The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer 01-03-26
Theme: Turn the page to a new year.
*** New or notable
Next Week: Happy Birthday to Joan Baez, Shawn Colvin, and "Common Sense" 250 Years Later

Hour 1


  1.  Lead Belly: The Midnight Special THEME (excerpt 1) | Midnight Special | RCA Victor LPV-505
  2.  Bob Dylan: Ring Them Bells | Oh Mercy | Columbia CK 45281 CD
  3.  Billy Bragg: January Song | Tooth & Nail | Cooking Vinyl COOKCD580
  4.  *** Louise Coombe: Paris | Paris | Zoe Cat 3.2025
  5.  Cliff Eberhardt: Mona Lisa Waits | Mona Lisa Café | Shanachie 8017
  6.  Dick Gaughan: Song of Choice | Different Kind of Love Song | Appleseed 1018
  7.  Rays Of Romance: In the Month of January | Silver Dagger & Other Vehement Valentines | Frequency Glide FGE 003 CD
  8.  William Pint & Felicia Dale: January Man | When I See Winter Return | Waterbug WBG CD 0039
  9.  Tish Hinojosa: Anos, Meses y Dias (Years, Months, Days) | Aquella Noche | Watermelon CD 1005
  10. Mary Hopkin: Those Were the Days (Fomin, Raskin) | Single | Apple Records 1801
  11. Michael Smith: Coffeehouse Days | Michael, Margaret, Pat & Kate | MPS 1 CD
  12. Jeff Black: Slip | B-Sides and Confessions | Dualtone LNM 80302-01135-2
  13. *** Dar Williams: Way I Go | Hummingbird Highway | Righteous Babe Records RBR [9.12.25]
  14. Bob Gibson: Nothin's Real Anymore (Silverstein) | Makin' A Mess: Bob Gibson Sings Silverstein | Asylum ASCD61697-2
  15. Malcolm Holcombe: Words of December | Pitiful Blues | Gypsy Eyes 2014
  16. Andrew Beyer: The Midnight Special - organ | Midnight Special Collection | AABeyer/MS 008

Hour 2


  1.  *** Neal Phillips & Sam Rossitto: Auld Lang Syne (Robert Burns) | Folk NOW: Songs for These Times (December 2025) | single
  2.  James Lee Stanley: New Year's Song | Midnight Special New Year's Eve Show - 2014 | digital download 12.20.2020
  3.  Halley Neal & Sam Robbins: New Year | You & Me on Christmas Eve | 11242023
  4.  Steve Goodman, Larry Rand, Wally Friedrich, et al.: It's New Year's Eve (improv) | New Year's Eve on WFMT's The Midnight Special - 1975 | WFMT 12.31.1975
  5.  Aaron Kelly: Weep Now, America | Songs Still Sing | bandcamp 9.23.2022
  6.  Aaron Kelly: Walkin' Down the Walls of Jericho | Alive at the Farm | Make Empathy Great Again MEGA 10022020
  7.  Kray Van Kirk: The Walls of Jerusalem | The Midnight Commander | krayvankirk.com 4012020
  8.  Joan Baez: The Great Correction (Gilkyson) | Whistle Down The Wind | Razor & Tie JB00028
  9.  Lou & Peter Berryman: Resolution #9 | We Don't Talk About That! | Cornbelt/CR800CD
  10. Ken Nordine: Orange | Colors | Philips PHM 200-224
  11. Peter Mulvey: Everybody Knows (Leonard Cohen) | The Good Stuff | Signature Sounds SIG 2045
  12. Anne Lister: Song of the Knife | Flame in Avalon | Hearthfire HF003CD
  13. *** The Sharar Sisters: Lessons Learned | single | theshararsisters.com 7.3.2025
  14. Rachel Van Voorhees, harp: Auld Lang Syne (Traditional Scottish) | Christmas Favorites | Centaur CRC-2209
  15. Owen Walsh: The Midnight Special (Trad.) | The Midnight Special exclusive | single 1.31.2024

Hour 3


  1.  Neal & Leandra: Turn the Page | Hearts & Hammers | Red House Records RHR CD 62
  2.  Daniel Boling w/Tom Paxton: Turn the Corner | New Old Friends | Berkalin BRK-10057
  3.  *** Special Consensus ft. band alumni: I Wish We Had Our Time Again (Hartford) | Been All Around This World | Compass Records TBA
  4.  Sally Barker: Another Train (Morton) | This Rhythm is Mine | Hannibal HNCD 1356
  5.  Emily Hurd: Backbone | Backbone | emilyhurd.com bandcamp 12.17.24
  6.  Tracy Chapman: New Beginning | New Beginning | Elektra 7559-61850-2
  7.  Dan+Claudia Zanes: New Beginnings | Let Love Be Your Guide | Smithsonian Folkways SFW45086
  8.  Paul Simon w/Phoebe Snow & Jessy Dixon Singers: Gone At Last | Still Crazy After All These Years | Warner Bros. R2 78901
  9.  Jake Blount: Goodbye, Honey, You Call That Gone | Spider Tales | Free Dirt Records DIRT-CD-0097
  10. *** I'm With Her: Year After Year | Wild and Clear and Blue | Rounder 1166102586
  11. *** Tekla Waterfield: I Am Alive | Mother Mind | Oliver Blue Studios OBS5414
  12. Judy Collins: Turn! Turn! Turn! (Seeger/Eccliastes 3:1-8) | Judy Collins #3 (Judy Collins 3 & 4, Disc 1) | Wildflower Records WFL 1301-2
  13. Bill Staines: Down the Road | First Million Miles | Rounder CD-11560
  14. Jimmy LaFave: Forever Young (Bob Dylan) | Trail disc 1 | Bohemia Beat 0009
  15. Laura Love: I Still Believe (Unplugged) | She Loved Red | Laura Love 88295 68276
  16. Andrew Beyer: The Midnight Special - cigar box slide | Midnight Special Collection AABeyer/MS 004

Many thanks to volunteer Karen Rigotti for compiling the playlist. Hoping for joy, praying for peace in 2026. MRB

Marilyn Rea Beyer
Host, The Midnight Special and Folkstage
WFMT 98.7FM
5400 N. St. Louis Ave.
Chicago, IL 60625
(617) 513-5569

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