The Midnight Special Playlist

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

Fairport Convention: The Heart of the Song (Peter Scrowther) The Wood & The Wire Compass 7 4297 2

Jane Voss & Hoyle Osborne: Get To the Heart (Voss) Get to the Heart Green Linnet SIF 1031

William Bolcom & Joan Morris: With a Song in My Heart (Rodgers/Hart) More Rodgers and Hart RCA Victor ARL-4676

Capitol Steps: We Lost Your Heart (Cory-Cross/Newport-Strauss) It's Not Over 'Til The First Lady Sings! Capitol Steps CSCD-1020 (800-733-STEP)

Claudia Schmidt: Happy Hearts Out of the Dark Flying Fish FF70361

Bill Monroe: I'm Working On a Building Live From Mountain Stage Blue Plate BPM-400 (800-521-2112)

The Foremen: Building For the Future (Roy Zimmerman) Folk Heroes Reprise 9 45993-2

Eric Bibb: Meetin' At The Building (trad/adapt.Bibb/Wennerbrandt) Spirit and the Blues Earthbeat R2 75686 (800-346-4445)

Steve Goodman: The Twentieth Century Is Almost Over (Goodman-Prine) Say It In Private Red Pajamas RPJ-012CD (800-521-2112)

Carrie Newcomer: When It's Gone, It's Gone The Age of Possibility Philo 116711 226-p2

Paul Simon: Old You're The One Warner Bros. 9 47844-2

Rosalie Sorrels: Feather Ben (Peter Bowen) Travelin' Lady Rides Again Philo 1049 14

Tim Grimm: Better Days Heart Land Vault VR003 (PO Box 2027, Columbus, IN 47201)

Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer: Farewell To Saint Delores (Carter) Tanglewood Tree Signature Sounds SIG 1257

Utah Phillips: She'll Never Be Mine The Telling Takes Me Home Philo CDPH 1210

Dave Carter: The River, Where She Sleeps (Carter) When I Go Carter

Utah Phillips: Oliver's Outhouse The Moscow Hold & other stories Red House RHR 118

James Gordon: Men Don't Clean Toilets Songs From Basic Black Pipe Street PSR1 (519-837-3757)

Clancy Bros. & Tommy Makem: They're Moving Father's Grave To Build a Sewer (J&H Kennedy) Recorded Live The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem In Ireland! Columbia CS 9065

Ramblin' Jack Elliott: Hard Travelin' (Woody Guthrie) Hard Travellin' Fantasy FCD-24720-2

Tim Grimm: Down the Road Heart Land Vault VR003

Ramblin' Jack Elliott: Me and Bobby McGee (Kristofferson) Me and Bobby McGee Rounder CD 0328

Jez Lowe: Sweep Horizons Clean Live at the Davy Lamp Tantobie TTRCD 100

Rod MacDonald: 137 Executions (Not One Innocent Man) private release

Judy Collins: Tim Evans (Ewan MacColl) A Maid of Constant Sorrow Elektra EKS-7209

David Bromberg: Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair (G.Brooks) Wanted Columbia KC 32717

Dave Van Ronk: Hang Me, Oh Hang Me (trad) Inside Dave Van Ronk Fantasy FCD-24710-2

Larry Rand: The Waterbed Polka (WFMT studio 1972) WFMT recording

Firesign Theatre: The Glue-It Yourself Show Boom Dot Bust Rhino R2 75983

Peter Alsop: Stuck On You Peter Alsop Peaceable 5

Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer: Farewell To Fiddler's Rim Tanglewood Tree Signature Sounds SIG 1257

Rosalie Sorrels: On the Rim of the World (Malvina Reynolds) No Closing Chord Red House RHRCD 143

Claudia Schmidt: It All Depends Wings of Wonder Red House RHRCD 144

Judy Collins: Send In the Clowns (S.Sondheim) Live at Wolf Trap Wildflower WFL 1298-2

Bonnie Koloc: Every Soul's a Circus (L.Rosen/T.Bishop) Close-Up Epic PE 34184

Stan Rogers: Music In Your Eyes (Willie P. Bennett) From Coffeehouse to Concert Hall Fogarty's Cove FCM 012D (23 Hillside Ave.S., Dundas, Ontario L9H 4H7, Canada)

Gordon Bok - Ann Mayo Muir - Ed Trickett: In Your Eyes (Anne Dodson) And So Will We Yet Folk Legacy CD-116

Carrie Newcomer: Close Your Eyes My True Name Philo CDPH 1223

Josh White, Jr: Close Your Eyes (James Taylor) Cortelia Clark Silverwolf SWCD 1028

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:

Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer, Tim Grimm, Rosalie Sorrels, Carry Newcomer, Josh White, Jr. Paul Simon, Fairport Convention, Claudia Schmidt, Jez Lowe, Judy Collins

These concerts were mentioned on the program:

Rosalie Sorrels in a Hogeye Folk Arts concert at the Lake Street Church, Lake & Chicago Avenues, Evanston, Saturday, October 28 at 7:30 PM. Priscilla Herdman will be there November 4. 847-475-6165

Claudia Schmidt at Fitzgerald's, 6615 Roosevelt Road in Berwyn, Friday, October 27 at 7:30. 708-788-2118. Fairport Convention will be there November 1.

Larry Rand at the No Exit Café, 6970 N. Glenwood, Thursday, October 26. 773-743-3355

Bonnie Koloc in a house concert at Molly's Place in Mokeena, Friday, October 27 at 8. 708-479-8680

Ramblin' Jack Elliott, with Tim Grimm, at Steppenwolf Theatre, 1650 N. Halsted, Chicago, Monday, November 6 at 7:30. 312-335-1650

Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer in Acoustic Renaissance, Saturday, November 4 at 8 at the Unitarian Church of Hinsdale, 11 W. Maple. 708-802-0236

Judy Collins at Borders Books on Michigan, Monday, November 6 at 7.