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September 29, 2007
This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we must've been using just the right bait and tackle, because we've landed some big ones for Saturday's live broadcast from the Fitzgerald Theater, including the one who taught us you have to be cruel to be kind, Nick Lowe, the greatest television president of the 21st century, actor Martin Sheen, and the honky-tonk band that keeps Hank William's foot tapping in the grave, BR549 (Chuck Mead, Mark Miller, Chris Scruggs, and Shaw Wilson). Also with us, the otherworldly operatic voice of Maria Jette, the Royal Academy of Radio Acting; Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Tom Keith, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band with Rich Dworsky, and The News from Lake Wobegon. Join us this week on your local public radio station for an all-new installment of A Prairie Home Companion.
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| Segment 1 |
| 00:00:00 | Logo |
| 00:00:13 | "Tishomingo Blues" |
| 00:03:20 | GK opens |
| 00:04:35 | "September Song" - Maria Jette and Shoe Band |
| 00:06:44 | GK talks about the apple crop |
| 00:08:12 | "Milwaukee Blues" - Pat Donohue and Shoe band |
| 00:11:36 | Radio script |
| 00:30:22 | "Habanera" - GK, Maria Jette and Shoes |
| 00:34:20 | Powdermilk Biscuit Break/"Oh Susannah" - GK and BR549 |
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| Segment 2 |
| 00:38:44 | GK intros Nick Lowe |
| 00:39:44 | "Long Limbed Girl" - Nick Lowe |
| 00:42:40 | "Rome Wasn't Built in A Day" - Nick Lowe |
| 00:45:20 | GK talks to Nick Lowe |
| 00:46:46 | "Without Love" - Nick Lowe and Shoe Band |
| 00:49:30 | SFX script (Marcel Marceau)- Tom Keith |
| 00:51:16 | Rhubarb script |
| 00:54:46 | GK intros BR549 |
| 00:55:40 | "The Devil and Me" - BR549 |
| 00:58:38 | "Matchbox" - BR549 and Guy's All-Star Shoe Band |
| 01:01:40 | Intermission/"Hey Good Lookin'" |
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| Segment 3 |
| 01:05:58 | Greetings |
| 01:09:35 | "Misdemeanor Song" - GK and Shoe Band |
| 01:11:25 | GK talks about Gene Autry, "Back in the Saddle"/"Ridin' Down the Canyon"/"Red River Valley" - GK and BR549 |
| 01:17:24 | GK talks with Martin Sheen |
| 01:21:49 | "How Can I Keep From Singing" - Martin Sheen |
| 01:25:23 | "Song of the Auvergne" - Maria Jette and Sonja Thompson |
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| Segment 4 |
| 01:29:30 | News From Lake Wobegon (Download MP3) |
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| Segment 5 |
| 01:40:50 | "Lately I've Let Things Slide" - Nick Lowe |
| 01:44:12 | "Let Old Mother Nature Have Her Way" - Nick Lowe and Guy's All-Star Shoe Band |
| 01:47:05 | President script |
| 01:51:20 | "Little Ramona" - BR549 |
| 01:54:58 | Credits, Goodbye to Amanda McKay, also to Leigh Kamman |
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Photos from the show
Click images to view slideshow. (Photos taken by Amanda McKay and Theresa Larson)
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| This week's addition to the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Martin Sheen. |
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Singer songwriter Nick Lowe performs, 'Lately I've Let Things Slide.' |
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| Tom Keith honors the late great mime Marcel Marceau. |
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Tim Russell, Sue Scott and Martin Sheen perform during the 'Radio' script. |
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| GK takes a moment to sit back and enjoy the show. |
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Nick Lowe ends his performance with a flourish. |
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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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