The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer 09-12-2026
Theme:  25th anniversary of 9/11 with music that heals
Next week: Autumn Songs
*** New or notable

Hour 1

1.          Lead Belly: The Midnight Special THEME (excerpt 1) | Midnight Special | RCA Victor LPV-505
2.          Kate Wolf: Medicine Wheel (Wolf) | Give Yourself to Love, disc 2 | Kaleidescope K-3000
3.          Elexa Dawson: Sparrow Healing Song | Music is Medicine | elexadawson.com 1292020
4.          The Stray Birds: Best Medicine | Best Medicine | Yep Roc / YEP-2408
5.          James Keelaghan: Sing My Heart Home | Home | Appleseed APR CD 1059
6.          Val Leventhal: Everything Sings | Sibling Revelry | valleventhal.bandcamp.com
6.5.2024
7.          Seth Glier: Rise | Everything | sethglier.com
1.26.24
8.          *** Maria Dunn: Reach Out | Hardscrabble Hope | Maria Dunn MARCD08
11.6.2025
9.          Andrew Bird: The New Saint Jude | Are You Serious? | Loma Vista LVR-38997-02
10.        *** Allison Russell ft. Devon Gilfillian: Love is the Golden Lion | In The Hour of Chaos | Fantasy FAN03153
11.        *** Devon Gilfillian: Some Days | Time Will Tell | Fantasy FAN03151
12.        *** Paul Simon & Edie Brickell: Under African Skies (live) | The Quiet Celebration Concert | SONY/Owl Records and Legacy Recordings USQX92602454
13.        Josh Ritter: The Throne | I Believe in You, My Honeydew | Pytheas Recordings LP-PYTH-030
14.        Jim Kweskin w/Samoa Wilson: Remember Me (Wiseman) | Never Too Late: Duets with My Friends | StorySound Records 161-057
15.        Caroline Aiken: Ground Zero | Butler Field | Silverwolf SWCD 1007
16.        Jack Hardy: Ground Zero | Vigil (N.Y. Songs Since 9/11) | Conscious Records Conscious 001
17.        George Winston: Remembrance | Remembrance | Windham Hill 01934-11624-2
Hour 2

18.        Jack Hardy: On a Clear Day | Vigil: N.Y. Songs Since 9/11 | Conscious Records 001
19.        David Baerwald: If Wishes Were Horses | 13 Ways to Live | Red House Records RHR CD 181
20.        Wendy Beckerman: You Never Know | Vigil: N.Y. Songs Since 9/11 | Conscious Records 001
21.        Alastair Moock w/Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer: Paradise (Prine) | The Life I Never Had | Alastair Moock/MoockMusic 
22.        John Prine: Sabu Visits the Twin Cities Alone | John Prine Live | Oh Boy! Records OBR 005CD
23.        Tommy Prine: By The Way | This Far South | Thirty Tigers NK72189CD
24.        *** Donna Herula: Cypress Grove (Skip James) | Cold Feet | Donna Herula DH004
25.        Linda Tillery & The Cultural Heritage Choir: Don't You Ever Let Nobody Drag Your Spirit Down (Bibb/Hoglund) | Say Yo' Business | Earth Beat! R2 76762
26.        Kitty Donohoe: There Are No Words | Northern Border | Roheen Records RR007
27.        Frank Tedesso: When Mohammed Came to the Mountain | Vigil (N.Y. Songs Since 9/11) | Conscious Records Conscious 001
28.        Nanci Griffith w/Emmylou Harris: Goodnight New York (Julie Gold) | Winter Marquee | Rounder 1161-3220-2
29.        Stephen Schuch: Midnight Special [Excerpt] | single | Stephen Schuch [2022]
Hour 3

30.        Ken Nordine: What Time is It? | You're Getting Better: The Word Jazz Dot Masters Disk 1 | Hip-O Select B005171-02 Disk 1 of 2
31.        *** D.C. Anderson: What a Time to Be Alive in America | For Woody | LML Hudson Hardin July Aug
32.        *** Sean Kiely: I Ain't Got No Home (Guthrie) | Hudson Harding Folk Now - Songs for These Times (July Aug 2026) | single
33.        Taj Mahal and Keb' Mo' (TajMo) ft. Ruby Amanfu: Room on the Porch | Room on the Porch | Concord TBD
5.23.2025
34.        Margaret Nelson: Ain't Gonna Hate My Neighbor | Ain't Gonna Hate My Neighbor | Margaret Nelson 7 00261 34586 4
35.        David Roth: We Are the Stuff of Stars | So Far, So Good | Wind River WR4053CD
36.        Indigo Girls: Galileo | Rites of Passage | Epic EK 48865
37.        Betty Soo: Still Small Voice | Heat Sin Water Skin | Betty Soo 001
38.        Joe Crookston: I Sing | Darkling & the Bluebird Jubilee | Milagrito rae62011
39.        Altan: Faoiseamh a Gheobhadhsa (I Will Find Solace) | Donegal | Compass Records 7 4828 2
40.        Small Potatoes: I Will Pass This Way Again (Presiozo) | Time Flies | Folk Era FE1427CD
41.        Maura O'Connell w/Declan O'Rourke and Dani Larkin: From A Distance (Gold) | From a Distance (benefit single) | Doctors Without Borders single
42.        Joel Mabus: How Can I Keep From Singing? The Old Hymn Reimagined (R. W. Lowry) | No Worries Now... | Fossil Records 2009 87140 00202
43.        Company: If We Only Have Love (Brel) | Original Broadway Cast - Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris | Sony Classical/Columbia/Legacy SK 89998
44.        Laura Love: I Still Believe (Unplugged) | She Loved Red | Laura Love 88295 68276
45.        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! Peace to all, MRB

Marilyn Rea Beyer
Host, The Midnight Special and Folkstage
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