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November 24, 2007
This week on A Prairie Home Companion, assuming our truck driver finds a parking space on West 43rd during rush hour in Manhattan, we'll be moving the whole kit and kaboodle into the historic Town Hall Theater for the next month. The McCoury boys -- Rob and Ronnie -- bring big daddy Del and the band up from Nashville for a post thanksgiving bluegrass workout, French-American songstress Madeleine Peyroux will caress your inner ear, and everybody's favorite former U.S. Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, will speak in complete sentences. Also with us, The Royal Academy of Radio Acting; Tim Russell, Sue Scott and Fred Newman, our pals Robin and Linda Williams, and The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band with maestro Richard Dworsky. So heat up the leftovers, dig out some wool socks, and join us for a big show this week from New York City!
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| Segment 1 |
| 00:00:00 | Logo |
| 00:00:13 | "Tishomingo Blues" - GK / Shoe Band |
| 00:02:38 | GK opens, SFX script |
| 00:08:05 | "Downtown Broadway Express" - GK/Robin and Linda |
| 00:10:24 | "Loneliness and Desperation" - Del McCoury Band |
| 00:13:05 | GK talks with Del McCoury |
| 00:15:00 | "Nashville Cats" - Del McCoury Band |
| 00:19:12 | GK talks with Billy Collins |
| 00:22:00 | Billy recites "Monday", "Adage" and "The Golden Years" |
| 00:28:30 | Jazz script |
| 00:35:22 | Powdermilk Biscuit Break |
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| Segment 2 |
| 00:36:49 | "Marvin and Mavis" - Tribute to New York |
| 00:40:30 | GK intros Madeleine Peyroux |
| 00:42:37 | "Blue Alert" - Madeleine Peyroux |
| 00:47:20 | "Don't Cry Baby" - Madeleine Peyroux |
| 00:51:05 | Guy Noir script |
| 01:03:08 | "Walk Around Manhattan (Galilee)" - Robin & Linda and GK |
| 01:05:10 | "Back Up and Push" - Del McCoury Band |
| 01:07:06 | Intermission- Avalon |
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| Segment 3 |
| 01:10:44 | Greetings |
| 01:13:42 | GK talks with Del McCoury |
| 01:14:40 | "The Mountain" - Del McCoury band |
| 01:18:32 | Fred Farrell script |
| 01:21:08 | Billy recites "Tension", "Royal Aristocrat" and "Schoolsville" |
| 01:28:48 | "Saving Me A Place" - Robin and Linda Williams, GK, Richard Dworsky |
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| Segment 4 |
| 01:33:25 | The News from Lake Wobegon (Download MP3) |
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| Segment 5 |
| 01:44:06 | GK talks to Madeleine |
| 01:44:37 | "Half the Perfect World" - Madeleine Peyroux and band |
| 01:49:02 | Rhubarb script |
| 01:53:07 | Credits, Red River Valley |
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| Garrison Keillor |
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Fred Newman and Garrison Keillor play off each other in the SFX script. |
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| Robin and Linda Williams perform a tribute to New York as Marvin and Mavis. |
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Madeleine Peyroux performs, "Don't Cry Baby." |
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| Billy Collins joins in Guy Noir. |
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Andy Stein and Jason Carter of the Del McCoury Band close out the show with some fiddling. |
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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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