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April 28, 2007
Coming to you this week from the beautiful state of Georgia, where spring has sprung like a bell's been rung, we'll welcome special guests, the "first couple" of old-time country music, Norman and Nancy Blake, performing with old-time master fiddler James Bryan and his daughter, guitarist and singer, Rachel Bryan. Also with us, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors: Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band with Richard Dworsky, and the News from Lake Wobegon. It'll be all peaches and cream this week on A Prairie Home Companion.
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| Segment 1 |
| 00:00:00 | Logo |
| 00:00:13 | Tishomingo Blues |
| 00:02:13 | GK talks about Columbus, tonight's guests |
| 00:04:20 | "Columbus, GA" - GK and Shoe Band |
| 00:06:45 | GK talks to Norman Blake |
| 00:07:44 | "While The Band Was Playing Dixie" - Norman and Nancy Blake with James and Rachel Bryan |
| 00:12:39 | "Green Summertime"/"Middlebrook Waltz" - Robin and Linda Williams |
| 00:18:01 | "Statesboro Blues" - Pat Donohue and Shoe Band |
| 00:21:25 | Hospital script |
| 00:26:10 | GK introduces Jake Fussell, "Georgia Buck" |
| 00:29:05 | Powdermilk Biscuit Break |
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| Segment 2 |
| 00:31:25 | Coffee script |
| 00:32:25 | GK intros Nancy and Norman Blake |
| 00:33:02 | "Hawaiian Mother of Mine" - Norman and Nancy Blake, James Bryan and Rachel Bryan |
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| Segment 3 |
| 00:36:15 | News From Lake Wobegon (with "It Is Well With My Soul") |
| 00:55:42 | "Deliah" - Pat Donohue, Jake Fussell and Guy's All-Star Shoe Band |
| 00:59:46 | Intermission/"Honeysuckle Rose" |
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| Segment 4 |
| 01:04:08 | Greetings |
| 01:07:26 | Fred Newman SFX script |
| 01:17:03 | "Magnolia Blossoms" - GK, Robin & Linda |
| 01:20:48 | "Georgia On My Mind" singalong |
| 01:23:25 | Columbus notes (Cathy and Fred Fussell and Virginia Causey) |
| 01:31:31 | Rhubarb SFX script |
| 01:35:45 | Vanderbilt script |
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| Segment 5 |
| 01:41:33 | ""I'm Going To Georgia" - Norman and Nancy Blake with James Bryan and Rachel Bryan |
| 01:44:08 | GK talks about Ma Rainey, other famous Columbus people |
| 01:46:07 | "Raggy Levy" - Jake Fussell |
| 01:49:16 | SUV script |
| 01:52:15 | GK talks more about Columbus, end credits |
| 01:56:48 | "Georgia Crawl" "- Pat Donohue and Shoe Band |
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Photos from the show
Click images to view slideshow. (Photos taken by Dan Hodlick)
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| GK does back up for Robin and Linda Williams on "Green Summertime." |
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Columbus, GA native Jake Fussell |
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| Jake Fussell teams up with Pat Donohue and the Shoe Band for "Deliah." |
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Fred Newman gives us some tense jazz fingers |
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| Sue Scott plays the exasperated teen Brittany |
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Nancy Blake switches to the cello for "I'm Going to Georgia" |
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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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