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Life starts all over again, from 2013featuring Chuck Mead & His Grassy Knoll Boys, Jearlyn and Jevetta Steele, and Ellie Dehn
Listen to the September 14, 2013, showThis week on A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor, it's the season opener from 2013, with special guests, honky-tonk heroes Chuck Mead and His Grassy Knoll Boys, singing sisters Jearlyn and Jevetta Steele, and soprano Ellie Dehn. Plus, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors (Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman), The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon. Listen to the show. About our guests: After leading several popular bands in his hometown of Lawrence, Kansas, Chuck Mead landed in Nashville where he co-founded the famed quintet BR549. Since then, he has formed several other groups, including Chuck Mead and His Grassy Knoll Boys: Carco Clave (steel guitar), Martin Lynds (drums), and Mark Miller (bass). In addition, Chuck has served as music director for the Broadway hit Million Dollar Quartet. Growing up in Indiana, Jearlyn Steele sang with her siblings as The Steele Children. One by one, they moved to Minnesota and started singing together again. Now music is the family business. In the 1980s, Jevetta Steele — along with her family group, The Steeles — toured the world in the musical The Gospel at Colonus. The show had another successful run at Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in 2010. And many remember Jevetta’s Academy Award-nominated performance of “Calling You,” from the film Baghdad Café. Soprano Ellie Dehn has appeared in many of the world’s leading opera houses, from the Metropolitan Opera to Teatro alla Scala and Bayerische Staatsoper. But her love of music started during her childhood in Anoka, Minnesota. She was raised in a musical home — the granddaughter of a Minnesota Orchestra flutist and the daughter of a piano teacher — and she went on to study at Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia. This show features a new take by Garrison on the song “Long Time Ago,” where Garrison has written new lyrics for the occasion. Vanity FairWhen Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz was chosen as Kamala Harris’s running mate in the presidential election, Vanity Fair asked Garrison to offer some clarity on the pick. Here was his first impression: “The thing that impressed me about Tim Walz when he was running for governor — his people asked if I would hold a fundraiser at my house. I used to live in a big, big house on Summit Avenue in St. Paul. I said, Sure, of course. And he came and he gave a speech off the cuff, standing outside in a back garden that looked out onto the Mississippi. And it was such a decent speech, such a down-to-earth speech. Nothing about historic injustices, no grand scheme of economics, but really about decency and civility. And he said that a child has a right to a good education — every child. And this is fundamental. But a child cannot get a good education if he or she goes to school hungry. There is in our midst — always has been in our midst — people who are living on the very edge, and their children should be taken care of.” From our Store:BRISK VERSE by Garrison Keillor, a collection of original invigorating verse. Read it to yourself or aloud to friends, family, or passersby. One hundred and thirty-two poems in all — diverse topics, including Brevity, Thongs, Minnesota, Manners, Mozart, Marilyn Monroe, Failure, Fatherhood, Episcopalians, Plumbing, Spaghetti, Spring, Online Love, Eighty, and the National Anthem as it might’ve been written by Whitman, Dickinson, Eliot, Frost, and other poets. Illustrated with quirky antique advertisements for tonics and gizmos. Get the book. Here is “Teachers.” Pearson, Hochstetter, Bradley, and Shaver, Anderson, Story, Moehlenbrock, Faust, Names I remember for their great kindness Decades ago in a country schoolhouse. Moehlenbrock, Pearson, Shaver, and Story, Anderson, Faust, Hochstetter, and Bradley Stand by the blackboard in memory's classroom I hear their voices and think of them gladly. Shaver, Anderson, Bradley, and Story, Pearson, Moehlenbrock, Faust, Hochstetter, Public school teachers, back in my childhood, Would that I could write them all a love letter. I was that slight insignificant child, A B-minus student and painfully shy, The wire-rimmed glasses, the hand-me-down clothing, Why do I think of you as time goes by? Nothing you do for a child is wasted. Kindness, scholarship, letters, and love. I sat in the back and looked at the blackboard, Lincoln and Washington hanging above. It was only a schoolhouse out in the country, A high school in a small river town. But Shakespeare, physics, the owl's bone structure, Equations, and books, books all around. Anderson, Hochstetter, Shaver, and Pearson, Moehlenbrock, Faust, Bradley and Story. Decades have passed but I see their bright faces There in the classroom, shining in glory. Shining in glory, shining in glory, Your blessed teachers, they shine every one Always remembered for what they have done, Always remembered for what they have done.Garrison wades into the 2020 presidential election, devising an alternative to Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan. While America has never NOT been great, it has always been intelligent! Get the hat. This is a FREE NEWSLETTER. If you want to help support the cost of this newsletter, click this button. Currently there are no added benefits other than our THANKS! Any questions or comments, add below or email admin@garrisonkeillor.com
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