May 9, 2009

THE OLD NORTH

Robin & Linda Williams

This week on A Prairie Home Companion, it's a live broadcast performance from the Durham Performing Arts Center, in Durham, North Carolina. With special guests, Robin & Linda Williams and Their Fine Group, roots duo Polecat Creek, and old-time string band Big Medicine. Also with us, The Royal Academy of Radio Actors; Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, pianist Richard Dworsky, and The News from Lake Wobegon.


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Big Medicine

Polecat Creek

Garrison joins Robin and Linda Williams on "My Baby's Gone."

Fred Newman, Tim Russell and Sue Scott

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  • Segment 1
    • 00:00:00 - Logo
    • 00:00:12 - Tishomingo Blues
    • 00:03:08 - GK opens, talks about North Carolina
    • 00:06:33 - "Mother's Day Song (Mother Was a Lady)" - GK
    • 00:10:20 - GK intros Big Medicine
    • 00:11:00 - "Red Rocking Chair" - Big Medicine
    • 00:14:43 - GK intros next tune
    • 00:14:59 - "Foggy Mountain Top" - Big Medicine
    • 00:18:22 - Hospitality script
    • 00:22:40 - "Southern Shores" - Robin & Linda Williams and Their Fine Group
    • 00:26:24 - "My Baby's Gone" - Robin &Linda Williams and Their Fine Group with GK
    • 00:30:36 - Powdermilk Biscuit break
  • Segment 2
    • 00:33:04 - GK intros Polecat Creek
    • 00:34:29 - "Kiss Me Over the Garden" - Polecat Creek with Chris Brashear
    • 00:36:56 - "Buckets of Blue" - Polecat Creek with Linda Williams
    • 00:41:05 - Guy Noir script
    • 00:55:30 - "We Shall All Be Reunited" - Big Medicine, Polecat Creek, Garrison Keillor, Richard Dworsky, Pat Donohue, Robin & Linda Williams and Their Fine Group
    • 00:59:00 - Hey Good Lookin' (Intermission)
  • Segment 3
    • 01:02:33 - Reverend Gary Davis Medley: "Let Us Get Together"
    • 01:06:10 - North Carolina SFX script
    • 01:08:33 - Greetings
    • 01:11:50 - "First Trimester Blues" - Linda Williams, Pat Donohue and Richard Dworsky
    • 01:14:45 - Mom script
    • 01:20:08 - "Visions of Mother and Dad" - Robin &Linda Williams and Their Fine Group
    • 01:23:42 - Coffee script
    • 01:28:03 - GK talks with Polecat Creek
    • 01:28:37 - "Cardinal Pair" - Polecat Creek
    • 01:31:28 - "Mama's Hungry Eyes" - Robin &Linda Williams and Their Fine Group with Richard Dworsky
  • Segment 4
    • >01:35:40 - The News from Lake Wobegon
  • Segment 5
    • 01:46:40 - "Not Impossible" - Pat Donohue and Richard Dworsky
    • 01:48:20 - "Rhubarb/Looking Toward Heaven" - Big Medicine
    • 01:49:40 - "Mama" - Polecat Creek
    • 01:53:38 - "Fire on the Mountain" - Big Medicine and Sarah Bryan
    • 01:55:00 - Credits/"12 Gates to the City"

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