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March 4, 2006
This week, we continue our regional wanderings with a trip up the Red River Valley to Grand Forks, North Dakota. We'll broadcast from the Chester Fritz Auditorium on the University of North Dakota campus. Featuring Grammy-award winning Bluegrass heroes the Del McCoury Band, folk-singing farmer Chuck Suchy, and the best efforts of the Hopeful Gospel Quartet with Robin & Linda Williams. Also featuring, the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, the Royal Academy of Radio Acting; Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, and the News from Lake Wobegon. Join us this Saturday for a live broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion.
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| Segment 1 |
| 00:00:00 | Logo |
| 00:00:11 | Tishomingo Blues |
| 00:02:45 | GK talks about living in the winter wonderland of Grand Forks, bra sculpture, river flows up, Tool Crib, Dave Barry has a sewage pump named after him |
| 00:04:50 | "Lead Me To That Rock" - Hopeful Gospel Quartet |
| 00:07:26 | "I've Been Working on The Radio" - GK/ HGQ/ GASB |
| 00:10:24 | Coffee Spot and Jingle - GK |
| 00:11:16 | GK intros next tune |
| 00:11:44 | "Jordan" - HGQ |
| 00:14:16 | GK introduces the Del McCoury Band, talks with Del |
| 00:15:44 | "She Can't Burn Me Now" - Del McCoury Band |
| 00:19:27 | GK intros Chuck Suchy |
| 00:19:44 | "Dakota Breeze" - Chuck Suchy with Rich Dworsky and Gary Raynor |
| 00:24:53 | Rhubarb script |
| 00:29:49 | Powdermilk Biscuit Break/"In the Sweet By and By" |
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| Segment 2 |
| 00:33:12 | "Count Your Blessings" - Hopeful Gospel Quartet |
| 00:35:39 | Cowboys script |
| 00:43:00 | "Dark As A Dungeon" - HGQ and Shoe Band |
| 00:47:46 | "Nothin' Special" - Del McCoury Band |
| 00:51:15 | Guy Noir script |
| 01:02:04 | Intermission/"Honeysuckle Rose" |
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| Segment 3 |
| 01:06:55 | Greetings/"You Send Me" - HGQ |
| 01:11:08 | GK talks to Chuck Suchy |
| 01:11:54 | "Oh Darlin'" - Chuck Suchy and Shoe Band |
| 01:15:04 | GK talks about Grand Forks |
| 01:22:45 | "Wait Till The Clouds Roll By" - HGQ/ Shoe Band |
| 01:25:56 | GK introduces Russ Ringsak |
| 01:27:10 | "Oreo Cookie Blues" - Russ Ringsak and Guy's All-Star Shoe Band |
| 01:29:45 | GK talks to Del McCoury |
| 01:30:13 | "Seventh Heaven" - Del McCoury Band |
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| Segment 4 |
| 01:34:29 | News From Lake Wobegon |
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| Segment 5 |
| 01:48:46 | "I'll Twine Mid The Ringlets" - Robin & Linda Williams |
| 01:53:17 | "Dancing in the Kitchen" - Chuck Suchy and Shoe Band |
| 01:56:38 | Credits/"Gotta Travel On" closer |
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Photos from the show
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| North Dakota native Chuck Suchy brings us "Dakota Breeze" |
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Russ Ringsak celebrates his birthday by singing the "Oreo Cookie Blues" |
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| Garrison reports the News from Lake Wobegon |
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The Grammy Award-winning Del McCoury Band |
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| The congenial Robin Williams |
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Ronnie McCoury on mandolin for the Del McCoury Band |
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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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