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Richard Dworsky

Each week on A Prairie Home Companion, RICHARD DWORSKY leads The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band and appears as keyboardist, composer, and arranger. A PHC regular since 1986, he's accompanied Garrison Keillor on U.S. and European concert tours and provided original music for many Keillor recordings.
Credits include: 32 years as a studio musician; two years accompanying singer Al Jarreau; composer for The Marvelous Land of Oz ( televised on Showtime) and the animation A Joan Walsh Anglund Christmas. Original music CDs include The Path to You and So Near and Dear to Me; and his piece, A Morning With The Roses, appears on many Windham Hill Records compilations.
He's recorded with Peter Ostroushko, John Gorka, Robin and Linda Williams, and the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band. One of Dworsky's songs was recorded by Tony Award winning singer/actress Kristin Chenoweth (on Sony Classical).

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• Tom Keith
• Tim Russell
• Sue Scott
• Rich Dworsky
• Fred Newman
• Pat Donohue
• Gary Raynor
• The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band

On July 4th, help us celebrate the 35th Anniversary of A Prairie Home Companion and the Fourth of July with a free live nationally broadcast show from Avon, MN.

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From Garrison Keillor:
“When I was 16, Helen Fleischman assigned me to memorize Shakespeare’s Sonnet No. 29, ‘When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state’ for English class, and fifty years later, that poem is still in my head. Algebra got washed away, and geometry and most of biology, but those lines about the redemptive power of love in the face of shame are still here behind my eyeballs, more permanent than my own teeth. The sonnet is a durable good. These 77 of mine include sonnets of praise, some erotic, some lamentations, some street sonnets and a 12-sonnet cycle of months. If anything here offends, I beg your pardon, I come in peace, I depart in gratitude.”

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Robin & Linda Williams are among the most popular guest performers of A Prairie Home Companion (they also appeared in the movie, have performed as part of the The Hopeful Gospel Quartet, and made appearances as Marvin & Mavis Smiley). This CD features some of the duo's best harmonies from the show. Among the 12 tracks are familiar fan favorites, including "For Better or Worse", "Visions of Mother and Dad", "Tied Down, Home Free" and the title track. A collection that is muy bueno!

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