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Garrison Keillor's Rhubarb Show
April 17, 2004
This is the third of a series of special late-night cabaret performances at the Fitzgerald Theater. The Minnesota-based musicians featured on this week's show are hip-hop band Heiruspecs, folkster Ben Connelly, jazz singer Jennifer Grimm, lounge-rockers Coach Said Not To, Jeff Horwich on saxophone, and Minnesota blues piano institution Willie Murphy.
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| Segment 1 |
| 00:00:00 | GK Opens |
| 00:04:17 | "Matchbox Blues" - Pat Donohue and the Blue Rockets |
| 00:06:33 | "Let's Do It" - GK and the Blue Rockets, with E.E. Cummings |
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| Segment 2 |
| 00:08:36 | GK intros Heiruspecs |
| 00:09:22 | "Meters" - Heiruspecs |
| 00:15:00 | "Face Card" - Heiruspecs |
| 00:17:07 | "Spanish Rose" - Willie Murphy |
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| Segment 3 |
| 00:23:32 | GK talks about Minneapolis, talks to Ben Connelly |
| 00:28:54 | "The Falling Feels Like Flying" - Ben Connelly |
| 00:33:26 | "Won't Do Nothing Wrong Tonight" - Ben Connelly |
| 00:37:17 | GK talks to Ben Connelly |
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| Segment 4 |
| 00:37:44 | GK talks to Coach Said Not To |
| 00:41:05 | "A Series of Near Misses" - Coach Said Not To |
| 00:45:05 | "Shadow Puppets" - Coach Said Not To |
| 00:50:27 | GK intros the members of Coach Said Not To |
| 00:51:10 | "Words That I Employ" - Coach Said Not To |
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| Segment 5 |
| 00:54:48 | Tom Steffen stand-up segment |
| 00:59:30 | "Black Magic Woman" - The Blue Rockets |
| 01:03:01 | "Nobody Knows You" - GK and the Blue Rockets |
| 01:07:55 | GK talks to Ben Connelly |
| 01:08:43 | "You Burn Hotter" - Ben Connelly |
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| Segment 6 |
| 01:12:52 | GK talks about Jennifer Grimm |
| 01:13:54 | "Queer Condition" - Jennifer Grimm |
| 01:19:05 | "Funeral March" - Jennifer Grimm |
| 01:24:51 | GK talks to Jennifer Grimm |
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| Segment 7 |
| 01:26:09 | "5ives" - Heiruspecs |
| 01:31:12 | "It Takes" - Heiruspecs |
| 01:34:49 | GK talks to Willie Murphy |
| 01:36:30 | "Is There A Voice in the Night" - Willie Murphy |
| 01:41:57 | "Built for Comfort" - Willie Murphy and Blue Rockets |
| 01:41:29 | Credits |
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Photos from the show
Click images to view slideshow. (Photos taken by Jessica Nordell)
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| Muad'dib of Heiruspecs | | Jeff Horwich |
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| Jennifer Grimm | |
Eva and Linnea Mohn of Coach Said Not To |
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| Lee Violet of Coach Said Not To | |
Felix of Heiruspecs |
In Garrison Keillor's latest book, Lake Wobegon native Margie Krebsbach dreams up the idea of a trip to Rome, hoping to get her husband Carl to make love to her — he's been sleeping across the hall and she has no idea why. She finds a patriotic purpose for the journey. A Lake Wobegon boy, Gussie Norlander, died in the liberation of Rome, 1944, and his grave, according to his elderly brother, Norbert, is in a neglected weed patch near the Colosseum...
It's a story of Wobegonians in a strange land, telling stories of kinship and self-revelation — all delivered with Keillor's trademark humor.
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From Garrison Keillor:
“When I was 16, Helen Fleischman assigned me to memorize Shakespeare’s Sonnet No. 29, ‘When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state’ for English class, and fifty years later, that poem is still in my head. Algebra got washed away, and geometry and most of biology, but those lines about the redemptive power of love in the face of shame are still here behind my eyeballs, more permanent than my own teeth. The sonnet is a durable good. These 77 of mine include sonnets of praise, some erotic, some lamentations, some street sonnets and a 12-sonnet cycle of months. If anything here offends, I beg your pardon, I come in peace, I depart in gratitude.”
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