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August 7, 2004

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

  2. Wake the Dead: Uncle John's Band (Garcia/Hunter) Buckdancer's Choice Redwing RWMCD 5413

  3. Lucinda Williams: Jug Band Music (Memphis Jug Band) Ramblin' Smithsonian Folkways CDSF40042

  4. The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band (Lennon/McCartney) Apple CDP 7 46442 2

  5. Nancy White: Manly Band Gaelic Envy Borealis BCD 109

  6. Rev. Gary Davis: I Belong to the Band If I Had My Way Smithsonian Folkways SFWCD 40123

  7. Sweet Charity (orig. B'way cast-Gwen Verdon): I'm a Brass Band (Cy Coleman/Dorothy Fields) Columbia Legacy SK 60960

  8. The Music Man (orig. B'way cast-Robert Preston): Seventy-Six Trombones (Meredith Willson) Angel ZDM 7 64663 2 3

  9. Sean Doyle: The Flower of the County Down (trad) The Light and the Half-Light Compass 7 4387 2

  10. Trifolkal: The Starbucks of County Down (trad/Phillips-Trafidlo-Seay) Tao From the Mountain Kira 2222

  11. The Arrogant Worms: The Coffee Song Toast! ArrogantWorms AW-3003

  12. Dave Van Ronk: One Meat Ball (Hy Zaret/Lou Singer) and the tin pan bended, and the story ended Smithsonian Folkways SFWCD 40156

  13. Mississippi John Hurt: Shortnin' Bread (trad) Last Sessions Vanguard VMD 79327

  14. Jorma Kaukonen: Bread Line Blues (B.Smith) Blue Country Heart Columbia CK 86394

  15. The Del McCoury Band: Man Can't Live on Bread Own (Charley Stefl-Gene Ellsworth-Brad Rogers) It's Just the Night Sugar Hill MCM 0001

  16. Dave Van Ronk: Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out (Jimmie Cox) and the tin pan bended, and the story ended Smithsonian Folkways SFWCD 40156

  17. Sally Rogers: Gone to the Dogs (trad/S.Rogers-Howie Bursen) We'll Pass Them On Red House RHRCD 71

  18. Christine Kane: Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad Right Outta Nowhere Firepink 98826 00000

  19. Austin Lounge Lizards: The Dogs, They Really Miss You (Hank & Kristen Card) Employee of the Month Sugar Hill SHCD-3874

Joan Baez's Baptism JOAN BAEZ: BAPTISM (remastered CD pressing) Vanguard 79721-2 Music composed, arranged, and counducted by Peter Schickele Joan Baez assisted in compilation of material by Maynard Solomon Originally released: June, 1986


  1. Old Welsh Song (Henry Treece)

  2. I Saw the Vision of Armies (Walt Whitman)

  3. Minister of War (translated from the Chinese by Arthur Waley)

  4. Song In the Blood (Jacques Prevert, translated by Laurence Ferlinghetti)

  5. Casida of the Lament (Fredrico Garcia Lorca, translated by Stephen Spender and J.L.Gili)

  6. Of the Dark Past (Ecce Puer) (James Joyce)

  7. London (Wm.Blake)

  8. In Guernica (Norman Rosten)

  9. Who Murdered the Minutes (Henry Treece)

  10. Oh, Little Child (Henry Treece)

  11. No Man Is an Island (John Donne)

  12. from Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man (James Joyce)

  13. All the Pretty Little Horses (trad)

  14. Childhood III (Arthur Rimbaud, translated by Louise Varese)

  15. The Magic Wood (Henry Treece)

  16. Poems from the Japanese (translated by Kenneth Rexroth)

  17. Colours (Yevgeny Yevtushenko, translated by Robin Milner-Gulland and Peter Levi)

  18. All In Green Went My Love Riding (e.e.commings)

  19. Gaceka of the Dark Death (Fredrico Garcia Lorca, translated by Stephen Spender and J.L.Gili)

  20. The Paraable of the Old Man and the Young (Wilfred Owen)

  21. Evil (Arthur Rimbaud, translated by Norman Cameron)

  22. Epitaph for a Poet (Countee Cullen)

  23. Old Welsh Song (Henry Treece)

  24. Mystic Numbers: 36. Wedding Song (Henry Treece)

  25. When the Shy Star Goes Forth In Heaven (James Joyce)

  26. The Angel (Wm.Blake)

  27. Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas: The Sailor's Wife / The Lads of Duns (trad/arr.Fraser-Haas) Fire & Grace Culburnie CUL 121D

  28. Lunasa: Tie the Bonnet set - The pullet / Hull's Reel (J.M.Rankin) / Tie the Bonnet The Kinnitty Sessions Compass 74377 2

  29. Rosie Shipley & Lisa Moscatiello: The Five Mile Chase set - The Five Mile Chase / The Trip to Cullenstown (Phil Murphy) / Unknown Title Well Kept Secrets Shipwhistle SW 1002

  30. John Roberts: Our Hamlet (Adam McNaughtan) A Present From the Gentlemen Golden Hind GHMCD101

  31. Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster: A Shakespearean Baseball Game Wayne and Shuster Columbia CS8231

  32. The Juggernauts: Under the Greenwood Tree (Juggernauts/Shakespeare) As We Like It self 59696 06392

  33. Nancy K. Dillon: Crossing 66 Just Let Me Dream Rose Rock RRR 111

  34. Jeffrey Foucault: Northbound 35 Stripping Cane Signature Sounds SIG 1286

  35. Christine Kane: Right Outta Nowhere Right Outta Nowhere Firepink 98826 0000

  36. Todd Menton: Where Will You Land New Folk 6952

  37. Matt Watroba: Hoping That You're Hoping (Betty E. Harrison) Jukebox Folk Ledgewood LW8412

  38. Crosby, Stills & Nash: Helplessly Hoping (Stephen Stills) Crosby, Stills & Nash Atlantic SD8229

  39. Garnet Rogers: Seeds of Hope (Folkstage - October 9, 1999) WFMT recording

  40. Aoife Clancy: There Is Hope (Robbie O'Connell) Silvery Moon Appleseed APRCD 1065

  41. Kim & Reggie Harris and Magpie: When I'm Gone (close) (Phil Ochs) Spoken in Love Longtail LT003-2

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:

Wake the Dead, Dave Van Ronk, Sean Doyle, *Christine Kane, Jeffrey Foucault, Matt Watroba

*CD of the Week: Christine Kane