A Prairie Home Companion for November 1, 2008 from American Public Media

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

00:00:00 Logo

00:00:13 Tishomingo Blues

00:02:50 GK talks abou the weather, All Saints Day

00:03:57 "Love's Old Sweet Song" - GK, audience, band and strings

00:07:00 GK talks about Studs Terkel, "So Long..."

00:13:47 "Don't Go Todd" - GK/ band (watch video)

00:16:52 SQ script

00:24:12 "Too Much" - Pat Donohue and band

00:26:44 Horror script

00:34:27 Powdermilk Biscuit Break

Segment 2

00:35:40 GK intros Pert' Near Sandstone

00:37:03 "Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss" - Pert' Near Sandstone

00:40:36 GK talks to Pert' Near Sandstone

00:41:34 "Needle and Thread" - Pert' Near Sandstone

00:46:00 Bertha's Kitty Boutique

00:47:00 Ghost script

00:52:10 "The Raven" - GK and strings

01:01:50 Intermission (I've Just Seen A Face)

Segment 3

01:05:11 Greetings

01:08:35 Annie's engagement announcement, "I Will" - GK, band, strings, audience

01:11:16 Nuclear script (with strings)

01:21:44 "Come Come Ye Saints"/"When the Saints Go Marching In" - GK/ strings

Segment 4

01:26:51 News From Lake Wobegon

Segment 5

01:42:28 "You Haunt Me" - Pat Donohue and The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band

01:45:22 Guy Noir script

01:50:30 "Wild Bill Jones" - Pert' Near Sandstone (watch video)

01:54:27 Coffee

01:55:12 Credits, So Long reprise

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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.