WFMT's The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer
THEME: Ida B. Wells and Everyday Heroes + some of the artists featured at the Woodstock Folk Festival< (Illinois) on Sunday, July 19
*** New or notable
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Hour 1

1.       Lead Belly: The Midnight Special THEME (excerpt 2) | Midnight Special | RCA Victor LPV-505
2.       The Kingston Trio: Desert Pete | Desert Pete - single 45RPM | Capitol 5005
3.       Willy Porter: Human Kindness | Human Kindness | Weasel WSL-1401
4.       Geoff Bartley: One Kind Word | One Kind Word | Waterbug WBG CD 0046
5.       Studs Terkel/Alfreda Duster: Where Trouble Was... | Interview Excerpts
9.13.1971 | WFMT Studs Terkel Archives 1965988-3-1
6.       Kirk Mann: Say Their Names | Say Their Names | kirkmann.hearnow.com 130820
7.       Amythyst Kiah: Black Myself | Songs of Our Native Daughters | Smithsonian Folkways/SF CD 40232
8.       Brooks Williams & Aaron Catlow:  Jackson Greyhound (Noakes) | Ready for the    Times | Red Guitar, Blue Music RGBM2201C
9.       Phil Ochs: Freedom Riders | The Best of Broadside, Disc 3 | Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40130
10.      Crys Matthews: Call Them In | Single Honoring John Lewis | self released [2021]
11.      *** Aaron Nathans & Michael G. Ronstadt: I Wish I Cared Less | Esperanza | Crooked Cyclone
7.3.2026
12.      Jubal Lee Young: Kind All the Time | Squirrels | Seven Bridges Entertainment 7BE0002
13.      The Kennedys: Kindred Spirits | Better Dreams | Appleseed Recordings APR CD 1107
14.      Bernice Martin: Waves of Kindness | Heart Songs & Circle Songs: Heather Pierson & Bernice Martin | Vessel Recordings VSL 011
15.      John Sebastian: I Had a Dream | Woodstock (soundtrack) | Cotillion SD 3-500
16.      Joni Mitchell: Impossible Dreamer | Misses | Reprise 9 46358-2
17.      Stephen Schuch: Midnight Special (Piano Only) | single | Stephen Schuch [2022]
Hour 2

18.      Cheryl Wheeler: Summer Fly | Half A Book | Cypress Records 661 123-2
19.      Cheryl Wheeler: Silver Lining | Driving Home | Philo CD PH 1152
20.      Studs Terkel/Alfreda Duster: Women's Suffrage | Interview Excerpts
9.13.1971 | WFMT Studs Terkel Archives 1965988-3-1
21.      Keb' Mo' feat. Rosanne Cash: Put a Woman in Charge | Oklahoma | Concord CRE01019
22.      Cardboard Ox (Tracie Potochnik & Steve Allain): The Ballad of Ida (Steve Allain) | Carboard Ox | 7 00261 43201 4
23.      Studs Terkel/Alfreda Duster: Reported on Lynchings | Interview Excerpts
9.13.1971 | WFMT Studs Terkel Archives 1965988-3-1
24.      Billie Holiday: Strange Fruit (Meeropol/Duncan) | Ken Burns Jazz: Billie Holiday | Verve 314 549 081-2
25.      Woody Guthrie: Hang Knot | Struggle | Smithsonian Folkways SF CD40025
26.      Tom Chapin: Woody Guthrie's Dream (Chapin/Kahn) | Hold Our Ground | Sundance Music single
27.      Dana Robinson: What Would Woody Do? | Avenue of the Saints | Threshold Music TM0007
28.      Cosy Sheridan: Woody Guthrie Watch Over Me | Sometimes I Feel Too Much | Cosy Sheridan 00261 43774
29.      *** Tipps & Obermiller: So Far From Alone | Little Kid Heart | Tipps & Obermiller 8 4512105171 1
30.      *** Neale Eckstein: Mr. Ashe | Build Our Dreams | Fox Run Studio 1 95269 41481 8
31.      *** Lance Cowan: Where'd They Go? | The Air That You Breathe | Patio Records 7 85104 73148 6
32.      Magpie: Raise Your Voice | Raise Your Voice | Sliced Bread Records CD-SB 75110
33.      Andrew Beyer: The Midnight Special - organ | Midnight Special Collection | AABeyer/MS 008
Hour 3

34.      Tish Hinojosa: Colton's Perfect Heart | With A Guitar & A Pen | mundotish.com
10.18.2024
35.      Bonnie Raitt: Just Like That | Just Like That | Redwing Records RWR083
36.      Crys Matthews: Selfless | Changemakers | crysmatthews.com
3.23.21
37.      Ella Jenkins: Keep Your Hands on the Plow (instrumental) | Ella Jenkins and a Union of Friends | Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 45046
38.      Studs Terkel/Alfreda Duster: Visit to Arkansas Prison | Interview Excerpts
9.13.1971 | WFMT Studs Terkel Archives 1965988-3-1
39.      Mahalia Jackson: Keep Your Hand on the Plow | Gospels, Spirituals and Hymns | Columbia/Legacy C2K 47083
40.      *** Clark Paterson: Farmhand | Are You Lonely Like Me? | Clark Paterson 7 55491 37321 7
41.      Patty & Craig: Oh, Won't You Lend Me Your Cane? (Armor & Sturtevant) | One Person | Larrea PC1281
42.      Paula Boggs Band: We All Fall Down | Elixir | Boggs Media LLC
43.      *** Maya de Vitry: Bachelorette Lessons | All My Faith | Mad Maker Studios mms006
44.      *** Fox Crossing String Band: Melody (Pafralides) | Anywhere With You | foxcrossingstringband.com
5.15.2026
45.      Friction Farm: Everything Will Be All Right | Stone By Stone | frictionfarm.com
9.2025
46.      The Broadside Singers w/Len Chandler: Carry It On (Turner) | The Best of Broadside, Disc 3 | Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40130
47.      Janis Ian: This Train | Shout, Sister, Shout! A Tribute to Rosetta Tharpe | M. C. Records MC-0500
48.      Studs Terkel/Alfreda Duster: What I remember most... | Interview Excerpts
9.13.1971 | WFMT Studs Terkel Archives 1965988-3-1
49.      Vance Gilbert: "A Change is Gonna Come" (Sam Cooke) | WFMT's Folkstage Vance Gilbert (Oct. 22, 2005), Disc 2 | Folkstage 10-22-05 2 of 2
50.      Laura Love: I Still Believe (Unplugged) | She Loved Red | Laura Love 88295 68276
51.      Andrew Beyer: The Midnight Special - cigar box slide | Midnight Special Collection | AABeyer/MS 004
Special thanks to volunteer Karen Rigotti who compiles our weekly playlist report!
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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