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Garrison Keillor's Rhubarb Show
May 8, 2004
This is the final Rhubarb show of the season. This week's lineup includes instrumental "space rock" band Tiki Obmar; folky singer-songwriter Ben Connelly; rapper Toki Wright; folk-electonica group Spaghetti Western; comic Nate Ford; folk-blues man John Koerner; guitarist Adam Granger; and Jeff Horwich on sax with the Blue Rockets!
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Part 1 | Part 2
In segments
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| Segment 1 |
| 00:00:00 | "Hideaway" - Pat Donohue and the Blue Rockets, GK opens, introduces guests |
| 00:05:50 | "Come On" - Pat Donohue and the Blue Rockets |
| 00:09:40 | GK introduces Toki Wright |
| 00:10:30 | "Focus" - Toki Wright |
| 00:14:26 | "Change" - Toki Wright |
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| Segment 2 |
| 00:17:39 | GK talks with John Koerner |
| 00:23:55 | "Good Time Charlie" - John Koerner |
| 00:27:22 | GK intros Tiki Obmar |
| 00:28:35 | "Some Kids Like Cartoons" - Tiki Obmar |
| 00:40:27 | GK talks with Tiki Obmar |
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| Segment 3 |
| 00:41:00 | GK intros Spaghetti Western |
| 00:42:06 | "McFeely" - Spaghetti Western |
| 00:47:50 | "Claus and Lucas" - Spaghetti Western |
| 00:52:17 | GK talks to Mike Rosetto |
| 00:52:40 | Untitled - Spaghetti Western |
| 00:59:30 | Intermission |
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| Segment 4 |
| 01:10:56 | "Tell Laura I Love Her" GK and the Blue Rockets |
| 01:14:46 | "I Saw Her Standing There" - The Blue Rockets |
| 01:18:53 | GK introduces Adam Granger |
| 01:25:04 | "Mr. & Mrs. Jones" - Adam Granger |
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| Segment 5 |
| 01:29:24 | GK introduces Nate Ford |
| 01:30:46 | Nate Ford's set |
| 01:38:16 | GK introduces Ben Connelly |
| 01:39:11 | "Never Really Yours" - Ben Connelly |
| 01:41:54 | "Evangeline" - Ben Connelly |
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| Segment 6 |
| 01:47:36 | GK talks with Tiki Obmar |
| 01:48:53 | "Jen" - Tiki Obmar |
| 01:56:50 | GK talks to Toki Wright |
| 01:57:42 | "So Good" - Toki Wright |
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| Segment 7 |
| 02:02:14 | John Koerner tells a joke |
| 02:05:30 | Running, Jumping, Standing Still |
| 02:08:06 | Credits |
| 02:09:22 | "Hideaway" - The Blue Rockets |
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Photos from the show
Click images to view slideshow. (Photos taken by Jessica Nordell)
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| GK and Toki Wright | | Brett Bullion of Tiki Obmar |
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| Nicholas Lemme of Spaghetti Western | |
Mike Rossetto of Spaghetti Western |
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Nate Ford |
In Garrison Keillor's latest book, Lake Wobegon native Margie Krebsbach dreams up the idea of a trip to Rome, hoping to get her husband Carl to make love to her — he's been sleeping across the hall and she has no idea why. She finds a patriotic purpose for the journey. A Lake Wobegon boy, Gussie Norlander, died in the liberation of Rome, 1944, and his grave, according to his elderly brother, Norbert, is in a neglected weed patch near the Colosseum...
It's a story of Wogegonians in a strange land, telling stories of kinship and self-revelation — all delivered with Keillor's trademark humor.
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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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