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September 29, 2001

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

  2. HARP (Near-Guthrie-Gilbert-Seeger): O Mary Don't You Weep (trad) A Time For Singing Appleseed APRCD 1054 (610-701-5755)

  3. Bob Franke: Trouble In This World (It'll Be All Right) The Heart of the Flower Daring CD3016

  4. Tim Harrison: No Percentage In Bitter Sara and the Sea Second Avenue SAS2006 (416-686-1616)

  5. Connie Kaldor: I'm a Nice Little World (Holsteins - 4/28/84) WFMT recording

  6. Kim & Reggie Harris & Magpie: Living Planet (Jay Mankita/ add.lyricsArtzner-Leonino) Spoken In Love Longtail LT003

  7. HARP: Singing With You (Jeff Langley/Near) A Time To Sing! Appleseed APRCD1054

  8. Eric Bogle: Sound of Singing I Wrote This Wee Song... Rice RRCD1 (PO Box 529, Magill, South Australia 5073, Australia / fax: 08-3328095)

  9. Bob Gibson: I Hear America Singing (Shel Silverstein) Makin' a Mess Asylum 61697-2

  10. Linda Tillery & The Cultural Heritage Choir: Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing (J.W.& J.R.Johnson) Say Yo' Business EarthBeat! R2 76762

  11. HARP: Singing For Our Lives (Holly Near) A Time For Singing Appleseed APRCD 1054

  12. Kitty Donohoe: There Are No Words private pressing

  13. Carrie Newcomer: I Heard An Owlprivate recording

  14. Eileen Ivers: Lament For Staker Wallace So Far - The Eileen Ivers Collection 1979-85 Green Linnet GLCD 1185

  15. Cole Porter: A Picture of Me Without You Cole Columbia KS 31456

  16. Susan Werner: Maybe If I Sang Cole Porter (Folkstage - 5/1/99) WFMT recording

  17. Nancy White: Leonard Cohen's Never Gonna Bring My Groceries In Momnipotent Children's Group SANCD 1025 (64 Palmerston Sq., Toronto, ON M6F 2S7, Canada)

  18. Les Barker: Blessed are the meek Arovertherapy Mrs Ackroyd DOG 015

  19. Original Cast: The Meek Shall Inherit (Alan Menkin/Howard Ashman) Little Shop of Horrors Geffen 7599-22020-1

  20. The Persuasions: The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing (Frank Zappa) Frankly A Cappella EarthBeat! R2 79822

  21. Dervish: Abbeyfeale Set (trad/arr.Dervish) Midsummer's Night Whirling WHRL005

  22. Firesign Theatre: The Haystack In the Needle The Bride of Firesign Rhino R2 74390

  23. John Williams: John Brady's (Brady) & The Hawk from Dundalk (trad/arr.Williams) Steam Green Linnet GLCD 1215

  24. Ellis Paul: Did Galileo Pray? Live Philo 11671-1229-2

  25. Robbie O'Connell: Galileo Never Learned to Dance Green Linnet GLCD 1124

  26. Original British Cast: Regella Parolophone That Was the Week That Was PMC 1197

  27. Pete Nelson: Good Sushi On Jupiter Days Like Horses Signature Sounds SIG 1260 (800-694-5354)

  28. Anne Hills: Pleiades Bittersweet Street Redwing RWMCD 5402 (PO Box 577575, Chicago, IL 60657)

  29. Kathy Kallick: Web of Birdsong (Bob Coltman) My Mother's Voice Copper Creek CCCD-0201

  30. Leah Kaufman: Sweet Sweet Five Fingers Boojum 4001 (425-373-0899)

  31. Voices On the Verge: Blackbirds (Erin McKeown) Live In Philadelphia Ryko Slow River RCD 10608

  32. Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain: The Creator's Pet Mark Twain Tonight! Columbia OS 3080

  33. Lucy Kaplansky: (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding (Nick Lowe) Flesh and Bone Red House RHR CD92

  34. Nancy White: Clapping Song for Grownups Gaelic Envy Borealis BCD 109 (416-530-4288)

  35. John Gorka: People My Age The Company You Keep Red House RHRCD 151

  36. Dan Hart: You're Old The Life of Dan Stone Boat 83707 40282

  37. Susan Werner: When They Make The Movie of My Life Time Between Trains Bottom Line 63440-47305-2

  38. Bill Staines: Every Long Journey Looking For The Wind Red House RHRCD 79

  39. Kathy Kallick: My Native Home (trad) My Mother's Voice Copper Creek CCCD-0201

  40. Joel Mabus: Balm In Gilead (trad/arr.Mabus) Six of One Fossil 1301 (PO Box 306, Portage, MI 49081)

  41. Kitty Donohoe: There Are No Words private pressing

  42. Kim & Reggie Harris & Magpie: When I'm Gone (Phil 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:
Tim Harrison, John Williams, Kathy Kallick, Dan Hart

These concerts were mentioned on the program:

Dervish performs at Fitzgerald's, 6615 Roosevelt Rd., Berwyn, Monday, October 1 at 8. 708-788-2118

Susan Werner, and Ellis Paul at the Old Town School of Folk Music, 4544 N. Lincoln, Saturday, October 6 at 7 and 10 PM The Kathy Kallick Band will perform at the School on Sunday, October 14 at 3. Dougie MacLean is there in the evening. Odetta, and Judy Henske will perform at the School on Saturday, October 20 at 7:30 and 10 PM. The New Lost City Ramblers will be there on November 3. 773-728-6000

Bob Franke will perform for Hogeye Folk Arts, Ltd. at the Lake Street Church in Evanston, Lake & Chicago Avenues, Saturday, October 6 at 7:30. 847-475-6165

Anne Hills performs at the Prairie Center for the Arts, 201 Schaumburg Ct. in Schaumburg, Saturday, October 6. 847-895-3600 She returns to perform for the Lake County Folk Club at the Greenleaf Grille, 301 Greenleaf, Park City, Sunday, October 21. 847-949-5355

Bill Staines is at the South Suburban Dulcimer and Folk Music Society, at the Trinity Lutheran Church, 2901 Western Ave., Park Forest, Saturday, October 6 at 8. 708-331-6875

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