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February 8, 2003

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  1. Lead Belly: The Midnight Special Last Sessions Smithsonian Folkways SFCD-40068/71

  2. Dar Williams: The World's Not Falling Apart The Beauty of the Rain Razor and Tie preview

  3. HARP (Arlo Guthrie): All Over the World A Time To Sing! Appleseed APRCD 1054

  4. Ella Jenkins: The World Is Big, The World Is Small (trad) Songs and Rhythms From Far and Near Smithsonian Folkways SF 45033

  5. Kristin Lems: I Wish You a World Upbeat! Carolsdatter K005CD

  6. Odetta: He's Got the Whole World In His Hands Odetta at The Tin Angel Fantasy OBCCD-565-2

  7. Ruthie Foster: Light Up the World Crossover M.O.D. RF9912

  8. Bill Staines: Jubilee The Whistle of the Jay Folk-Legacy CD070

  9. Connie Allen & Bill Dempsey: Jubilee (trad) The Waves We Left Behind Bill&Connie no#

  10. Tom Chapin: Jubilation (Harry Chapin) Join the Jubilee Gadfly 214

  11. Melvin Goins: Brown Eyed Darlin' (Patsy Cline / Paul Williams) Light In the Window Again Rooster no# (606-928-2121)

  12. Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band: 'Tits Yeux Noirs (Little Black Eyes) (trad/arr.Savoy-Doucet) The Best of the Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band Arhoolie 500 (888-274-6654)

  13. Mother Maybelle Carter, et.al (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band): I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes (A.P.Carter) Will the Circle Be Unbroken Capitol 7243-5-35148-2-2

  14. Bill Staines: Eyes To Eyes Sandstone Cathedrals Mineral River 1005

  15. John McCutcheon: The Flu Wintersongs Rounder CD 8038

  16. Voices of Winter (Priscilla Herdman- Anne Hills- Cindy Mangsen): The Druggist (Joel Mabus) At the Turning of the Year Hand & Heart HHM-2000

  17. Foxfire: Keep Your Body Healthy (John Forster) Foxfire Kira 4916

  18. Cris Groenendaal: There's Something About a War (Stephen Sondheim) A Collector's Sondheim RCA Victor CRL4-5359

  19. Si Kahn w/Scott Ainslie: When the War Is Done private CD

  20. Peter Cook & Dudley Moore: War Correspondent Goodbye Again Brit.Decca LK 4981

  21. Moxy Fruvous: Gulf War Song Bargainville WEA CD 93134

  22. Janis Joplin: Mercedes Benz (Joplin/M.McClure) Janis Columbia PG 33345

  23. Jean Shepherd: The Great American Dream Will Failure Spoil Jean Shepherd? Collectors' Choice CCM-266-2 (800-923-1122)

  24. Lori Lieberman: Drive On Monterey Drive On 115115-01

  25. Paul Geremia: Broke Down Engine (Willie McTell) Live From Uncle Sam's Backyard Red House RHRCD101

  26. Capitol Steps: God Bless My Chevrolet (Greenwood/Newport-Strauss) Fools On the Hill CapSteps CSCD-1011 (800-733-STEP)

  27. Lyle Lovett: Pontiac Pontiac Curb-MCA MCA-42028

  28. David Mallett: Daddy's Oldsmobile Parallel Lives Flying Fish CDFF 670

  29. Sue Pyper: A Yellow Buick Before You Learn To Fly Pyper CD001

  30. Nashville Bluegrass Band: Blue Cadillac (Bill Dale) American Beauty Sugar Hill SHCD 3882

  31. Bob Franke: Saturn Blues Long Roads, Short Visits Daring/Rounder DR 3031

  32. Dar Williams: The Beauty of the Rain The Beauty of the Rain Razor and Tie preview

  33. Simon & Garfunkel: Flowers Never Bend With the Rainfall (Paul Simon) Old Friends Columbia Legacy C3K 64780

  34. Soulgrass: I Can't Stop the Rain (Debbie Heavers) Soulgrass no label

  35. John McCutcheon: Nothing To Lose Nothing To Lose Rounder CD 0358

  36. Richard & Mimi Farina: Hard Lovin' Loser Reflections In a Crystal Wind Vanguard VSD-79204-2

  37. Bill Staines: Lovers and Losers The First Million Miles, Volume II Rounder CD 11580

  38. Terence Martin: Steel Rail Nightingale Sleeper Good Dog GD0004

  39. Laura Love: Five Hundred Miles (Hedy West) Helvetica Bold Octroon Biography OB-004

  40. Original Soundtrack: I Am a Man Of Constant Sorrow (trad/arr.Carter Stanley) O Brother, Where Art Thou? Mercury 088 170-068-2

  41. Fred Holstein: The Man Who Sings (Shep Slaszlow) Fred Holstein: A Collection Holstein 01

  42. Buffy Sainte-Marie: Moonshot Moonshot Vanguard 79312-2

  43. Martin & Jessia Ruby Simpson: Icarus (Anne Lister) Red Roses Thunderbird no#

  44. Stan Rogers: The Mary Ellen Carter Between the Breaks-Live! Fogarty's Cove FCM002D

  45. 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 ( ).

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RICH'S PICKS:
Mark Haianes & Tom Leighton, Suzanne McDermott, Joel Rafael Band, Kate MacLeod & Kat Eggleston, Terence Martin, Short Sisters, Joe Jencks
These concerts were mentioned on the program:

Bill Staines appears in the Off Square Music concert series at the Unitarian Church, 221 Dean St., Woodstock, Saturday, February 15 at 8. 815-338-5164

Paul Geremia performs for Hogeye Folk Arts, Limited at the Lake Street Church, Lake & Chicago Avenues, Evanston, Saturday, February 15, at 7:30. 847-475-6165

Fred Holstein sings for the World Folk Music Company, 1808 W. 103rd St., Chicago on February 15 at 8. 773-779-7059

Melvin Goins with Windy Mountain Bluegrass Band athe the American Legion Hall, 1030 Central Street, Evanston, Sunday, February 16 at 2:30 PM. 847-251-0574

Ruthie Foster is at the Old Town School, Saturday, February 15. John McCutcheon in concert at the Old Town School of Folk Music, 4544 N. Lincoln, Sunday, February 23 at 3. The Grapes of Wrath folk opera by Michael Smith is at the school on February 28. 773-728-6000