October 27, 2001
 Live from the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, with folk and blues singer Geoff Muldaur with guitarist Amos Garrett, pianist Butch Thompson, and poet Louis Jenkins.

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 Is You Is Or Is You Ain't (Amos Garrett)
News from Lake Wobegon

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00:00Logo
00:12Tishomingo
02:44GK talks about early winter
05:48I Need Your Love Tonight - GK and band
08:21Rhubarb script
11:50GK intros Geoff Muldaur and Amos Garrett, into Sloppy Drunk
16:38Geoff intros Tennessee Blues
21:57Fear script - Sue Scott
23:51GK and Pat talk about Bessie Smith, into Haunted House Blues
27:45Powdermilk Biscuit Break
29:26GK talks about W.C. Handy
30:22Louis Jenkins segment - prose poem: "Flight"
32:08"A Place For Everything" - Louis Jenkins
34:10"A Thunderstorm Warning" and "Late October Above Lake Superior" - Louis Jenkins
36:18GK welcomes Duke Heitger and Butch Thompson, into W.C. Handy segment with Yellow Dog, Careless Love, Memphis Blues, St. Louis Blues
48:25Catchup script
50:44GK intros Amos Garrett, into Is You Is Or Is You Ain't
55:42Guy Noir script
1:05:12Intermission: Indiana
1:09:53Welcome Back to the 2nd Half, Greetings, Night Out promo
1:12:36Linda script
1:17:08GK dedicates the next song to Muddy Newman, Lazy Bones, GK back announce, talk with Amos about the King Eddy club in Calgary.
1:23:22Sleepwalk - Amos Garrett
1:27:53Monologue
1:45:20Hesitation Blues - Band, Duke, and Butch
1:48:11Louis Jenkins - "Change" poem and "Somersault"
1:51:32Kitchen Door Blues - Geoff Muldaur (text by Tennessee Williams)
1:53:50Credits
1:55:20Sound Effects - Tom Keith
1:57:17Bye Bye Love

 Photos from the show
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Geoff Muldaur Amos Garrett
Poet Louis Jenkins Pat Donohue and Haunted House Blues
Butch Thompson and Duke Heitger Butch Thompson at the piano
Amos Garrett and Is You Is Or Is You Ain't (my baby) Catchup Advisory Board

Guest Recordings
  • Geoff Muldaur
  • Amos Garrett
    •      		Music Information
     Performers, music sources and credits

    Writing Credits:
    Research and ideas: Russ Ringsak, Marilyn Heltzer, Laura Levine
    Jokes: Greg Fideler
    Guest Information
  • Geoff Muldaur
  • Amos Garrett
  • Louis Jenkins
  • Butch Thompson
  • Duke Heitger
    •      		Scripts
  • Rhubarb
  • Fear
  • Catchup
  • Guy Noir
  • Linda Wertheimer
  • Sound Effects
  • Flight
  • A Place for Everything
  • Thunderstorm Warning
  • Late October Above Lake Superior
  • Change
  • Somersault

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