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December 15, 2007
This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we've got five concertinas, four melodeons, three button boxes, two tin whistles, and a partridge in a pear tree. Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver are riding their 18-wheel sleigh in from East Tennessee, and the Boys of the Lough will make a chilly North Atlantic crossing for our final show at the Town Hall. Also with us, The Guy's All Star Shoe Band with Pat Donohue, Arnie Kinsella, Gary Raynor, Andy Stein, and maestro Richard Dworsky, The Royal Academy of Radio Acting: Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, and the News from Lake Wobegon. It's all coming up this week on A Prairie Home Companion.
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| Segment 1 |
| 00:00:00 | Logo |
| 00:00:13 | "Tishomingo Blues" - GK / Shoe Band |
| 00:03:07 | Winter script. |
| 00:06:30 | "She's A Girl Who Got Tired of Christmas" - GK and Shoe Band |
| 00:08:06 | "Let's Go Buy Stuff" - Pat Donohue and Shoe Band |
| 00:10:51 | Cowboy script |
| 00:21:48 | GK intros Doyle Lawson |
| 00:22:55 | "Sadie's Got Her New Dress On" - Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver |
| 00:26:55 | "Ashland Breakdown" - Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver |
| 00:31:04 | Santa script |
| 00:33:57 | Powdermilk Biscuit Break/ Angels From the Realms of Glory |
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| Segment 2 |
| 00:36:30 | GK intros Boys of the Lough |
| 00:38:08 | "The Barn Dances" - Boys of the Lough |
| 00:45:12 | Guy Noir script |
| 00:59:54 | "Rocket 88" - Pat Donohue and Shoe Band |
| 01:02:07 | Intermission - Shine |
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| Segment 3 |
| 01:06:16 | Greetings, trip giveaway drawing |
| 01:14:38 | "Angel" - GK/ Shoe Band |
| 01:18:26 | GK talks about David Smith |
| 01:19:44 | "Beauty Dean an Oileain" - Boys of the Lough |
| 01:22:07 | Rhubarb script |
| 01:26:37 | GK talks to Doyle Lawson |
| 01:27:17 | "Jingle Bells" - Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver |
| 01:29:39 | Till I See You Face to Face |
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| Segment 4 |
| 01:31:52 | The News from Lake Wobegon (Download MP3) |
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| Segment 5 |
| 01:46:36 | "All in Due Time" - Richard Dworsky |
| 01:48:26 | "The Christ Child Lullaby" - Cathal McConnell and Boys of the Lough |
| 01:52:04 | "Green Grow the Rushes" - Boys of the Lough |
| 01:53:57 | Credits, Fisher's Hornpipe |
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| Garrison Keillor |
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Andy Stein, Gary Raynor and Pat Donohue |
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| Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver |
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The Boy's of the Lough |
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| Guy Noir Private Eye |
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At the end of the show, everybody joins together on the last song. |
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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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