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January 8, 2005
We searched the stars for the best place
to put on our first live show of the New Year, and they pointed us
north. So we're going to Duluth! Stop on by, for two times the sound
effects (Fred Newman and Tom Keith), acoustic guitarist Leo Kottke, steel guitar and dobro player Cindy Cashdollar, and the seven voices of the Mila Vocal Ensemble. Plus, the adventures of Guy Noir, the News From Lake Wobegon, and more.
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| Segment 1 |
| 00:00:00 | Logo |
| 00:00:12 | Tishomingo Blues |
| 00:05:36 | "Back Bay Shuffle" - Pat Donohue and Shoe Band |
| 00:08:35 | Toilet script |
| 00:10:26 | "Bristol Sloth" - Leo Kottke |
| 00:14:34 | Cruise script |
| 00:22:20 | "Tri su kralja 'idrila'," "Trgnala e malka moma" and "Oj, khodyt', pokhodyt' misjats'" - Mila Vocal Ensemble with GK talk |
| 00:33:36 | Powdermilk Biscuit Break |
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| Segment 2 |
| 00:35:25 | Cell Phone script |
| 00:36:50 | GK talks with Prudence Johnson about Country music |
| 00:38:16 | Country songs segment: "Making Plans," "Let It Be Me," "That's the Way Love Goes," "As Long As I Live" - Prudence Johnson |
| 00:48:22 | Guy Noir |
| 00:59:27 | "Pamela Brown" - Leo Kottke |
| 01:03:36 | Intermission/"Tulsa Straight Ahead" - Guy's All-Star Shoe Band |
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| Segment 3 |
| 01:08:05 | Greetings/Welcome to 2nd half of show |
| 01:10:52 | GK talks about Duluth |
| 01:15:12 | GK calls Rowland Fowler from Embarrass, MN |
| 01:19:30 | "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" - Pat Donohue, Shoe Band, Mila Vocal Ensemble, audience |
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| Segment 4 |
| 01:22:09 | GK intros Louis Jenkins and his poems about winter |
| 01:23:01 | Louis Jenkins recites his poems: "January," "Winter Light," "Ice," and "Some Things to Think About" |
| 01:30:30 | Gk talks about singing like the vocal ensemble |
| 01:31:06 | "Dubravushka" - Mila Vocal Ensemble |
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| Segment 5 |
| 01:33:09 | The News from Lake Wobegon |
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| Segment 6 |
| 01:52:04 | "Twice" - Leo Kottke |
| 01:55:29 | Credits, Fred Newman/Tom Keith SFX |
| 01:57:50 | "As Long As I Live" - GK/Prudence Johnson/Shoe Band |
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Margie Miller
& her nieces |
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Margie Miller (left) drove in to Duluth from Eveleth, Minnesota, to see our January 8 show with her nieces Chrissy Bartos and Bobbie Paull (Jo Paull is not pictured). Eveleth, boasted Margie, is home to the largest hockey stick in the world. "How big?" we asked. "Big," she said, and the others nodded their heads in agreement. (We checked it out, and they were right. It's a pretty big hockey stick.)
The Koralias
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The Koralias — John and Barb and their daughter Beth, seen here with cousin Nik Dallos and friend Matt Ferguson — were thrilled to be seeing A Prairie Home Companion in their hometown of Duluth on January 8. Barb was especially delighted to learn that she and Garrison both wear red shoes, as red is a warm color, and one needs warmth on one's feet when one lives in a cold climate.
Mrs. Peak |
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We found Mrs. Shirley Peak after the January 8 show in Duluth, looking for her husband. He bought her tickets to our show for Christmas, sweet man. Mrs. Peak, from up on the Range, met Mr. Peak from Idaho when they were young and he was stationed in Duluth for the Coast Guard. They've lived on Superior ever since.
Steve & LouAnn |
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Steve Laskowski and LouAnn Kresal were at the DECC for our January 8 show. The two told us they work at Minnesota Power, which is now called Allete. No, not "elite." Allete. Steve's favorite part of the show was Guy Noir.
The Horlockers |
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We caught up with Mark and Dana Horlocker at the DECC on January 8. The couple met in the Twin Cities (she's a St. Paul girl), but he dragged her up to Duluth a few years back so he could get a degree in "outdoors stuff" from the University of Minnesota-Duluth. Now they think they'll stay north forever.
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Photos from the show
Click images to view slideshow. (Photos taken by Melissa Sperl)
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| Garrison Keillor greets the audience. |
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The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band (Pat Donohue on guitar, Gary Raynor on bass, Rich Dworsky on piano), plus dobro player Cindy Cashdollar at left. |
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| The ladies of the Mila Vocal Ensemble, with a Croatian folk song, "Tri su kralja 'idrila'." |
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Garrison Keillor with stage manager Albert Webster. |
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| Sound-effects men Fred Newman and Tom Keith, during the Guy Noir script. |
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Garrison Keillor as Guy Noir. |
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On July 4th, help us celebrate the 35th Anniversary of A Prairie Home Companion and the Fourth of July with a free live nationally broadcast show from Avon, MN.
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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