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November 25, 2006
This week on A Prairie Home Companion we're rolling all eighteen wheels to Cincinnati, where bluegrass and country music met high-powered broadcasting for the very first time in the 1930's. With us this week, an amazing acoustic guitar picker (and the Stradivarius of modern luthiers) Wayne Henderson and his extremely talented wife, Helen White. We'll have bionic bluegrass wild man Sam Bush, plus one of the finest steel players to ever walk the earth, Buddy Emmons, sitting in with The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, so we must warn listeners there may be a slightly increased risk of the spontaneous combustion of your radio. Also with us, The Royal Academy of Radio Acting: Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, the News from Lake Wobegon, and much more this Saturday from the "All Together Surprising" city of Cincinnati, USA.
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| Segment 1 |
| 00:00:00 | Logo |
| 00:00:14 | Tishomingo Blues |
| 00:02:46 | GK opens, talks about Thanksgiving calories, the Cincinnati Music Hall |
| 00:03:51 | "We Gather Together" - GK/GASB |
| 00:07:10 | GK intros Sam Bush, they talk about baseball and Thanksgiving |
| 00:08:20 | "Last Letter Home" - Sam Bush and band |
| 00:11:33 | Fred Farrell script (Pot O' Luck) |
| 00:12:48 | "Cincinnati Rag" - Shoe Band |
| 00:15:37 | Rhubarb script |
| 00:20:05 | GK intros Wayne Henderson and Helen White |
| 00:21:46 | "Nothin' To It" - Wayne Henderson and Helen White |
| 00:23:47 | GK talks about WLW |
| 00:24:30 | "Rose of My Heart" - Helen White, Wayne Henderson, GK |
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| Segment 2 |
| 00:28:30 | GK talks about Robert Altman's passing |
| 00:30:54 | GK's reads his sonnet to Bob |
| 00:31:51 | "Make it Adequate" - Richard Dwrosky and Guy's All-Star Shoe Band |
| 00:37:07 | "Now Thank We All Our God" - GK, Richard Dworsky, live audience |
| 00:38:30 | GK talks about King Records |
| 00:41:33 | "Honky Tonk" - Guy's All-Star Shoe Band |
| 00:44:06 | GK talks about Little Willie John |
| 00:44:22 | "Let Them Talk" - GK/ band |
| 00:46:30 | Guy Noir script |
| 00:55:23 | "They're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone" - Sam Bush and Shoe Band |
| 00:1:00:14 | Intermission/"Hey Good Lookin'" |
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| Segment 3 |
| 00:1:05:22 | GK talks about Cincinnati, greetings |
| 00:1:09:36 | "Beautiful Ohio" - GK/ Shoes |
| 00:1:11:35 | "Love in Cincinnati" - GK/ Shoe Band |
| 00:1:15:51 | GK talks about Chet Atkins in Cincinnati |
| 00:1:16:45 | "Oh Babe" - Pat Donohue, Sam Bush and Shoe Band |
| 00:1:19:39 | English Majors script |
| 00:1:23:48 | GK talks to Wayne Henderson |
| 00:1:24:38 | "Steel Guitar Rag" - Wayne Henderson, Helen White, shoes |
| 00:1:28:23 | GK talks more with Wayne |
| 00:1:29:05 | "Are You Tired of Me, My Darling?" - GK, Wayne, Helen |
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| Segment 4 |
| 00:1:32:41 | News From Lake Wobegon |
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| Segment 5 |
| 00:1:49:32 | "Shenandoah" - Buddy Emmons |
| 00:1:52:22 | GK talks more about Cincinnati, famous people from the city |
| 00:1:53:36 | "Cool Water"/"White Christmas" |
| 00:1:55:43 | Credits, "Happy Trails" |
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Photos from the show
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| Sam Bush and Andy Stein sit in with the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band |
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Garrison wanders out into the crowd |
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| Helen White performs with her husband Wayne Henderson |
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The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band |
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| Fred Newman is SHOCKED by the script |
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GK leads the audience in a sing-a-long |
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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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