The Midnight Special Playlist

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

Mollie O'Brien & Rich Moore: Everything I've Got (Rodgers/Hart) Saints & Sinners Remington Road 0683

Porgy & Bess (orig.B'way cast-Todd Duncan): I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' (Geo.Gershwin-I.Gershwin-Du Bose Heyward) MCA 2035

Terence Martin: I Want Everything Even Trade Good Dog 006

John Prine: She Is My Everything In Person & On Stage Oh Boy 039

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: Speed of Life (Gary Scruggs) Sugar Hill 4058

Julie Miller: The Speed of Light Broken Things Hightone 8103

John Wesley Harding: The Speed of Normal John Wesley Harding's New Deal Forward 72250

Loudon Wainwright III: Times Is Hard 10 Songs for the New Depression Cumberbund 00261 29365

Roy Zimmerman: Real America Real American Metaphor 923

Dan Bern: Fascist Live in Los Angeles self

Emily Kurn: If I Am American Things Change Piewacky 37101 35111

Mighty Squirrel: Mary Ann (trad) SQ World Record Squirrel 102

Gordon Lightfoot: The Mountains and Maryann Gordon Lightfoot Songbook Warner-Rhino75802

Tommy Makem: Away to Mary Ann Lonesome Waters Shanachie 52011

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: Earthquake (John McEuen/Bob Carpenter) Speed of Life Sugar Hill 4058

Corky Siegel: Goodbye California Solo Flight 1975-1981 Gadfly 254

Claudia Russell: Oh, California (C.Russell-Bruce Kaplan- S.Wakefield) Live Band Tonight Radio Rhythm no#

Steve Gillette: The Man (a musical journey) Compass Rose 12
Conversion on 13th Avenue
St Louis Blues (W.C.Handy) / Ja-da (Bob Carleton)
Cordovan Boogie
Johnny & Betty
Sunday
Sweet Loraine (Cliff Burwell-Mitchel Parish) / Ain't Misbehavin' (Thomas Waller - Harry Brooks - Andy Razaf)
Your Feet's Too Big (Ada Benson - Fred Fisher)
Old Jim Crow (Gillette)
Whispering (Malvin & John Schonberger)
Basie's Boogie (Count Basie)
There's a Cradle in Caroline (Fred Ahlert - Sam Lewis - Joe Young)
Creole Belle (George Sidney - J.Bodewell Lampe) / Lazy River (Hoagy Carmichael - Sidney Arodin) / Sheik of Araby (Harry B. Smith - Francis Wheeler - Ted Snyder) / Bill Bailey (Hughie Cannon) / Darktown Strutters Ball (Shelton Brooks)
The Man Who Loves a Train (Gillette)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime (Jay Gorney - E.Y.Harburg)
Good Old Wagon (Ben Harney, new lyrics Steve Gillette)
St. James Infirmary Blues (trad)
Let the Rain Decide (Gillette)
God Is Love (Gillette)
Wade in the Water (trad)
On the Sunny Side of the Street (Dorothy Fields - Jimmy McHugh)
Lord Buckley: Jonah and the Whale His Royal Hipness Discovery 71001

The Bluestein Family: Jonah (trad) Sowin' on the Mountain Fretless 141

Tony Barrand: Jonah and the Grampus (Edgar Marriott) Twiddlum Twaddlum Golden Hind 107

Natalie Merchant: It Makes a Change (Merchant/Mervyn Peake) Leave Your Sleep Nonesuch 522301-2

David Mitchell & Robert Webb: Counting Whales That Mitchell & Webb Sound, Series Four BBC Audio

Luluc: Abigail & The Whale (The Blue Queen of the Deep) (Zoe Randell) Dear Hamlyn Shock 001

Red Horse (Eliza Gilkyson - John Gorka - Lucy Kaplansky): I Am a Child (Neil Young) Red Horse Red House 233

Jacques Brel: Mon Enfance Jacques Brel Barclay Universal 543625-3

Hoyt Axton: Childhood's End My Griffin Is Gone Columbia 9766

Loudon Wainwright III: Middle of the Night 10 Songs for the New Depression Cummerbund 00261 29365

Pete Seeger w/ Arlo Guthrie: Quite Early Morning (Seeger) Pete & Arlo Together in Concert Rising Son 00011

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 ( ).

RICH'S PICKS:

Mollie O'Brien & Rich Moore, Loudon Wainwright III, Roy Zimmerman, Mighty Squirrel, Natalie Merchant, Red Horse, Steve Gillette

CD of the week: Steve Gillette: The Man

These concerts were mentioned on the program:

Claudia Russell and the Folk Unlimited Orchestra at the Glen Ellyn History Center, 800 N. Main, Glen Ellyn, Sunday, August 8 at 7. 630-469-1867 / email