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November 10, 2007
This week on A Prairie Home Companion, the cast and crew are back from the staff retreat, the clocks are all set to the right time, and we're taking the big traveling show on a short trip across the Mississippi for two weeks at the historic State Theater in downtown Minneapolis. Ricky Skaggs and his Kentucky Thunder roll in from Nashville with neatly manicured bluegrass on their minds. Family act The Whites — fresh off a new album with Mr. Skaggs — will be with us as well. And we'll also have the astonishing voice of Ms. Jearlyn Steele joining us, giving the host valuable tips on his Gospel singing. Also with us, The Royal Academy of Radio Acting; Sue Scott, Tim Russell and Tom "Cellar Dweller" Keith, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band with Rich Dworsky, and The News From Lake Wobegon. Join us this week for a post-Halloween, pre-Thanksgiving live broadcast.
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| Segment 1 |
| 00:00:00 | Logo |
| 00:00:13 | "Tishomingo Blues" - GK / Shoe Band |
| 00:02:22 | GK talks about loving winter, darkness, birds are gone |
| 00:04:19 | "Another Saturday Night" - GK and Jearlyn Steele |
| 00:07:16 | Movie script |
| 00:12:13 | "Whoa Boy" - Pat Donohue and Guy's All-Star Shoe Band |
| 00:14:39 | Burrow script |
| 00:20:25 | GK talks about Ricky Skaggs on youtube.com |
| 00:22:00 | "Salt of the Earth" - Ricky Skaggs and The Whites |
| 00:25:22 | GK talks with Ricky Skaggs |
| 00:26:21 | "This Old House" - Buck White, Ricky Skaggs and The Whites |
| 00:29:13 | Powdermilk Biscuit Break |
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| Segment 2 |
| 00:32:54 | Jearlyn talks about her trip to Memphis |
| 00:34:17 | "Who I Am" - Jearlyn Steele and Shoe Band |
| 00:38:51 | Thanksgiving script |
| 00:45:53 | "One More Fall" - GK/ Shoe Band |
| 00:50:46 | "Walkin' Blues" - Pat Donohue, Buck White and Shoe Band |
| 00:54:51 | "Blessed Assurance" - Ricky Skaggs and The Whites |
| 00:58:20 | "On the Wings of a Dove" - Ricky Skaggs, The Whites and Garrison Keillor |
| 01:03:10 | Intermission- Hey Good Lookin' |
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| Segment 3 |
| 01:06:40 | Greetings |
| 01:10:34 | Mom script |
| 01:13:40 | "Glad All Over" - Pat Donohue and Guy's All-Star Shoe Band |
| 01:16:14 | "Mow The Lawn Blues" - GK and Shoe Band |
| 01:19:02 | "Crossville" - Ricky Skaggs band |
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| Segment 4 |
| 01:22:00 | The News from Lake Wobegon (Download MP3) |
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| Segment 5 |
| 01:39:41 | "A Leaf in the Wind" - Richard Dworsky |
| 01:41:33 | GK talks with Jearlyn Steele |
| 01:42:30 | "Peace on Earth" - Jearlyn Steele and Richard Dworsky |
| 01:46:53 | Crispy script |
| 01:53:06 | "Big Wheel" - Ricky Skaggs and The Whites |
| 01:55:50 | Credits, Lighthouse closer |
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Photos from the show
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| Tom Keith imitates a loon during the warm up. |
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Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder with The Whites. |
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| Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder perform 'Crossville.' |
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Garrison Keillor during the News from Lake Wobegon. |
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| GK in silhouette. |
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The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band |
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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