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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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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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