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January 28, 2006
There's nothing like a University audience to energize our old radio show, so this week we're headed to West Lafayette, Ind., to broadcast from the campus of Purdue University, close by the Wabash in famed Hoosier land. Our special guests include the "Jimi Hendrix of Bluegrass" Jerry Douglas and his band, senior savant of the diatonic harmonica Howard Levy, singer Prudence Johnson, and the Purdue University Varsity Glee Club. Also featuring the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, the Royal Academy of Radio Acting, and the News from Lake Wobegon, all this week on A Prairie Home Companion.
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| Segment 1 |
| 00:00:00 | Logo |
| 00:00:14 | Tishomingo Blues |
| 00:02:22 | GK opens, talks about Purdue University history |
| 00:03:33 | "West Lafayette (Railroad Bill)" - Pat Donohue and Garrison Keillor with band |
| 00:07:10 | "Emphysenia Two Step" - Jerry Douglas Band and Guy's All-Star Shoe Band |
| 00:11:07 | GK talk about students at Purdue University, basketball teams |
| 00:12:18 | SFX script |
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| Segment 2 |
| 00:16:34 | "Hail! Purdue" - Purdue Varsity Glee Club, GK introduces them |
| 00:19:14 | "Ambien" - Purdue Varsity Glee Club |
| 00:21:12 | "Lafayette Phone Book" - Purdue Varsity Glee Club |
| 00:23:32 | "Stout-Hearted Men" - Purdue Varsity Glee Club |
| 00:25:55 | Ken Lay script |
| 00:28:22 | "Indiana Medley" - Shoe Band |
| 00:32:44 | Powdermilk Biscuit Break/"Farewell Blues" |
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| Segment 3 |
| 00:34:56 | Librarian script |
| 00:41:13 | GK talks about New Harmony, Indiana and Robert Owen |
| 00:41:44 | "Baltimore Oriole" - Prudence Johnson and Guy's All-Star Shoe Band |
| 00:45:30 | Guy Noir script |
| 00:58:34 | "Who's Your Uncle?" - Jerry Douglas Band, with Pat, Rich, and Howard Levy |
| 01:02:33 | Intermission/"Limehouse Blues" |
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| Segment 4 |
| 01:06:30 | GK talks about Purdue, Amelia Earhart's connection, Greetings |
| 01:10:08 | "Farewell Amelia Earhart" - GK, Prudence Johnson, Jerry Douglas, Shoe Band, Purdue Varsity Glee Club |
| 01:14:44 | GK talks about technological advancement at Purdue, research projects |
| 01:17:40 | "Can't Get Indiana Off My Mind" - Purdue Varsity Glee Club |
| 01:20:15 | News From Lake Wobegon |
| 01:34:55 | GK intros Jerry Douglas |
| 01:35:35 | "A Remark You Made" - Jerry Douglas Band |
| 01:40:10 | "Walkin' Blues" - Pat Donohue and Shoe Band |
| 01:44:35 | GK makes an announcement about this summer's Alaskan cruise |
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| Segment 5 |
| 01:45:23 | Law script |
| 01:47:04 | Worry Womb script |
| 01:50:11 | "The Stars and Stripes Forever" - Purdue Varsity Glee Club |
| 01:53:56 | GK talks about Elliott Hall, credits |
| 01:56:10 | "On The Banks of the Wabash" - GK, Prudence, Glee Blub, Richard Dworsky |
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Photos from the show
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| Howard Levy demonstrates the wonders of the diatonic harmonica |
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Prudence Johnson leads the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band on "Baltimore Oriole" |
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| The Jerry Douglas Band's Larry Atamanuik on drums |
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Viktor Krauss on bass with the Jerry Douglas band |
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| Something stinks for our sound man Fred Newman during an SFX script |
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The Purdue Varsity Glee Club with the "Farewell Amelia Earhart" |
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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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