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November 13, 2004
We're not done with the Fitz yet! This week we welcome gospel blue-grassers Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, joining us in downtown St. Paul all the way from Tennessee. Butch Thompson — a fellow Minnesotan and one-time house pianist for A Prairie Home Companion — is back, too, to play a song or two with The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band.
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| Segment 1 |
| 00:00:00 | Logo |
| 00:00:13 | Tishomingo Blues |
| 00:02:28 | GK talks about the hockey lockout, its effect on opera, flu vaccine |
| 00:03:28 | Opening script |
| 00:05:02 | "John Henry" - GK and Shoe Band |
| 00:10:25 | Deer script |
| 00:17:26 | Meat script |
| 00:19:11 | "Blues for Two" - Pat Donohue and Butch Thompson |
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| Segment 2 |
| 00:22:33 | GK introduces Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver |
| 00:23:00 | "Julianne" - Doyle Lawson and Quicksliver |
| 00:26:12 | GK talks to Doyle Lawson |
| 00:27:30 | "John the Revelator" - Doyle Lawson and Qucksilver |
| 00:30:20 | Powdermilk Biscuit Break/"Nonsense Song" - GK and Shoe Band |
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| Segment 3 |
| 00:32:20 | Guy Noir |
| 00:41:44 | What the Bass Player Thinks About script |
| 00:45:04 | Emperor script, into "Caravan" - Guy's All-Star Shoe Band |
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| Segment 4 |
| 00:54:52 | GK introduces members of Quicksilver |
| 00:55:22 | "Blue Train on the Heartbreak Line" - Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver |
| 00:59:40 | Intermission - "Somebody Stole My Gal" - Guy's All-Star Shoe Band |
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| Segment 5 |
| 01:03:34 | Welcome Back/Greetings |
| 01:06:32 | "I Know Where I'm Going"/The Gypsy Rover" - Department of Folk Song |
| 01:13:30 | "Mercury Blues" Pat Donohue and Shoe Band |
| 01:18:16 | Tomahawk script |
| 01:19:34 | "Jimmy Yancey tune" - Butch Thompson |
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| Segment 6 |
| 01:23:13 | GK talks to Doyle Lawson |
| 01:27:11 | "Hard Game of Love" - Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver |
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| Segment 7 |
| 01:31:22 | The News from Lake Wobegon |
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| Segment 8 |
| 01:49:36 | "Old Rockin' chair" - Prudence Johnson |
| 01:53:07 | GK talks about Doyle Lawson |
| 01:53:30 | "I'm Glad Somebody Obeyed" - Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver |
| 01:55:40 | Credits, "Parting Glass"/"Sally Goodin" - Pat Donohue and the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band |
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Photos from the show
Click images to view slideshow. (Photos taken by Melissa Sperl)
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| Actors Tim Russell and Sue Scott with a script that features talking deer. |
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Guitarist Pat Donohue with "Blues For Two," written just for a performance with pianist Butch Thompson. |
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| Doyle Lawson (left) and Quicksilver's incredible harmonies, with the gospel song "John the Revelator." |
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Guy Noir goes to Wisconsin to badger a Packers fan, with actors Tim Russell (left) and Sue Scott (center) and Garrison Keillor (right). |
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| Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, with "Blue Train on the Heartbreak Line." |
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"Old Rockin' Chair," with Butch Thompson on clarinet, Pat Donohue on guitar, and Prudence Johnson on vocals. |
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Bonnie and
Merrill Holden |
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During a fund-drive at their local WHQR-FM, Bonnie and Merrill Holden contributed during the show so they'd be entered in a contest with a very special prize: 24 hours in St. Paul, and tickets to see the show live. They won! On November 13, we were happy to see them seated on stage with Garrison and The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and to find out after the show that Bonnie simply couldn't possibly pick a favorite part, she liked it all so much.
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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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