Hello, Friends!
This report comes rather late in the week due to the Labor Day holiday which was spent gloriously at the two-day 50th Annual Fox Valley Folk Music & Storytelling Festival. (You can see the main stage acts on YouTube.)

FYI - the playlist below is only two hours. That's because on the eve of the festival, WFMT put on a full two-hour preview Folkstage program (hear it at wfmt.com/programs/Folkstage), pre-empting one hour of The Midnight Special.

WFMT's The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer
9.5.2026
Theme:  Labor Day & September Songs
Next week: Remembering
9.11.2001

*** New or notable

Hour 1
1.          Lead Belly: The Midnight Special THEME (excerpt 1) | Midnight Special | RCA Victor LPV-505
2.          Lotte Lenya: September Song (Weill/Anderson) | Lotte Lenya Sings American Theatre Songs | Sony Classical MHK 60647
3.          Anais Mitchell: Come September | XOA | Wilderland Records WILDER003
4.          *** Grant Peeples: September Song (Peeples) | September Single | no further info.
5.          *** Shanna in a Dress: Shelli | Sweet Spot | Dress it Up Hudson Hardin July Aug
6.          Leonard Cohen: Sisters of Mercy | Songs of Leonard Cohen | Columbia/BMG 88697 04742 2
7.          James Kahn: Workin' that ER | The Meaning of Life | thatjameskahn.com 88295 84267
8.          Jean Ritchie: Blue Diamond Mines | Mountain Hearth & Home | Rhino Handmade RHM2 7867
9.          *** Carla Gover and Friends: Moonshiner's Daughter (Kahn) ft. Carla Gover | Williams Branch is Hard to Find | Si Kahn Living Legacy
9.1.2026
10.        *** Christopher Mark Jones: Steelworker's Daughter | Now I Know | Small Batch Music
8.1.2026
11.        Lucy Kaplansky: My Name Joe | The Tide | Red House/RHR CD 190
12.        Verlon Thompson & Suzi Ragsdale: Troublemaker | Out of Our Hands | VNS Records 1002 CD
13.        *** Phil Henry & George Nostrand: Make Good Trouble Again | Hudson Harding Folk Now - Songs for These Times (July Aug 2026) | Board By Board single
14.        Steve Key: Welcome to My Real Job | Record Time | Local Folkel 6688
15.        Mean Mary: Nine Pound Banjo | Alone | Woodrock Records WDRK 43021
16.        Jonas Friddle: Bootstraps | Jug Band Happy Hour | jonasfriddle.com 1162023
17.        Jonas Friddle: The Midnight Special - fretless banjo | Midnight Special Collection | JFriddle MS008
Hour 2
18.        Steve Goodman: Unemployed | Words We Can Dance To | Elektra 7 E - 1061
19.        Bryan Bowers: Who Knows | Sunset Scribblins | Bryan Bowers [2020]
20.        Don White: One Little Drop | Live at the Guthrie Center | donwhite.net 8 14118 01060 4
21.        Alison Krauss: 9 to 5 (Parton) | Just Because I'm a Woman: Songs of Dolly Parton | Sugar Hill SUG-CD-3980
22.        Grace Pettis: Nine to Five Girl | Grace Pettis | Blue Rock Artists BRA - CD1020
23.        Belle Plaine: Notes from a Waitress | Notes from a Waitress | 13th Ave Records 13th - 12 - 0008
24.        Chris Henry: Robot Dreams | Making My Way to You | Arrandem Records AR-250
25.        *** Annie Gallup: Robots | Nightclothes | Gallway Bay Music GBM26
26.        Art Thieme: The Rolling Mills of Gary | On The Wilderness Road | Folk Legacy FSI-105/CD-105
27.        *** Carla Gover and Friends ft. Jeri Katherine Howell: Cold Grey Morning (Kahn) | Williams Branch is Hard to Find | Si Kahn Living Legacy
9.1.2026
28.        Joe Jencks: Who Will Speak for Me (Kahn) | The Forgotten - Recovered Treasures from the Pen of Si Kahn | Turtle Bear Records 020118-01
29.        Robin Greenstein: Cotton Mill Girls | Images of Women, Vol. 1 | Windy RPG-218-2
30.        Kate & Anna McGarrigle: Jacques et Gilles | Matapedia | Hannibal HNCD 1394
31.        Kray Van Kirk: Tollbooth Ladies | Live at the Acorn | Midnight Commander
5.20.2023
32.        The Mac and Cheese Band: Shine | Big Fun - Traditional and Contemporary Folk | New Folk Records 7 67502 93233 8
33.        Laura Love: I Still Believe (Unplugged) | She Loved Red | Laura Love 88295 68276
34.        Andrew Beyer: The Midnight Special - cigar box slide | Midnight Special Collection | AABeyer/MS 004
Many thanks to volunteer Karen Rigotti for compiling the 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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