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Maxine Kumin
May 3, 2008
This week on A Prairie Home Companion we'll bring you a live broadcast performance from the
Civic Center Auditorium in Bangor, Maine. Featuring Pulitzer Prize winning poet Maxine Kumin, the David Mallet Trio, and a comprehensive artistic rediscovery of our regular cast: The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band with Rich Dworsky, Pat Donohue, Gary Raynor, Andy Stein, and Peter Johnson, The Royal Academy of Radio Actors: Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, and that gangly guy with the socks. Join us this week, live from the Queen City of the East.
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| Segment 1 |
| 00:00 | Logo |
| 00:12 | "Tishomingo Blues" |
| 03:25 | GK opens, talks about Maine |
| 04:17 | King script |
| 06:03 | Bush script |
| 07:15 | "Bangor, Maine" - GK/ Pat Donohue/ band |
| 10:02 | Rhubarb script |
| 15:19 | The Story of Bob script |
| 20:56 | GK intros Maxine Kumin, she and GK read her poetry |
| 28:22 | Powdermilk Biscuit Break |
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| Segment 2 |
| 31:43 | Grieg (Married Couple) script |
| 39:40 | GK intros David Mallett |
| 40:56 | "Angel Standin'" By- David Mallett |
| 44:18 | "Fishing" - David Mallett |
| 48:45 | Science script |
| 54:00 | GK intros Fiddlers |
| 58:48 | Intermission/ "Blues Skies'" |
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| Segment 3 |
| 1:02:03 | Hymn Medley |
| 1:05:50 | Greetings |
| 1:10:17 | Fred script |
| 1:21:12 | "Tenderness" - GK and band |
| 1:24:16 | GK intros Maxine Kumin, she reads "Seven Caveats in May" |
| 1:29:00 | "Whole Lot of You" - Pat Donohue and Shoe Band |
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| Segment 4 |
| 1:30:48 | The News from Lake Wobegon (Download MP3) |
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| Segment 5 |
| 1:43:49 | "Maine U Song" - "The Stein Song"- Shoe Band |
| 1:45:28 | GK talks about Bangor |
| 1:49:00 | "The Garden Song" - David Mallett |
| 1:52:18 | GK talks with Maxine Kumin |
| 1:52:52 | Confiscated script/ credits |
| 1:55:26 | "You Are My Sunshine", fiddlers |
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| Garrison, up in the bleachers, before the start of the broadcast. |
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Pat Donohue |
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| Perhaps the smirk gives it away: Tim Russell's impression of Bush. |
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Garrison introduces one of his literary heroes, Maxine Kumin. |
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| David Mallett leads the audience in an impromptu sing-along |
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The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band |
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