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Wailin' Jennys
Wailin' Jennys
March 01, 2008

This week on A Prairie Home Companion we return to the Fitzgerald Theater with special guests, the pride of Winnipeg, the wonderful Wailin' Jennys, and traditional Celtic heroes, The Boys of the Lough. Also with us, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors: Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Tom Keith, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band with Rich Dworsky, and The News from Lake Wobegon. It's an all-new broadcast, this week on A Prairie Home Companion.

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Segment 1
00:00Logo
00:13"Tishomingo Blues"
03:30GK opens, talks about leap year, poems, girl scouts
05:40"Hawaiian Blues" - Pat Donohue and Shoe Band
08:05Rhubarb script
13:00GK intros Wailin' Jennys
13:58"Beautiful Dawn" - Wailin' Jennys
16:59"Old Man" - Wailin' Jennys
21:06GK talks to Wailin' Jennys
21:23Guy Noir script
30:16Powdermilk Biscuit Break
Segment 2
32:00"Arthritis Blues" - GK/ Pat/ Shoes
37:52English Majors script
40:37"Breakin' The Ice" - Shoe Band
43:30The Lives of the Cowboys script
51:00GK intros Boys of the Lough
52:00"The Keane Reels" - The Boys of the Lough
56:30"The Willow Tree" - The Boys of the Lough
59:52"One More Spring" / SFX script
1:04:18Intermission - "Bud's Bounce"
Segment 3
1:08:02Greetings
1:12:37"Hello in There" - GK/ Shoes
1:16:33GK intros Robert Bly, Minnesota Poet Laureate
1:25:45GK intros Wailin' Jennys
1:26:00"Driving" - Wailin' Jennys
Segment 4
1:30:39The News from Lake Wobegon (Download MP3)
Segment 5
1:44:12GK intros next tune by Brendan Begley and Boys of the Lough
1:45:18"Beauty Deas An Oileain" - Boys of the Lough
1:48:25"Whistle Set" - Cathal McConnell and The Boys of the Lough
1:52:28Omelette script
1:54:20Credits, "McLeod's Reel"/ "St. Anne's Reel"


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Tom Keith, voice actor and sound effect expert. The Wailin' Jennys
The Boys of the Lough Minnesota's first Poet Laureate, Robert Bly.
The Wailin' Jennys accompanied by Jeremy Penner. The Boys of the Lough with Jeremy Penner on violin.
Guest Information
  • Robert Bly
  • The Wailin' Jennys
  • Peter Johnson
  • The Boys of the Lough
  • Joe Savage
    •      		Guest Books and Recordings
  • The Wailin' Jennys
  • The Boys of the Lough
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    Scripts
  • Rhubarb
  • Guy Noir
  • English Majors
  • The Lives of the Cowboys
  • SFX
  • Omelette
    •      		Poetry Information
  • Robert Bly's poems
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