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This is the live recording of the show that played to sold-out theaters across the country. As Philip Brunelle leads the Minnesota Orchestra, Garrison Keillor does what he does best: talks, tells stories, and ponders the experience of being Lutheran. It's a gentle mix of great music and down-home humor. Includes Keillor's popular parody, "A Young Lutheran's Guide to the Orchestra." Content: Hello Love; Loyalty Days; Whoopi Ti-Yi-Yo; Sons of Knute-Loyalty...
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This retrospective collection of A Prairie Home Companion features complete monologues drawn from 20 years of radio broadcasts Filled with gentle humor, down-home truths, and amazing depths of tenderness and meaning, these tales of "the little town that time forgot and the decades could not improve" are classics of American storytelling. Contents: Hello Love; O Captain, My Captain; I Will; Tomato Butt; Barnyard Dance; Casey at the Bat; Rhubarb; Life...
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What better way to spend an hour than with some audience-tested and certified Not Bad jokes? Join guest Paula Poundstone, Garrison Keillor, and the cast of A Prairie Home Companion as they share more puns, one-liners, and light bulb jokes than you can shake a rubber chicken at. You get bar jokes, political jokes, Ole and Lena jokes, grade school jokes, and even some email jokes.
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Originally broadcast on Christmas Eve 1994, A Prairie Home Christmas is a delightful compilation of all-time-favorite highlights from past holiday broadcasts of Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion. Contents: Christmas Time's a Comin'; Jordan Carols; Shop for Christmas Presents; Scrooge; Children, Go Where I Send Thee; The Twelve Days of Christmas; Christmas Gifts for the Staff; If It Doesn't Snow on Christmas; Settin' by the Fire; Nothing...
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Even more of a good thing: the latest collection of knee-slappers, toe-tappers, and groaners from A Prairie Home Companion Joke Shows. Did you hear the one about the paranoid dyslexic? He always thought he was following someone. . . . Why did ancient Romans close down the Coliseum? The lions were eating up the prophets. . . . Jokes are made for sharing, and everyone loves to laugh. This nonstop collection gathers the best jokes from four Joke Shows...
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See what WLT was "really like" before it became the radio station featured in the Robert Altman film. In 1926, brothers Ray and Roy Soderbjerrg plunge into radio by founding Station WLT (With Lettuce and Tomato) in order to rescue their failing restaurant and become the Sandwich Kings of South Minneapolis. For the next 25 years, the "Friendly Neighbor" station produces a dazzlingnot to mention, oddarray of shows and stars. Brilliantly weaving together...
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Winner of Publishers Weekly Listen Up Award for Best Short StoriesLife these days in Lake Wobegon means shirtsleeve autumns and late-starting winters. Meanwhile, a bus full of Lutheran men attends the Risk Takers convention in Minneapolis to do the unthinkable: express their emotions. Pastor Ingqvist interviews for a job at the Mall of America. The Ingqvists' elderly dog discovers the fountain of youth. The website for the World's Largest Pile...
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Here's the last weekly live broadcast that started it all-the glorious tradition of saying goodbye. The final performance (June 13, 1987) brought Garrison Keillor and guests together for sweet music, sparkling wit, and the latest "News from Lake Wobegon." Contents: Hello Love; Loves Old Sweet Song; Garrison Talks of Leaving; Tell Me Why; Jitterbug Waltz; The Storms Are on the Ocean; Powdermilk Biscuit Spot; How Can I Keep from Singing?; Songs of Parting;...
11) Wobegon Boy
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John Tollefson, a son of Lake Wobegon, has moved East to manage a radio station at a college for academically challenged children of financially gifted parents in upstate New York. Having achieved this pleasant perch, John has a brilliant idea for a restaurant specializing in fresh sweet corn. And he falls in love with an historian named Alida Freeman, hard at work on a book about a nineteenth-century Norwegian naturopath, an acquaintance of Lincoln,...
12) Tourists
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From 1981-82, A Prairie Home Companion went on tour, visiting and performing in friendly places like Lansing, Michigan and Ashland, Oregon. This scrapbook of musical highlights features performances by The Butch Thompson Trio, Robin and Linda Williams, The Odessa Balalaikas, The Klezmer Conservatory Band, and Queen Ida and the Bon Temps Zydeco Band, plus "commercials" for Jack's Auto Repair and Bertha's Kitty Boutique. Contents: Lebedikun Freylekh;...
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This festive collection is a nostalgic trip through five years of America's favorite radio show. "Commercials" for Powdermilk Biscuits, Jack's Deep Valley Bed and more introduce songs and sketches like "The Finn Who Would Not Take a Sauna," and "The Cat Came Back." Selected from the original live radio broadcasts. Contents: Hello Love, Sister Nell and Dirty Reuben, Turn Your Radio On, Powdermilk Biscuit Spot and Theme, I Know You Rider, Rockin' Alone,...
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From live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion. After the birth of Garrison Keillor's daughter, the stories, songs, and sketches on A Prairie Home Companion took on a distinctly parental bent. This new collection gathers the warmest, funniest, most affectionate examples: dance tunes and comedy with sound effects; songs featuring Chet Atkins, Leo Kottke, Beaussoleil, and other guests; Ian Frazier's much-requested "Lamentations of the Father"; and...
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Skits, songs, stories, and more from A Prairie Home Companion reveal the secret world of a stalwart people. When you fly Lutheran Air, there's no first class, meals are potluck with assignments by rows (rows 1-6, bring rolls; rows, 7-15, salad), all fares are by freewill offering, and the plane doesn't land until the budget is met. Welcome to the Land of Lutherans, where people drive Fords, wear cardigans, go to church at Third Lutheran (which used...
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He's big. He's bold. He's brash. And as the new governor of Minnesota, Jimmy (Big Boy) Valente is the most compelling figure to appear on the state - and national - political landscape in decades. The new King of America Politics (and former UWA World Champion) tells all to best-selling author, public radio show host, and fellow Minnesotan Garrison Keillor in Me: By Jimmy (Big Boy) Valentea brilliant, biting, and wickedly funny send-up of American...
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This classic performance of Garrison Keillor's American Radio Company was broadcast live from the Mark Twain Memorial in Hartford Connecticut. The Hartford house is where Twain wrote many of his works. The show pays homage to Twain's genius and personality with humor, period music, and a classic Keillor monologue. Guests included Roy Blount, Jr., the Gregg Smith Quartet, and singer Pamela Warrick-Smith.
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Recorded live on June 16, 1990 at the University of Iowa, this original radio broadcast features "News From Lake Wobegon" and great guest performances from Jean Redpath, Peter Ostroushko, Greg Brown, and Tom Keith. Contents: Hello Love; Open Up Your Heart; Why Iowa; Powdermilk Biscuits/Back Again; Iowa Waltz, Reach for Tomorrow; If I Had Known; All Day Rain; Higher Ground; Buster, The Show Dog; Ostroushko Horseradish; Moi Rchehn (Moyee Yasinih); Tico...
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