WFMT's The Midnight Special -
5.16.2026
Theme: Rivalries / Cubs vs. White Sox / R.I.P. Sam Sianis
Legend: Artist: Song title (songwriter) | Album | Label/Catalog #
***: recent adds/recommendations
Next week's theme: Memorial Day

HOUR 1
1. Lead Belly: The Midnight Special THEME (excerpt 1) | Midnight Special | RCA Victor LPV-505
2. *** The Sullivan Sisters: Devil's Got a Hold On You | Devil's Got a Hold on You - single | Dark Shadow Recording
5.12.2026
3. Darrell Scott: The Devil (Axton) | Modern Hymns | Appleseed APR CD1111
4. Taproot: Shut the Door | If You Build It Taproot | TR001
5. The Chicks [formerly The Dixie Chicks]: Truth No. 2 (P. Griffin) | The Very Best of The Dixie Chicks | Columbia Legacy 88697 61981
6. Joel Mabus: The Naked Truth | The Naked Truth | Fossil 288 CD
7. James McCandless: Beat the Devil | Sea of Freedom | CD 4001
8. Michael Smith: Something About Big Twist | Such Things are Finely Done | Tales from the Tavern | no.019
9. *** Taj Mahal: Crazy About a Jukebox (JB Johnson) | Time | Resonatin' Records 23288CD
10. Steve Goodman: I Ain't Heard You Play No Blues | Somebody Else's Troubles | Buddha Records 7446599626 2
11. Irene Kelley: Jealousy (Kelley/Lynch) | Simple Path | Irk Records 1002CD
12. Diane Ziegler: Legend of Enoch Arden | These are the Roots | Zeigler 1
13. *** Dave Gunning: World of Make Believe | Field Notes | Wee House of Music WEE2026C
14. Roy Zimmerman: Zombie/ All You Fascists Bound to Lose | Road Map | Metaphor Records No. 928
15. The Tillers: All You Fascists Bound to Lose (Guthrie) | The Tillers | Sofaburn SBR2-034
16. RubyJoyful: 10 to 1 Love Wins | The Pie Chart of Love | rubyjoyfulband.com 1 95261 29451 9
17. Jonas Friddle: The Midnight Special - fretless banjo | Midnight Special Collection JFriddle | MS008
HOUR 2
18. Jeff Cannon: Bring on Baseball | single | Warm Lion 2023 single
19. Kevin Kling: Softball | Alive | East Side Digital ESD 81782
20.Steven Goodman: Take Me Out to the Ballgame | No Big Surprise: The Steve Goodman Anthology | Red Pajamas RPJ008CD 1/2
21. Jean Shepard: Balls | Jean Shepherd and Other Foibles | WFMT Collectors' Choice Music CCM-343-2
22. Dan Bern: Ballpark | Double Header | danbern.com
23. Bud Abbott & Lou Costello: Who's on First? | Baseball's Greatest Hits | Rhino R2 70710
24. Sister Wynona Carr: The Ball Game | Baseball's Greatest Hits | Rhino R2 70710
25. David Olney: Baseball | Real Lies | Philo CD 1204
26. Steve Goodman: A Dying Cubs Fans Last Request | Affordable Art | Omnivore Recordings OVCD-337
27. Chuck Brodsky: Curse of the Billy Goat Tulips for Lunch | Chuck Brodsky CB-8022
28. Liz Queler w/Seth Farber: The Tavern (Millay/Queler) | The Edna Project | Red Wall Records RWR2929
29. Sam Bush: Take Me Out to the Ballgame (instr. Von Tilzer) | Howlin' at the Moon | Sugar Hill SHCD-3876
HOUR 3
30. Livingston Taylor: Anything You Can Do ft. Chelsea Berry (Berlin) | Safe Home | Chesky JD385
31. David Mitchell & Robert Webb: Who's the Winner | That Mitchell & Webb Sound, Series 4-2 | BBC Audio ISBN 978 1408 410141
32. Jez Lowe & The Bad Pennies: Maddison | The Honesty Box | Tantobie/TTRCD102
34. Howard Armstrong: John Henry (trad.) | Louie Bluie Blue Suit | BS-106D
35. David LaMotte: John Henry Revisited | The Other Way Around | DPI DPI-161
36. The Smothers Brothers: The Saga of John Henry | The Best of The Smothers Brothers | Vanguard 79595-2
37. James Keelaghan: Number 37 | Road | Hightone HCD8101
38. Show of Hands: Galway Farmer | Live at Royal Albert Hall, 24 March 1996 | Hands On Music HMCD01
39. Fourtold: Molly and Tenbrooks (Gillette/Albertano) | Fourtold | Appleseed APR CD 1071
40. Garnet Rogers: Small Victory | Folkstage: Garnet Rogers | WFMT 01-19-2013 (1 of 2)
41. James Lee Stanley: It's All in the Game (Dawes/Sigman) | The Eternal Contradiction | Beachwood Recordings BR2473-2
42. Laura Love: I Still Believe (Unplugged) | She Loved Red | Laura Love 88295 68276
43. Andrew Beyer: The Midnight Special - cigar box slide | Midnight Special Collection | AABeyer/MS 004
Special thanks to volunteer Karen Rigotti for compiling the playlist report.

NOTE: The White Sox took two out of three from the Cubs... South Siders are happy this weekend!

Marilyn Rea Beyer
Host, The Midnight Special and Folkstage
WFMT
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