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November 18, 2006
This week on A Prairie Home Companion it's a visit from Thanksgiving Past featuring two November shows from 2004. The VocalEssence ensemble sings a wonderful Navajo Prayer, and in the spirit of giving thanks "for Jersey dairy cows, cinnamon pears and walnuts; and a good cup of coffee." – Vern Sutton and Janis Hardy join the choir for a Thanksgiving Cantata. Guy Noir has trouble making a good cup of coffee with the new coffeemaker he bought at the Appliance Barn, but he does find a friend in Customer Service. Kasey Chambers — a bluesy Aussie — is on the show, with her dad playing back-up guitar. And our own Irish bluesman, Pat Donohue, steps up for an appropriate post-Thanksgiving tune "Blues When I Exercise." Robin and Linda Williams head up the Department of Folk Song and The Boys of Lough join us with a wonderful song called "My Love, My God." In The News From Lake Wobegon, Garrison talks about his Grandpa Keillor, Uncle Jack, and a secret signal decoder ring he wore to Thanksgiving dinner.
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| Segment 1 |
| 00:00:00 | Logo |
| 00:00:12 | Tishomingo Blues |
| 00:00:55 | GK Introduction |
| 00:02:47 | "Visions of Mother and Dad" - Robin & Linda Williams |
| 00:06:45 | The Lives of the Cowboys Script |
| 00:13:26 | "Blues When I Exercise" - Pat Donohue and Shoes |
| 00:17:01 | GK Intros The Boys of the Lough |
| 00:19:14 | "Hornpipes" - The Boys of the Lough |
| 00:22:35 | "My Love, My God" - The Boys of the Lough |
| 00:26:51 | Powdermilk Biscuit Break |
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| Segment 2 |
| 00:28:33 | "My Shepherd Will Supply My Need" - VocalEssence |
| 00:32:01 | "Navajo Prayer" - VocalEssence |
| 00:34:07 | Meat Script |
| 00:35:19 | Guy Noir Script |
| 00:45:38 | GK Intros Vern Sutton and Janis Hardy and the Cantata |
| 00:47:23 | "Thanksgiving Cantata" - Vern Sutton, Janis Hardy, VocalEssence |
| 00:56:29 | Intermission/"Charmaine" - Shoes |
| 00:56:30 | GK Intermission Credits |
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| Segment 3 |
| 01:00:31 | "Minnesota Thanksgiving" - GK, VocalEssence and Rich Dworsky |
| 01:04:43 | Award Script |
| 01:17:35 | GK Intros Kasey Chambers |
| 01:18:53 | "Like a River" - Kasey Chambers |
| 01:22:38 | "Pony" - Kasey Chambers |
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| Segment 4 |
| 01:27:23 | The News From Lake Wobegon |
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| Segment 5 |
| 01:45:58 | "Stuff the Turkey" - Shoes |
| 01:48:31 | GK Talks with Robin & Linda Williams |
| 01:49:56 | Department of Folk Song: "Home Sweet Home", "A Mother's Prayer", Daddy & Home", "Mom & Dad's Waltz", "Precious Memories" - GK, Robin & Linda, Shoes |
| 01:57:14 | GK Credits |
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Photos from the show
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| Bluesy Australian singer Kasey Chambers and her band, with "Like a River." |
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Philip Brunelle leads his VocalEssence Ensemble singers in "My Shepherd Will Supply My Need." |
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| The Boys of the Lough with the Irish ballad, "My Love, My God." |
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Garrison starts the second hour of the show with some greetings submitted by the audience. |
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| Robin and Linda Williams with a song Linda wrote about her parents, "Visions of Mother and Dad." |
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The Boys of the Lough's Cathal (pronounced "Ca'-hal") McConnell closes the show with "The Parting Glass." |
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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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