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May 5, 2007
This week on A Prairie Home Companion — a special springtime poetry show with Allen Ginsberg reading the words of Walt Whitman, Meryl Streep reading the words of Wendell Berry and Mary Oliver, and Billy Collins and Rita Dove reading their own words. The poetic Randy Newman is on, along with Gillian Welch, Greg Brown and Bob Dorough. Plus, the story of another Bob: a younger, struggling artist with an iffy sense of meter and a tendency to slouch. Join us Saturday for all this and more on a special poetry home companion.
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| Segment 1 |
| 00:00:00 | Logo |
| 00:12:00 | Tishomingo Blues |
| 00:55:00 | GK Intro Poetry Show |
| 00:02:39 | The Story of Bob |
| 00:10:54 | GK Intro Randy Newman |
| 00:11:18 | "The Great Nations of Europe" and "I Miss You" - Randy Newman |
| 00:18:51 | GK Intro Billy Collins |
| 00:19:27 | "The Revenant" - Billy Collins |
| 00:21:48 | "You Reader," "Afternoon With Irish Cows," "The Lanyard," "Flock," "Surprise," and "No Time" - Billy Collins |
| 00:32:28 | Powdermilk Biscuit Break |
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| Segment 2 |
| 00:33:46 | GK Intro Meryl Streep |
| 00:34:23 | Collection of American Poems by Henry Taylor, Mary Oliver, John Updike, Wendell Berry, James Wright, Langston Hughes, Robert Lax, and Julia Kasdorf, read by Meryl Streep and GK |
| 00:43:37 | GK Intro "Cowboys" script |
| 00:44:07 | Lives of the Cowboys script |
| 00:54:57 | GK Intermission Credits |
| 00:57:08 | Intermission: "Dinah," "Under The Stars," "Brill Building Cleanup" |
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| Segment 3 |
| 00:59:03 | GK Welcome Back/ Intro Bob Dorough |
| 01:00:01 | "Devil May Care" - Bob Dorough |
| 01:03:09 | GK Intro "Song of Myself" |
| 01:04:25 | Excerpts "Song of Myself" - read by Allen Ginsberg, Robert Bly and GK (listen to full version) |
| 01:18:50 | "Winter's Come & Gone," "My Morphine" - Gillian Welch and David Rawlings |
| 01:27:01 | "Duluth," "Hockey," "Berry Picking," "An Ill Wind" - Louis Jenkins |
| 01:32:47 | GK Intro Mono |
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| Segment 4 |
| 01:33:41 | The News From Lake Wobegon |
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| Segment 5 |
| 01:47:13 | GK Intro Greg Brown and Rita Dove |
| 01:48:14 | "Vivid" - Greg Brown |
| 01:51:10 | "Courtship," "The Secret Garden" and "Pastoral" - Rita Dove |
| 01:54:51 | GK Credits |
| 01:55:50 | "Spring and All" - Greg Brown |
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Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" read by Allen Ginsberg, with Garrison Keillor and Robert Bly
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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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