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July 5, 2008
This week on A Prairie Home Companion we'll bring our broadcast season to a close at the
Ravinia Festival
in Highland Park, Illinois. With special guests, Sam Bush, Suzy Bogguss, Howard Levy, and Jearlyn Steele. Also with us, the backbone of our show, The Royal Academy of Radio Actors: Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band with Richard Dworsky, and The News from Lake Wobegon. Thank you to everyone who tuned in this season and offered support to their local Public Radio station, we couldn't do it without you. See you soon at the State Fair!
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Segment 1
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| 00:00 | Logo |
| 00:10 | "Tishomingo Blues" , GK opens, into |
| 04:44 | "America (My Country 'Tis of Thee)" - GK/ Jearlyn Steele/ Pat Donohue |
| 08:10 | GK talks about Ravinia |
| 08:25 | "Sweet Home Chicago" - GK/ Guy's All-Star Shoe Band |
| 10:53 | They're Red Hot- Sam Bush and Shoes |
| 15:12 | Guy Noir script |
| 28:27 | GK talks about Mahalia Jackson |
| 29:43 | "My God is Real"/ "Didn't it Rain"- Jearlyn Steele |
| 34:40 | Powdermilk Biscuit Break |
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Segment 2
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| 37:10 | GK introduces Suzy Bogguss |
| 38:35 | "No Way Out"- Suzy Bogguss and band |
| 42:03 | The Lives of the Cowboys script |
| 56:10 | GK intros next tune |
| 56:45 | "Stars and Stripes Forever"- Howard Levy and Richard Dworsky |
| 59:03 | "The Way You Do The Things You Do"- Jearlyn Steele and Shoe Band |
| 1:01:42 | Intermission- "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" |
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Segment 3
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| 1:05:40 | GK talks about the audience, greetings, GK reads his sonnet |
| 1:10:50 | "Friend For Life"- Sam Bush and Shoes |
| 1:14:55 | Mom script into "Streets of Paris"- Shoe Band |
| 1:27:36 | "Cold Day in July"- Suzy Bogguss and Shoe Band |
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Segment 4
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| 1:31:41 | News From Lake Wobegon (Download MP3) |
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Segment 5
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| 1:43:50 | "Lover Man"- Jearlyn Steele and Shoes |
| 1:47:40 | GK announces the Rhubarb Tour, into "Key to the Highway" |
| 1:50:57 | SFX script |
| 1:55:11 | Credits/ "Goodnight Ladies"/ "Soldier's Joy" |
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| Pat Donohue on guitar, Gary Raynor on bass, and Sam Bush on mandolin enjoy playing "Sweet Home Chicago" in Illinois. |
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Sam Bush takes the lead on "They're Red Hot." |
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| Jearlyn Steele |
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Suzy Bogguss |
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| Joe Savage |
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Howard Levy |
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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