The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer 09-26-2026
Theme:  Unusual pairings and compatible duos
*** New or Notable
Next Week: Things that are tall, and new music for fall

Hour 1

1.          Lead Belly: The Midnight Special THEME (excerpt 2) | Midnight Special | RCA Victor LPV-505
2.          The Two Gentlemen Band: Cheese & Crackers | Two At A Time | Bean-Tone Records BTR- 001CD
3.          Maeve Higgins: How to Make Friends | A Very Special Woman | bandcamp [2022]
4.          Patty Stevenson & Craig Siemsen: Pocket Bread and Peanut Butter | One Person | Larrea/PC1281
5.          Raffi: Peanut Butter Sandwich | Singable Songs for the Very Young | Troubadour TR-002
6.          David Amram ft. Butch Baldassari mandolin: Louisiana Crawfish Etoufee | Southern Stories | Chrome Records CR4202
7.          Tom Smith: A Boy and His Frog | Tom Smith and his Digital Acoustic Compilation | Dodeka DR-10017D
8.          Peter, Paul and Mary: I'm in Love with a Big Blue Frog | The Collection... disc 3 | Reader's Digest OPCD-8505 3 of 4
9.          Michael Smith: The Princess & The Frog | Such Things are Finely Done | Tales from the Tavern | Tales from the Tavern no.019
10.        Felicity Buirski: Rumpelstiltskin | Repairs & Alterations | Run River Records 004UK
11.        Mary Chapin Carpenter: The Bug (Knopfler) | Come On, Come On | Columbia CK 48881
12.        Townes Van Zandt: Pancho & Lefty | Live at the Old Quarter | Tomato TOM-2-7001
13.        The Hot Club of Cowtown: Billy The Kid | Wild Kingdom | Gold Strike WR4047CD
14.        Ramblin' Jack Elliott: Me and Billy the Kid (Ely) | Friends of Mine | Hightone Records HCD8089
15.        Joe Ely: I Gotta' Find Old Joe | Streets of Sin | Rounder Rounder 011 661 3181-2
16.        Mark Humphreys: Jesus Christ, Joe Walsh, and I (Lorand/Bern) | The River Road | Trough Records TRCP 1055
17.        George Ensle: Ode to Jake | Home | Berkalin 7 98576 58122 0
18.        Merle Travis: Midnight Special Travis picked guitar | Merle Travis In Boston 1959 | Travis Pickin' CMH 6255
Hour 2

19.        John Prine: Me, Myself, and I | Aimless Love | Oh Boy Records OBR 002CD
20         Steve Goodman: Donald & Lydia (Prine) | Steve Goodman | Buddah 7446599625 2
21.        *** Jules Klee: He Don't Know a Thing | Roses on My Table | julesklee.com pre-release single
22.        Dave Nachmanoff: Square Peg Blues | Snapshots | Troubadour TR004
23.        Eric Brace & Thomm Jutz: Circle and Square | Circle and Square | Red Beet Records RBRCD0028
24.        Terence Martin: Perfect Fit | Lost Hills | Good Dog Music 43865
25.        James Curley: Song to Myself | Mortal | Sidewalking Crab Records 1 95269 43279 9
26.        John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon: Presidential Debate (NYC 1960) | Great Speeches of the 20th Century, Vol. 1 | Rhino Word Beat RWB 70567 1
27.        Richard Burton: Camelot (Lerner & Loewe) | Camelot (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Sony Camelot / SK 60542
28,        The Dreamsicles: Richard Nixon (Prasada-Rao) | Cary Cooper and Tom Prasada-Rao on WFMT's Folkstage | Folkstage 02-09-08 2 of 2
29.        Susan Werner and Tish Hinojosa: Sisters | Halfway to Houston | susanwerner.com 02092024
30.        The Dangling Participles: Widen the Circle | One More Drop | thedanglingparticiples.com
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31.        *** Scott Cook: A Bigger Tent | Troubadourly Yours | Groove Revival GRP010
32.        Jonas Friddle: The Midnight Special - fretless banjo | Midnight Special Collection JFriddle | MS008
Hour 3

33.        Ray Bonneville: Two Bends in the Road | Rough Luck | PrimeCD PRIME CD68
34.        Taproot: Around the Next Bend | If You Build It | Taproot Music Taproot Music
35.        *** Sons of Town Hall: Honest Man | Honest Man | Sons of Town Hall pre-release single
36.        Our Native Daughters: Moon Meets the Sun | Songs of Our Native Daughters | Smithsonian Folkways/SF CD 40232
37.        Emma's Revolution: Sun and the Wind (Humphries) | Revolutions Per Minute | Moving Forward MFM 1234
38.        The Last Word Quintet: Lightning and Thunder (Bob Long) | After the Rain... | self 1 95269 06843 1
39.        Lara Herscovitch: Mr. Hyde | Misfit | La Rama Records LRR1606
40.        David Mitchell & Robert Webb: Friends of Dr. Jekyll | That Mitchell & Webb Sound, Series Two, disc 2 | BBC Audio ISBN 13:978 1846 070716
41.        Bailey Jester (Jordan & Hines): She's Two of a Kind | Travelin' Show | Johnny Cut BAI 002
42.        The Pairs: Past My Prime | Together on a Rock | thepairsmusic.com
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43.        Eddie From Ohio: You & Me In A Rowboat to Rio | Portable EFO Show, Disc 1 | Virginia Soul Records VSR CD 005
44.        Sons of the Never Wrong: Pull Me Through (Roper) | Song of Sons | Waterbug 129 7 53114 01293 5
45.        Rosalie Sorrels: Waltzing With Bears | What it Means to Love | Green Linnet GLCD 2113
46.        Laura Love: I Still Believe (Unplugged) | She Loved Red | Laura Love 88295 68276
47.        Andrew Beyer: The Midnight Special - cigar box slide | Midnight Special Collection | AABeyer/MS 004
Special thanks to volunteer Karen Rigotti who compiles the playlist report! Go Sox! Go Cubs!

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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