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March 12, 2005

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

  2. Jane Sapp: I Want to Lift My People (Rose Sanders) Movin' On Pyramid PCD 017

  3. Blueprintmusic: Lifted (Doug Sauter/Kate Lamont) Ghosts and Eskimos Blueprintmusic BPM002

  4. Tim & Mollie O'Brien: Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down (C.Ely) Away Out On the Mountain Sugar Hill SHCD 3825

  5. Magpie: Heaven My Home (Woody Guthrie) Raise Your Voice Sliced Bread CDSB-75110

  6. Kim & Reggie Harris: Freedom Road Let My People Go! Appleseed APRCD 1084

  7. Tracy Grammer w/ Jim Henry: Wasn't Born to Follow (Carole King/Gerry Goffin) The Verdant Mile Grammer no#

  8. Susan Werner: Standing in My Own Way Time Between Trains Bottom Line/BMG 63440-47305-2

  9. Bells are Ringing (orig. cast-Sydney Chaplin): On My Own (Jule Styne/B.Comden-A.Green) Columbia SK 89545

  10. My Fair Lady (orig. London cast-Julie Andrews): Without You (Loewe/Lerner) Columbia SK 60539

  11. Jonathan Byrd: For You The Sea and the Sky Waterbug WBG056

  12. Tracy Grammer: Solitary Man (Neil Diamond) The Verdant Mile Grammer no#

  13. Maria Dunn: In the Shadow of the Rockies / As I Walk Through Canada We Were Good People MARCD03

  14. John Wort Hannam: Blue Collar Dynamite and 'Dozers Blue Collar Roots 040502

  15. Enoch Kent: Sewing Machines (Nancy White, arr.Kent) For the Women Second Avenue SAS 2010

  16. Sass! (Sandy Andina & Susan Urban): Canadian for a Day (Andina) demo

  17. The Arrogant Worms: We Are the Beaver Semi-Conducted ArrogantWorms AW-2002

  18. Evalyn Parry: Canada Dreams of California Unreasonable Borealis BCD160

  19. Stan Rogers: California Northwest Passage Fogarty's Cove FCM004D

  20. Glenn Yarbrough & The Kingston Trio: America-America (Brian Templeton) Folk Era FE1776CD

  21. Firesign Theatre: Yankee Doodle Came to Terms / Uber Dubbing Over Alice How Can You Be In Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All Columbia CD 9884

  22. Anais Mitchell: Cosmic American Hymns for the Exiled Waterbug WBG 58

  23. John Prine: My Old Kentucky Home (Stephen Foster) Beautiful Dreamer: The Songs of Stephen Foster American Roots 591594-2

  24. Gretchen Peters (from Tom Russell CD): America the Beautiful (Katharine Bates, PD) Hotwalker Hightone HCD8177

  25. Christine Lavin: You Look Pretty Good For Your Age Sometimes Mother Really Does Know Best Appleseed APRCD 1079

  26. The Girl Who Came To Supper (orig. cast-Jose' Ferrer): How Do You Do, Middle Age? (Noel Coward) Columbia KOS 2420

  27. Margaret Nelson: Middle Aged Love private recording

  28. John Flynn: Don't Make Fun of Middle-Aged People A Manatee Sneezed on Me John Flynn JF005

  29. Pete Seeger: My Get Up and Go (trad) Headlines & Footnotes Smithsonian Folkways SFWCD40111

  30. Christine Lavin: Jack & Wanda I Was in Love With a Difficult Man Redwing RWMCD5411

  31. Andrew McKnight: Million Miles Together Beyond Borders Falling Mountain FM1043

  32. Arranmore: South Side Irish (T.Walsh-T.Black-T.McEldowney) The Collection Toucan Cove MLG2 50818

  33. Bohola: Jolly Young Ploughboy / Bohola March / The Flower of the Flock (trad/arr.-adapt.Bohola) 4 Shanachie 78058

  34. The Makem Bros. w/ Mickey & Liam Spain: Paddy Kelly (Tommy Makem) Like Others Did Before Us Red Biddy RB2005

  35. John Wort Hannam: 3 Cylinders Dynamite and 'Dozers Blue Collar Roots 040502

  36. David Morreale: White Wall Tires From the Dirt Mud Lucsious 83707 05650

  37. Jeremy Taylor: Red Velvet Steering Wheel Cover Driver Jeremy Taylor His Songs Fontana STL5475

  38. Iain Campbell Smith: When She Cries Bagarap Empires self 83707 05800

  39. Elena: Nga Iwi E Aussie Croc Pot (sampler) Austrade 2005

  40. Jonathan Byrd: I've Been Stolen The Sea and the Sky Waterbug WBG056

  41. Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer: When I Go (D.Carter) Signature Sounds SIG1272

  42. Tracy Grammer: The Verdant Mile Grammer

  43. 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:

Jane Sapp, Magpie, Kim & Reggie Harris, Maria Dunn, John Wort Hannam, Enoch Kent, Andrew McKnight, David Morreale, Iain Campbell Smith

CD of the Week: John Wort Hannam

These concerts were mentioned on the program:

Jeremy Taylor: Sunday, March 13 at 3: Grace Episcopal Church, 924 Lake St., Oak Park. 708-386-8036 / website.

Arranmore: Sunday, March 13 at 5 in Gaelic Park, 6119 W. 147th St., Oak Forest in the Emerald Ballroom.
Thursday, March 17 at the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre, 111 W. Campbell St., Arlington Heights. 847-577-2121

At the Old Town School of Folk Music, 4544 N. Lincoln, Chicago:
Sunday, March 13 at 7: Chistine Lavin
773-728-6000

The Makem Brothers with Mickey & Liam Spain, Friday, March 18 at the Schaumburg Prairie Center for the Arts, 201 Schaumburg Court, Schaumburg. 847-895-3600.

Glenn Yarbrough & the Folk Reunion, The Kingston Trio, and the Brothers Four at the Center for Performing Arts at Governors State University in University Park, near I-57, Saturday, March 19 at 8. 708-235-2222

SASS (Sandy Andina & Susan Urban) along with Denice Franke at Bill's Blues, 1029 Davis St., Evanston, Sunday, March 20 at 7. 847-424-9800
SASS also will be at the Metropolitan Coffee Company, 1039 W. Granville, Chicago, Monday, March 14 at 8. (web site)