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August 25, 2001

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

  2. David Ball: Amigo (Ball/Kostas) Amigo Dualtone 803020-1109-2 (615-320-0620)

  3. Joel Rafael Band: Mi Amigo Hopper Inside IR 0511-2 (800-853-2244)

  4. Roy Book Binder: Friend Like Me (Jesse Thomas) Bookeroo! Rounder 3107

  5. Margie Adam: Best Friend (The Unicorn Song) Songwriter Pleiades HB2724

  6. Original Cast: The Unicorn In the Garden (James Thurber) A Thurber Carnival Columbia KOS 2024

  7. Richard Dyer-Bennet: Eggs and Marrowbone (trad) Richard Dyer-Bennet 2 Smithsonian Folkways SFWCD40142

  8. Les Sampou: It Won't Be You (Bessie Smith) Borrowed & Blue Monando 0101 (781-659-2410)

  9. Loudon Wainwright III: Whatever Happened To Us Unrequited Columbia Legacy CK 65258

  10. Jim Post: Jim Smiley Mark Twain's Adventure's Out West private pressing (815-777-3969)

  11. Mary McCaslin: Ballad of Weaverville (Ringer/McCaslin) Prairie In the Sky Philo 1024

  12. Jean Ritchie & Paul Clayton: The Gambling Suitor (trad) American Folk Tales and Songs Tradition TLP 1011

  13. Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee: Life Is a Gamble (McGhee) A Long Way From Home ABC Bluesway BLS-6028

  14. Loudon Wainwright III: Jesse Don't Like It Jesse Don't Like It Hannibal 45 rpm HNS0705

  15. Si Kahn: The Senator Signs of the Times Rounder CD 4017

  16. Capitol Steps: Supercallousmeanandnastyrightwinglegislation (Sherman-Sherman/Newport-Strauss) A Whole Newt World CapSteps CSCD 1015 (800-733-STEP)

  17. Chad Mitchell Trio: The John Birch Society Mighty Day (1987) Folk Era FE1422CD (800-232-7328)

  18. The Wrigley Sisters: Rohan / Keenan's Welcome / Peedie Sophie (J.Wrigley) Hulderland Greentrax CDTRAX 148

  19. Ed Trickett: Annie Laurie (PD) / Bad Half Hour (Tom Russell/Charles Badger Clark) Echo on the Evening Tide Azalea City ACCD-9901

  20. Jamie O'Reilly: Annie Laurie (Lady John Scott /Wm.Douglas PD) Swimming Deeper Bird Avenue BA003 (312-458-0822 or email)

  21. Jennifer & Hazel Wrigley: Mrs. Violet Eunson (Davie Eunson) Mither o' the Sea Greentrax CDTRAX 183

  22. Woody Allen: Eggs Benedict Standup Comic Rhino R2 75721

  23. Rufus Wainwright: Heartburn The McGarrigle Hour Hannibal HNCD 1417

  24. Trout Fishing In America: Pico de Gallo (Emily Kaitz/Marilyn Cain) Family Music Party Trout TRT-13 (888-439-8342)

  25. Joan Baez: Matty Groves (trad) In Concert, Part 1 Vanguard VMD 2122

  26. Nichols & May: Adultery, part 1 An Evening With Mike Nichols and Elaine May Mercury 314 558 456-2

  27. Doc Watson: Matty Groves (trad) Home Again! Vanguard VSD 79239

  28. Nichols & May: Adultery, part 2 An Evening With Mike Nichols and Elaine May Mercury 314 558 456-2

  29. Fairport Convention: Matty Groves (trad/arr.Fairport) Liege & Lief A&M SP 4257

  30. Nichols & May: Adultery, part 3 An Evening With Mike Nichols and Elaine May Mercury 314 558 456-2

  31. Buddy Ebsen: Your Cheatin' Heart (Hank Williams) Golden Throats: Sweethearts of Rodeo Drive Rhino R2 71867

  32. Kitty Donohoe: To America As Sparks Fly Upward Roheen RR003CD (PO Box 1813, East Lansing, MI 48826-1813)

  33. Sonia: Me, Too Live At the Down Home Winthrop WIN 2201-2

  34. David Massengill: The Great American Dream The Return Plump 5903-2 (800-PLUMPCD)

  35. Gillian Welch: Revelator (Welch-David Rawlings) Time (The Revelator) Acony ACNY0103

  36. Roger McGuinn (with Jean Ritchie & Odetta): John the Revelator (trad) Treasures From the Folk Den Appleseed APRCD1046 (610-701-5755)

  37. Roger McGuinn (with Pete Seeger & Josh White, Jr.): Dink's Song (trad) Treasures From the Folk Den Appleseed APRCD1046 (610-701-5755)

  38. Carrie Newcomer: Anything With Wings Bare to the Bone Philo CD 9901

  39. Artisan: What's the Use of Wings (Brian Bedford) Rocking at the End of Time Boing 9103CD

  40. Michael Smith: We Become Birds Time Flying Fish FF 70613

  41. Les Sampou: You Are My Sunshine (Jimmie Davis/Chas.Mitchell) Borrowed & Blue Monando 0101

  42. Eva Cassidy: Over the Rainbow (Harold Arlen / E.Y. Harburg) Songbird Blix Street G2-10045 (818-763-9151)

  43. Kim & Reggie Harris & Magpie: When I'm Gone (Ochs) Spoken in Love Long Tail LT003-2 (PO Box 5467, Takoma Park, MD 20913)

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

RICH'S PICKS:
Les Sampou, Roger McGuinn, Sonia

These concerts were mentioned on the program:

Four Shillings Short at the Uncommon Ground, 1214 W. Grace, Chicago, Thursday, August 30 at 8. 773-929-3680

The Fox Valley Folk Festival at Island Park in Geneva, September 2-3, features Lou & Peter Berryman, Roy Book Binder, Bob Bovee & Gail Heil, Andrew Calhoun, Cooper-Nelson-Early, Elllie & Leela Grace, Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen, Huval Family Band, David Massengill, Lee Murdock, Tom Paley, Bill Robinson & friends, John Roberts, Cynthia Shelhart, Michael Smith, The Sugar Kings, Ed Trickett, Don Weeda & friends, The Teflons, Bob Zentz, and many more. 630-844-3655

Jim Post's Mark Twain's Adventures Out West runs September 19-23 at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, 9501 Skokie Blvd., Skokie. 847-673-6300

The Wrigley Sisters in a live Folkstage concert at the Byron Colby Barn, Prairie Crossing, Grayslake, Illinois, *Friday* September 14 at 8. It's a free concert but you must make reservations: call Donna at 847-548-5400.

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