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Nick Lowe
October 11, 2008
This week on A Prairie Home Companion, after five thousand people showed up at last week's Street Dance and Meatloaf Supper, our neighbors on Exchange Street pleaded with us to keep a somewhat lower profile. So, this week we're back indoors with legendary singer-songwriter, record producer, and brooding British balladeer, Nick Lowe. Also with us, The Royal Academy of Radio Actors: Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Tom Keith, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and persistent but unconfirmed rumors of a Joke Show segment or two. Join us this Saturday for another live broadcast performance from St. Paul.
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Segment 1
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| 00:00:00 | Logo |
| 00:00:12 | Tishomingo Blues |
| 00:03:09 | GK opens, talks about the fall, reads a sonnet |
| 00:04:40 | "Ragged But Right" - GK and band |
| 00:10:08 | The Lives of the Cowboys script |
| 00:21:16 | "Do Say Doucet" - Shoe Band |
| 00:22:27 | Winter script |
| 00:27:48 | "Louise" - Pat Donohue and band |
| 00:31:31 | Powdermilk Biscuit Break |
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Segment 2
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| 00:33:13 | "When I Write The Book" - Nick Lowe and Shoe Band |
| 00:36:40 | GK talks with Nick Lowe |
| 00:37:58 | "I Read A Lot" - Nick Lowe |
| 00:41:17 | Guy Noir script |
| 00:53:18 | GK intros Solas |
| 00:54:16 | "Seven Curses" - Solas |
| 00:58:27 | GK talks with Solas |
| 00:59:10 | Vital Mental Medicine" - Solas |
| 01:02:49 | Intermission (I Feel Fine) |
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Segment 3
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| 01:06:28 | Greetings |
| 01:09:05 | "Lulu's Back in Town/ Lady Be Good" - GK/ band |
| 01:12:52 | "John Henry" - GK/ band |
| 01:18:22 | Ruth script |
| 01:26:24 | "Back Alley Blues" - Shoe Band |
| 01:27:08 | "The Man in Love" - Nick Lowe |
| 01:29:24 | "You Inspire Me" - Nick Lowe and Shoe Band |
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Segment 4
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| 01:33:09 | News From Lake Wobegon (Download MP3) |
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Segment 5
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| 01:47:17 | "Mollaí Na Gcuachi Ní Chuilleanáin" - Solas |
| 01:52:00 | Catchup Theme" - Richard Dworsky |
| 01:52:44 | "Jigs" - Solas |
| 01:55:35 | Credits, The Parting Glass, St. Anne's Reel |
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| Tom Keith throws himself into his sound effects |
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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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