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November 4, 2006
This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we'll limber up for this week's election exercise with a brisk live broadcast from the Fitzgerald Theater. Joining us, the voice that makes the bluegrass green, Larry Sparks and The Lonesome Ramblers, plus Grammy winning singer, songwriter, and soul-miner Shawn Colvin and her Texas trio. Also this week, The Royal Academy of Radio Acting: Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Tom Keith, The News from Lake Wobegon, and Pat Donohue finally gets that vacation in Milwaukee he's been angling for.
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| Segment 1 |
| 00:00:00 | Logo |
| 00:00:14 | Tishomingo Blues |
| 00:02:40 | GK talks about the beginning of deer hunting season |
| 00:05:06 | Apache script |
| 00:05:59 | Vote script |
| 00:09:20 | "Topsy Turvy Love" - Guy's All-Star Shoe Band |
| 00:12:38 | Dog of Science script |
| 00:18:26 | GK intros Larry Sparks |
| 00:19:30 | "Tennessee 1949" - Larry Sparks and the Lonesome Ramblers |
| 00:23:00 | Larry Sparks intros his band |
| 00:25:00 | "I'm Country But Nothing More" - Larry Sparks and the Lonesome Ramblers |
| 00:27:58 | Memorial script |
| 00:37:52 | Powdermilk Biscuit Break |
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| Segment 2 |
| 00:39:20 | GK says hi Dick and Joanie in Minneapolis |
| 00:40:10 | "Front Porch Rag" - Dan Neale and Shoes |
| 00:43:23 | Guy Noir script |
| 00:54:36 | "These Four Walls" - Shawn Colvin |
| 00:58:21 | "Summer Dress" - Shawn Colvin |
| 01:02:57 | Intermission/"Panhandle Rag" |
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| Segment 3 |
| 01:06:48 | Greetings |
| 01:11:22 | Cruise announcement |
| 01:12:16 | Twilight Medley |
| 01:19:16 | GK talks to Shawn Colvin about Austin, TX |
| 01:20:13 | "Crazy" - Shawn Colvin |
| 01:23:53 | Rhubarb script |
| 01:27:34 | GK talks with Larry Sparks |
| 01:28:32 | "Blues Stay Away From Me" - Larry Sparks |
| 01:32:15 | "New Highway" - Larry Sparks |
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| Segment 4 |
| 01:35:53 | News From Lake Wobegon |
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| Segment 5 |
| 01:52:34 | "Wide River to Cross" - Buddy Miller and Shawn Colvin |
| 01:55:42 | Credits/"Angel Band" |
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Photos from the show
Click images to view slideshow. (Photos taken by Andrea McAvey)
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| Tom Keith in a rare moment of silence. |
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Rich Dworsky and Arnie Kinsella. |
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| Larry Sparks gets us groovin'. |
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Garrison Keillor and Shawn Colvin combine their talents on the script, "Memorial." |
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| Dan Neale rocks out on his guitar during the "Front Porch Rag." |
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Garrison focuses his dramatic acting skills. |
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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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