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September 6, 2008
This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we just can't say goodbye to summer sunshine, so we're bringing you a show from the Champlain Valley Exposition in Essex Junction, Vermont. With Suzy Bogguss, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, The Royal Academy of Radio Actors: Tim Russell, Sue Scott, Fred Newman, and The News from Lake Wobegon. Join us this week for our final grandstand rendezvous before the massive cold fronts descend, and darkness prevails once again on the Northern borders.
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Segment 1
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| 00:00:00 | Logo |
| 00:00:13 | Tishomingo Blues |
| 00:01:58 | GK talks about Vermont |
| 00:02:48 | "My Love is Like A Red Red Rose" - GK/Shoe Band |
| 00:07:25 | SFX script |
| 00:11:44 | "I Want to Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart" - Suzy Bogguss/ band |
| 00:15:05 | "Somewhere Between" - Suzy and GK |
| 00:17:57 | Guy Noir script |
| 00:31:21 | Powdermilk Biscuit Break |
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Segment 2
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| 00:33:00 | "Arthritis Blues" - GK and Pat |
| 00:36:18 | Café Boeuf script |
| 00:40:07 | "Too Gone" - Pat Donohue/ band |
| 00:44:42 | The Lives of the Cowboys |
| 00:55:46 | GK talks about Helen Schneyer |
| 00:56:40 | "I Forgive" - GK/ band |
| 00:59:15 | Intermission |
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Segment 3
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| 01:02:30 | Welcome Back to the 2nd Half |
| 01:02:44 | "Tell My Ma" - GK/ band |
| 01:04:56 | GK talks about the fair |
| 01:05:30 | "Sleepless Nights" - Suzy Bogguss and band |
| 01:09:48 | GK talks about the old schooldays |
| 01:10:45 | "A Satisfied Mind" - Suzy/ GK |
| 01:14:14 | "My Little Pumpkin Pie" - Rich/ band |
| 01:17:17 | Catchup script |
| 01:20:10 | GK reads sonnets |
| 01:24:10 | "Moonlight in Vermont" - Rich and Andy |
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Segment 4
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| 01:26:27 | News From Lake Wobegon (Download MP3) |
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Segment 5
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| 01:40:35 | "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" - GK/Shoe Band |
| 01:48:55 | Rhubarb script |
| 01:52:46 | "Outbound Plane" - GK/ Suzy/Shoe Band |
| 01:55:55 | "The Parting Glass" - GK/Shoe Band |
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| Pat Donohue provides some background guitar |
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Sue Scott |
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| Suzy Bogguss |
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Pedal steel guitarist Joe Savage |
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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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