A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor

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