A Prairie Home Companion for September 1, 2007 from American Public Media

September 1, 2007
Coming up this week on A Prairie Home Companion, it's Labor Day and we're coming to you from the grandstand of the Minnesota State Fair. The cast and crew are back from the summer break and are trolling the fairgrounds for this year's best cheese curds and fries and cold beverages. Songstress Patty Griffin will be along for the ride, as will the magnificent Jearlyn Steele. She'll be heating things up with her black-coffee style and to sweeten the drink, she'll be backed by "The Hornheads" (yes, that's right): a raucous bunch of local brass players who will be sitting in with Rich Dworsky and The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band. We'll fill you in on the blue ribbon winners, talk about buttery sculptures, sing the Star Spangled Banner in the Key of G, send rockets into the air and make you wish you were there for our last hurrah of summer.

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Segment 1

00:00:00 Logo

00:00:13 "Tishomingo Blues" - GK, Shoes

00:02:30 GK talks about the Fair and the guests on the show

00:04:00 GK intros Jearlyn Steele

00:04:40 "I'm Saved" - Jearlyn Steele

00:08:08 Rhubarb script

00:13:54 "Paris, France" - GK, Jearlyn Steele, Shoe band

00:17:30 GK talks to 4H Ambassadors (Bob Wippler and Chantal Liepold)

00:22:50 "Grandstand Shuffle" - Pat Donohue, Shoes, Hornheads

00:26:00 Powdermilk Biscuit Break

Segment 2

00:30:18 "Rye Straw" - Wild Goose Chase Cloggers

00:32:00 GK intros Patty Griffin

00:33:39 "Long Ride Home" - Patty Griffin

00:37:10 "Top of the World" - Patty Griffin

00:42:20 Guy Noir script

00:52:00 "It's All Right" - GK, Jearlyn Steele, Patty Griffin, Becky Schlegel

00:57:05 Intermission

Segment 3

01:00:37 Welcome back to the 2nd half, GK talks about the Fair

01:02:28 "Shenandoah" - GK and Becky Schlegel

01:07:52 "You Make Me Feel Like I'm In Minnesota" - Jearlyn Steele

01:10:50 GK intros band

01:11:29 Sunshine script

Segment 4

01:18:16 GK talks to Aria Stiles

01:19:25 "Tom and Jerry" - Aria Stiles and band

01:21:25 GK talks to Catie Joe Pidel

01:22:11 "Black Mountain Rag" - Catie Joe Pidel and band

01:24:13 GK talks with Carol Logeais from the Salem Lutheran Church dining hall about egg coffee

01:28:44 GK talks with Jearlyn Steele about church

01:31:07 "Sweet Hour of Prayer" - Jearlyn Steele

01:34:30 GK brings back Patty Griffin

01:35:20 "Up to the Mountain" - Patty Griffin

Segment 5

01:39:35 The News from Lake Wobegon

01:55:50 Credits

01:57:09 "It's Alright" - GK, Shoe Band, Hornheads, Becky Schlegel, Jearlyn Steele, Fiddlers, Cloggers

Photos from the show
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Jearlyn Steele gets the crowd moving with the Etta James tune "Tell Mama."		Future leaders of tomorrow, the 4-H Ambassadors Chantal Liepold and Bob Wippler, chat with Garrison.


The Wild Goose Chase Cloggers dance to "Rye Straw."		Becky Schlegel, Patty Griffin and Jearlyn Steele join Garrison to sing "It's All Right."


Becky Schlegel with "Lake Wobegon Song."		Minnesota State Fair Teen Fiddling Champ Catie Jo Pidel brings down the house with her rousing take on the "Black Mountain Rag."