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August 25, 2007
This week on A Prairie Home Companion, it's a special compilation show all about the life of the working man and woman. Gillian Welch and David Rawlings will sing "Red Clay Halo," The Wailin' Jenny's sing "One More Dollar," Butch Thompson will play the "Working Man Blues," and poet Deborah Garrison reads a few of her poems, including "Worked Late On A Tuesday Night." Dusty & Lefty get lucrative job offers, complete with benefits, and we'll hear the story of Bob Anderson who left Lake Wobegon and went to New York to get a job as a dancer.
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| Segment 1 |
| 00:00:00 | Logo |
| 00:00:12 | Tishomingo Blues |
| 00:00:55 | GK Intro |
| 00:04:56 | Deborah Garrison reads "The Firemen" and "Worked Late on a Tuesday Night" |
| 00:08:07 | "Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl" - GK and Shoes |
| 00:11:08 | GK Intro Ruth Harrison |
| 00:11:45 | Ruth Harrison |
| 00:17:08 | "Working Man Blues" - Butch Thompson |
| 00:20:56 | GK Intro Waitresses/Graduation script |
| 00:21:23 | "Waitresses" - Dave Moore |
| 00:24:57 | Graduation script |
| 00:32:59 | GK Intro Powdermilk |
| 00:33:14 | Powdermilk Biscuit Break |
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| Segment 2 |
| 00:36:10 | GK Intro Cowboys |
| 00:36:34 | The Lives of the Cowboys script |
| 00:50:39 | "I've Been Working On the Radio" - GK and Shoes |
| 00:53:31 | Rhubarb script (Job Interview) |
| 00:57:26 | "One More Dollar" - The Wailin' Jennys |
| 01:02:17 | GK Intro Intermission |
| 01:04:46 | Intermission (We're In The Money) |
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| Segment 3 |
| 01:07:09 | GK Welcome Back |
| 01:07:31 | Guy Noir script |
| 01:17:41 | "Red Clay Halo" - Gillian Welch & David Rawlings |
| 01:20:45 | Catchup script |
| 01:24:23 | GK Intro St. Paul script |
| 01:24:58 | St. Paul script |
| 01:32:34 | "Temping" - GK and Shoes |
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| Segment 4 |
| 01:34:11 | The News From Lake Wobegon |
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| Segment 5 |
| 01:53:59 | GK Credits |
| 01:55:39 | "Working Hard for the Joneses" - Nedra Johnson and Gravity |
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| Ruth Moody from the Wailin' Jennys asks for "One More Dollar" |
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Nedra Johnson sings "Working Hard for the Joneses" |
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| GK introduces poet Deborah Garrison |
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Gillian Welch and David Rawlings |
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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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