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March 18, 2006

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

  2. Lui Collins: Blessed Closer Waterbug WBG69

  3. Greg Greenway: Every Little Day Live Face SOH003

  4. Laurie Lewis & Kathy Kallick w/ Tom Rozum: Count Your Blessings (K.Kallick) Together Kaleidoscope K-44

  5. Drew Nelson: Lovely Day Immigrant Son Mackinaw Harvest MHM021

  6. Cooper-Nelson-Early: Call Down a Blessing (M.Nelson) Hearts Return Porcupine PPCD1716

  7. Diana Jones: Pretty Girl My Remembrance of You Newsong NSR-0501

  8. Nathan Caswell: Pretty Girl Pulp Town self NC05CD

  9. West Side Story (orig. B'way cast-Carol Lawrence, et.al.): I Feel Pretty (Bernstein/Sondheim) Columbia Legacy SK 60724

  10. Blind Arvella Gray: There's More Pretty Girl's Than One (A.Delmore/A.Smith) The Singing Drifter Conjuroo 001

  11. Tom Russell: Stealing Electricity Love & Fear Hightone HCD8190

  12. Joni Mitchell: Electricity For the Roses Asylum SD 5057-2

  13. Jimmy Murphy: Electricity Sugar Hill SHCD-3890

  14. Severn Darden: Vienna 1885 The Sound of My Own Voice and Other Noises Mercury OCS 2202

  15. The Gateway Singers: The Ballad of Sigmund Freud (Bob March-Larry Glasser-Dave Lazar) The Gateway Singers at the Hungry i Decca DL 8671

  16. Nichols & May: Interrupted Hour Nichols & M ay Examine Doctors Mercury 314 558 456-2

  17. The Beatles: Help! (Lennon-McCartney) 1 Capitol CDP 7243 5 29325 2 8

  18. Robert Blake: One Monday Night Still Kissing Last Night's Smoke Stained Lips Art of the Underground AOTU 7

  19. Kat Eggleston: Mercy The Only Word Redwing RWMCD5414

  20. Diana Jones: Fever Moon My Rememberance of You Newsong NSR-0501

  21. Tom Brosseau: Tonight I'm Careful With You What I Meant To Say Is Goodbye Loveless LOV021

  22. Ronny Cox: Compadres in the Old Sierra Madres (W.Paul) At the Sebastiani Theatre Bay Sound BSR9601

  23. Bianca DeLeon: Nowhere Mexico The Long Slow Decline of Carmelita self CD8067

  24. Ramblin' Jack Elliott: South Coast (Ross-Eskin-Derr) Hard Travelin' Fantasy FCD-24720-2

  25. Stanley Holloway: With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm (Weston/Lee) The Classic Monologues Avid AMSC 686

  26. Jan Krist: Decapitated Society You Gotta See These Guys - Folk Alliance 2000 sampler

  27. New Faces of 1952 (orig. cast): Lizzie Borden (Brown) Jasmine 126

  28. Joe Hickerson: Lather and Shave (trad) Joe Hickerson with a Gathering of Friends Folk-Legacy CD-39

  29. Mustard's Retreat: The Barbershop Blues (Greg Brown) 5 Miles or 50,000 Years self MR004

  30. Mickey Katz: Barber of Schlemiel Greatest Shticks Koch KOC-CD-0858

  31. Sweeny Todd (orig. cast): The Ballad of Sweeny Todd (Stephen Sondheim) RCA 3379-2-RC

  32. Flook: Mouse Jigs set: Son Ar Roat (Herri Leon) / Jig for John #1 (Liz Knowles) / The Mouse in the Kitchen (Colin Farrell) Haven World Village 468057

  33. Malinky: Inertia Reels set: Naomi Jones (Debbie Scott) / The Inertia Reel (Jon Bews) / The Maid I Ne're Forgot (trad-arr.Malinky / The Flowing Tide (trad-arr.Malinky) The Unseen Hours Greentrax CDTRAX276

  34. Sass! (Sandy Andina & Susan Urban): Caffeine Album One self

  35. Steve Key: Demon Java (David Goldfinger) History Lessons self 83707 32852

  36. Patty Larkin: Caffeine Step Into the Light Philo PH-1103

  37. Jeff Talmadge: 40 Days of Rain Blissville Corazong CUSA 2008

  38. Annie Gallup: 14 Days of Rain Half My Crime Waterbug WBG70

  39. Stanley Hollowayy: Three Ha'pence a Foot At His Very Best Castle Pulse PDSCD 584

  40. Kat Eggleston: Snow The Only Word Redwing RWMCD5414

  41. Diana Jones: Pony My Remembrance of You Newsong NSR-0501

  42. Patrick Sky: The Ballad of Ira Hayes (Peter LaFarge) Folk Song America Sony Smithsonian RD 046-1

  43. John Schindler: Modern American Indian Memory Train self 86851-3669-2

  44. Ray Marcel Quarles: PL-2 Real Eyes self (email)

  45. Johnsmith: Barefoot in the Dew Break Me Open Blue Pine 83707 28250

  46. Dan Fogelberg: To the Morning Home Free Columbia CK 31751

  47. 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:

Lui Collins, Drew Nelson, Diana Jones, Robert Blake, Ronny Cox, Malinky, Jeff Tamladge, Annie Gallup, Johnsmith

CD of the Week: Diana Jones

These concerts were mentioned on the program:

Flook performs Friday, March 24 at the Old Town School, 4544 N. Lincoln, Chicago, and
Stephen Wade's tribute to Horton Barker "In Sacred Trust" is there Saturday, March 25 at 4 and 8 PM.
Tom Russell, with Tom Brosseau is there Sunday, March 27 at 7
773-728-6000

Haines & Leighton tour the area:
Sunday, March 19: Hidden Marsh house concert in Des Plaines. 847-458-1853 / email

Joe Hickerson performs at Bill's Blues, 1029 Davis St., Evanston, Sunday, March 19 at 7. 847-424-9800

Garnet Rogers, with Natalia Zukerman perform at Lake County Folk Club at the Greenleaf Grill, 301 Greenleaf, Park City, Sunday, March 19 at 7. 847-295-7228

SASS (Sandy Andina & Susan Urban) performs at the Two Way Street Coffee House, 1047 Curtiss, Downers Grove, Friday, March 10 at 8:15 PM. 630-969-9720

Kat Eggleston performs at Charlie's Coffee House, 1126 Central, Wilmette, Saturday, Marcy 25.
Michael Smith is there March 31 & April 1. 847-256-5617

Ronny Cox performs a house concert in Oak Park on Friday, March 31 at 8.
He also performs at the Maple Street Chapel, Main & Maple in Lombard, Saturday, April 1 at 7:30. 630-627-0171