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Post by dwarnold on Mar 4, 2023 16:52:12 GMT -5
This week, we continue our journey back in time so we can revisit a show originally performed on March 4, 2006. We continued our regional wanderings with a trip up the Red River Valley to Grand Forks, North Dakota. We'll broadcast from the Chester Fritz Auditorium on the University of North Dakota campus. Featuring Grammy-award winning Bluegrass heroes the Del McCoury Band, folk-singing farmer Chuck Suchy, and the best efforts of the Hopeful Gospel Quartet with Robin & Linda Williams. Also, the Guy’s All-Star Shoe Band, the Royal Academy of Radio Acting (Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman), and the News from Lake Wobegon. www.prairiehome.org/shows/57199.html
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Post by dwarnold on Mar 4, 2023 16:53:03 GMT -5
March 4, 2006
Segment 1 00:00:00 Logo 00:00:11 Tishomingo Blues 00:02:45 GK talks about living in the winter wonderland of Grand Forks, bra sculpture, river flows up, Tool Crib, Dave Barry has a sewage pump named after him 00:04:50 "Lead Me To That Rock" - Hopeful Gospel Quartet 00:07:26 "I've Been Working on The Radio" - GK/ HGQ/ GASB 00:10:24 Coffee Spot and Jingle - GK 00:11:16 GK intros next tune 00:11:44 "Jordan" - HGQ 00:14:16 GK introduces the Del McCoury Band, talks with Del 00:15:44 "She Can't Burn Me Now" - Del McCoury Band 00:19:27 GK intros Chuck Suchy 00:19:44 "Dakota Breeze" - Chuck Suchy with Rich Dworsky and Gary Raynor 00:24:53 Rhubarb script 00:29:49 Powdermilk Biscuit Break/"In the Sweet By and By"
Segment 2 00:33:12 "Count Your Blessings" - Hopeful Gospel Quartet 00:35:39 Cowboys script 00:43:00 "Dark As A Dungeon" - HGQ and Shoe Band 00:47:46 "Nothin' Special" - Del McCoury Band 00:51:15 Guy Noir script 01:02:04 Intermission/"Honeysuckle Rose"
Segment 3 01:06:55 Greetings/"You Send Me" - HGQ 01:11:08 GK talks to Chuck Suchy 01:11:54 "Oh Darlin'" - Chuck Suchy and Shoe Band 01:15:04 GK talks about Grand Forks 01:22:45 "Wait Till The Clouds Roll By" - HGQ/ Shoe Band 01:25:56 GK introduces Russ Ringsak 01:27:10 "Oreo Cookie Blues" - Russ Ringsak and Guy's All-Star Shoe Band 01:29:45 GK talks to Del McCoury 01:30:13 "Seventh Heaven" - Del McCoury Band
Segment 4 01:34:29 News From Lake Wobegon
Segment 5 01:48:46 "I'll Twine Mid The Ringlets" - Robin & Linda Williams 01:53:17 "Dancing in the Kitchen" - Chuck Suchy and Shoe Band 01:56:38 Credits/"Gotta Travel On" closer
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Post by dwarnold on Mar 4, 2023 16:54:19 GMT -5
More about this week’s GUEST PERFORMERS:
When Del McCoury was growing up in York County, Pennsylvania, he learned music from his mother, Hazel, a church organist who also played guitar, piano and harmonica. And he never missed a chance to tune in to the Grand Ole Opry. But when his older brother bought a 78-rpm record of Flatt and Scruggs, that was it. Del started playing bluegrass and he’s never looked back. In 1963, Bill Monroe asked McCoury to play in his band, The Blue Grass Boys. And after a brief stint in California with the Golden State Boys, McCoury ended up back in Pennsylvania, working at a sawmill and playing music on weekends. As his sons got older, they began playing with their dad in his band, the Dixie Pals. Ronnie joined the band in 1981 and Rob followed in 1988. The Del McCoury Band formed in the early 1990s. The group has won numerous honors from the International Bluegrass Music Association’s (IBMA), including being named Entertainer of the Year numerous times.
Chuck Suchy is a folksinger, songwriter, and storyteller. He’s also a working farmer on the land along the Missouri River south of Mandan, North Dakota, where he was born and raised. Back in 1982, an acquaintance gave him a tape of Canadian troubadour Stan Rogers singing his classic “Field Behind the Plow.” Suchy says, “It was at that moment that I realized that the life I was immersed in was worthy of song.” That was the start of his songwriting career, and he continues write and perform his compositions celebrating the Great Plains region and lifestyle. As Acoustic Guitar Magazine wrote, “This is country music with its fingers in the soil and its heart heading down the highway on an Indian motorcycle.”
