A Prairie Home Companion for May 10, 2008 from American Public Media

Leon Redbone

May 10, 2008

This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we're uncorking a live broadcast from The Milwaukee Theater. With special guests, the legendary wanderers from Waukesha; The BoDeans, and the most famous American performer ever to wear a bow tie and panama hat, Leon Redbone. Also with us, The Royal Academy of Radio Actors: Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and The News from Lake Wobegon.

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Segment 1

00:00 Logo

00:12 "Tishomingo Blues"

02:58 GK opens with Fred

04:53 "Milwaukee Blues"- GK, Pat, Shoe Band

08:06 "Glory of Love"- GK/ Shoe Band

11:58 Hold script

18:04 Guy Noir script

27:58 Powdermilk Biscuit Break

Segment 2

30:51 GK intros Leon Redbone

31:17 "Sweet Mama (Papa's Getting Mad)"- Leon Redbone and Paul Asaro

34:17 GK talks to Leon Redbone

35:00 "Polly Wolly Doodle"- Leon Redbone and Paul Asaro

37:19 Lives of the Cowboys script

47:47 GK intros the BoDeans

48:11 "Wonder Wonder"- The BoDeans

51:25 "Good Things"- The BoDeans

55:38 Rhubarb script

59:10 Intermission- "Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble"- Shoe Band

Segment 3

1:02:53 Greetings/ "Polka Medley"/ Milwaukee notes

1:09:29 "Idaho" - The BoDeans

1:13:43 Mom script

1:20:53 GK brings Leon back

1:21:19 "Old Susannah" - Leon Redbone and Paul Asaro

1:23:38 "Shine On Harvest Moon"- Leon Redbone and Paul Asaro

Segment 4

1:27:28 The News from Lake Wobegon (Download MP3)

Segment 5

1:38:55 GK talks with the BoDeans

1:39:28 "If it Makes You" - The BoDeans

1:42:58 Cheese script

1:45:29 Catchup script

1:49:02 Thanks to WUWM, "Whistlin' Colonel" - Leon Redbone

1:53:05 SFX- GK and Fred Newman

1:54:10 Credits, "Goodnight Ladies", "Merrily We Roll Along", "Dinah/ Down in the Valley/ M-O-T-H-E-R" closer

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Band Leader Rich Dworsky		Andy Stein on violin.


Leon Redbone sings, "Sweet Mama (Papa's Getting Mad)."		The BoDeans


Garrison tells us of the "News from Lake Wobegon."		Sue Scott and Tim Russell as "Barb and Jim"