A Prairie Home Companion for May 17, 2008 from American Public Media

The Historic
State Theatre

May 17, 2008

This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we'll revisit two shows we did at the historic state theatre in Minneapolis. Wilco, the über-cool Chicago-based alt-rock band was on to perform a few songs from their Grammy®-nominated album Sky Blue Sky. Texas troubadour Carrie Rodriguez was with us, Bluegrass songstress Becky Schlegel sang "Heartaches by the Number", and Cowboy Jack Clement sang an impromptu version of "Old Fashioned Drunk" that lingers in our collective memory like a Bourbon hangover. Also in the singing Cowboy genre, Lefty yodels about Keats and the blooms of spring in the Lives of the Cowboys. Plus, a lesson on wood ticks that can only be learned from an early summer visit to Lake Wobegon. So take the transistor radio with you out into the backyard this Saturday, plant those heirloom tomatoes, and enjoy a freshly cut springtime redux of two shows, with 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.

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Segment 1

00:00:00 APHC Logo Open

00:00:11 Tishomingo Blues

00:00:55 GK Open

00:02:54 "Freeway Man," Pat Donohue and The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band (05/19/07)

00:05:21 Grad script (05/19/07)

00:13:29 GK Intro Cowboy Jack Clement (05/19/07)

00:14:40 "No Expectations," Cowboy Jack and Shoes (05/19/07)

00:18:22 "Just Someone I Used to Know," Cowboy Jack and Shoes (05/19/07)

00:21:05 "Crispy" script (05/19/07)

00:27:31 GK Powdermilk

Segment 2

00:27:49 Powdermilk Biscuit Break (05/19/07)

00:29:14 GK Intro Louis Jenkins (05/19/07)

00:30:15 Louis reads "Seagulls," "Fish," and "Ambition" (05/19/07)

00:33:59 GK Intros Carrie Rodriguez (05/19/07)

00:34:55 "Seven Angels on a Bicycle," Carrie Rodriguez (05/19/07)

00:39:04 The Lives of the Cowboys script (05/12/07)

00:50:25 "Sky Blue Sky," Wilco (05/12/07)

00:53:44 GK Intermission Credits, over "Avalon," Shoes (05/12/07)

Segment 3

00:56:48 GK Welcome Back

00:57:18 "Don't Want to Play House Anymore," Carrie Rodriguez (05/19/07)

00:59:27 Smoke script (05/19/07)

01:01:49 GK talks with Cowboy Jack, sings "Old Fashioned Drunk" polka (05/19/07)

01:03:54 "Seriously," Cowboy Jack and Shoes (05/19/07)

01:06:46 "Gone Girl," Cowboy Jack and Shoes (05/19/07)

Segment 4

01:09:52 The News from Lake Wobegon (Download MP3)

Segment 5

01:22:39 "When the Roses Bloom Again," Wilco (05/12/07)

01:28:55 "Muzzle of Bees," Wilco (05/12/07)

01:33:52 Guy Noir script (05/12/07)

01:47:52 GK talks with Becky Schlegel (05/12/07)

01:49:10 "Heartaches by the Number," Becky Schlegel (05/12/07)

01:52:08 "Letter from Home," Becky Schlegel (05/12/07)

01:55:18 GK Credits

01:56:21 "Hesitating Beauty," Wilco (05/12/07)

01:58:29 GK Recorded Credits