As the Hopeful Gospel Quartet (Garrison Keillor, Robin and Linda Williams, and Carol Elizabeth Jones) explains it, the group “began its career backstage at Prairie Home shows, when we stood waiting for the balloon to go up and sang to pass the time and found out that we all like gospel songs and that they sound wonderful in a stairwell.” Now, countless gigs (and a couple of personnel changes) later, they are still finding great four-part harmonies in stairwells and on stages across the country.
Singing the music they love — be it bluegrass, folk, old-time, or acoustic country — Robin and Linda Williams have carved out a five-decade career that has taken them from Carnegie Hall to the Hollywood Bowl. They’ve have written dozens of terrific songs, ones that have been covered by the likes of Emmylou Harris, Tom T. Hall, Tim and Mollie O’Brien, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Kathy Mattea, and The Seldom Scene.
Carol Elizabeth Jones hails from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. She has made her mark as a singer of traditional mountain music and as a writer of new songs in the old tradition.
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Post by dwarnold on Mar 4, 2023 16:55:32 GMT -5
Here are the lyrics from Garrison’s version of “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad.”
I’ve been working on the radio Since I was 23. I’ve been working on the radio ’Cause I cannot do TV. Anyone who’s seen my picture Knows the reason why. I’ll be working on the radio Until the day I die.
Someone’s in the kitchen and she’s listening I got a couple listeners I know Someone in Fargo or Edina Listening to the radio and making Three slices griddle-fried dough Three slices griddle-fried dough Three slices griddle-fried dough Strumming on the old banjo.
(BANJO BREAK)
Can’t you hear the captain shouting, Rise up so early in the morn. Can’t you hear your darling saying, Your underwear is torn. Your underwear is torn Your underwear is torn Your underwear is torn in two Your underwear is torn, your underwear is torn And I can see right through.
I’ve been working on the radio And I always will I am climbing up the mountain And then over the hill. I don’t do any web streams Don’t do MP3 I don’t do any ringtones Radio is good enough for me.
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Post by dwarnold on Mar 4, 2023 18:02:19 GMT -5
Another Saturday night with A Prairie Home Companion, "Honey could we ask for more?"
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Post by doctork on Mar 4, 2023 18:08:17 GMT -5
Good afternoon DW. It's earlier here on the left coast.
I love Del McCoury and his family band. A few years ago he celebrated his 80th birthday at MerleFest in NC on a Friday and then the next day was on the Prairie Home Show, which was probably in Nashville or someplace close to western NC. I PM'd Thomas to let him know it was Del's birthday and I think GK did mention "Happy Birthday" when Del performed on the show.
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Post by dwarnold on Mar 4, 2023 18:12:05 GMT -5
According to legend, coffee first came to Brazil in 1727, smuggled from French Guiana within a bouquet of flowers. For a century, coffee in Brazil was grown only for local consumption, but by the 1840s global demand catapulted Brazil to the world's largest coffee producer, responsible for 40% of global coffee exports. The scale and success of Brazilian coffee created so-called coffee barons, and spurred the development of railways, banking, and other crucial infrastructure, transforming the country into an industrial capital. Not only a coffee powerhouse, Brazil is also a nation powered by coffee—today, the coffee industry provides over 8 million jobs in Brazil, and Brazilians enjoy more coffee than any other country
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Post by doctork on Mar 4, 2023 18:12:12 GMT -5
GK's version of Railroad is cute. I don't remember this - maybe I was working or maybe I just forgot as 2006 was a long time ago.
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Post by dwarnold on Mar 4, 2023 18:13:25 GMT -5
Good afternoon DW. It's earlier here on the left coast. I love Del McCoury and his family band. A few years ago he celebrated his 80th birthday at MerleFest in NC on a Friday and then the next day was on the Prairie Home Show, which was probably in Nashville or someplace close to western NC. I PM'd Thomas to let him know it was Del's birthday and I think GK did mention "Happy Birthday" when Del performed on the show. I sneaked a peak at some of the chatter that is not show related, I really hope you are able to get a nice trip in "back east". And I was hoping you would figure out the picture posting !!
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Post by dwarnold on Mar 4, 2023 18:15:45 GMT -5
GK's version of Railroad is cute. I don't remember this - maybe I was working or maybe I just forgot as 2006 was a long time ago. This particular forum for our chatting started in September of 2006, so you may indeed not have been around the first time this was broadcast!~!
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Post by doctork on Mar 4, 2023 18:16:11 GMT -5
According to legend, coffee first came to Brazil in 1727, smuggled from French Guiana within a bouquet of flowers. For a century, coffee in Brazil was grown only for local consumption, but by the 1840s global demand catapulted Brazil to the world's largest coffee producer, responsible for 40% of global coffee exports. The scale and success of Brazilian coffee created so-called coffee barons, and spurred the development of railways, banking, and other crucial infrastructure, transforming the country into an industrial capital. Not only a coffee powerhouse, Brazil is also a nation powered by coffee—today, the coffee industry provides over 8 million jobs in Brazil, and Brazilians enjoy more coffee than any other country Coffee is raised in a number of places - among them Ecuador and Ghana, where I've seen the farms/plantations. In Ecuador the rural roadsides are lined with drying coffee bean pods out in the sun. When I was in Brazil we were in the jungle so I didn't see any coffee plantations but by now they may have covered over a lot of that rain forest with plantations.
