A Prairie Home Companion for December 9, 2006 from American Public Media

December 9, 2006
This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we'll wake up in the city that never sleeps and make a brand new start of it. With one of the loveliest voices in Irish traditional music Karan Casey, plus the master of tone, taste, and timing, fiddler Stuart Duncan, and a titan of the jazz tuba Howard Johnson and Gravity, this is a show not to be missed. Also with us, the Royal Academy of Radio Acting: Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, the samaritans of sole, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and the News from Lake Wobegon. Join us this Saturday, live from the Town Hall in the City of New York.

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Segment 1

00:00:00 Logo

00:00:13 Tishomingo Blues

00:03:20 GK talks about Christmas in New York, banning of trans fats into SFX script

00:08:02 GK talks about the anniversary of John Lennon's death

00:08:38 "In My Life" - GK, Karan Casey, Shoes

00:11:40 GK intros the Shoe band

00:12:22 "Christmas Time's A-Comin'" - Pat Donohue, Stuart Duncan, and Shoe Band

00:14:57 Catchup script

00:19:25 GK talks about the tubas

00:20:49 "Big Alice" - Howard Johnson and Gravity

00:24:08 GK talks to Howard Johnson, he intros his daughter

00:25:02 "Workin' Hard For the Joneses" - Nedra Johnson and Gravity

00:28:50 GK talks about how people live in the public in NY

00:29:47 "Don't Scratch Your Butt" - GK and Shoes

00:32:28 Powdermilk Biscuit Break/"Imagine"

Segment 2

00:35:55 Shampoo script

00:41:00 GK intros Karan Casey

00:43:13 "Bright Winter's Day" - Karan Casey and Shoe Band

00:47:26 Guy Noir script

00:59:22 "This Time Will Pass" - Karan Casey and Shoe Band

01:04:14 Intermission/"Alabama Jubilee"

Segment 3

01:08:26 Greetings

01:12:26 "East Tennessee Blues" - Stuart Duncan and Guy's All-Star Shoe Band

Segment 4

01:14:55 News From Lake Wobegon

Segment 5

01:28:43 "Angels From the Realms of Glory"/"Aililiu na Gamhna"/"Mason's Apron"/ "The Lilted One" - Pat Donohue, Karan Casey, Stuart Duncan, Shoes

01:34:15 Mom script (with Angels We Have Heard on High)

01:46:08 GK talks about Tuba Christmas at Rockefeller Center

01:47:06 "Little Black Lucille" - Howard Johnson and Gravity

01:53:42 Aida script

01:57:25 Credits/"Still Still Still"

Photos from the show
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Stuart Duncan on the fiddle and Gary Raynor on bass		Fred Newman shows us what he looks like in the morning


County Waterford, Ireland native Karan Casey		Nedra Johnson sings "Working Hard for the Joneses"


The beautiful and intimate Town Hall during intermission		Fred, Tim and Sue get a chuckle from a script