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February 17, 2007
This week on A Prairie Home Companion it's a reunion of the "Neale Diamond Trio", as guitarists Phil Heywood and Dan Neale sidle up next to our own Pat Donohue to compare manicures and guitar licks in a finger-picking free for all. We're also happy to have master vocalists Prudence Johnson and Vern Sutton on board to give Garrison a few tips. We've also nabbed several cast members from the Minnesota Opera's production of The Grapes of Wrath going on just down the street. Guy Noir will be working the stage door and a new case for Presidents' Day, and sitting in with the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, Minnesota Jazzman Butch Thompson and the Manhattan Maestro, Andy Stein. International sound effects superstar Tom Keith joins Sue Scott and Tim Russell as the Royal Academy of Radio Acting, and of course, there's always news from Lake Wobegon as the ice fishing gets interesting over a long holiday weekend. Join us this Saturday for the latest.
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| Segment 1 |
| 00:00:00 | Logo |
| 00:00:13 | Tishomingo Blues |
| 00:02:10 | SFX script |
| 00:04:04 | "My Shoes Keep Walking Back To You" - GK/ Prudence Johnson |
| 00:07:42 | WD40 script |
| 00:09:19 | "Gonna Get Along Without You Now" - GK/ Prudence Johnson |
| 00:11:57 | Bob script |
| 00:21:06 | GK intros the singers from the MN Opera production of "The Grapes of Wrath" |
| 00:25:25 | "The Plenty Road" - singers from the cast of "The Grapes of Wrath" |
| 00:27:22 | GK talks to the pit director and cast members |
| 00:29:00 | "Like They Promised" - singers from the cast of "The Grapes of Wrath" |
| 00:34:12 | Powdermilk Biscuit Break |
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| Segment 2 |
| 00:35:46 | GK intros the guitar trio |
| 00:36:43 | "In Christ There is no East or West" - guitar trio |
| 00:39:20 | "As Tears Go By" - GK/ Prudence Johnson, Shoe Band, guitar trio |
| 00:42:55 | "Secret Smile" - guitar trio |
| 00:46:06 | Guy Noir script |
| 00:58:20 | "Sheridan Stomp" - Guy's All-Star Shoe Band |
| 01:01:00 | Intermission/"Mississippi Mud" - Shoe Band |
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| Segment 3 |
| 01:05:00 | Welcome Back to the 2nd half, greetings |
| 01:09:09 | Talent show announcement |
| 01:10:39 | "Comes Love" - Prudence Johnson and Guy's All-Star Shoe Band |
| 01:14:12 | GK talks about Gordon Wright |
| 01:16:30 | "A Solas" (for Gordon Wright) - Butch Thompson |
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| Segment 4 |
| 01:21:09 | News From Lake Wobegon |
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| Segment 5 |
| 01:38:13 | "Living in the Country" - guitar trio |
| 01:41:28 | St. Paul script |
| 01:49:12 | "The Preacher" - Shoe Band and guitar trio |
| 01:52:00 | GK thanks guests, end credits, Bison script, Chicken script, more credits |
| 01:55:07 | "Goodnight Sweetheart"/"Our Monday Date" | |
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Photos from the show
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| Butch Thompson and Andy Stein sit in with the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band this week. |
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The Royal Academy of Radio Actors and Vern Sutton with the next installment of Bob, the story of a struggling artist. |
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| Brian Leerhuber is Tom Joad in the Minnesota Opera's performance of The Grapes of Wrath. |
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Garrison chats with Grant Gershon, the pit director, and various cast members of The Grapes of Wrath. |
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| Cast from The Grapes of Wrath perform "Like They Promised." |
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Prudence Johnson with "Comes Love." |
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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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