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September 15, 2007
This week on A Prairie Home Companion, it's our season kick-off event at the Fitzgerald Theater, featuring Austin's hangdogs of honky tonk The Derailers, Nashville's hardest working dobro player Jerry Douglas, and the Virginia Vagabonds Robin and Linda Williams. Also with us, Prudence Johnson, Rich Dworsky and The Guy's-All Star Shoe Band, and the Royal Academy of Radio Acting; Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Tom Keith.
Following the live broadcast, Mr. K. hosts our 7th Annual Meatloaf Supper & Street Dance (rain or shine!) on Exchange Street in front of the theater. We'll be serving up $5 suppers, plenty of dance tunes and even some cash prizes. Contests this year include:
- The Loudest Child (Stella!)
- Beautiful Baby
- Loon Calling
- Bob Dylan Impersonations
- Mr. Wonderful
- and Dance Contest — with The Derailers!
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| Segment 1 |
| 00:00:00 | Logo |
| 00:00:12 | Tishomingo Blues |
| 00:02:41 | Geese script |
| 00:06:43 | GK talks about tonight's street dance |
| 00:07:50 | "Turn, Turn, Turn" - GK and Pat Donohue |
| 00:12:05 | "Bring it on Home to Me" - GK, Robin & Linda and Prudence |
| 00:14:41 | Ruth Harrison script |
| 00:22:53 | "County Line" - Shoe Band |
| 00:24:50 | GK intros The Derailers |
| 00:25:08 | "Still Missing You" - The Derailers |
| 00:28:13 | "Who's Going to Mow Your Grass" - The Derailers |
| 00:30:52 | GK talks with Robin & Linda |
| 00:31:28 | Powdermilk Biscuit Break |
| 00:34:20 | GK introduces Pat Donohue |
| 00:35:20 | "Guitar Camp"- Pat Donohue |
| 00:38:16 | "I Don't Know Where I Stand" - Prudence Johnson, Richard Dworsky and Jerry Douglas |
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| Segment 2 |
| 00:41:26 | News From Lake Wobegon (Download MP3) |
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| Segment 3 |
| 00:55:41 | "Patrick Meets the Brick Bats" - Jerry Douglas Band |
| 01:00:00 | "Don't Take Your Guns to Town" - Luke Bulla and Jerry Douglas Band |
| 01:04:50 | Intermission/"Somebody Stole My Gal" |
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| Segment 4 |
| 01:09:09 | Greetings |
| 01:13:58 | "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" - vocal quartet |
| 01:16:50 | "Ain't No Grave" - vocal quartet |
| 01:21:25 | The Apartment script |
| 01:26:58 | "Who's Your Uncle" - Jerry Douglas Band |
| 01:31:18 | "The Suit" - Luke Bulla and the Jerry Douglas Band |
| 01:37:10 | Rhubarb script |
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| Segment 5 |
| 01:43:23 | "We Believe in Happy Endings" - Robin & Linda Williams |
| 01:46:35 | "Hey Valerie" - The Derailers |
| 01:50:09 | "Big in Vegas" - The Derailers |
| 01:53:38 | Credits, GK invites everyone to the street dance |
| 01:56:26 | "Bring it on Home" reprise |
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Photos from the show
Click images to view slideshow. (Photos taken by Amanda McKay)
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| Pat Donohue and GK take a turn on "Turn, Turn, Turn." |
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Austin-based honky tonk band The Derailers |
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| Peter Johnson keeps the beat this week. |
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Brian Hofeldt of the Derailers asks "Who's Going to Mow Your Grass?" |
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| The Jerry Douglas Band |
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Bassist Gary Raynor enjoys the show. |
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Photos from the Street Dance
Click images to view slideshow. (Photos taken by Amanda McKay and Sara Moe)
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| $5 meatloaf supper |
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GK gets a melody from Rich Dworsky. |
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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