THE BLUES ROLLS ON
Sara Watkins
Coming to you this week from the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, Illinois, it's a live broadcast performance of A Prairie Home Companion. With special guests, Oklahoma blues legend Elvin Bishop, and singer-songwriter Sara Watkins. Also with us the Royal Academy of Radio Actors; Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band with the Shoe Horns, and The News from Lake Wobegon.
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Singer, songwriter and fiddle player, Sara Watkins.
Elvin Bishop on guitar and Norton Buffalo on harmonica.
"Another Mule Kickin' In Your Stall"
Dave Bargeron
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Segment 1
- 00:00:00 - Logo
- 00:00:11 - Tishomingo Blues
- 00:02:00 - GK opens, talks about Chicago's government, Rod Blagojevich, Barack Obama, Abraham Lincoln
- 00:05:10 - "Lincoln Square" - GK/ GASB
- 00:08:40 - Dad script
- 00:13:05 - GK talks with Elvin Bishop
- 00:13:45 - "That's My Thing" - Elvin Bishop, Norton Buffalo, GASB
- 00:18:35 - Guy Noir script
- 00:30:10 - "Big Shoulders" - Shoe Band
- 00:32:05 - Powdermilk Biscuit Break
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Segment 2
- 00:33:33 - GK talks with Sara Watkins
- 00:35:03 - "All This Time" - Sara Watkins and Shoe Band
- 00:38:45 - "Any Old Time" - Sara Watkins
- 00:42:20 - Island script
- 00:52:55 - GK intros Elvin and Norton
- 00:53:14 - "My Dog" - Elvin Bishop, Norton Buffalo and The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band
- 00:57:40 - "Another Mule Kickin' In Your Stall" - Elvin Bishop, Norton Buffalo and Shoe Band
- 01:01:37 - GK talks about Studs Terkel, "Solidarity Forever"
- 01:06:20 - Intermission/"Blue Skies" - Shoe Band
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Segment 3
- 01:10:00 - Greetings
- 01:14:05 - "Father's Day Song"/"My Old Dad" - GK/Shoe Band
- 01:17:20 - "Let's Have A Party"/"Great Balls of Fire"/"My Girl"/"I Like It Like That" - GK, Pat Donohue, band
- 01:22:12 - Breaking Up is Hard to Do script - GK and Sara Watkins
- 01:26:30 - "Lord Won't You Help Me" - Sara Watkins and band
- 01:30:17 - "Long Hot Summer Days" - Sara Watkins and band
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Segment 4
- 01:35:17 - The News from Lake Wobegon
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Segment 5
- 01:46:58 - "Buckdancer's Choice" - Pat Donohue
- 01:48:50 - GK intros Elvin Bishop
- 01:49:19 - "Stealin' Watermelons" - Elvin Bishop, Norton Buffalo and band
- 01:53:50 - Rhubarb script
- 01:56:15 - "Angel Band" - Sara Watkins/ Garrison Keillor/ band, credits, "St. Anne's Reel"
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