DOES THIS BUS GO TO DULUTH?
This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we're embracing the winter cold and heading up to the DECC auditorium in Duluth, Minnesota. We'll fight the frigid temperatures with some smoldering honky-tonk from Joe Ely and Joel Guzmán, and singer-songwriter Heather Masse will melt our hearts with a song or two. As always, we'll have the Royal Academy of Radio Actors with us: Sue Scott, Tim Russell, and Tom Keith; and of course, Rich Dworsky and The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band will be there too.
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Joe Ely
Joel Guzmán
Blake and Jennifer Freking
Tim Russell and Sue Scott
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Segment 1
- 00:00:00 - Logo
- 00:00:12 - Tishomingo Blues
- 00:02:57 - GK talks about Obama's Inauguration
- 00:04:03 - Obama sonnet
- 00:05:15 - "You're the Top (Obama)" - GK/ Shoe Band
- 00:10:18 - "Don't Think Twice It's All Right" - Pat Donohue and Joe Savage
- 00:11:52 - The Lives of the Cowboys script
- 00:18:16 - "Frozen Blues" - Pat Donohue and Shoe Band
- 00:22:20 - ELCA script
- 00:23:55 - GK intros Heather Masse
- 00:24:53 - "Blue Skirt Waltz" - GK/ Heather Masse/ Shoe Band/ Joel Guzmán
- 00:27:31 - Powdermilk Biscuit Break
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Segment 2
- 00:29:12 - GK talks with Blake and Jen Freking and their dogs
- 00:34:22 - Guy Noir script
- 00:50:28 - GK talks with Joe Ely
- 00:56:14 - Gk talks more about Joe
- 00:56:38 - "I Wish Hard Livin' Didn't Come So Easy to Me" - Joe Ely, Joel Guzmán and band
- 01:00:14 - Intermission/"Hammin' it Up" - Shoe band
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Segment 3
- 01:03:38 - GK talks about Duluth
- 01:04:32 - "Morning Has Broken" - GK, Heather, band
- 01:07:02 - GK talks more about Duluth, Bob Dylan
- 01:08:02 - "Tomorrow is a Long Time" - Joe Ely and Pat Donohue
- 01:12:10 - Greetings
- 01:15:36 - GK talks more about the inauguration
- 01:17:15 - "Battle Hymn/I Shall Be Released/Wade in the Water Medley" - GK, Heather, band
- 01:23:48 - More Duluth talk
- 01:27:55 - "La Piedrera" - Joel Guzmán and Shoe Band
- 01:27:55 - "Wishin' for a Rainbow" - Joe Ely and Joel Guzmán
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Segment 4
- 01:34:14 - The News from Lake Wobegon
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Segment 5
- 01:47:20 - "Mittens" - Heather Masse and Shoe Band
- 01:50:04 - Werewolf script
- 01:54:10 - Credits, Red River Valley
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