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March 15, 2008
This week on A Prairie Home Companion we're bringing you a live performance spectacle, a talent show for twenty-something troubadours, where six entrants will compete for the coveted silver water tower trophy, also known as the Wobegon Idol.
This year's contestants are:
Also on this week's show, The Royal Academy of Radio Actors: Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Tom Keith, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and The News from Lake Wobegon. Join us this Saturday, live from The Fitzgerald Theater.
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| Segment 1 |
| 00:00 | Logo |
| 00:14 | "Tishomingo Blues" |
| 03:26 | GK talks about the Montessori generation, everyone is a winner, helicopter parents |
| 06:30 | GK intros The Honey Dewdrops |
| 06:53 | "Miner's Prayer" - The Honey Dewdrops |
| 10:34 | GK intros Alyson Gilbert |
| 11:12 | "I Wanna Be That Girl" - Alyson Gilbert |
| 14:54 | GK announces voting procedure |
| 15:25 | GK intros Andrew Ryan |
| 16:00 | "Skip" - Andrew Ryan |
| 19:04 | GK introduces Mattie Speece and Patrick Villines |
| 19:44 | "Phoebe" - Mattie Speece and Patrick Villines |
| 22:18 | GK intros Ashley Monroe |
| 22:50 | "I Can't Get Past You" - Ashley Monroe |
| 26:30 | GK intros Pinky Lee |
| 27:09 | "Father Time"- Pinky Lee |
| 30:49 | Powdermilk Biscuit Theme |
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| Segment 2 |
| 32:27 | GK talks to Pinky Lee |
| 33:22 | "Grandma's Kitchen Table" - Pinky Lee |
| 35:54 | ELCA script |
| 37:13 | GK talks with Ashley Monroe |
| 38:00 | "Used" - Ashley Monroe |
| 42:25 | Retro script |
| 43:52 | GK talks with Mattie Speece and Patrick Villines |
| 44:31 | "Honky Tonkin'" - Mattie Speece and Patrick Villines |
| 47:00 | GK talks with Andrew Ryan |
| 48:10 | "Lay You Down" - Andrew Ryan |
| 51:20 | GK talks with Alyson Gilbert |
| 52:08 | "A Real Bad Mood" - Alyson Gilbert and band |
| 55:19 | GK intros the Honey Dewdrops |
| 55:48 | "The Long Black Veil" - The Honey Dewdrops |
| 59:52 | GK announces that voting is open |
| 1:00:48 | "Long, Long Ago" - GK/ Guy's All-Star Shoe Band |
| 1:04:16 | St. Paul script |
| 1:07:30 | Intermission ("Mississippi Mud") |
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| Segment 3 |
| 1:10:52 | Welcome Back to the 2nd Half |
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| Segment 4 |
| 1:11:28 | The News from Lake Wobegon (Download MP3) |
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| Segment 5 |
| 1:28:40 | Guy Noir script |
| 1:44:56 | GK awards Ray Marklund award: Andrew Ryan |
| 1:46:06 | 3rd place: Alyson Gilbert |
| 1:46:23 | 2nd Place: Mattie Speece and Patrick Villines |
| 1:47:27 | 1st Place: The Honey Dewdrops |
| 1:49:46 | "Without Tears" - The Honey Dewdrops |
| 1:53:47 | Credits, "Rock and Roll Music" closer |
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| It's the first prize water tower statue! |
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Alyson Gilbert sings, "I Wanna Be That Girl." |
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| Garrison introduces Mattie Speece and Pat Villines. |
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Garrison chats with Jenny Bousquet (from Pinky Lee) about water towers. |
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| "Lay You Down," performed by Andrew Ryan. |
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Our talent show winners, The Honey Dewdrops. |
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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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