REINVENTING THE WHEEL
Ray Benson & Eddie Rivers
This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we'll return to the Fitzgerald Theater in downtown St. Paul for our midwinter homecoming. With special guests, from the legendary Country Western Swing band Asleep At The Wheel, Ray Benson and Eddie Rivers, and the phenomenal vocal quartet of Maria Jette, Christina Baldwin, Dan Dressen, and Bradley Greenwald. Also with us, singer Andra Suchy, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors: Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Tom Keith, The Guys All-Star Shoe Band, and The News from Lake Wobegon.
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Ray Benson and the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band get their kicks on "Route 66."
"Helpless," performed by Andra Suchy and Garrison Keillor.
Vocal quartet Maria Jette, Christina Baldwin, Bradley Greenwald and Dan Dressen
Ray Benson
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Segment 1
- 00:00:00 - Logo
- 00:00:12 - Tishomingo Blues
- 00:02:36 - GK opens, talks about the ice storm in Kentucky this week, nice day today
- 00:03:16 - Coffee script
- 00:07:58 - "Keep Your Feet On the Ground" - GK/ Shoe Band
- 00:10:35 - GK talks to Andra Suchy
- 00:12:07 - "Singing the Blues" - GK/ Andra Suchy and Shoes
- 00:14:30 - Rhubarb script
- 00:19:54 - GK intros Ray Benson
- 00:22:00 - "Route 66" - Ray Benson, Eddie Rivers and Shoe Band
- 00:25:25 - Ray talks about moving to Texas
- 00:27:12 - "Miles and Miles of Texas" - Ray Benson, Eddie Rivers and Shoe Band
- 00:30:37 - Powdermilk Biscuit Break
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Segment 2
- 00:32:17 - GK intros the Schubert Quartet
- 00:32:34 - Schubert script
- 00:47:00 - "If I Had A Shovel" - GK, Andra and Shoe Band
- 00:49:03 - Guy Noir script
- 00:57:28 - "Wild Horses" - GK, Andra, band
- 01:01:48 - Intermission/"Roly Poly" - Shoe Band
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Segment 3
- 01:05:06 - Greetings
- 01:09:30 - GK talks about John Updike
- 01:14:44 - "Helpless" - GK, Andra Suchy, band
- 01:18:50 - The Lives of the Cowboys script
- 01:27:12 - "Bottoms Up" - The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band
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Segment 4
- 01:29:55 - The News from Lake Wobegon
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Segment 5
- 01:46:11 - "Guitar Boogie" - Pat Donohue and Ray Benson with band
- 01:48:20 - "Boogie Back to Texas" - Ray Benson and Shoes
- 01:52:19 - English Majors script
- 01:54:33 - Credits/"Stay All Night (Stay A Little Longer)"
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