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Post by doctork on Mar 4, 2023 18:22:21 GMT -5
I could text it to you - PM me your phone # if you can receive texts/photos, it is a wonderful picture, all 3 of them look great and so happy. Brandi is so down=to-earth and friendly with her "Bramily." I am still trying to figure out how to get the photo here; I was able to get it onto my laptop but it doesn't want to C&P into the "Reply.". I have an iPhone and my laptop is HP so the text message/photo capacity between them is not user-friendly.
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Post by doctork on Mar 4, 2023 18:26:58 GMT -5
GK's version of Railroad is cute. I don't remember this - maybe I was working or maybe I just forgot as 2006 was a long time ago. This particular forum for our chatting started in September of 2006, so you may indeed not have been around the first time this was broadcast!~! I had probably started on the Chatterbox right around then, February - March 2006, because we had signed up for the Alaska APHC cruise out of Seattle that summer and I had found the Chatterbox while exploring the APHC website.
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Post by dwarnold on Mar 4, 2023 19:12:14 GMT -5
The greetings were always an entertaining part of the broadcast. I cannot think of any other show that does that or even did that, can you?
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Post by doctork on Mar 4, 2023 19:27:00 GMT -5
The greetings were always an entertaining part of the broadcast. I cannot think of any other show that does that or even did that, can you? I can't think of such greetings any place else. Jay and I put in several from Tanglewood in Massachusetts by giving them to Thomas when we went to the shows there. At least one of them was read on the show! Something like "Hello to our PrairieChatter friends" I texted the photo, hope it came through OK. I had messed with it so much trying to get it posted I was worried I messed it up, but it was still in the original iPhone message and the photos gallery so it "should have worked."
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Post by dwarnold on Mar 4, 2023 19:27:35 GMT -5
Grand Forks sounds like an interesting place.
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Post by doctork on Mar 4, 2023 19:35:10 GMT -5
I think it's farther north than I've been, but when Roger and I drove with truck cross-country we stopped in Jamestown to visit with Monty.
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Post by doctork on Mar 4, 2023 19:47:05 GMT -5
I've been multi-tasking too, doing genealogy/family history research on my paternal grandfather. I was contacted by a researcher from Atlantic Beach who is an archivist researcher with the Beaches Area Museum because my paternal great-grandfather apparently partnered with Henry Flagler on some building projects that involved 3 historic buildings that are still standing. My grandfather was a well-known "eccentric bachelor" and she had run into a brick wall trying to learn more family history.
She's thrilled - the contact was a "breakthrough" for her in her research because I am well-informed about the family hsitory.
Ironically, it turns out that Alex and I are related! Her dad and my dad shared great-grandparents, a couple who are in both our family trees. I think that makes us 3rd cousins? or maybe 4th, not sure.
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Post by dwarnold on Mar 4, 2023 19:49:34 GMT -5
I think it's farther north than I've been, but when Roger and I drove with truck cross-country we stopped in Jamestown to visit with Monty. Need to take a long road trip, so much of America I have never seen in person. One thing about Google Earth that amazes me is when you zoom out and can see what the land looks like from high above. Many of the midwest states have no wilderness areas left, the land is carved up in squares of farmland surrounded by roadways. Wildlife refuges are little ponds with some trees and marshes. So different compared to places like the Everglades, Yellowstone, Denali... big chunks of land that are not covered with roads and people.
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Post by dwarnold on Mar 4, 2023 19:54:07 GMT -5
I wonder if Rob and Linda were ever challenged because of how much this song took from Wildwood Flower by the Carter Family and performed by countless others?
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Post by dwarnold on Mar 4, 2023 19:57:52 GMT -5
Well another nice evening, thanks for sharing!
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Post by doctork on Mar 4, 2023 19:59:21 GMT -5
I've thought of doing a road trip with an emphasis on visiting National Parks. When I was in AZ I went to the Grand Canyon about once a month and it truly is grand, different every time I go. One can buy an annual pass for seniors that is lower cost than the "regular" ones. Last time I bought one it was $80, probably around 2012 and that was before I was 65.
Turns out than anyone who has a handicapped parking pass for disability is entitled to a lifetime free pass! The Park Ranger who sold me the pass noticed my HC parking pass offered to give me the free one instead. I got that one too, but didn't want my money back because I'd already paid and the Parks are a real bargain at $80 or whatever.
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Post by doctork on Mar 4, 2023 20:00:29 GMT -5
I never heard Robin or Linda comment about that song. and they were on almost every cruise.
You have a good week too!
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