The Midnight Special Playlist

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

Cindy Kallet: Tide and the River Rising Dreaming Down a Quite Line Stone's Throw STM-1 (206-236-6306)

Steve Goodman: When My Rowboat Comes In Affordable Art Red Pajamas RPJ-002CD (800-521-2112)

Brian Lillie and the Squirrel Mtn. Orchestra: Row Boats One Man Clapping OMC0007

Marilyn Child & Glenn Yarbrough: Weel Man the Keel Row (trad) Child & Yarbrough Sing Folk Songs Elektra 143

Weavermania!: Michael Row the Boat Ashore (trad-The Weavers) (Folkstage - 2/3/01) WFMT recording

Special Consensus: That Old Moonlight (D.Marrone/D.Hooper) Hey, Y'All Turquoise TR-CD-5076

Eclectricity: Moonlight Jamboree (Bill Schwarz) Eclectricity Redbud 1003

The Stanley Brothers: Meet Me in the Moonlight (trad) Blue Trail of Sorrow Rounder 11661 0500-2

Billie Holiday: What a Little Moonlight Can Do (H.Woods) Lady Day Columbia Legacy C2K 85979

Rachel Cross: Au Clair de la Lune Angels & Aliens, Monsters & Freaks Dreamy Eyes DER-01 (301-589-7768)

Aoife Clancy: Silvery Moon (trad) Silvery Moon Appleseed APRCD 1065

Dr. West's Medicine Show & Junk Band: Appleseed Euphoria! Sundazed SC 11070-2

Austin Lounge Lizards: Purple People Eater (Sheb Wooley) Paint Me On Velvet Flying Fish FF 70618

Flanders & Swann: The Reluctant Cannibal At the Drop of a Hat EMI CDP 7974652

Woody Guthrie: I'll Eat You, I'll Drink You Songs to Grow on For Mother and Child Smithsonian Folkways CDSF45035

Small Potatoes: Avocado (Pete Norman) (Folkstage - July 20, 2002) WFMT recording

David Jones: Easy and Slow (trad) Easy and Slow Minstrel JD-201

Enoch Kent: I'll Lay Ye Doon Love I'm a Workin' Chap 2nd AV SAS2007

John McCutcheon: Last First Kiss The Greatest Story Never Told Red House RHRCD 163

Original Cast: William & Emily (Edgar Lee Masters) Spoon River Anthology Columbia OS 2410

Special Consensus: I Can't Sit Down (Wade Mainer) Hey, Y'All Turquoise TR-CD-5016

Roberts & Barrand: Get Up Jack, John Sit Down (trad) Across the Western Ocean Swallowtail / Mill City ST-0004 (800-426-5783)

Original Broadway Cast: Sit Down, John (Sherman Edwards) 1776 Sony SK 48215

Bryan Bowers: Festival Love (Mark Graham) For You Flying Fish FF 70524

Mustard's Retreat: Festival Night (Hough/Tamulevich) The Wind and the Crickets... Palmetto PM2029 (800-PALM-CDS)

James Keelaghan: Sing My Heart Home Home Appleseed APRCD 1059

Cathy Barton & Dave Para: Noah Built the Ark (trad) Living On the River Roustabout RO4CD

Bill Cosby: Noah: Right! Bill Cosby Is a Very Funny Fellow Right! Warner Bros. 1518-2

The Greenbriar Boys: Levee Breaking Blues (W.C.Handy/arr.John Herald) Best of the Vanguard Years Vanguard 206/07

Bill Cosby: Noah: And the Neighbor Bill Cosby Is a Very Funny Fellow Right! Warner Bros. 1518-2

Johnny Cash: Five Feet High and Rising Johnny Cash - Songs of Our Soul Columbia Legacy CK 86792

Bill Cosby: Noah: Me and You, Lord Bill Cosby Is a Very Funny Fellow Right! Warner Bros. 1518-2

Joel Mabus: The Preacher and the Flood Short Stories Fossil 592CD

Christine Lavin: I Was In Love With a Difficult Man I Was in Love with a Difficult Man Redwing RWMCD5411

Original London Cast: A Hymn To Him (Loewe/Lerner) My Fair Lady Columbia Legacy SK60539

Peggy Seeger: You Men Out There An Odd Collection Rounder CD 4031

Christine Lavin: Trade Up I Was In Love With a Difficult Man Redwing RWMCD5411

David Piper: Missiles, Mortars and Rockets All My Angels Past Trough TRCP 1310

Michael Johnson: Cain's Blood The Early Albums MJP 99001

John McCutcheon: Children of Abraham The Greatest Story Never Told Red House RHRCD 163

Weavermania!: If I Had a Hammer Live Depot DEP-025 (630-557-2742)

David Massengill: My Home Must Be a Special Place My Home Must Be a Special Place Gadfly 281 (888-9GADFLY)

Anne Hills & Michael Smith: Spoon River (M.Smith) Paradise Lost & Found Redwing RWMCD 5406

Original Cast: The Hill (Edgar Lee Masters) Spoon River Anthology Columbia OS 2410

Iris DeMent: Our Town Infamous Angel Warner Bros. 9 45238-2

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:

Aoife Clancy, Enoch Kent, John McCutcheon, Christine Lavin, David Massengill

These concerts were mentioned on the program:

The 25th Annual Fox Valley Folk Music & Storytelling Festival takes place Sunday & Monday, September 1 and 2 starting at 11 AM at Island Park, Geneva, at Route 38 and the Fox River, featuring Jennifer Armstrong, Cathy Barton & Dave Para, Bryan Bowers, Al & Emily Cantrell, Chicago Cajun Aces, Cooper-Nelson-Early, Judy Cook, Tom Dundee, Mark Dvorak, Ellie & Leela Grace, Joel Mabus, Lee Murdock, Dave Moore, Mustard's Retreat, Cosy Sheridan, Small Potatoes, Special Consensus Bluegrass Band, Small Potatoes and many other, plus Sacred Harp singing and a storytelling stage. 630-897-3655

Weavermania! present a benefit concert for the Nicaragua Solidarity Committee for Nicaraguan hospitals and clinics, Saturday, September 7 at 8:30 at the First Congregational Church of Evanston at Hinman & Grove. 773-276-5626

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