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.
Prairie Home Reunion: Still Singing After All These Years brings together most of the old crowd whose music inspired the creation of this radio show back in the summer of 1974, including Bill Hinkley
and Judy Larson (The Original Powdermilk Muffins) with Cal Hand on dobro, pianist Butch Thompson, cowboy singing
idol Pop Wagner, the Powdermilk Biscuit Band of Adam Granger, Bob Douglas, and Mary DuShane, singer Becky Riemer Thompson, pianist and current Prairie Home Music Director, Rich Dworsky, and mandolinist and
composer Peter Ostroushko. As a special added attraction, the Brandy Snifters?Minnesota's Oldest Old-Time
Band?will offer a few tunes.
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Hello,
Just a general question about the Rhubarb Tour. How does the show differ from the "Prairie Home Companion" show? I want to take my kids and they love Guy Noir and Dusty and the rest. Just wondering if the Tour is
pretty much the same as Home Companion.
Thanks,
Chris C.
The tour show that will go around in August and early September is a concert version of the radio show. There is some Guy Noir, but no Dusty & Lefty. There is Fred Newman and his sound effects, and the Guy's All Star Shoe Band and singer Suzy Bogguss and me—some duets, the news from
Lake Wobegon, and of course commercials for rhubarb.
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If you would like to see A Prairie Home Companion live, here is your chance!
On May 10, we're back in the Midwest — this time in Milwaukee. On May 23 and 24, we're on the stage of the Filene Center at Wolf Trap National Park, Vienna, Virginia. We end the month with a May 31st show from the Pan American Center on the campus of New Mexico State University in Las Cruces.
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What do you call a fly with no wings?
A walk
This joke was sent in by Tonya S. of Cave City, KY Thanks Tonya!
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Listen to The News from Lake Wobegon wherever and whenever you want. We're pleased to announce GK's signature monologue is now available as a free podcast, updated every Monday.
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May 5, 2008
Listened to the show Saturday and it was not bad. The show was out in Maine and I felt a bit of envy this time around. There are a lot of places I'd like to visit in my one short life, and Maine is right up there near the top of the list. Everything about it seems rugged and lovely, and I'll get
there one of these days, but until then I'll have to contend with little bouts of envy when someone I know visits Maine...
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April 29, 2008
A cabdriver picked me up outside the Waffle House in Little Rock last Sunday and said so sweetly, "I hope you enjoyed your breakfast" — elongating the "joy" slightly and slurring the k in "breakfast" — and I said yes, but honestly, I don't really associate breakfast with enjoyment. It's
chow. It's a standardized meal meant to fortify you for the day's maneuvers and you square your shoulders and sit down and eat it...
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Listener-submitted short stories or poems about their homes or lives or whatever they fancy. Here are the latest:
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English Majors |
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Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon |
 In Lake Wobegon lives a good Lutheran lady who is quite prepared
to die and wishes to be cremated and her ashes placed inside a bowling ball and dropped into the lake, no prayers, no hymns, thank you very much. Meanwhile, the Detmer girl returns from California where she has made a killing in veterinary aromatherapy to marry her boyfriend Brent aboard Wally's
pontoon boat, presided over by her minister, Misty Naylor of the Sisterhood of the Sacred Spirit. Brent arrives on Thursday. On Saturday, a delegation of renegade Lutheran pastors from Denmark come to town on their tour of America, their punishment for having denied the divinity of Jesus. And
Barbara Peterson, whose mother, Evelyn, left the startling note about cremation and the bowling ball, is in love with a lovely fat man who slips around town in the dim light and reconnoiters with her at the Romeo Motel.
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