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June 23, 2007
This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we'll enter the "Bermuda Triangle" of thunderstorms, lightning, and heatstroke to bring you a live broadcast from the Starlight Theater in Kansas City, Missouri. With this week's special guests, old-time string band, the Carolina Chocolate Drops, humorist Roy Blount, and gospel singer Jearlyn Steele. Also with us, the Royal Academy of Radio Acting: Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band with the shiny shoe horns: Andy Stein, Dave Brown, Dale Mendenhall, and Jim Fryer, and The News from Lake Wobegon. It's all that, and more, coming up this week on A Prairie Home Companion.
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| Segment 1 |
| 00:00:00 | Logo |
| 00:00:12 | Tishomingo - GK, Shoes, Horns |
| 00:02:15 | GK Talks about Kansas City |
| 00:03:10 | GK talks about Aretha Franklin and intros "Respect" |
| 00:03:46 | "Respect" - Jearlyn Steele, Shoes, Horn, Sule Wilson on Tambourine |
| 00:06:05 | "Corn Bread and Butter Beans" - Carolina Chocolate Drops |
| 00:09:30 | Rhubarb Script |
| 00:15:15 | GK Intros Horn section |
| 00:15:40 | "Roll 'em Mary Lou" - Richard Dworsky, Shoes, Horns |
| 00:18:46 | ELCA Script |
| 00:21:15 | GK Talks with Roy Blount, Jr. |
| 00:23:34 | Roy Blount, Jr. recites food excerpt from his book |
| 00:29:26 | Food Script |
| 00:34:30 | Powdermilk Biscuit Theme Break - Shoes, Horns |
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| Segment 2 |
| 00:36:06 | GK Introduces and talks to the Carolina Chocolate Drops |
| 00:37:20 | "Georgia Buck" - Carolina Chocolate Drops |
| 00:40:18 | Carolina Chocolate Drops intro next song |
| 00:40:52 | "Hit 'em Up" - Carolina Chocolate Drops |
| 00:44:34 | Guy Noir |
| 01:00:52 | "Just a Closer Walk with Thee" - Jearlyn Steele, GK, Shoes |
| 01:06:32 | INTERMISSION |
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| Segment 3 |
| 01:10:07 | GK talks with Roy Blount |
| 01:13:10 | "Hot Tamales and Red Hots" - Pat Donohue, Richard Dworsky, Dave Brown, Jim Fryer, Dale Mendenhall, and Shoes |
| 01:16:50 | Crispy script |
| 01:26:15 | Mama Script into "I'll Fly Away" - Jearlyn Steele, GK, Shoes |
| 01:29:43 | "St. Louis Blues" - Jearlyn Steele, Shoes, Horns |
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| Segment 4 |
| 01:32:20 | The News from Lake Wobegon |
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| Segment 5 |
| 01:45:13 | "Come On In My Kitchen" - Pat Donohue, Shoes, Horns |
| 01:48:30 | Ketchup script |
| 01:52:45 | GK intros Carolina Chocolate Drops |
| 01:53:20 | "Sourwood Mountain" - Carolina Chocolate Drops |
| 01:56:19 | Credits |
| 01:57:50 | "Goodnight Sweetheart" - GK, Jearlyn Steele, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Roy Blount, Jr., Shoes, and Horns |
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Photos from the show
Click images to view slideshow. (Photos taken by Andrea McAvey)
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| Fred Newman, Tim Russell, Sue Scott and Garrison Keillor perform the script "ELCA." |
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Kansas City is such a jazz and blues town we simply had to have a horn section. |
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| The Carolina Chocolate Drops join GK and the Shoes for a Powdermilk Biscuit "Dance-Off." |
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Crowd Favorites, the Carolina Chocolate Drops, with "Georgia Buck." |
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| Rich Dworsky on the organ. |
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Roy Blount, Jr. does impressions of his whole family eating supper |
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