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Nellie McKay
April 12, 2008
This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we return to The Town Hall in New York City for our Spring Sonnet contest (see details below). This week's special guests include eclectic singer-songwriter Nellie McKay, sultry alto Prudence Johnson, Metropolitan Opera tenor Raúl Melo, and mandolin maestro Chris Thile. Also with us, The Royal Academy of Radio Actors; Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and The News from Lake Wobegon. Join us this week, for a poetic exploration into the human heart and the power of love.
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| Segment 1 |
| 00:00 | Logo |
| 00:13 | Tishomingo Blues, GK opens |
| 04:03 | Marydel Rosenfield sonnet, more sonnets, "I Think of You", "When I Dream" |
| 15:00 | GK talks about the Olympic torch, papal visit, taxes |
| 15:36 | T for Taxes- Shoe Band |
| 17:55 | Fred script |
| 24:26 | more sonnets |
| 26:41 | "Ah! Leve-Toi Soleil"- Raúl Melo, with Michael Recchiuti |
| 32:07 | GK talks to Raúl Melo |
| 33:08 | Powdermilk Biscuit Break |
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| Segment 2 |
| 34:50 | GK talks about sonnet statistics |
| 35:32 | GK intros Nellie McKay |
| 36:38 | "Testify"- Nellie McKay and Shoe Band |
| 40:25 | "Zombie"- Nellie McKay and Shoe Band |
| 45:29 | Guy Noir script |
| 1:02:14 | Intermission - "Blue Skies" |
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| Segment 3 |
| 1:06:12 | "There's No Business Like Show Business"/ "Ol' Man River"/ "Oh What A Beautiful Mornin'" |
| 1:13:30 | "Buckets of Rain"- Pat Donohue and Chris Thile |
| 1:16:22 | More sonnets, Aura Lee/ In the Gloaming/ Let it Be Me |
| 1:27:26 | GK intros Raúl Melo |
| 1:28:17 | "Che Gelida Manina"- Raúl Melo, with Michael Recchiuti |
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| Segment 4 |
| 1:33:35 | The News from Lake Wobegon (Download MP3) |
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| Segment 5 |
| 1:45:00 | "I Wanna Get Married"- Nellie McKay |
| 1:49:30 | "Wayside"- Chris Thile |
| 1:52:24 | GK thanks sonnet writers, picks winner: Marydel Rosenfield |
| 1:55:20 | Credits, "True Love Ways" closer |
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| Andy Stein sits in with the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band. |
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Tim Russell |
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| Garrison discusses Fred's free time |
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Garrison speaks with Raul Melo |
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Chris Thile and his mandolin. |
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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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