- Lead Belly:
The Midnight Special (theme) Last Sessions
Smithsonian Folkways SFCD40068/71
- Connie Kaldor:
Spend Your Money (Buy, Buy, Buy, Buy) (Holsteins - April 28, 1984)
WFMT Recording
- The Therapy Sisters:
Shopping (Lisa Rogers/Maurine McLean)
The Early Stages Clinical 9806
- Claudia Schmidt:
Lord & Taylor (Chuck Kramer) (Holsteins - April, 1982)
WFMT Recording
- Gold Diggers of 1935 (orig.soundtrack - Dick Powell-Gloria Stuart):
I'm Going Shopping With You (Al Dubin / Harry Warren)
The Great Busby Berkeley - Vol. 2 Harmonia Mundi 3008 034
- Frank Meyer:
Can't Take It With You
Dagnabit Thangmaker 05996 80872
- John Sprung:
Social Insecurity
Side Effects self 59696 18822
- Second City:
Social Security
Survival Kit Spirtz SP9010
- The Capitol Steps:
401K (Belolo-Morali-Wills / Newport-Easton-Strauss)
Between Iraq and a Hard Place CapSteps CSCD-1023
- Lou & Peter Berryman:
Elderlyville
Some Days Cornbelt CR16
- Joe Glazer:
Ida Mae (Social Security Song)
Folk Songs of the American Dream Collector 1954CD
- Karan Casey:
Black Is the Color (trad,arr.Casey)
Ships in the Forest Compass 744762
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (orig.cast - Carol Channing-Jack McCauley):
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Jule Styne / Leo Robin)
Columbia SK 48013
- The Jolly Boys:
Red Head Girl (trad,arr.Jolly Boys)
Sunshine 'N' Water Rykodisc RCD 10187
- Sam "Lightning" Hopkins:
Bald Headed Woman
The Best of Lightning Hopkins Arhoolie 499
- Solas:
Seven Curses (trad,arr.Solas)
For Love and Laughter Compass 744902
- Judy Collins:
Anathea (Lydia Wood)
#3 Wildflower WFL 1301-2
- Bob Dylan:
Seven Curses
The Bootleg Series, Volume 2 Columbia C3K 65302
- Magpie:
If It Ain't Love (Fats Waller)
In This World: Looking Back, Moving Forward Sliced Bread CDSB75315
- The Yellow Room Gang - Annie Capps:
Honey Sugar Baby Mine
Happy New Day Yellow Room YRR009
- Cosy Sheridan:
You Still Love Me Somewhere
Eros Wind River WR4042CD
- Sally Martin:
Le Prochain Amour (Jacques Brel-Girard Jouannest)
Another Time, Another Place Martin 0026122511
- Eileen Ivers:
The Time Is Approaching (Oluf Ring,arr.Ivers)
An Nollaig Compass 744672
- Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile:
Cassandra's Waltz
Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile Nonesuch 5125862
- The Bittersweet Christmas Band:
I'm Beginning to Look a Lot Like Santa (Meredith Willson/Bob Holdsworth)
Yuletide Magic Porcupine BSB02
- Allan Sherman:
Hail to Thee, Fat Person
The Best of Allan Sherman Rhino R2 75771
- Uncle Bonsai:
Another Fat Song (Andrew Ratshin)
Myn Ynd Wymyn Yellow Tail YT-10003
- Debra Cowan:
Ruins by the Shore (Nic Jones)
Fond Desire Farewell Falling Mountain FM1054
- The Limeliters:
The Time of Man (Travis Edmonson)
The Slightly Fabulous Collectors' Choice CCM024-2
- Tom Paxton:
Whose Garden Was This
6 Collectables COL- CD-6973
- Magpie:
We Belong to the Earth (Greg Artzner-Terry Leonino)
In This World: Looking Back, Moving Forward Sliced Bread CDSB75315
- Brad Yoder:
Everybody's Got a Record (Columbus, OH - January 2008)
private recording
- The Arrogant Worms:
Boring
Torpid Worms AW-5005
- Ray Naylor:
Please Buy My CD
Slow Cooker Polar Bear 83707 67382
- Lucy Kaplansky:
Over the Hills (L.Kaplansky/R.Litvin)
Red House RHRCD200
- John MacLean:
Beyond Our Time
Letters Home self 00261 24664
- Mary Chapin Carpenter:
Thanksgiving Song
Come Darkness, Come Light Zoe 01143-1123-2
- Arlo Guthrie:
Alice's Restaurant (The Massacree Revisited)
Alice's Restaurant Rising Son RSR0010
- Ben Sures:
Who Killed the Last Folksinger
Field Guide to Loneliness Rawlco BS08CD
- John Sprung:
The Folk Singers Sweet Bye-and-Bye
Side Effects self 59696 18822
- Kate Campbell & Spooner Oldham:
If I Ever Get to Heaven (Kate Campbell - Spooner Oldham)
For the Living of These Days Large River LR-1759
- The Bittersweet Christmas Band:
Now Is the Dark of the Year (Susan Urban) / Dave Gordon's Journey to Newgrange (Phil Cooper)
Yuletide Magic Porcupine BSB02
- Jane Eamon:
When Darkness Comes
Real Janey Girl JS004
- Debra Cowan:
The Darkest Hour Is Just Before the Dawn (Ralph Stanley)
Fond Desire Farewell Falling Mountain FM1054
- Magpie:
Before the Morning Sun
In This World: Looking Back, Moving Forward Sliced Bread CDSB75315
- Kim & Reggie Harris and Magpie:
When I'm Gone (close) (Phil Ochs) Spoken in Love Longtail LT003-2
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RICH'S PICKS:
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CD of the week: Debra Cowan
These concerts were mentioned on the program:
The Bittersweet Christmas Band is at the Two Way Street Coffee House,
1047 Curtiss, Downers Grove, Friday, December 5 at 8:15.
630-969-9720
Taeda and Karan Casey are at the Old Town School of Folk Music, 4544 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago, Sunday, December 14 at 4 & 7.
773-728-6000
Eileen Ivers with Immigrant Soul perform their "An Nollaig: An Irish
Christmas" at Dominican University in River Forest, Friday, December 5
at 7:30.
708-488-5000
Lucy Kaplanksy is at S.P.A.C.E., 1245 Chicago Ave., Evanston,
Sunday, December 7 at 7.
847-492-8860
Sally Martin performs at Bill's Blues, 1029 Davis St., Sunday,
December 7 at 7.
847-424-9800