A Prairie Home Companion for October 14, 2006 from American Public Media

October 14, 2006
This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we're back from our adventures out West. Riding home with the wind at our backs and the promise of snow in the clouds, we're powerless to continue our fantasy that summer isn't "quite" over. So turn your air conditioner off and your radio on, for another broadcast from good old Saint Paul. With our special guests, from Hawaii, Grammy award winner Taj Mahal, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Concertmaster Steven Copes, and sitting in with the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, the one man string section, John Niemann. Also with us, the Royal Academy of Radio Acting: Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Tom Keith, so tune in this Saturday for another live broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion.

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Segment 1

00:00:00 Logo

00:00:13 Tishomingo Blues

00:02:30 GK talks about our first blast of winter, nuclear tests in North Korea, Friday the 13th, Winter script

00:07:35 "Mudfoot Blues" - Taj Mahal and Shoe Band

00:12:02 Guy Noir script

00:24:30 "Don't Pick Your Nose" - GK and Shoe Band

00:27:56 GK intros Pat Donohue

00:28:25 "St. Paul Boogie" - Pat Donohue and Shoe Band

00:31:44 Powdermilk Biscuit Break

Segment 2

00:34:15 GK reads "Ode to American English" Steven Copes and John Novacek perform "Intoxication" from "4 Rags"

00:39:18 GK reads "Breaking Up is Hard to Do", Steven Copes and John Novacek perform "4th Street Drag" from "4 Rags"

00:44:26 GK reads "Someday I'll Find You", Steven Copes and John Novacek perform "Cockles" from "4 Rags"

00:49:27 GK talks with John Novacek

00:49:58 GK talks with Taj Mahal

00:51:47 "Blues With A Feeling" - Taj Mahal

00:55:53 GK talks to Taj Mahal about how many songs he knows

00:56:40 "Mississippi Big Butt Blues" - Taj Mahal and Shoe Band

01:01:54 Intermission/"Flopareno"

Segment 3

01:06:06 Welcome Back to the 2nd Half, Greetings

01:10:06 SFX script

01:13:23 "Cut and Run" - GK and Shoe Band

01:16:13 "Poundin' on the Marble Top" - Shoe Band

01:19:02 Ruth Harrison script

01:24:11 "Full Stride Ahead" - Steven Copes and John Novacek

Segment 4

01:26:58 News From Lake Wobegon

Segment 5

01:42:15 "Whole Lot Of You" - Pat Donohue and Shoe Band

01:45:08 GK intros the band

01:45:22 Vampire script

01:49:30 "Everybody is Somebody" - Taj Mahal and Shoe Band

01:53:56 Fearmongers script/ Ambush script

01:56:47 Credits

Photos from the show
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Tom Keith forgoes the cell phone for the string and cup.		Pat Donohue brings us the "St. Paul Boogie" on his steel guitar.


Concertmaster of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Steven Copes		Steven Copes and John Novacek perform "Intoxication" after GK reads the poem "Ode to American English."


Taj Mahal slides over to the piano for "Blues With A Feeling."		The sound engineers, Thomas and Sam, on the right and the lucky on-stage audience on the left.