WFMT's The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer 10-03-2026
Theme:  Things that are very tall.
*** New or notable
Next week: John Prine 80th Birthday Celebration

1.          Lead Belly: The Midnight Special THEME (excerpt 1) | Midnight Special | RCA Victor LPV-505
2.          Vance Gilbert: High Rise | One Through Fourteen  |  Disismye Music LRHR-1157
3.          *** Kelly Hunt: I Rise | Requiem for a Sleepless Night | Compass 7 48762 2
4.          Ruth Bloomquist: High as a Mountain | One Day Ain't Enough | Ruby Records Ruby Records 906
5.          Gillian Welch: In Tall Buildings (Hartford) | A Tribute to John Hartford (Live from Mountain Stage) | Blue Plate Music BPM 405
6.          John Hartford: Up On the Hill Where They Do the Boogie | Aereo-Plane | /Rounder CD0366
7.          Abbie Gardner: Born in the City | Dobrosinger | abbiegardner.com 1 95269 14469 2
8.          Malcolm Holcombe: Hard Luck City | Bits and Pieces | Need to Know [2023]
9,          Claudia Russell: Blue Flame Café (Virginia Shine) | song food | Radio Rhythm RRR10004
10.        Nanci Griffith: Three Flights Up (Christian) | Other Voices, Other Rooms | Elektra 9 61464-2
11.        Louise Coombe: The Girl Upstairs (Coombe/Paxton) | Paris | Zoe Cat
3.2025
12.        *** Mary Gauthier: Heaven | Reckoning | Soundly Records Thirty Tigers
9.25.2026
13.        Henhouse Prowlers: Look Up to the Sky | Unravel | Dark Shadow Recording DSR202501
14.        Chris Rawlins: Gravity or Something | Bring on the Rain | chris-rawlins.com 888295865050
15.        Eddie From Ohio: Gravity | Big Noise | Virginia Soul Records VSR CD 004
16.        *** Jon Shain: Butterfly Wings | Odds and ... even so | Flyin' Records FR
8.2026
17.        *** Catie Curtis: C'mon Butterfly | C'mon Butterfly |  no further info
18.        Andrew Beyer: The Midnight Special - Melodica | Midnight Special Collection | AABeyer/MS 005
Hour 2

19.        John Prine: Space Monkey | Live on Tour | Oh Boy Live on Tour / OBR 015CD
20.        Dick Gregory: Space Spending | Dick Gregory Talks Black | Poppy promo
21.        Annie Gallup: Sputnik | Bookish | anniegallup.com 793447420127
22.        *** Sue Fink: Revolutions | Leaves of Summertime | suefink.com 1 95269 43719 0
23.        Edie Carey: All That Space | The Veil | ediecarey.com 50185-5
24.        Modern Man: We're Martians (Wurzbach) | Modern Immaturity | Inverted Turtle Records 7 86851-9937-2 1
25.        *** Angela Easterling ft. Will Kimbrough: Look For Red | Songs from The Knoxville Project | angelaeasterling.com
9.25.2026
26.        Scott Cook: The Wolf That Wins | Troubadourly Yours | Groove Revival GRP010
27.        *** Kyshona: We The People (acoustic version) | Constitution Day single | Moraine Music Group
9.17.2026
28.        ***The Twangtown Paramours: I Gotta' Do Somethin' | single | Inside Edge Records IER 008
29.        Steve Goodman: A Dying Cubs Fans Last Request | Affordable Art | Omnivore Recordings OVCD-337
30.        Frank Tedesso: Margaret | Songs from Einstein's Violin | Imaginary Road 314 532 840-2
31.        Bud Abbott & Lou Costello: Who's on First? | Baseball's Greatest Hits | Rhino R2 70710
32.        Sam Bush: Take Me Out to the Ballgame (instr. Von Tilzer) | Howlin' at the Moon | Sugar Hill SHCD-3876
Hour 3

33.        Connie Converse: We Lived Alone | How Sad, How Lovely | Lau Derette Recordings LD-09001
34.        *** Emmy Bean & Ronnie Kuller: Talkin' Like You/Two Tall Mountains (Converse) | Her Only Light | heronlylight.com pre-release single
35.        *** Louise Grasemere: Great Big World | Two Crows | louisegrasmere.com 1 99874 08547 0
36.        *** Laura Cortese: Lucky Water | Lucky Water | Compass 748712
37.        *** Donna Herula: On My Way Home - instrumental | Cold Feet | Donna Herula DH004
38.        Kenny White: Gotta Sing High | Comfort in the Static | Wildflower Records WFL 1328
39.        *** Bruce Cockburn: Yellow Dog Blues (WC Handy) | The Blood of Others | Sunset Blvd. Records release
10.16.2026
39.        Aaron Nathans & Michael G. Ronstadt: All Along the Watchtower (Dylan) | Crooked Fiddle | Nathans & Ronstadt NRCD001
40.        Owen Walsh ft. Frances Eliza: Money Doesn't Talk | Money Doesn't Talk (single) | owenwalsh.com
3.1.2026
41.        Sons of the Never Wrong: Stand Up, Shout Out | Feather and the Starry Crown | Sons 3 Records SR 4
42.        Tom Waits: What's He Building | Mule Variations | Epitaph 86547 2
43.        Cowboy Junkies: Hard to Build, Easy to Break | Such Ferocious Beauty | Cooking Vinyl COOKLP893X
44.        Patty Griffin: Way Up to the Sky | Crown of Roses | Thirty Tigers PGM004
45.        Pete Seeger: From Way Up Here (Tchaikovsky, Seeger, Reynolds) | God Bless the Grass | Columbia CL2432
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
Best wishes to all. Special thanks to volunteer Karen Rigotti who complies the playlist report so faithfully and accurately.

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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