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A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor

April 20, 2002
Live from the Town Hall in New York City, with U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins, English folk singer Kate Rusby and Fiddlers 4.

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00:00Logo
00:11Tishomingo Blues
02:08GK talks about New York City, oil drilling
05:55Marble Top - Guy's All-Star Shoe Band
08:17Nobody Knows You - Garrison and band
12:22Catchup script
15:37GK intros Fiddlers 4
16:56I Know - Fiddlers 4
21:17Mazurka - Fiddlers 4
25:58Billy Collins reads "Love", "More Than A Woman", and "Sonnet"
35:00Powdermilk Biscuit Break
36:36Lives of the Cowboys script
46:40GK talks with Kate Rusby
48:55Cobbler's Daughter - Kate Rusby
53:32Botany Bay - Kate Rusby
59:39Intermission - The World is Waiting For The Sunrise
1:03:50Greetings
1:07:29Apartment script
1:10:45GK talks to U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins
1:12:30Billy Collins reads "Dharma", "Litany" and "Forgetfulness"
1:18:42Garrison talks to John and Kate
1:19:50I Courted A Sailor - Kate Rusby
1:25:18Monologue/ While We're Young
1:38:32Southern Hospitality - Richard Dworsky
1:41:23New York script
1:47:12You Don't Know My Mind - Pat Donohue
1:51:03Smoker script
1:51:51I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free
1:57:40Credits
1:58:15Edinburgh Flowers closer


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Kate Rusby Billy Collins
Fiddlers 4 Bruce Molsky
Kate Rusby Rushad Eggleston


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  • Kate Rusby
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  • Kate Rusby
  • Fiddlers 4
  • Scripts
  • Catchup
  • Lives of the Cowboys
  • Apartment
  • New York travelogue
  • Nobody Knows You [lyrics]


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