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April 7, 2007
This week on A Prairie Home Companion — it's Easter weekend and we've got a special springtime rebroadcast featuring a great honky-tonk band out of Austin, Texas — The Flatlanders — along with Sally Dworsky and the great St. Paul Calypso band, The Driftwoods. Prudence Johnson rings in spring with the VocalEssence ensemble, and there's a run on bone-in hams down at Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery.
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| Segment 1 |
| 00:00:56 | GK Open |
| 00:03:57 | "Calypso," The Driftwoods |
| 00:06:17 | Taxes script |
| 00:08:11 | "Jambalaya Polka," Dan Newton and The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band |
| 00:11:26 | Guy Noir script |
| 00:26:32 | GK Intros The Flatlanders |
| 00:27:22 | "Wheels of Fortune," The Flatlanders |
| 00:31:15 | Powdermilk Biscuit Break |
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| Segment 2 |
| 00:34:08 | "Wimoweh," The Driftwoods |
| 00:36:23 | GK Talks w/The Flatlanders |
| 00:37:54 | "I'm Gonna Strangle You Shorty," The Flatlanders |
| 00:41:30 | Norwegenetics script |
| 00:44:22 | GK Intros Hill Diaries |
| 00:45:39 | Mrs. Hill script w/Sally Dworsky |
| 00:53:50 | "Red, Red Robin," Sally Dworsky |
| 00:57:24 | Intermission/ "San Antonio Rose," The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band |
| 00:57:59 | GK Intermission Credits |
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| Segment 3 |
| 01:01:20 | GK Welcome Back |
| 01:02:23 | "Back To My Old Molehill," The Flatlanders |
| 01:06:05 | GK Talk w/The Flatlanders |
| 01:08:54 | "See The Way," The Flatlanders |
| 01:13:06 | "You May Leave/ Easter Parade," The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band |
| 01:14:57 | GK Good Friday Talk, plus musical medley |
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| Segment 4 |
| 01:20:40 | The News from Lake Wobegon |
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| Segment 5 |
| 01:37:00 | "The Breakdown," The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band |
| 01:40:47 | Easter Briefing script |
| 01:43:07 | Springtime script w/ "Tiptoe Through the Tulips," "Chapel of Love," "The Birds and the Bees," "Spring in Minnesota" |
| 01:53:01 | "Spring Wind," Prudence Johnson |
| 01:55:42 | GK Credits |
| 01:56:31 | "Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most," Prudence Johnson |
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Photos from the show
Click images to view slideshow. (Photos taken by Andrea McAvey and Kelly Schaub)
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| Pat Donohue | | The Flatlanders |
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| The Catchup Ensemble: Tim Russell, Sue Scott and Rich Dworsky. |
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A radiant Prudence Johnson. |
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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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