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March 8, 2008

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  1. Lead Belly: The Midnight Special (theme) Last Sessions Smithsonian Folkways SFCD40068/71

  2. Noel Paul Stookey: Be Real (NP Stookey-EB Stookey) Facets New World NR071031

  3. Allison Downey: All that Matters (I Do) Across the Sea Mackinaw Harvest 96873 01499

  4. Tom Paxton: And If It's Not True Comedians & Angels Appleseed APRCD 1105

  5. Patrick Sky: Silly Song Reality Is Bad Enough Verve Forecast FTS-3052

  6. Patty Larkin: Hallelujah Watch the Sky Vanguard 79851-2

  7. Larry Long & Claudia Schmidt: I'm Falling In Love With You (And It Feels OK) (L.Long) (Come for to Sing benefit at Holsteins - October 25, 1981) WFMT recording

  8. Sirens: Sweet Cheeks (Donna Creighton) Look Up Borealis BCD183

  9. Gina Forsyth: You Are Here Waterbug WBG0050

  10. Grace Griffith: Love Is on Our Side (Tish Hinojosa) My Life Blix Street G2-10085

  11. Susie Burke & David Surette: All My Life (Pat Donahue) When the Small Birds Sweetly Sing Madrina Music MM104

  12. Danny Schmidt: Company of Friends Little Grey Sheep Waterbug WBG79

  13. David Mitchell & Robert Webb: The Stock Market That Mitchell & Webb Sound, Series Three BBC Audio

  14. Eddie Cantor: Tips on the Stock Market (recorded 11/22/1929) The Golden Age of Comedy RCA Vintage LPV-580

  15. Modern Man: My Money and Me Broke Up (David Buskin) Assisted Living Inverted Turtle 003

  16. The Weavers (Fred Hellerman): Brother Can You Spare a Dime? (Jay Gorney/Yip Harburg) Kisses Sweeter Than Wine Omega OCD 3021/22

  17. The Bobs: Poverty (Richard Bob Greene) Get Your Monkey Off My Dog Bobs 0015

  18. Mark O'Connor w/ James Taylor: Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier (trad-arr.O'Connor-Taylor) Liberty! Columbia SK 63216

  19. Ben Bedford: Lincoln's Man self 37101 29434

  20. Grace Griffith: Hills of Shiloh (Jas.Friedman/Shel Silverstein) My Life Blix Street G2-10085

  21. Andrew McKnight: The Road to Appomattox Turning Pages Falling Mountain FM-1031

  22. Beppe Gambetta w/Dan Crary: Shenandoah Valley Breakdown (Kay Adelman-Buck Ryan) Blu di Genova Gadfly 513

  23. Doc Watson: Doc's Guitar The Best of Doc Watson 1964-1968 Vanguard 79535-2

  24. Si Kahn: To Hear Doc Watson Play Thanksgiving Strictly Country Records SCR-63

  25. Joe Crookston: Hands Metal Wood Able Baker Charlie & Dog Milagrito JBJO78

  26. James Curley: Our Lady of Rogers Park Manufactured Meaning Sidewalking Crab SCR0519

  27. Chicaga (Shelly Perkins, et.al.): Streets (What's in a Name) Chicaga Duo DS-1600

  28. Donna Adler: In Chicago Violets and Blues Grace Street 00261 23021

  29. Cherish the Ladies: Fair and Tender Ladies (trad-arr.Cherish the Ladies & Phil Cunningham) Woman of the House Rounder 11661-7063-2

  30. Jack Hardy: The Lady Turned Away Noir Great Divide JH-4170

  31. Townes Van Zandt: Second Lover's Song Our Mother the Mountain Fat Possum FP-1090-2

  32. David Mitchell & Robert Webb: Environmental Discussion That Mitchell & Webb Sound, Series One BBC Audio

  33. Jack Hardy: Empires Noir Great Divide JH-4170

  34. Ekstrom & Quinn: Boom Boom Boom The Front Page Follies self 83707 78502 (email)

  35. We're About 9: Stop Saying (Brian Gundersdorf) Paperdust & Stardust BMI 2008

  36. Carrie Newcomer: Two Toasts (C.Newcomer/Parker J. Palmer) The Geography of Light Philo 11671-1253-2

  37. Carl Oglesby: Lemon Light Carl Oglesby Vanguard VSD-6527

  38. Simon & Garfunkel: The Dangling Conversation (P.Simon) Old Friends Columbia Legacy C3K 64780

  39. Monty Python: Argument Clinic The Final Rip Off Virgin 0777 7 86033 2 0

  40. Carey Creed: Silence (Wendy Seligman) Peace of Wild Things Azalea City ACCD 0705

  41. Mark O'Connor w/David Schnaufer: Both Sides Now (Joni Mitchell) Elysian Forest Warner Bros. 9 25736-2

  42. Dave Van Ronk: Both Sides Now (Joni Mitchell) The Mayor of MacDougal Street: Rarities 1957-1969 Lyrichord-Multicultural Media MCM 4005

  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:

Noel Paul Stookey, Allison Downey, Sirens, Susie Burke & David Surette, Danny Schmidt, Joe Crookston, Ben Bedford, Jack Hardy, Mitchell & Webb, We're About 9, Carrie Newcomer, Cary Creed

CD of the week: Jack Hardy

The following concerts were mentioned on the program:

Carrie Newcomer at the Old Town School of Folk Music, Sunday, March 9 at 7 PM. 4544 N. Lincoln, Chicago.
Patty Larkin will be there Friday, March 21 at 8.
773-728-6000

Gina Forsyth performs at the Two Way Street Coffee House, 1047 Curtiss, Downers Grove, Friday, March 14 at 8:15.
Nathan Rogers is there March 21.
630-969-9720

Cherish the Ladies perform at the Ramsey Auditorium of Fermilab in Batavia, Saturday, March 15 at 8. 630-840-ARTS

The McAninch Arts Center of the College of DuPage, 22nd & Park Blvd., Glen Ellyn presents Bonnie Koloc with Chuck Suchy, Sunday, March 16 at 7.
Guy Davis performs there at Club Mac April 4 & 5.
630-942-4000

Mark O'Connor, Liz Carroll and Rachel Barton perform at "Fiddle Fest" a benefit for the International Music Foundation that brings music to schools and sponsors the Dame Myra Hess concerts. Tuesday, March 25 at 7:30 in Preston Bradley Hall of the Chicago Cultural Center, Michigan & Randolph, Chicago. A champagne/dessert reception follows. 312-670-6888

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