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June 13, 2009

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

  2. (Christine) Albert & (Chris) Gage: Hell or High Water (Tom Peterson) Dakota Lullaby Moon House MH 2908

  3. (David) Buskin & (Robin) Batteau: Choose Joy Red Shoes and Golden Hearts Nouvea Retro 00261 27081

  4. Tom Chapin: Build a Bridge to Somewhere (Tom Chapin/John Forster) Let the Bad Times Roll Sundance 82148 09232

  5. Dean Stevens: Let It Blow My Way (Bill Burnett) At Last VR2005

  6. Judy Collins: Sing Hallelujah (Mike Settle) Maids & Golden Apples Wildflower WFL1299-2

  7. Pierce Pettis: Hallelujah Song That Kind of Love Compass 744662

  8. Kate O'Reilly: O, Hallelujah (Livingston Taylor) Vinegar Man: Jamie O'Reilly & Friends self JO004

  9. Finest Kind: As I Roved Out (trad) Silks & Spices Fallen Angle FAM 05

  10. Nanci Griffith: Money Changes Everything (Gale Trippsmith) The Loving Kind Rounder 11661-3275-2

  11. Alecia Nugent: Cryin' All the Way to the Bank (Carl Jackson - Rebecca Howard) Hillbilly Goddess Rounder 11661-0612-2

  12. Oliver (orig.B'way cast - Leslie Fyson): Boy for Sale (Lionel Bart) Angel ZDM07777 64890 2-5

  13. Ralph Stanley: Poor Orphan Child (A.P.Carter) A Distant Land to Roam DMZ Columbia 82796 93629-2

  14. Diana Jones: Ballad of the Poor Child Better Times Will Come Proper PRPACD008

  15. Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer: Room for the Poor (Utah Phillips) Singing Through the Hard Times Righteous Babe RBR065D

  16. Euphonia w/Sylvia Herold: Angeline the Baker's Gone (Stephen Foster) The Old Jawbone Tuxedo TUXCD928

  17. The New Golden Ring (Sara Grey): Angeline the Baker (trad) Five Days Singing Volume II Folk-Legacy CD-42

  18. The Billys: Bread (Billy Jonas) The Time Has Come Bang-a-Bucket REU-001CD

  19. John McCutcheon: Cross That Line Sermon on the Mound Appalsongs 2008

  20. Kathy Kallick: Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball? (Buddy Johnson) Use a Napkin, Not Your Mom! Sugar Hill SHCD3833

  21. Kim & Reggie Harris: The Starts That Didn't Shine (Chris Farrell) Rock of Ages Appleseed APRCD1034

  22. Utah Phillips: Oliver's Outhouse (trad-Phillips) The Moscow Hold & Other Stories Red House RHRCD118

  23. The White Mountain Singers: Little Brown Shack (Billy Edd Wheeler) Songs of Yesterday Folk Era FE2002

  24. Gamble Rogers: The Honeydipper Live - The Warm Way Home Oklawaha OK1002

  25. Sharon Isbin: Joan Baez Suite (Fantasia / The House of the Rising Son / The Lily of the West / The Unquiet Grave / Silkie / Where Have all the Flowers Gone / Finale) (John Duarte) / Go 'Way From My Window (John Jacob Niles, trans.S.Isbin) Journey to the New World Sony 88697-45456-2

  26. David Mitchell & Robert Webb: Lunatic in a Box That Mitchell & Webb Sound: Series Three BBC Audio

  27. Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain: Congress (Samuel Clemens) The Best of Mark Twain Tonight! Columbia Legacy SK86228

  28. Pete Seeger: What a Friend We Have in Congress Wimoweh, Other Songs of Freedom and Protest Smithsonian Folkways F-31018

  29. Tom Paxton: Buy a Gun for Your Son Ain't That News Elektra 8122 73565-2

  30. Kitty Donohoe: Kid with a Gun Northern Border Roheen RR007

  31. Rhythm Angels: If I Had a Gun (Rebecca Folsom - Celeste Krenz - Sally Barris - Diana Jones) Girls Like Us High Horse HHR5875

  32. Annie Get Your Gun (orig.cast - Ethel Merman): You Can't Get a Man with a Gun (Irving Berlin) MCA MCAD-10047

  33. Liz Mitchell: The Knife and Gun Club Not the Whether of Summer Riverwide 1207

  34. Arrogant Worms: Let There Be Guns C'est Cheese self AW-777-2

  35. Carrie Newcomer: The Madness You Get Used To My Father's Only Son Philo CDPH 1203

  36. Tom Chapin: We Will Adjust (Jon Cobert/Tom Chapin) Let the Bad Times Roll Sundance 82148 09232

  37. Heidi Muller w/ Bob Webb: Seeing Things self 53701 20052

  38. Slaid Cleaves: Temporary Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away Music Road MRRCD 103

  39. Buddy Mondlock: Temporary Grace Poetic Justice Major Bob MBPCD002

  40. Johnsmith: Gravity of Grace Blue Pine 2009

  41. Kennedy's Kitchen: The Parting Glass (trad) The Hotting Fire self 00261 26652

  42. Dave Van Ronk: Last Call Songs for Ageing Children Cadet CA 50044

  43. Johnsmith: Safe Home Gravity of Grace Blue Pine 2009

  44. 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:

Albert & Gage, Buskin & Batteau, Tom Chapin, Dean Stevens, Piece Pettis, Nanci Griffith, Sylvia Herold, Diana Jones, Sharon Isbin, Liz Mitchell, Kennedy's Kitchen, Johnsmith

CD of the week: Johnsmith

These concerts were mentioned on the program:

Christine Lavin and Don White are at the Old Town School of Folk Music, 4544 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago, Friday, June 19 at 8. 773-728-6000

The Gebhard Woods Dulcimer Festival features John McCutcheon, Karen Mueller, Heidi Muller, Claudia Schmidt, Ed Trickett, Paul Van Arsdale and many others, Friday & Saturday, June 13-14 in Gebhard Woods State Park, Morris, Illinois. There also is an open stage and Saturday night Old-Time Dance. 708-331-6875