November 17, 2007
 This week on A Prairie Home Companion we return to the State Theater with Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands (Tom Rozum, Scott Huffman, Craig Smith, and Todd Phillips), The Brothers Frantzich, The Royal Academy of Radio Acting; Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Tom Keith, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and The News From Lake Wobegon. Join us this week for our final Minnesota broadcast of the year, and again next week, as we begin a four week stand at The Town Hall in New York City..

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Segment 1
00:00:00Logo
00:00:11"Tishomingo Blues" - GK / Shoe Band
00:02:39GK talks about November, peace, last week's Packer/ Viking game
00:04:16"Perversity" - GK/ Shoe Band
00:06:20"Let The Good Times Roll" - Pat Donohue and band
00:09:00"Mighta Coulda" - Rich Dworsky and Shoe Band
00:12:04Mom script
00:20:00GK intros Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands
00:21:32"Your Eyes" - Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands
00:24:30"99 Year Blues" - Tom Rozum, Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands
00:29:07"Hard Luck in Heaven" - Scott Huffman, Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands and GK
00:34:26Powdermilk Biscuit Break
Segment 2
00:36:01GK intros Frantzich Brothers
00:37:00"Come Thou Font of Every Blessing" - Brothers Frantzich
00:41:39TGK talks to the brothers
00:42:41"Never Doubt I" - Brothers Frantzich
00:46:16Cowboys script
00:55:33"Spanish Johnny" - GK/ Shoe Band
00:59:14"Mississippi Hi and Mississippi Lo" - Andy Stein, John Niemann, Pat Donohue, GK/ Shoe Band and Joe Savage
01:02:08Intermission- Deep Water
Segment 3
01:05:56Audience singalong: In The Evening in November/ Home on the Plains
01:12:03Greetings
01:15:05GK talks about John Soberg
01:15:35"I'll Fly Away" - The Brothers Frantzich and Garrison Keillor
01:19:33GK talks about Mollie's birthday in the balcony
01:20:02Tree script
01:31:14"Abraham" - Brothers Frantzich with Richard Dworsky, Gary Raynor and Peter Johnson
Segment 4
01:34:44The News from Lake Wobegon (Download MP3)
Segment 5
01:49:00"Prairie Lullaby" - Laurie Lewis, GK, Shoes
01:53:16PHC script
01:56:26Credits, Let the Good Times Roll reprise

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Laurie Lewis and The Right Hands perform "Your Eyes." The Brothers Frantzich perform "Come Thou Font of Every Blessing."
On mandolin during "Spanish Johnny," Andy Stein and John Niemann. Garrison leads the audience in a sing along of "Home on the Plains."
Tom Keith jingle-jangles during the "Tree" script. The actors perform as older versions of themselves during the "PHC" script.
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  • Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands
  • The Brothers Frantzich
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  • Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands
  • The Brothers Frantzich
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  • Tree
  • Mom
  • Cowboys
  • PHC
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  • Perversity
  • In The Evening In November
  • Home On The Plains
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