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December 16, 2006
This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we continue our seasonal stopover at the Town Hall with special guests, the prolific resophonic guitarist and the most recorded dobro player in history, Jerry Douglas and his band. We've got the 44th poet laureate of the United States, a Distinguished Professor of English at the City University of New York since 1968, Billy Collins. Also with us, the Royal Academy of Radio Acting: Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, the News from Lake Wobegon, and sitting in with the Guy’s All-Star Shoe Band, the cunning commander of catgut Andy Stein. Join us this Saturday for a live broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion from the heart of Broadway, in New York City.
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| Segment 1 |
| 00:00:00 | Logo |
| 00:00:13 | "Tishomingo Blues" - GK, Shoes and Jerry Douglas |
| 00:02:55 | GK opens, talks to Rich about Hanukkah |
| 00:05:30 | "S'vivon" - Rich Dworsky with Shoes and Jerry Douglas |
| 00:07:40 | SFX Script with "To a Wild Rose" |
| 00:14:57 | "Sancta Lucia" - GK and shoes |
| 00:18:04 | GK intros Billy Collins |
| 00:18:55 | Billy Collins intros and reads "Tension" |
| 00:22:05 | Billy intros and reads "The Golden Years" |
| 00:24:56 | Billy intros and reads "The Revenant" |
| 00:27:53 | Rhubarb Script |
| 00:33:04 | Powdermilk Biscuit Break with "Dixie Darlin'," "Hanukkah in Santa Monica," and "Leather Britches" |
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| Segment 2 |
| 00:35:36 | Collateral Script |
| 00:37:00 | Jerry Douglas and song Intro |
| 00:39:20 | "Wild Rumpus" - Jerry Douglas Band |
| 00:43:03 | GK talks with Jerry |
| 00:44:53 | "Away in a Manger" - Jerry Douglas Band |
| 00:47:48 | Guy Noir Script |
| 01:00:54 | Intermission/"Winter Wonderland" - Shoes |
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| Segment 3 |
| 01:05:20 | GK welcomes back |
| 01:06:10 | "The Waffle Song" - GK, Audience, Shoes |
| 01:08:43 | Greetings |
| 01:11:31 | Trip Giveaway Raffle Drawing |
| 01:15:40 | GK talks to Rich about Hanukkah |
| 01:16:18 | "Hanukkah Medley" with "Ma'oz Tzur" and "Mi Y'malel" |
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| Segment 4 |
| 01:20:00 | The News From Lake Wobegon |
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| Segment 5 |
| 01:35:29 | "In the Sweet By and By"/"Lonesome Midtown Blues" - Jerry Douglas and Pat Donohue |
| 01:38:59 | Mom Script |
| 01:44:55 | "We Hide And Seek" - Jerry Douglas |
| 01:49:56 | Jerry Douglas intros the band |
| 01:50:20 | GK intro of Billy |
| 01:50:40 | Billy intros and reads "Adage" |
| 01:51:56 | Billy intros and reads "The Trouble With Poetry" |
| 01:54:06 | GK thanks Billy |
| 01:54:23 | Ketchup Script |
| 01:55:03 | GK Happy Hanukah |
| 01:55:21 | Credits |
| 01:56:39 | "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" - GK, Audience, Shoes into "Leather Britches" |
| 01:58:23 | Goodnight from Town Hall in New York |
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Photos from the show
Click images to view slideshow. (Photos taken by Kevan Olesen)
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| A look at the board that always makes the show sound great |
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The irrepressible Fred Newman |
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| Former Poet Laureate Billy Collins reads his poem "The Golden Years" |
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Andy Stein joins the Shoes this week |
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| Tim and Sue are SHOCKED while Fred is just tickled |
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Billy Collins plays Mafia poet villain in the Guy Noir script |
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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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