January 31, 2004 from New Orleans

[booklady]

A comment on another board I read sent me in search of this old APHC episode, performed in New Orleans. I was thrilled to find it. It's my favorite APHC of all time, featuring a great Guy Noir skit about being called down to NOLA from snowy Minnesota to help with pre-Mardi Gras security at a Lutheran church in the "Swedish Quarter," LOL (Tim Russell is hilarious as the pastor) and a wonderful News from LW about a Minnesota girl who runs away and makes a new life for herself. Great music, too. If you have the time, relax for a couple of hours with this: www.prairiehome.org/shows/57477.html

[booklady]

Weird! The News portion of that show was an entirely different story than the one I thought it was! Not the girl who ran away, but Garrison talking about the cold cold days of his youth, having to help his father start the car, and looking after a crazy Norwegian bachelor farmer neighbor. Do they edit those old shows and substitute bits? This is going to bother me all day, wondering why that story ended up at the tail end of a NOLA performance instead of the one about the girl who ran away and found a happy life there.

[doctork]

I know there is some editing of the old shows before they appear on the website for "posterity." I was at the Tanglewood show with Arlo Guthrie arguing about "This land is MY land, that land is your land," and that skit was perfectly preserved as best I remembered, but there were a few other minor changes when the repeat was broadcast post-2017.

[doctork]

I know there is some editing of the old shows before they appear on the website for "posterity." I was at the Tanglewood show with Arlo Guthrie arguing about "This land is MY land, that land is your land," and that skit was perfectly preserved as best I remembered, but there were a few other minor changes when the repeat was broadcast post-2017.