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Pert' Near Sandstone
November 1, 2008

This week on A Prairie Home Companion we're back in St. Paul at the Fitzgerald Theater, with hard-driving string band Pert' Near Sandstone, Rich Dworsky and The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and The Royal Academy of Radio Acting; Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Tom Keith. Join us this week, before the snow flies.

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Segment 1
00:00:00Logo
00:00:13Tishomingo Blues
00:02:50GK talks abou the weather, All Saints Day
00:03:57"Love's Old Sweet Song" - GK, audience, band and strings
00:07:00GK talks about Studs Terkel, "So Long..."
00:13:47"Don't Go Todd" - GK/ band (watch video)
00:16:52SQ script
00:24:12"Too Much" - Pat Donohue and band
00:26:44Horror script
00:34:27Powdermilk Biscuit Break
Segment 2
00:35:40GK intros Pert' Near Sandstone
00:37:03"Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss" - Pert' Near Sandstone
00:40:36GK talks to Pert' Near Sandstone
00:41:34"Needle and Thread" - Pert' Near Sandstone
00:46:00Bertha's Kitty Boutique
00:47:00Ghost script
00:52:10"The Raven" - GK and strings
01:01:50Intermission (I've Just Seen A Face)
Segment 3
01:05:11Greetings
01:08:35Annie's engagement announcement, "I Will" - GK, band, strings, audience
01:11:16Nuclear script (with strings)
01:21:44"Come Come Ye Saints"/"When the Saints Go Marching In" - GK/ strings
Segment 4
01:26:51News From Lake Wobegon
Segment 5
01:42:28"You Haunt Me" - Pat Donohue and The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band
01:45:22Guy Noir script
01:50:30"Wild Bill Jones" - Pert' Near Sandstone (watch video)
01:54:27Coffee
01:55:12Credits, So Long reprise


Photos from the show
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Garrison leads the audience in singing "So Long" Garrison recites Edgar Allan Poe's, "The Raven."
Young guys play a little old-time swing music; Pert' Near Sandstone. String Quartet: Katja Linfield, Jonathan Magness, Michael Sutton and Matthew Young.

Videos
"Don't Go Todd" - GK and Shoe Band
"Wild Bill Jones" - Pert' Near Sandstone

Guest Information
  • Pert' Near Sandstone
  • The Loaner String Quartet
  • Guy's All-Star Shoe Band
  • Guest Books and Recordings
  • Pert' Near Sandstone


  • Scripts
  • SQ
  • Horror
  • Guy Noir
  • Ghost
  • Bertha's Kitty Boutique
  • Lyrics
  • Don't Go Todd
  • Studs Terkel


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