WFMT's The Midnight Special - 00.00.2026
Theme: The Power of Women + RIP Chip Taylor
Legend: Artist: Song title (songwriter) | Album | Label/Catalog #
*** : recent adds/recommendations
Next week's theme:
HOUR 1

  1.  Leadbelly: Midnight Special | Leadbelly | The Midnight Special | RCA Victor LPV-505
  2.  *** Joe Newberry & April Verch: Turtle Dove | Blessing on the Wing | Slab Town Records STR-DC-01
  3.  Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem: Turtle Dove (Georgia Sea Island Singers/trad.) | Gambling Eden | Signature SIG 1278
  4.  Jeremy Facknitz: Ballad of an Unhatched Chick | From Those Sweet Ashes | jeremyfacknitz.com | 2020
  5.  Vance Gilbert: Fly | Shaking Off Gravity | Philo CD PH 1213
  6.  *** Carolina Chocolate Drops: Peace Behind the Bridge (Baker) | Genuine Negro Jig (15th Anniversary Edition) | Nonesuch 075597896053
  7.  Alastair Moock/Reggie Harris: I Am Malala (Moock) | Be A Pain | Moockshake Music 00261 48083
  8.  Sandy Cash: More Than Meets the Eye | More Than Meets the Eye EP | bandcamp sandycash.com
  9.  *** Michelle Held: Another Jane | Another Jane (single) | michelleheld.com 1.30.2026
  10. Chip Taylor & John Prine: Sixteen Angels Dancing 'Cross the Moon | Sixteen Angels Dancing 'Cross the Moon | Train Wreck Records TW 0054
  11. Chip Taylor, Carrie Rodriguez, Jon Langford: One for the Road | Sixteen Angels Dancing 'Cross the Moon | Train Wreck Records TW 0054
  12. Kate MacLeod: The Woman You Will Never Know | single | Kate MacLeod 5.5.24
  13. Joy Harjo: Remember | I Pray For My Enemies | joyharjo.com 3.5.2021
  14. Elexa Dawson: Roots Grow | Stay Put | Turns Out 1 99508 50729 3
  15. Vince Bell: Woman of the Phoenix | Phoenix | Watermelon Records Watermelon CD 1027
  16. Tom Paxton: My Favorite Spring | Live for the Record | Sugar Hill SHCD-1053
  17. Jonas Friddle: The Midnight Special - fretless banjo | Midnight Special Collection JFriddle | MS008

HOUR 2

  1.  Lisa Bastoni: No Kings in America | single | lisabastoni.com 5.2.2025
  2.  Robert Frost: Fire and Ice | Reading His Own Poems | soundmark itunes [2014]
  3.  *** Crys Matthews: Forged in Fire | Forged in Fire (single) | Shamus 3.28.2026
  4.  Awele Makeba: The Story of Claudette Colvin | This Land is Your Land: Songs of Unity | Music for Little People R2 78142
  5.  Studs Terkel & Mrs. Rosa Parks: Tired Feet (excerpt) | Studs Terkel Archives 6.8.1973 | WFMT 2583557-3-1
  6.  Kim & Reggie Harris: If You Miss Me at the Back of the Bus (Neblett) | The Long Walk to Freedom Reunion Concert | Revolt! in Records 46112
  7.  Studs Terkel & Mrs. Rosa Parks: Still Telling It (excerpt) | Studs Terkel Archives 6.8.1973 | WFMT 2583557-3-1
  8.  Connie Kaldor: Woman Who Pays | Keep Going | Coyote Entertainment GEGCD1080
  9.  Diane Taraz: Full Moon Tonight | Gathered Safely In | Beacon Records BCN 10143-2
  10. Bob Franke: Say Yes | Until We Must Part | Telephone Pole Records 00261 46135
  11. Paul Kelly & Charlie Owen, ft. Mary Jo Kelly : Let It Be (Lennon/McCartney) | Death's Dateless Night | Cook CD655P
  12. Maria Muldaur: Me & My Chauffeur Blues (Memphis Minnie) | 30 Years of Maria Muldaur/I'm A Woman | Shout DK 30219/OPCD-7614
  13. Janis Ian: My Autobiography | Folk Is The New Black | Cooking Vinyl CKV-CD-764
  14. Charlie Mosbrook: Listen to a Woman | Something to Believe | Open Mic Records OMR 003
  15. Raise the Vibration: Put a Woman in Charge (Moore/Chapman) | Folk NOW: Songs for These Times (Nov. 2024) | Hudson Harding
  16. Joel Mabus: April Showers (instrumental - Louis Silvers) | Parlor Guitar | Fossil 1605

HOUR 3


  1.  Simon & Garfunkel: April Come She Will (Simon) | Old Friends, Vol. 1 |Columbia Legacy C3K 64780
  2.  James Lee Stanley: The World We Left Behind | Had Enough Yet? | Beachwood Records 8 85007 66490 1
  3.  Suzanne Vega: Small Blue Thing | Close-Up Vol. 1, Love Songs | Amanuensis Productions 98519 25012
  4.  Christine Lavin: Mysterious Woman | So Far 20th Anniversary Sampler | Philo CD AN 12
  5.  Maeve Higgins: A Very Special Woman | A Very Special Woman | bandcamp [2022]
  6.  Cathie Ryan: Grace O'Malley | Somewhere Along the Road | Shanachie 78047
  7.  Pete Seeger w/Ramblin' Jack Elliott: Belle Starr (Guthrie) | A Link in the Chain, Disc 2 | Columbia C2K 64772
  8.  Plainsong: Sweet Amelia (Andy Roberts, Iain Matthews) | Dark Side of the Room | Mesa Records R2 79065
  9.  *** Ari & Mia: Learning Your Name | Learning Your Name | ariandmiamusic.com 5.10.2026
  10. *** Adela's: One in Three (Skowronski) | Cello Again | Adela's 11/2/2025
  11. Raye Zaragoza: Strong Woman | Hold That Spirit | Rebel River Records 80823
  12. *** Jamie Anderson: The Curves Are Still There | The Curves Are Still There | Tsunami Recordings 1 95269 40129 0
  13. Peggy Seeger: The Invisible Woman | First Farewell | Red Grape RGPSCD4
  14. *** Emily Scott Robinson: Time Traveler | Appalachia | Oh Boy Records Oh Boy 0903
  15. Judy Collins: In My Life (John Lennon) | Forever: An anthology | Elektra 62104-2
  16. Laura Love: I Still Believe (Unplugged) | She Loved Red | Laura Love 88295 68276
  17. 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
5400 N. St. Louis Ave.
Chicago, IL 60625
(617) 513-5569

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