May 24, 2003
Live from The Fox Theater in Atlanta, Georgia, with singer Francine Reed and humorist Roy Blount, Jr. Sam Bush sits in with the Shoe Band.

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00:00Logo
00:12Tishomingo Blues into SFX script, back into Tishomingo
04:11SFX script
06:05Sittin' On Top of the World - Sam Bush and Shoe Band
10:10GK talks about being Republican
11:30White House poem, into "We're All Republicans Now"
14:00U.S. Treasury script
15:08Cannonball Blues - Pat Donohue, Sam Bush, Shoe Band
17:04GK talks about the Fox Theatre and Auburn Avenue
27:00Brokedown Engine - Pat intro with brief talk about Blind Willie McTell
31:31Powdermilk Biscuit Break
33:43GK intros/talks with Roy Blount Jr. about Atlanta
39:52Guy Noir script
50:19Ketchup script
53:05Wild Women - Francine Reed and her band
57:33Evil Gal - Francine Reed and her band
1:01:40Intermission - Sweet Georgia Brown
1:06:11Greetings
1:13:30Columbus Stockade Blues - Sam Bush, GK, Shoe Band
1:16:16GK and Sam talk about last night's Braves game
1:17:03The Wizard of Oz (Hey Ozzie) - Sam Bush and Shoe Band
1:20:02GK and Roy Blount talk about Roy Blount's biography of Robert E. Lee
1:28:18Into the Garden - Pat Donohue and Shoe Band
1:30:46Monologue
1:46:24Meditation - Francine Reed and her band
1:50:46Georgia on My Mind script
1:52:54Credits
1:55:00This Little Light of Mine - GK, Francine Reed, Shoe Band

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Francine Reed Sam Bush
Roy Blount, Jr. Pat Donohue
Tim Russell as George Bush More Sam Bush

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  • Sam Bush
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  • Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Sam Bush
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  • We're All Republicans Now
  • U.S. Treasury
  • Guy Noir
  • Ketchup
  • Georgia on My Mind

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