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March 24, 2007
This week on A Prairie Home Companion we welcome a very special guest to the Town Hall in New York City, the elusive and brilliant Ry Cooder and his stellar backing band: The New Cardboard Avenue Jaywalkers, which includes Mike Seeger on Banjo, Paddy Maloney of the Chieftains on whistles/pipes, Roland White on mandolin, and Joachim Cooder on drums. Also with us, critically acclaimed poet and senior nonfiction editor at The New Yorker, Deborah Garrison, The Royal Academy of Radio Acting, and the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, with this week's fifth shoe, Andy Stein. Join us Saturday for an all new installment of A Prairie Home Companion.
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| Segment 1 |
| 00:00:00 | Logo |
| 00:00:13 | Tishomingo Blues |
| 00:02:10 | GK talks about the impending spring, "Here Comes The Sun", riding the subway |
| 00:06:12 | "Art" - GK, Fred Newman, Arnie Kinsella |
| 00:09:44 | GK talks about Deborah Garrison's poetry and Ry Cooder |
| 00:10:28 | "Heat it Up" - Richard Dworsky and Guy's All-Star Shoe Band |
| 00:12:35 | The Story of Bob script |
| 00:22:40 | GK intros Ry Cooder |
| 00:24:55 | "Suitcase in My Hand" - Ry Cooder and the New Cardboard Avenue Jaywalkers |
| 00:28:00 | Powdermilk Biscuit Break |
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| Segment 2 |
| 00:31:55 | GK talks about the literary world of New York, intros Deborah Garrison |
| 00:33:38 | Deborah Garrison recites "The Firemen," "An Idle Thought" and "Worked Late on a Tuesday Night" |
| 00:39:18 | Guy Noir script |
| 00:55:19 | GK brings Ry Cooder back |
| 00:56:20 | "J. Edgar" - Ry Cooder and the New Cardboard Avenue Jaywalkers |
| 00:59:16 | GK intros next song with Ry Cooder |
| 00:59:52 | "Footprints in the Snow" - Ry Cooder and the New Cardboard Avenue Jaywalkers |
| 01:03:30 | Intermission/"Shine" |
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| Segment 3 |
| 01:07:54 | Greetings |
| 01:11:41 | "You Meet the Nicest People in Your Dreams" - Andy Stein and Shoe Band |
| 01:14:27 | GK talks with Deborah Garrison |
| 01:16:09 | Deborah Garrison recites "September Poem," "Into the Lincoln Tunnel" and "Goodbye New York" |
| 01:22:22 | "Brooklyn Bridge" - Pat Donohue and Shoe Band |
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| Segment 4 |
| 01:24:43 | News From Lake Wobegon |
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| Segment 5 |
| 01:42:39 | "Down the Alleyway" - Shoe Band |
| 01:45:11 | GK talks about Ry Cooder's new album |
| 01:45:58 | "My Name is Buddy" - Ry Cooder and the New Cardboard Avenue Jaywalkers |
| 01:49:30 | "The Blind Man Stood in the Road and Cried" - GK/ Rich, Jaywalkers |
| 01:51:23 | President script |
| 01:54:40 | Credits, Goodnight Sweetheart |
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Photos from the show
Click images to view slideshow. (Photos taken by Tim Laun)
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| GK introduces poet Deborah Garrison |
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Deborah Garrison as "Miss BarBARa" in Guy Noir |
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| Ry Cooder and the New Cardboard Avenue Jaywalkers |
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Fred Newman brings stage directions to life |
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| Deborah Garrison shares her poetry |
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Tim Russell gives us his best Bush impression |
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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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