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A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor

May 19, 2007
Coming to you again this week from the glamorous State Theater in Minneapolis, we'll welcome a Texas singer, songwriter, and fearsome fiddler, Carrie Rodriguez with Hans Holzen and Kyle Kegerreis, and Sun Records legend Cowboy Jack Clement. Also with us, heartland holubtsi hero Peter Ostroushko, poet Louis Jenkins, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band with Andy Stein, The Royal Academy of Radio Acting: Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Tom Keith, and the News From Lake Wobegon, where there's a whole lot of deep fried walleye left over from the opener. It's all coming up this week on A Prairie Home Companion.

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Segment 1
00:00:00Logo
00:00:13"Tishomingo Blues"
00:02:15GK talks about the hot weather, people in shorts, Syttende Mai, Jon Stewart, downtown Minneapolis
00:05:00State script
00:07:41"Freeway Man" - Shoe Band
00:10:15Graduation script
00:18:27GK talks about Cowboy Jack Clement
00:19:19"No Expectations" - Cowboy Jack and Shoe Band
00:23:00"Just Someone I Used To Know" - Cowboy Jack Clement and Shoes
00:25:58GK talks about the people eating outdoors, kissing
00:27:30"As Time Goes By" - GK/Audience
00:29:34Powdermilk Biscuit Break
Segment 2
00:31:09GK intros Louis Jenkins
00:32:13Louis reads "Seagulls", "Fish" and "Ambition"
00:35:58Crispy script
00:42:31GK intros Carrie Rodriguez
00:43:34"Seven Angels on a Bicycle" - Carrie Rodriguez
00:48:11"He Ain't Jesus" - Carrie Rodriguez
00:52:24Bugs script
00:56:21"Mill City Rag" - Peter Ostrousko and Shoes
00:58:19GK talks with Carrie
00:58:36"Today I Started Loving You Again" - GK, Carrie Rodriguez and Shoes
01:01:28GK announces into Intermission/"Limehouse Blues" - Shoes
Segment 3
01:05:46Greetings
01:10:32GK intros Carol Nielsen, 2007 Eagle Lake Lutheran hot dish winner
01:15:04GK talks to Carrie Rodriguez
01:15:40"I Don't Want to Play House Anymore" - Carrie Rodriguez band
01:18:06Smoke script
01:20:34GK talks about Cowboy Jack's radio show on satellite radio, he sings "Old Fashioned Drunk"
01:22:27"Seriously" - Jack Clement and Shoes
01:25:10"Gone Girl" - Cowboy Jack and Shoe Band
Segment 4
01:28:33News From Lake Wobegon
Segment 5
01:41:20"Crane Slow Drag" - Peter Ostroushko and Shoe Band
01:44:30"Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl" - GK/ Shoes
01:47:38GK intros Louis Jenkins
01:48:01Louis Jenkins reads "The Afterlife"
01:49:50Green script
01:51:33"Never Gonna Be Your Bride" - Carrie Rodriguez Band
01:54:35Space script
01:56:27Credits, "The Yellow Rose of Texas" triple fiddle closer


Photos from the show
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GK provides the narrative Sue and GK play college graduates
Louis Jenkins shares a taste of the "Afterlife" The Royal Academy of Radio Actors
Carol Nielsen brings her hot dish to the show Pat Donohue samples the Hungry Man Casserole


Guest Information
  • Cowboy Jack Clement
  • Louis Jenkins
  • Peter Ostroushko
  • Carrie Rodriguez
  • Guest Recordings
  • Cowboy Jack Clement
  • Carrie Rodriguez
  • Peter Ostroushko


  • Scripts
  • State
  • Graduation
  • Crispy
  • Bugs
  • Smoke
  • Green
  • Space
  • Poems by Louis Jenkins
  • Seagulls
  • Fish/Fisherman
  • Ambition
  • Afterlife

  • Recipe
  • Carol Nielsen's Hot Dish


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  • This week's greetings
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  • Music Information
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