The Midnight Special Playlist

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

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer: Here Is the Chorus (Bernard Carney) Postcards Community Music CMCD 203 (800-669-3942)

The Mrs Ackroyd Band: The Harvey Andrews Chorus (Handel/Les Barker) Tubular Dogs Mrs Ackroyd DOG-014

Arlo Guthrie: last choruses of Alice's Restaurant Alice's Restaurant Reprise RS-6267

Dan Hart: I Hate to Sing Along The Life of Dan Stone Boat 83707 40282 (800-SLY-SONG)

Aeofe & Bobby Clancy: Kisses Sweeter Than Wine (Gilbert-Hays-Hellerman-Seeger-Ledbetter) Silvery Moon Appleseed APR CD 1065

Flanders & Swann: Madeira, M'Dear? At the Drop of a Hat/The Complete Flanders and Swann EMI CDS 7974642

Babes With Axes: Taste the Wine (Debbie Diedrich) Live Axe BabesWithAxes BWA002 (PO Box 12178, Eugene, OR 97440)

Sons Of the Never Wrong: Everybody's Gotta (Bruce Roper) 4 ever on Gadfly 282 (888-9GADFLY)

Bruce Springsteen: Nothing Man The Rising Columbia CK 86600

Linda Thompson: All I See Fashionably Late Rounder 11661-3182-2

Aoife Clancy: There Is Hope (Robbie O'Connell) Silvery Moon Appleseed APR CD 1065

Ian & Sylvia: Pride of Petrovar (trad) The Complete Vanguard Studio Recordings Vanguard 196/99-2

Jeff & Janis: Tum Balaika (trad/Teddi Schwartz-Arthur Kevess) At Last self 83707 55242-2 (jwin2@aol.com)

Enoch Kent: The Bonniest Lass (trad/Burns-Kent) I'm a Workin' Chap 2nd AV. SAS2007

Mike Craver: That Wicky Wacky Hula Hula Honka Wonka Honolulu Hawaiian Honey of Mine Shining DownSapsucker 2324 (336-787-3523)

Jean Shepherd: Purgatories Will Failure Spoil Jean Shepherd? Collectors' Choice CCM-266-2 (800-923-1122)

Jan Seides: Jenny Jones Everyday People Panda PP02

Four Bitchin' Babes (Sally Fingerett): TV Talk Fax It! Charge It!... Shanachie 8018

Tom Chapin: Martha & Oprah Common Ground Gadfly 271

Liz Carroll: Oh, Bedad! / For the Love of Music Lake Effect Green Linnet GLCD 1220

Maxwell Street Klezmer Band: Shpil di Fidl, Shpil / Yidl mitn Fidl (Play, Fiddle Play / Yidl with the Fiddle) (A.Ellstein/Itsik Manger/arr.Bokow-Koffman) Old Roots New World Shanachie 67008

Liz Carroll: The Potato on the Door / Mary and the Tea Rag / Perpetual Check Lake Effect Green Linnet GLCD 1220

Jim Bizer: The Ground Moves Under Our Feet Closer to the Surface Brozone 123

James Lee Stanley: Somewhere In Between Freelance Human Being Beechwood BR2425-2

Corky Siegel's Chamber Blues: Insecurity Corky Siegel's Chamber Blues Alligator ALCD 4824

Billie Holiday: Summertime (G&I Gershwin - D.Heyword) Lady Day Columbia Legacy C2K 85979

Jan Seides: Bored Everyday People Panda PP02

Original Soundtrack: Bored (Alex.Borodin/Robt.Wright-Geo.Forrest) Kismet Rhino R2 72482

Joel Mabus: Chairman of the Bored Rhyme Schemes Fossil 1402

Cris Williamson: Sister The Best of Cris Williamson Olivia ORCD959

Bob Dylan: Oh, Sister (Dylan/J.Levy) Desire Columbia PC 34349

Sons Of the Never Wrong: Sister (Debora Lader) 4 ever on Gadfly 282

Bruce Springsteen: Paradise The Rising Columbia CK 86600

Paul Robeson: Witness (trad) Songs of My People RCA Victor LM-3292

Cindy Kalmenson: Witness Witness Self 62582 80302

Sons Of the Never Wrong: Witness (Bruce Roper) 4 ever on Gadfly 282

The Wyrd Sisters: Witness To It All (Nancy Reinhold) Sin & Other Salvations WYRD 4

Still on the Hill: I Saw You There (a song to the spirit of Dave Carter) (Donna Henschell) private CD

Jason Fowler: Shi Big, Shi Mhor (O'Carolan/arr.Fowler) Six Strings North of the Border (a compilation of guitarists) Borealis BCD128

Sons Of the Never Wrong: Forever On 4 ever on Gadfly 282

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:

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer, Sons of the Never Wrong, Bruce Springsteen, Aoeife Clancy, Liz Carroll, Mike Craver, Enoch Kent, Cindy Kalmenson, Linda Thompson

These concerts were mentioned on the program:

Jim Bizer will perform at the Uncommon Ground, 1214 W. Grace, Chicago, Thursday, August 15 at 9. 773-929-3680

The Unity In Chicago Summer Concert series features A Meeting Of the Hearts, Friday, August 16 at 7, 1925 W. Thome in Rogers Park, Chicago. 773-973-0007

James Lee Stanley and Corky Siegel perform at Lucille's, 2470 N. Lincoln, Chicago, Sunday, August 18 at 6. 773-929-0660

Folk Alliance presents Music Business Basics at the Old Town School of Folk Music, 4544 N. Lincoln, Chicago, Sunday, August 25 from 9-5. 301-588-8185

Holly Near and Cris Williamson as the Unitarian Church of Evanston, October 5. 312-409-SEAT