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THIS WEEK'S SHOW

Leon Redbone
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
00:00Logo
00:12 "Tishomingo Blues"
02:58GK opens with Fred
04:53 "Milwaukee Blues"- GK, Pat, Shoe Band
08:06 "Glory of Love"- GK/ Shoe Band
11:58Hold script
18:04Guy Noir script
27:58Powdermilk Biscuit Break
Segment 2
30:51GK intros Leon Redbone
31:17 "Sweet Mama (Papa's Getting Mad)"- Leon Redbone and Paul Asaro
34:17GK talks to Leon Redbone
35:00 "Polly Wolly Doodle"- Leon Redbone and Paul Asaro
37:19Lives of the Cowboys script
47:47GK intros the BoDeans
48:11 "Wonder Wonder"- The BoDeans
51:25 "Good Things"- The BoDeans
55:38Rhubarb script
59:10Intermission- "Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble"- Shoe Band
Segment 3
1:02:53Greetings/ "Polka Medley"/ Milwaukee notes
1:09:29 "Idaho" - The BoDeans
1:13:43Mom script
1:20:53GK 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
1:27:28The News from Lake Wobegon (Download MP3)
Segment 5
1:38:55GK talks with the BoDeans
1:39:28 "If it Makes You" - The BoDeans
1:42:58Cheese script
1:45:29Catchup script
1:49:02Thanks to WUWM, "Whistlin' Colonel" - Leon Redbone
1:53:05SFX- GK and Fred Newman
1:54:10Credits, "Goodnight Ladies", "Merrily We Roll Along", "Dinah/ Down in the Valley/ M-O-T-H-E-R" closer

Photos from the show
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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"
Guest Information
  • The BoDeans
  • Leon Redbone
  • Guest Books and Recordings
  • The BoDeans
  • Leon Redbone

  • Scripts
  • Open
  • Hold
  • Guy Noir
  • The Lives of the Cowboys
  • Rhubarb
  • Mom
  • Cheese
  • Ketchup

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