NOTE: Last week was the WFMT fundraiser. Thanks to all who contributed to the success of Folk on WFMT! The much-shorter-than-usual playlist, however, did not get posted.

WFMT's The Midnight Special - 3.21.2026
Theme: "Hello, Neighbor!" Songs from and about Canada and Mexico + Spring
Legend: Artist: Song title (songwriter) | Album | Label/Catalog #
*** recent adds/recommendations
Next week's theme: Women's History Month finale + New for Spring '26

HOUR 1

  1.  Leadbelly: Midnight Special | Leadbelly | The Midnight Special | RCA Victor LPV-505
Connie Kaldor: Cowboys Still Live in Saskatchewan | Wide Open Spaces | Coyote Entertainment CEGCD1090
  2.  Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy ft. Rhiannon Giddens: Woman of the House | CANVAS | Linus 270787
  3.  *** William Prince: Thousand Miles of Chain | Further from the Country | Six Shooter SIX185
  4.  Linda Ronstadt: La Charreada | Canciones de mi Padre | Asylum RR2 60765 (remastered)
  5.  Irene Kelley: O Mexico |Simple Path | Irk Records 1002CD
  6.  Nanci Griffith, et al.: Deportee (Guthrie/Hoffman) | Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back to Bountiful) | Elektra 62235-2
  7.  *** Joe Newberry & April Verch: Where the Songs Come From (Newberry/Stafford) | Blessing on the Wing | Slab Town Records STR-DC-01
  8.  Terra Spencer: Windmill | Other People's Lives | Terra Spencer 6 13460 96870 6
  9.  *** Dave Gunning: Angels' Share | Field Notes | Wee House of Music WEE2026
  10. Stan Rogers: Northwest Passage | Northwest Passage | Borealis BCD217
  11. Garnet Rogers:  Night Drive | Night Drive | Snowgoose SGS 1125
  12. Owen Walsh: The Midnight Special (Trad.) | The Midnight Special "exclusive" 1.31.2024

HOUR 2

  1.  Julie Gold: SpringSprang | Love is Love is Love | Julie Gold 8 84501 50296 2
  2.  David Francey: Red-winged Blackbird | Torn Screen Door | Laker LKR1001
  3.  Buddy Mondlock: The Woman in the Window | Filament | buddymondlock.com [2023]
  4.  Twangtown Paramours: A Room in Bordeaux | The Wind Will Change Again | Inside Edge Records IER006
  5.  New Christy Minstrels: Green, Green | Definitive New Christy Minstrels, Disc 2 | Sony Music Collectors Choice CCM-042-2
  6.  Ruthie Foster Big Band:  Brand New Day | Live at the Paramount | Blue Corn Music BCM2001
  7.  Ye Vagabonds (Brian & Diarmuid Glynn):  Pomegranate  | Folkstage 2020 | WFMT | FS 2-8-2020
  8.  Cosy Sheridan:  Pomegranate Seed | Pomegranate Seed, the soundtrack to the one-woman musicalogue | CMS Records/CMS1211
  9.  Anne Lister: Demeter's Daughter | Spreading Rings | Hearthfire HF002CD
  10. Judy Collins: So Early, Early in the Spring (Trad.) | Fifth Album | Elektra 7300-2
  11. *** Sam Robbins: Just One Cronkite | Bigger Than In Between | samrobbinsmusic.com 8052022
  12. Eric Andersen: Foghorn | Memory of the Future | Appleseed Recordings Appleseed 1028
  13. Ginny Hawker & Tracy Schwarz: Fog on the Water (Ray Smith)| Good Songs for Hard Times | Copper Creek Records CCCD-0183
  14. Dolores Keane: Make Me Want to Stay (Tommy Sands) | Night Owl | Alula Records ALA-1020
  15. *** Dervish: Blue is the Eye, ft. Sarah Jarosz (MacGloinn/MacGloinn) | The Great Irish Songbook, Vol. 2 | Rough Trade LPDTRD00171
  16. Andrew Beyer:  The Midnight Special Solo - Short Instrumental | Midnight Special Collection AABeyer/MS 006

HOUR 3

  1.  Bill Bourne: Bluebird | Farmer, Philanthropist, Musician | Blue Streak BSCD 97002
  2.  Gordon Lightfoot:  Canadian Railroad Trilogy | The Way I Feel | Bear Family Records BCD 15576 AH
  3.  Sones de Mexico Ensemble Chicago: La Llorona/The Weeping Woman (Trad.) | Esta Tierrra Es Tuya (This Land Is Your Land) | self [2007]
  4.  AHI: Breaking Ground | In Our Time | 22nd Sentry 35341CD
  5.  Joan Baez: No Nos Moverán/We Shall Not Be Moved (Trad.) | Complete A&M Chronicles, Disc 2 [Gracias a la Vida] | A&M Chronicle B0000828-02
  6.  Sylvia Tyson: Angels in Troubled Times | At the End of the Day | Stony Plain SPCD 1481
  7.  Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle: You Were on My Mind (Fricker) | Colvin & Earle | Fantasy FAN-38974-02
  8.  Nanci Griffith & Ian Tyson: Canadia Whiskey (Russell) | Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back to Bountiful) | Elektra 62235-2
  9.  Nanci Griffith & Tom Russell: Summer Wages (Tyson) | Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back to Bountiful) | Elektra 62235-2
  10. James Keelaghan & Oscar Lopez: Spanish is the Loving Tongue | Compadres | Jericho Beach JBM 9701-2 CD
  11. Joni Mitchell: A Case of You | Blue | Reprise 8122797178-4
  12. Leonard Cohen: Closing Time (live) | Songs From the Road | Columbia/Legacy 88697 75908 2
  13. Laura Love: I Still Believe (Unplugged) | She Loved Red | Laura Love 88295 68276
  14. Andrew Beyer:  The Midnight Special - cigar box slide | Midnight Special Collection AABeyer/MS 004

Marilyn Rea Beyer
Host, The Midnight Special and Folkstage
WFMT 98.7FM
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Chicago, IL 60625
(617) 513-5569

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