All you need to know about this week's Prairie Home episode Originally broadcast from the Fort Tuthill County Park in Flagstaff, Arizona, it’s a high-altitude performance of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. With special guests, country renaissance man Jimmie Dale Gilmore and The Wronglers, and brilliant writer and humorist Ian Frazier. Also with us, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors; Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, Rich Dworsky and The Guy’s All-Star Shoe Band, and vocalist Andra Suchy. Plus, the latest news from Lake Wobegon.
Highlights include Garrison, with Andra, singing a tune about Flagstaff: “Blue Shadows on the Trail.” Plus “I Like it Like That” from the Guy’s All Star Shoe Band, “Time Changes Everything” from The Wronglers, “Rock ’n’ Roll Barbeque” from Pat Donohue, an essay about Flagstaff from Ian Frazier, and talk about pizza and yards. Also, the Lives of the Cowboys, Guy Noir, and the latest News from your favorite small town. The link appears on our Facebook page at 5 p.m. CT (but if you can’t wait, click on the link below). Listen to the show >>> Visit Garrison’s YouTube Channel >>> More About Our Featured Guests: Ian Frazier’s best-selling books include Coyote vs. Acme, Great Plains, Family, On the Rez, and Lamentations of the Father, Travels in Siberia, and his latest, Hogs Wild: Selected Reporting Pieces. He also edited Humor Me: An Anthology of Funny Contemporary Writing (Plus Some Great Old Stuff Too). Newsweek once referred to this two-time winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor as “the best master of gentle laid-back befuddlement since [Robert] Benchley.” Frazier is a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker. Laws Concerning Food and Drink from Definitely Above Average >>> Get Definitely Above Average CDs >>> “The holy trinity of West Texas music” — that’s what The Chicago Tribune called the Flatlanders, Jimmie Dale Gilmore’s trio with Joe Ely and Butch Hancock. Later, Gilmore teamed up with The Wronglers, a Bay Area old-time band. The collaboration resulted in a the CD Heirloom Music — released in 2011 on the Redeye label. It is a treasure trove of American gems, from Charlie Poole’s “Leaving Home” to Bill Monroe’s “Uncle Pen.” The Wronglers are Warren Hellman (banjo), Nate Levine (guitar), Bill Martin (mandolin), Krista Martin (fiddle), Heidi Clare (fiddle), and Colleen Browne (bass). Guest guitarist: Robbie Gjersoe. Listen to “Ripple” >>> Andra Suchy spent her childhood on a farm near Mandan, North Dakota, the daughter of two talented singers. By the time she was in grade school, she was traveling around, doing concerts and festivals with her family. She went on to sing with several groups in the Twin Cities area — including the all-girl trio The Dollys — and also to work as a back-up singer and as a jingle singer on commercials for White Castle, Target, and more. “When I Dream” >>> |