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March 29, 2008
This week on A Prairie Home Companion, while packing our giant steamer trunks for the trip to New York, we cobbled together a special Manhattan matinee to get you in the mood for spring. Featuring great American soprano Renée Fleming, the Queen of American folk music Odetta, legendary classical pianist André Watts, and the ambassadors of Scottish traditional music, Phil Cunningham and Aly Bain. Also with us, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors:
Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and in Lake Wobegon the high school play is cancelled under student protest.
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| Segment 1 |
| 00:00:00 | APHC Logo Open |
| 00:00:12 | Tishomingo Blues |
| 00:00:55 | GK Open |
| 00:03:53 | "Happy Feet," Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks |
| 00:06:36 | Radio script with Vince |
| 00:26:07 | Powdermilk Biscuit Break |
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| Segment 2 |
| 00:27:29 | GK talks with Phil Cunningham and Aly Bain |
| 00:30:20 | "Johnny's Tune" and a Jig Set with Phil and Aly |
| 00:39:40 | Guy Noir script |
| 00:49:44 | GK talks with Andre Watts |
| 00:54:28 | "Oiseaux Tristes" (Sad Birds) and "Schlaf Los, Frage und Antwort" (Sleepless, Questions and Answers), Andre Watts |
| 01:02:59 | Intermission ("Nobody's Sweetheart") |
| 01:03:03 | GK Intermission Credits |
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| Segment 3 |
| 01:06:37 | GK Welcome Back |
| 01:07:09 | "Weeping Willow Blues" and "You Don't Know My Mind," Odetta with The Nighthawks |
| 01:14:31 | Cowboys script |
| 01:24:28 | GK talks with Renee Flemming |
| 01:31:51 | "When Did You Leave Heaven," Renee Flemming |
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| Segment 4 |
| 1:35:06 | The News from Lake Wobegon (Download MP3) |
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| Segment 5 |
| 01:51:51 | "You've Changed," Renee Flemming |
| 01:55:59 | GK Closing Credits |
| 01:57:27 | "Rock All The Babies To Sleep/Mamou 2 Step," Phil and Aly |
| 01:58:24 | GK Recorded Credits |
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On July 4th, help us celebrate the 35th Anniversary of A Prairie Home Companion and the Fourth of July with a free live nationally broadcast show from Avon, MN.
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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