February 28, 2009
Coming up this week on A Prairie Home Companion, a wintery mix of two Minnesota-grown shows. From the beautiful dance floor of the Lakeside Ballroom
in Glenwood (from 2006), we'll hear Bill Hinckley and Judy Larson sing "The Barnyard Dance," Adam "Original Biscuit" Granger sings "The Sheik of Araby," and
Guy Noir goes in search of a red shoe that holds the key to one man's happiness. From the University of Minnesota in the historic railroad town of
Morris, a show from the well scrubbed P.E. Center (a.k.a. the gym), Tim Sparks and Pat Donohue team up in a pickin' frenzy to play "Freight Train", Prudence Johnson and Garrison sing Utah Philips, and Dusty and Lefty stumble into a BioMass
Gasification Plant. Plus, in The News from Lake Wobegon, the story of Jellyglass Mortenson and His Six Hot Pickles.
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 Bill Holm was a great
man and unlike most great men he really looked like one. Six-foot-eight, big frame, and a big white beard and a shock of white hair, a booming voice, so he loomed over you like a prophet and a preacher, which is what he was. He was an only child, adored by his mother, and she protected him from
bullies, and he grew up free to follow his own bent and become the sage of Minneota, a colleague of Whitman though born a hundred years too late, a champion of Mozart and Bach, playing his harpsichord on summer nights, telling stories about the Icelanders, and thundering about how the young have
lost their way and abandoned learning and culture in favor of grease and noise.
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We need a few good local musicians/musical groups when we bring the show to Appleton, Wisconsin on March 28th. If you're interested, send a few tracks of your best
material. All submissions need to be received by 5 p.m. (CT) on Monday, March 9th.
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 We brought in a couple of hard-to-find albums by Prairie Home favorites Jean Redpath and Helen Schneyer.
About Jean Redpath, Garrison Keillor says: "Everything she most deeply feels and believes in — about death and love and country and womanhood — comes out in these songs. The songs aren't pictures. They're rocks. They are the mountain itself."
And about Helen Schneyer: "Helen was not sweet ... Her music was heart-rending and blood-curdling." Find out what all the fuss is about.
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See A Prairie Home Companion on Saturday, March 21, at the historic State Theatre in Minneapolis — our last Twin Cities-area show for this season. The following week, March 28, our show comes from the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center in Appleton, Wisconsin. Then we continue eastward
to New York City and five Town Hall shows — April 3, 4, 11, 17 and 18. Stay tuned.
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Dear Mr. Keillor,
Could you please give me some advice on writing a love letter? This Tuesday is my husband's birthday, and this year (as in all previous years), I am giving him tools. He is always appreciative of them, and the staid engineer inside of him always sees to their efficient use and excellent care. But
this time, that gift just seems an insufficient substitute for what I truly want to express to him.
The problem is that compliments generally make him uncomfortable, so perhaps a love letter is simply a selfish endeavor resulting from the hormones of early pregnancy. What do you think?
B.L.
Charlotte
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Maybe what your engineer dislikes about compliments is their verobosity. Likely he is a man of few words who likes words to count for something. So don't gush. You could write: "I love you more than you know and I am so happy to be having your baby." If he isn't moved by that, then kick him to
see if he has reflexes.
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Yo Mama's so old, she's sill deaf from the Big Bang.
This joke was sent in by Joey V., of Downers Grove, IL. Thanks Joey!
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Things I Hope To Do
(02/24/2009)
Listened to the show Saturday and it was not bad. I've got something of a break these next few weeks and I've been contemplating how I might make the best use of the time. Not to say I don't have work to do and all. It's just that the load has lighted a bit and Lent is here and the kids have a
week off and what not...
Upward and Onward
(02/17/2009)
I enjoy a well-crafted obituary as much as the next man, and now that people of my own generation (what????) are appearing there, the obituary page becomes closer and closer to my heart...
Louisville
(02/04/2009)
The first time I went to Louisville I set a house on fire, broke both my arms and was put into solitary confinement in a dark room for a week. It was a place I had wanted to return to for many years but never quite did...
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This independent feature-length documentary film by Peter Rosen goes behind the scenes at A Prairie Home Companion, and inside the imagination of the man who
created it.
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