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February 22, 2003

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

  2. Brian Johnson & ensemble of children: If I Had a Hammer (Seeger-Hays) This Land Is Your Land MusicForLittlePeople R2 78142

  3. Joe Jencks: Singers of Life I Hear Your Voice Turtle Bear TBM0101003-1 (877-485-2479)

  4. Holly Near: Singing For Our Lives And Still We Sing Calico Tracks CTM0005

  5. Charlie King & Karen Brandow: If You Want Peace (C.King) Puppet Town Vaguely Reminiscent VRS 9019

  6. Al Day: The Rage of Angels Guest House self (773-262 3224)

  7. Ginni Clemmens: Daily Miracle Underneath Hawaiian Skies self

  8. Eric Bogle: Small Miracles Small Miracles Larrikin LRF473

  9. Original Broadway Cast: 100 Million Miracles (Rodgers/Hammerstein) Flower Drum Song Sony SK 53536

  10. Tannis Slimmon: A Miracle Oak Lake self

  11. Richard Shindell: Next Best Western Courier Signature Sounds SIG1270

  12. Karen Mal w/ Kelly Willis: Beyond the Headlights Mercury's Wings Boars Nest 1228

  13. Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer: Highway 80 (D.Carter) Drum Hat Buddha Signature Sounds SIG 1266

  14. Michael Smith: Route 66 (Folkstage - January 25, 2003) WFMT recording

  15. Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer: Ordinary Town (D.Carter) Drum Hat Buddha Signature Sounds SIG1266

  16. Original Broadway Cast: Come Up To My Place (Bernstein/Comden-Green) On the Town Columbia Legacy SK 60538

  17. Woody Allen: Brooklyn Standup Comic Rhino R2 75721

  18. Ferron: Snowin' In Brooklyn Shadows On a Dime Lucy/Redwood LR004CD

  19. Richard Shindell: Nora Courier Signature Sounds SIG 1270

  20. Chad Mitchell Trio: Barry's Boys (June Reizner) The Very Best of the Chad Mitchell Trio Vanguard 79494-2

  21. Mickey Rooney: You're a Grand Old Flag (Geo.M.Cohan) Mickey Rooney Sings George M.Cohan RCA Victor LPM-1520

  22. Tom Paxton: We Didn't Know Ain't That News Elektra 8122 73565-2

  23. Steve Brooks: The Silence of the Lambs Fever Frog 04

  24. John McCutcheon: Not In My Name Greatest Story Never Told Red House RHRCD 163

  25. John McCutcheon: Unst Wedding March / Fanny Poer / Planxty Irwin (trad-O'Carolan) Barefoot Boy With Boots On Rounder CD 0419

  26. Stan Freberg: Washington Crosses the Delaware Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America, Vol 1 Rhino R2 72476

  27. Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band: Crazy Words, Crazy Tune (Ager/Yellen) Acoustic Swing & Jug Vanguard 79521-2

  28. Townes Van Zandt: If I Was Washington No Deeper Blue Sugar Hill SHCD-1046

  29. Lowen & Navarro: Weight of the World Live Radio Red Hen EGG 2

  30. Chuck McCabe: Bad Gravity Day Bad Gravity Day Woodshed WS 7602 (408-358-2427)

  31. Rachel Bissex: Gravity's Gone Between the Broken Lines One Take OTP 2002

  32. John McCutcheon: The List Hail To The Chief! Appalsongs 2000

  33. Adam Brodsky: Uncivil Rights Hookers, Hicks & Heebes Permanent PR 001

  34. Phil Ochs: I'm Going To Say It Now Farewells & Fantasies Elektra-Rhino R2 73518

  35. Ginni Clemmens: Broken Open Underneath Hawaiian Skies self

  36. Al Day: I'm Coming Home To You Guest House self

  37. Claudia Schmidt: Coming Home To You Midwestern Heart Flying Fish FF 70241

  38. Buddy Tabor: Water Over Stones Blinding Flash of Light self (907-780-4492)

  39. Lisa Aschmann: Water Over Stone (Aschmann/Mark Simos) A Pear LA06 (615-834-8052)

  40. Bok - Trickett - Muir: A Water Over Stone (Gordon Bok) A Water Over Stone Folk Legacy FSI-80

  41. Pete Seeger: Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream (Ed McCurdy) If I Had a Hammer Smithsonian Folkways SFCD 40096

  42. John Lennon: Imagine Lennon Legend Parlephone 7243 8 21954 2

  43. Joan Baez & Bob Dylan: Blowin' In the Wind (Dylan) Rare, Live & Classic Vanguard VCD3-125/27

  44. 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:
Tannis Slimmon, Karen Mal, Charlie King & Karen Brandow, Joe Jencks, Chuck McCabe, John McCutcheon, Lowen & Navarro
These concerts were mentioned on the program:
 The Grapes of Wrath folk opera by Michael Smith is at the Old Town School of Folk Music, 4544 N. Lincoln, Friday, February 28 at 7:30. 773-728-6000

Bill Staines appears in a Hogeye Folk Arts, Limited concert at the Lake Street Church, Lake & Chicago Avenues, Evanston, Saturday, March 1, at 7:30. 847-475-6165

Richard Shindell with Tracy Grammer appear at Martyr's, 3855 N. Lincoln, Saturday, March 8 at 7:30. (you must be over 21) 773-404-9494

Joan Baez with Lucy Kaplansky at Symphony Center on Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Sunday, March 16 at 7:30. 312-294-3000