The Midnight Special Playlist

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

Lee Murdock: Let the Light from the Lighthouse Shine On Me (trad/Bob Zentz) Standing At the Wheel Depot DEP-026

The Limeliters: Shine On Me (Brian Templeton) Alive! In Concert GNP Crescendo GNPD 2188

Nanci Griffith: Let It Shine On Me (Paul Kennedy) Lone Star State of Mind MCA MCA-5927

The New Coon Creek Girls: Let the Light Shine Down On Me (Dot Swan) Paying Our Respect Turquoise TR-5069

Lead Belly: Shine On Me (trad/arr.Lead Belly) Leadbelly Playboy PB-119

Cheryl Wheeler: Unworthy Sylvia Hotel Philo 11671-1212-2

Loudon Wainwright III: Mr. Guilty Unrequited Columbia Legacy CK 65258

The Chicken Chokers: Worthy of Estimation (Uncle Dave Macon) Shoot Your Radio Rounder 0241

Mike Nichols & Elaine May: Out of Africa Nichols & May Examine Doctors Mercury 314 558 457-2

Roberts & Barrand: What a Mouth! (R.P.Weston, PD) Spencer the Rover Is Alive and Well... Swallowtail/Mill City ST-0001 (612-722-6649)

O'Reilly Family: Any Man Who Loves His Mother (Jimmy Van Heusen / Sammy Cahn) private demo

Tom Lehrer: Oedipus Rex Songs & More Songs by Tom Lehrer Rhino R2 72776

Wil Maring: Reminds Me Of Missouri The Turning of a Century Roan Pony RPCD 1309

Robin & Linda Williams: Famous In Missouri (R.Williams/J.Clark) Harmony June Appal JA040

Bill Staines: Missouri Road Song The Whistle of the Jay Folk Legacy CD-70

Chuck Suchy: Blue Missouri Hills #2 Different Line of Time Little Bluestem LBR02

Cheryl Wheeler: Makes Good Sense To Me Mrs. Pinocci's Guitar Philo CDPH 1192

David Massengill: Down Derry Down Twilight the Taj Majal Plump PL8801-2 (800-PLUMPCD)

Original Cast: Too Much Exposition / Urinetown (Mark Hollmann / Greg Kotis) Urinetown RCA Victor 09026-63821-2

Bethany Dick: How Beautiful Heaven Must Be (trad) This Beautiful Life Bethany BR103

Almeda Riddle: Chick-a-la-le-o (trad) Songs and Ballads of the Ozarks Vanguard VRS-9158

Judy Collins: John Riley (trad) Maids & Golden Apples Wildflower WFL 1299-2

Stairheid Gossip: Johnny I Hardly Knew You (trad) Stirrin' It Up Greentrax CDTRAX230

Niamh Parsons w/ Graham Dunne: Done With Bonaparte (trad/Mark Knopfler) Heart's Desire Green Linnet GLCD1219

Aly Bain & Phil Cunningham: Bonaparte's Retreat (trad/arr. Cunningham-Bain) The Ruby Green Linnet GLCD 3123

Niamh Parsons: Brokenhearted I'll Wander (trad/arr.Parsons-D.Cahill) Heart's Desire Green Linnet GLCD1219

Original Broadway Cast: There's No Business Like Show Business (Irving Berlin) Annie Get Your Gun MCA Classics MCAD 10047

Original Cast: One Leg Too Few (Bennett-Cook-Moore-Whitehead) Beyond the Fringe '64 Capitol ST-11654

Steve Goodman: Three-Legged Man (Shel Silverstein) Artistic Hair Red Pajamas RPJ-001CD (800-521-2112)

Liza Minnelli: Alexander's Ragtime Band (Irving Berlin) Liza Minnelli at Carnegie Hall Telarc CD-85502

Chenille Sisters: I'll See You In C-U-B-A (Irving Berlin) The Chenille Sisters Red House RHRCD 29

Dock Boggs: Cuba (trad) Dock Boggs: His Folkways Years 1963-1968 Smithsonian Folkways SF 40108

Nancy White: I Know Cuba (Like the Back of My Hand) Unexpected Borealis/Mouton BCD131

James Gordon w/ Sandy Horne: How Many Mistakes? One Timeless Moment Borealis BCD 141 (416-530-4288)

Megon McDonough: Never Just One Reason Blue Star Highway Sirius no#

Gordon Bok w/ Ann Mayo Muir: Dublin City (trad/arr.Bok) Bay of Fundy Folk Legacy FSI-54

Cheryl Wheeler: Almost Driving Home Philo CDPH 1152

Martin Simpson: The Company You Keep (J.R.Simpson) Live at the Holywell Music Room Red House RHRCD106

Bob Gibson: The Pig and the Inebriate (trad) Offbeat Folksongs Riverside RLP12-802

Martyn Joseph: One of Us (Eric Bazilian) Far From Silent Pipe Records 190198-2

David Luck with Kathy Cowan: Why Yi Yi Yi Third Rail no label

1946 Broadway Cast: Why Do I Love You? (Kern/Hammerstein) Showboat EMI CDC 7 49847 2

Doc Watson: That's Why I Love You Like I Do (J.Morrow) Docabilly Sugar Hill SHCD-3836

Megon McDonough: Joy In the Journey Day By Day Sirius no#

Alastair Moock: A Life I Never Had A Life I Never Had Moock Rising no#

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:

Lee Murdock, Wil Maring, Bethany Dick, Niamh Parsons, Alastair Moock

These concerts were mentioned on the program:

Old Town School of Folk Music, 4544 N. Lincoln, Chicago.
Cheryl Wheeler is there May 19. Martin Simpson will be there May 25. 773-728-6000

The McAninch Arts Center presents An Evening With Megon McDonough Friday, May 17 at 8. At the College of DuPage, 22nd & Park, Glen Ellyn. 630-942-4000

Claudia Schmidt with Madcat and Kane performs for Concerts For a Cause, at Shannon Hall, E.Wilson & Van Buren in Batavia Saturday, May 18. 630-761-8298

The O'Reilly Family in Concert Somebody to Love, at the Steppenwolf Studio Theater, 1650 N. Halsted, Chicago, Wednesday, May 22 at 7:30 PM. 312-458-0822 or 773-327-6666