A Prairie Home Companion
SATURDAY, June 8, 1996

Music performed on A Praire Home Companion, June 8, 1996
Alberta Bair Theater, Billings, Montana

REGULAR PERFORMERS:

Garrison Keillor, Tim Russell, Chris Forth, Tom Keith; The Guys All-Star Shoe Band: Richard Dworsky, piano; Andy Stein, fiddle, tenor sax, vocal; Pat Donohue, guitar; Greg Hippen, bass; Arnie Kinsella, percussion.

GUESTS:

Ian Frazier, author; Wallace McRae, poet; Jo Miller/Laura Love Connection ; Jo Miller, guitar, vocal; Laura Love, vocal; Oliver Johnson, mandolin, dobro; Nancy Katz, bass.

See below for Albums by Guest Artists.

TISHOMINGO BLUES
Garrison Keillor, RD, AS, PD, GH, AK
w/m: Spencer Williams; new words: Garrison Keillor
©1917 Joseph W. Stern and Co.

LET'S FACE THE MUSIC AND DANCE
Garrison Keillor, RD, AS, PD, GH, AK
w/m: Irving Berlin
©1935/1936 Irving Berlin

NOTHIN'
Pat Donohue, RD, AS, GH, AK
w/m: Pat Donohue
©1996 Salspot Music

EVERYBODY LEAVES WITHOUT TELLING ME GOODBYE
Jo Miller/Laura Love Connection
w/m: Sheila Gostick
©Santa Cecilia Music (SOCAN)
album: "Jo Miller and Laura Love Sing Bluegrass and Old-Time Music"
Rockin' Octaroon Records 100

BLUE AND LONESOME
Jo Miller/Laura Love Connection
w/m: Bill Monroe
album: "Jo Miller and Laura Love Sing Bluegrass and Old-Time Music"
Rockin' Octaroon Records 100

IN MY DEAR OLD SOUTHERN HOME
Jo Miller/Laura Love Connection
w/m: Jimmie Rodgers, Ezra Cozzens
©Peer International Music Corp.
album: "Jo Miller and Laura Love Sing Bluegrass and Old-Time Music"
Rockin' Octaroon Records 100

"WESTERN" THEME ("The Lives of the Cowboys" theme)
The Guys All-Star Shoe Band
m: Pat Donohue, Rich Dworsky
©1994 Donohue/Dworsky

TREASURE UNTOLD (in "The Lives of the Cowboys" script)
Garrison Keillor, PD
w/m: Jimmie Rodgers, Ellsworth T. Cozzens
©1928 Peer International Music Corp.

JAZZ ME BLUES (intermission)
The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band
m: Jo Oliver
©1940

SPANISH IS THE LOVING TONGUE
Garrison Keillor, RD, PD
w: Charles Badger Clark, Jr., m: traditional

THERE AIN'T NO ASH WILL BURN
Jo Miller/Laura Love Connection
w/m: Walt Aldridge
©Rick Hatt Publishing/EMI
album: "Jo Miller and Laura Love Sing Bluegrass and Old-Time Music"
Rockin' Octaroon Records 100

MOTHER NATURE'S SON
The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band
w/m: Paul McCartney/John Lennon
©1968 Northern Songs, Ltd.

I RIDE AN OLD PAINT
Garrison Keillor, Jo Miller/Laure Love Connection, Wallace McRae, RD, AS, PD, GH, AK
traditional

ALBUMS BY GUEST ARTISTS

Laura Love
"Z Therapy," Octoroon Biography Records 1
"Pangaea," Octoroon Biography Records 3
"Helvetica Bold," Octoroon Biography Records 4
"The Laura Love Collection," Putumayo World Music 118

Ranch Romance (w/Jo Miller)
"Blue Blazes," Sugar Hill Records, SH-CD 3794
"Flip City," Sugar Hill Records, SH-CD 3813
"Western Dream," Ranch Hand Records

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