A Prairie Home Companion from American Public Media

February 11, 2006
This week we travel to The University of Minnesota Morris to broadcast from the P.E. Center (also known as the "gymnasium") with special guests Tim Sparks, Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, and Prudence Johnson. Also this week, The Royal Academy of Radio Acting, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Tom Keith, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band with Andy Stein, and the News from Lake Wobegon.

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Segment 1

00:00:00 Logo

00:00:14 Tishomingo Blues

00:03:11 GK talks about Morris, opens

00:05:21 "Last Steam Engine Train" - Pat Donohue and Guy's All-Star Shoe Band

00:08:24 GK intros next script

00:08:38 Love script (with "I Will," "Devoted to You," "True Love," "Dream")

00:16:00 GK intros Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver

00:16:31 "I Just Don't Care Just As Long As You Love Me" - Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver

00:19:06 Doyle Lawson talks to the crowd

00:19:39 "'Til I see you Face to Face" - Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver

00:21:55 Hide script

00:23:39 GK talks with Doyle Lawson

00:25:07 "I Am on My Journey Home" - Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver

00:27:07 GK talks about Morris, Orphan Trains

00:28:07 "The Orphan Train" - GK, Prudence, Shoe Band

00:31:29 Powdermilk Biscuit Break

00:33:11 GK talks about choir, Tap script

00:35:52 "Morris Rag" - Andy Stein and Guy's All-Star Shoe Band

Segment 2

00:37:38 GK talks about the weather here and in Lake Wobegon, choir

00:38:39 "God's Son Has Made Me Free" - UMM choir

00:40:39 News From Lake Wobegon

00:57:46 "Children of the Heavenly Father" - UMM Choir

Segment 3

01:01:07 Intermission/"I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter"

01:05:13 Greetings

01:09:36 "Can't Help Falling in Love" - GK/Prudence Johnson/Shoes

01:11:55 GK talks to Doyle, they dedicate a song to their sweethearts

01:12:51 "She's Walkin' Through My Memory" - Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver

01:17:01 GK talks about University of Minnesota, Morris history, intros next tune

01:17:24 "Broken Feather Blues" - Pat Donohue and Shoe Band

01:21:53 GK talks about the town of Morris, early agricultural school history

01:27:04 Morris school hymn

Segment 4

01:28:48 "L'il Moses" - GK, Prudence, Tim Sparks, Shoe Band

01:33:33 GK introduces Tim Sparks

01:34:37 "Mississippi Blues" - Tim Sparks

01:37:36 Cowboys script

01:45:16 "Freight Train" - Pat Donohue and Tim Sparks

Segment 5

01:47:46 Catchup script

01:51:12 GK introduces the concert choir

01:52:30 "Svärspölska" - UMM Concert Choir

01:54:00 "My Walkin' Shoes" - Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver

01:54:58 Credits, "So Long, it's Been Good To Know You"

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Doyle Lawson with his band Quicksilver join us this week		Tim Sparks relates the "Mississippi Blues"


The University of Minnesota Morris Concert Choir directed by Ken Hodgson		Andy Stein sits in with the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band


GK and Prudence duet on "Can't Help Falling in Love"		Mike Hartgrove of Quicksilver on the fiddle