A Prairie Home Companion for June 23, 2007 from American Public Media

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

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

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

Segment 4

01:32:20 The News from Lake Wobegon

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

Photos from the show
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Fred Newman, Tim Russell, Sue Scott and Garrison Keillor perform the script "ELCA."		Kansas City is such a jazz and blues town we simply had to have a horn section.


The Carolina Chocolate Drops join GK and the Shoes for a Powdermilk Biscuit "Dance-Off."		Crowd Favorites, the Carolina Chocolate Drops, with "Georgia Buck."


Rich Dworsky on the organ.		Roy Blount, Jr. does impressions of his whole family eating supper