboy's Barbara Allen (trad) Outright Bold-Faced Lies Kicking Mule KM150

  38. Kate Long: Forget Barbry Allen (trad/Long) bigollady Roane 0113 (PO Box 2455, Charleston, WV 25301)

  39. Jack Hardy: Only One Sky Omens 1 800 PRIME CD PCD69

  40. Ed Miller: The Lea Rig (Robt.Burns) Lowlander Wellfield CD 023

  41. Jim Stewart: Magician private recording

  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:

Ed Miller, The Nields, Kate Wolf, Jack Hardy, Hot Soup, Small Potatoes, Hugh Blumenfeld, Carter & Grammer, Kate Long

These concerts were mentioned on the program:

At the No Exit Coffeehouse, 6970 N. Glenwood, Chicago, Larry Rand & Nicole Mendyke are there Friday, April 14, and Tom & Chris Kastle on the 29th. 773-743-3355

Tom Russell at Fitzgerald's, 6615 Roosevelt Rd., Berwyn, Tuesday, April 11. 708-788-2118

Hot Soup appears twice, first at the Maple Street Chapel, 220 S. Main St. Lombard, Saturday, April 15 at 7:30 with Cat Catalani - 630-629-2630, and at the Lake County Folk Club at the Greenleaf Grille, 301 Greenleaf St., Park City, Sunday, April 16 at 7. 847-949-5355

Cindy Mangsen & Steve Gillette perform for Hogeye Folk Arts, at the Lake Street Church of Evanston, Lake & Chicago Aves., Saturday, April 15 at 7:30. 847-475-6165

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