The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer 02-21-26
Theme: Happy Birthday Rhiannon Giddens, RIP Jesse Jackson, Robert Duvall, Black History Month
Next Week: Ways to Walk, Run, and March
*** New or notable
HOUR 1
Lead Belly: The Midnight Special THEME (excerpt 1)| RCA Victor LPV-505
*** Sons of the Never Wrong: Sing Sing Sing | Feather and the Starry Crown | Sons 3 Records SR4
Rhiannon Giddens: Music and Joy | Songs of Our Native Daughters | Smithsonian Folkways/SF CD 40232
Laura Love & Orville Johnson: We Shall Not Be Moved/Stayed on Freedom (Trad./Wesby) | The Sweeter the Juice | Octoroon Biography/OJM Octaroon OB / OJM 100
Rhiannon Giddens: Don't Call Me Names | Single release  | Nonesuch/8.24.2020
Jesse Jackson: Address to Democratic Convention (excerpt) | Great Speeches of the 20th Century | Rhino World Beat RWB 70567 1
Windborne: Ain't No Grave (C. Ely) | Lay Around the Shack | Windborne 00261 42598
Emmylou Harris and Robert Duvall: I Love to Tell the Story (Hankey/Fischer) | The Apostle (Music from/Inspired by the Motion Picture | Rising Tide Records RTD 53058
Ferlin Husky: Wings of a Dove (Bob Ferguson) | Ferlin Husky: Greatest Hits | Gusto SD 3018
*** The Milk Carton Kids: Blue Water | Lost Cause Lover Fool | Thirty Tigers 4.24.2026 release
*** Joe Gorka: Siren Song | Siren Song (single) | joegorkamusic.com 2.18.2026
Sons of Town Hall: Sirens, ft. The Pairs | Of Ghosts and Gods | sonsoftownhall . com 2.2026
*** Emily Scott Robinson: Hymn for the Unholy | Appalachia | Oh Boy Records Oh Boy 0903
*** Karen Feldner: Glory in the Meeting House (Trad., Feldner), ft. Bruce Molsky | Glory in the Meeting House - single | karensongs.com 2.24.2026
Bobby McFerrin: I Shall Be Released (Bob Dylan) | Spirityouall | Masterworks 8765 45686
Jonas Friddle: The Midnight Special - fretless banjo | Midnight Special Collection JFriddle | MS008
HOUR 2
*** Jillian Matundan: Hold On | Hold On (single) | Keezamonkee Records JMR223
*** John Gorka: Hope Doesn't Fall | Unentitled | Red House/Compass Records 10.3.2025
10:06 pm
Lucy Kaplansky: Eyes of the Immigrant (E. Andersen) | Tribute To A Songpoet, Disc 1 | Y&T Music/EA Records 843563157770
Cliff Eberhardt: Land of the Free w/Louise Coombe | Folkstage 2016 | WFMT 4.16.16
Patty Larkin: Different World | Red = Luck | Vanguard 79727-2
Nina Simone: In The Morning (Gibb) | Just Like a Woman | RCA/Legacy 82876 85174 2
Jeremy Facknitz: As of This Morning | Smilin' at the Future | jeremyfacknitz.com
Emmylou Harris: The Light (Harris/Kane) | Cowgirl's Prayer | Elektra B000002HE3
Sweethearts of the Rodeo: When the Morning Comes (Don Schlitz / Janis Oliver) | Beautiful Lies | Sugar Hill SH CD 3857
Kieran Kane, Kevin Welch & Fats Kaplin: Til I'm Too Old To Die Young (Welch) | You Can't Save Everybody | Compass 7 4385 2
Kieran Kane & Rayna Gellert: What Would You Do? | When the Sun Goes Down | Dead Reckoning Records [2019]
Judy Collins: I Know Where I'm Going (trad.) | Maids & Golden Apples | Wildflower WFL 1299-2
Rhiannon Giddens: Black is the Color (Traditional) | Tomorrow is My Turn | Nonesuch 541708-2
Smothers Brothers: Black is the Color | (Think Ethnic!) | Mercury MG200777
Owen Walsh: The Midnight Special (Trad.) | The Midnight Special exclusive | WFMT 1.31.2024
HOUR 3
Allison Russell & Leyla McCalla: I Knew I Could Fly | Songs of Our Native Daughters  | Smithsonian Folkways/SF CD 40232
Bryan Bowers: When I Go (Dave Carter) | Bristlecone Pine | Seattle Sounds CR040-2
Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer: Farewell to Fiddler's Rim | Folkstage: Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer 2000 | WFMT Folkstage 10.28.2000
Owen Walsh: Wrong Road | On My Way | Wrong Road Records 101
Special Consensus: I'm Gone, Long Gone (Reno/Smiley) | Hey, Y'all | Turquoise Records TR-CD-5076
Peter Joly: Till They Go | Peter Joly | Lost in America Music 8 88295 48644 6
Richie Havens: On The Turning Away (Moore/Gilmour) | Wishing Well | Stormy Forest SF 2021
Joy Clark: Lesson | Tell It To The Wind | Righteous Babe RBR121D
Vance Gilbert: Why Are We So Cruel? | One Through Fourteen | Louisiana Red Hot Records LRHR-1157
Utah Phillips: Preacher and the Slave / Pie in the Sky (Webster, Hill) | Making Speech Free | IWW -1
Zoe Lewis: Pies for the Public | Sheep | Dog Called Dog 001
*** Cosy Sheridan w/Charlie Koch: The Kind Words | Breathing Room  | cosysheridan.com 1 95269 380302 2
*** Sons of the Never Wrong: What If | Feather and the Starry Crown | Sons 3 Records SR4
*** Kemp Harris: Goodnight, America, ft. Alice Howe | The American Chronicles | Righteous Mischief 1 95269 35533 3
Laura Love: I Still Believe (Unplugged) | She Loved Red | Laura Love 88295 68276
Andrew Beyer: The Midnight Special - cigar box slide | Midnight Special Collection
Heartfelt wishes to everyone for warmth, safety, comfort, and courage. XOX MRB

Marilyn Rea Beyer
Host, The Midnight Special and Folkstage
WFMT 98.7FM
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Chicago, IL 60625
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