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October 28, 2006
This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we're carving blue-ribbon pumpkins and drinking hot spiced cider at the Fitzgerald Theater, with very special guests, the Queen of the blues renaissance Bonnie Raitt, and firecrackers of the Canadian prairie The Wailin' Jennys. Also with us the Royal Academy of Radio Acting: Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Tom Keith, sitting in with the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, the Manhattan maestro Andy Stein, plus an older guy in a rumpled tuxedo and red sneakers handing out the candy. 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 |
| 00:02:44 | GK opens, talks about the October sky, fall nights, Martin Luther |
| 00:03:51 | "Sanctus" - GK and Shoe Band |
| 00:08:32 | Fear script |
| 00:13:22 | GK intros the Wailin' Jennys |
| 00:13:56 | "Devil's Paintbrush Road" - Wailin' Jennys |
| 00:17:32 | "Glory Bound" - Wailin' Jennys |
| 00:21:48 | Bush script |
| 00:24:00 | Guy Noir script |
| 00:35:04 | Powdermilk Biscuit Break: U of M Rouser/"Candyman" |
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| Segment 2 |
| 00:38:12 | "Vampire Blues" - Tim Russell |
| 00:40:56 | "Somethin's in the Attic" - Guy's All-Star Shoe Band |
| 00:43:36 | GK intros Bonnie Raitt |
| 00:44:38 | "Women Be Wise" - Bonnie Raitt |
| 00:49:04 | Bonnie talks to the crowd |
| 00:49:25 | "Louise" - Bonnie Raitt |
| 00:54:39 | GK talks with Bonnie Raitt |
| 00:55:55 | "Thing Called Love" - Bonnie Raitt |
| 01:00:24 | Intermission/"I Found A New Baby" |
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| Segment 3 |
| 01:04:18 | Greetings |
| 01:08:58 | Wanda/Dog script |
| 01:15:08 | Catchup script |
| 01:19:00 | GK talks with the Wailin' Jennys |
| 01:21:04 | "Avila" - Wailin' Jennys |
| 01:25:15 | "Bright Morning Stars" - Wailin' Jennys |
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| Segment 4 |
| 01:28:33 | News From Lake Wobegon |
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| Segment 5 |
| 01:45:37 | "Angel from Montgomery" - Bonnie Raitt |
| 01:51:13 | Haunted script into "You Are My Sunshine," credits |
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Photos from the show
Click images to view slideshow. (Photos taken by Amanda Jakl)
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| Tom Keith grabs the audiences (and Garrison's) attention |
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Look! A mime on the radio! Cathy Gasiorowicz and Garrison share a moment. |
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| The Wailin' Jennies getting into the Halloween Spirit |
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Garrison ponders his shoes during the News from Lake Wobegon. |
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| Garrison receives a note from a dangling headless man. |
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Pat Donohue in disguise. |
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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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