A Prairie Home Companion: November 27, 2004

November 27, 2004
What's a holiday without friends, we say, and that's why we've invited some of the best back to St. Paul for the Thanksgiving-weekend show: The Boys of the Lough will play traditional Celtic tunes and singer/pianist Kelley Hunt will tune in with the blues. Robin and Linda Williams will be with us as well, as will guitarist/mandolinist/fiddler John Niemann, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and more.

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Segment 1

00:00:00 Logo

00:00:12 Tishomingo Blues

00:02:45 Carson script

00:09:24 GK compares winter to marriage

00:09:55 "I Am a Pilgrim" - GK/Robin & Linda Williams

00:12:26 Meat script

00:13:30 "Blues When I Exercise" - Pat Donohue and Shoe Band

00:17:11 GK introduces Boys of the Lough

00:19:46 "Hornpipes" - Boys of the Lough

00:22:27 "My Love, My God" - Boys of the Lough

00:27:49 Powdermilk Biscuit Break

Segment 2

00:29:27 GK talks to Robin & Linda Williams

00:30:13 Department of Folk Song: "Home Sweet Home," "A Mother's Prayer," "Daddy & Home," "Mom & Dad's Waltz," "Precious Memories"

00:40:29 Guy Noir

00:48:56 "Someday Never Comes" - John Niemann and Shoe Band

Segment 3

00:53:02 GK introduces Kelley Hunt

00:53:33 "Long Way Home" - Kelley Hunt Band

00:58:11 "Why Do I Love You?" - Kelley Hunt Band

01:03:00 Intermission/"Avalon" - Shoe Band

Segment 4

01:07:16 Welcome back/Greetings

01:10:30 "Visions of Mother and Dad" - Robin & Linda Williams

01:14:50 Lives of the Cowboys script

01:21:38 GK talks to Kelley Hunt

01:22:13 "A New Shade of Blue" - Kelley Hunt Band

Segment 5

01:26:42 The News from Lake Wobegon

Segment 6

01:46:05 "Stuff the Turkey" - Guy's All-Star Shoe Band

01:48:42 "We're All Republicans Now" - GK and Shoe Band

01:51:00 GK introduces Boys of the Lough

01:51:32 "Polkas" - Boys of the Lough

01:56:03 Credits, "The Parting Glass," "Floers for Edinburgh" - Guy's All-Star Shoe Band/Boys of the Lough

Photos from the show

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Sound-effects man Tom Keith chimes in on the Carson script.		Garrison introduces the Boys of the Lough, a traditional Celtic folk band, and learns how to pronounce the name Cathal.


The Boys of the Lough with the Irish ballad, "My Love, My God."		Garrison starts the second hour of the show with some greetings submitted by the audience.


Robin and Linda Williams with a song Linda wrote about her parents, "Visions of Mother and Dad."		The Boys of the Lough's Cathal (pronounced "Ca'-hal") McConnell closes the show with "The Parting Glass."

Guest Recordings The Boys of the Lough Kelley Hunt Robin & Linda Williams		Music Information Performers, music sources and credits

Guest Information Boys of the Lough Kelley Hunt Robin & Linda Williams		Scripts Carson script Meat script Guy Noir Lives of the Cowboys script

Lyrics

I Am a Pilgrim

We're All Republicans Now

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Dads Peter Cryan
& Jim Olmstead

We met these two guys on November 27, waiting outside in the snow for their families. Or "family," as the case may be since their kids got married in July: Peter Cryan (left) and his wife Terry were in St. Paul from Bolton, Massachusetts to give thanks with Jim (right) and Dixie Olmstead, the parents of son Phillip Cryan's new wife Julia. The newlywed Cryans drove up from Ames, Iowa for the occasion.