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July 26, 2008
Coming up this week on A Prairie Home Companion: a special Wild West compilation show full of unwashed cowboys, jangling spurs, painful cacti, and rotgut whiskey. Cowboy poet Paul Zarzyski recites "Bucking Horse Moon," Stephanie Davis sings an ode to bailing twine, and Wylie Gustafson gives a sentimental performance of "Cattle Call." And because you can never have too much yodeling, Janet Sorenson sings "Cowboy Sweetheart," plus Tish Hinojosa, Chris Thile, Joe Ely & Joel Guzman, and Robin & Linda Williams.
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Segment 1
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| 00:00:00 | APHC Logo Open |
| 00:00:11 | Tishomingo Blues |
| 00:00:55 | GK Open |
| 00:03:46 | "Tumblin' Tumbleweed," The Hopeful Gospel Quartet |
| 00:06:04 | Rhubarb script (Texas) |
| 00:10:45 | "Bailing Twine," Stephanie Davis |
| 00:14:50 | Radio Rodeo script |
| 00:19:40 | "The Good Night Loving Trail," Joe Ely & Joel Guzman, w/GK and Prudence Johnson |
| 00:24:46 | Powdermilk Biscuit Break |
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Segment 2
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| 00:26:18 | GK Intro Janet Sorenson |
| 00:26:52 | "Cowboy's Sweetheart," Janet Sorenson |
| 00:28:43 | The Lives of the Cowboys script |
| 00:41:25 | GK Intro Wylie Gustafson |
| 00:42:26 | "Yodeling Cowhand," Wylie Gustafson |
| 00:46:32 | "Cattle Call," Wylie Gustafson |
| 00:50:22 | Poet Paul Zarzyski recites "Bucking Horse Moon" |
| 00:52:02 | "El Paso," Chris Thile |
| 00:57:22 | GK Intermission Intro, over "Gee Whiz," Peter Ostroushko and Shoes |
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Segment 3
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| 01:02:21 | GK Welcome Back |
| 01:02:39 | Guy Noir script |
| 01:12:10 | "Ole Montan," Wylie Gustafson |
| 01:15:16 | Berthas script (Montana) |
| 01:17:34 | GK Tish Hinojosa Intro |
| 01:18:01 | "Con su pluma en su mano (With a Pen in His Hand)," Tish Hinojosa |
| 01:21:41 | Cinqo de Mayo script (Rodeo SFX) |
| 01:26:15 | GK Intro Cowboys |
| 01:26:34 | "Way Out There" and "South Dakota," The Cowboys |
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Segment 4
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| 01:30:54 | News From Lake Wobegon (Download MP3) |
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Segment 5
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| 01:52:11 | "High Noon," Pat Donohue |
| 01:54:20 | GK Credits |
| 01:55:32 | "Goodnight Little Cowpup," Stephanie Davis |
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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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