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May 12, 2007
Coming up this Saturday, Prairie Home comes back to Minnesota. We'll be taking up our two week residency in Minneapolis at the State Theater. Come join us from the big theater in the big city with some big guests—Wilco will give us a taste of their new album Sky Blue Sky. Andy Stein will sit in with the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and up-and-comer Becky Schlegel will be dropping by as well. And as always, we'll have the venerable Royal Academy of Radio Actors: Sue Scott, Tim Russell and Tom Keith.
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| Segment 1 |
| 00:00:00 | Logo |
| 00:00:13 | Tishomingo Blues |
| 00:02:22 | GK opens, talks about Mother's Day and the walleye opener, spring weather |
| 00:05:22 | "Mother's Day Song" - GK |
| 00:06:27 | "Mama Tried" - GK and Becky Schlegel |
| 00:09:26 | "Mama's Gone Goodbye" - Andy Stein and Shoes |
| 00:11:46 | GK talks with Becky Schlegel, intros next tune |
| 00:13:00 | "Heartaches By the Number" - Becky, Brian and Shoes |
| 00:16:00 | "A Letter From Home" - Becky and Brian, Shoes |
| 00:19:20 | The Lives of the Cowboys script |
| 00:30:42 | "Sky Blue Sky" - Wilco |
| 00:34:16 | Powdermilk Biscuit Break |
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| Segment 2 |
| 00:36:00 | NYA script |
| 00:37:46 | GK talks with Jeff Tweedy |
| 00:39:19 | "Muzzle of Bees" - Wilco |
| 00:44:19 | GK talks more with Jeff Tweedy |
| 00:45:00 | "What Light" - Wilco |
| 00:48:25 | Guy Noir script |
| 01:02:25 | Intermission/"Avalon" |
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| Segment 3 |
| 01:06:37 | Welcome Back to the 2nd Half, greetings |
| 01:10:42 | "In The Jailhouse Now" - Pat Donohue and Shoe Band |
| 01:13:11 | Mom script |
| 01:20:37 | "Mama's Hungry Eyes" - GK, Becky, Brian and Shoe Band |
| 01:24:16 | GK talks about Shirley Dworsky |
| 01:24:54 | "Shirley World" - Rich Dworsky and Shoe Band |
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| Segment 4 |
| 01:27:55 | News From Lake Wobegon |
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| Segment 5 |
| 01:42:07 | "When the Roses Bloom Again" - Wilco |
| 01:46:47 | Coffee script |
| 01:48:00 | "Hesitating Beauty" - Wilco |
| 01:51:10 | Catchup script |
| 01:55:03 | Credits, "That's Alright Mama" closer |
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Photos from the show
Click images to view slideshow. (Photos taken by Amanda McKay)
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| I hear that old piano... |
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GK speaks with Becky Schlegel |
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| Wilco starts us off with "Sky Blue Sky" |
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Sue Scott as Elaine, the flight attendant on New York Airlines |
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GK reads the greetings for the week |
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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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