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A Prairie Home Companion for May 9, 2009

May 9, 2009 broadcast with Robin & Linda Williams and Their Fine Group, Polecat Creek, and Big Medicine
DateMay 9, 2009VenueFrom The Durham Performing Arts Center | Durham, NCDuration01:59:01HostGarrison Keillor

Description

This week on A Prairie Home Companion, it's a live broadcast performance from theDurham Performing Arts Center, in Durham, North Carolina. With special guests,Robin & Linda Williams and Their Fine Group, roots duoPolecat Creek, and old-time string bandBig Medicine. Also with us, The Royal Academy of Radio Actors;Tim Russell, Sue Scott, andFred Newman, pianistRichard Dworsky, and The News from Lake Wobegon.

Tags

Rundown - May 9, 2009Music Information - May 9, 2009Coffee - May 9, 2009Guy Noir - May 9, 2009Hospitality - May 9, 2009Mom - May 9, 2009Open - May 9, 2009SFX - May 9, 2009

Rundown

Segment 1
00:00:00 - Logo
00:00:12 - Tishomingo Blues
00:03:08 - GK opens, talks about North Carolina
00:06:33 - "Mother's Day Song (Mother Was a Lady)" - GK
00:10:20 - GK intros Big Medicine
00:11:00 - "Red Rocking Chair" - Big Medicine
00:14:43 - GK intros next tune
00:14:59 - "Foggy Mountain Top" - Big Medicine
00:18:22 - Hospitality script
00:22:40 - "Southern Shores" - Robin & Linda Williams and Their Fine Group
00:26:24 - "My Baby's Gone" - Robin &Linda Williams and Their Fine Group with GK
00:30:36 - Powdermilk Biscuit break

Segment 2
00:33:04 - GK intros Polecat Creek
00:34:29 - "Kiss Me Over the Garden" - Polecat Creek with Chris Brashear
00:36:56 - "Buckets of Blue" - Polecat Creek with Linda Williams
00:41:05 - Guy Noir script
00:55:30 - "We Shall All Be Reunited" - Big Medicine, Polecat Creek, Garrison Keillor, Richard Dworsky, Pat Donohue, Robin & Linda Williams and Their Fine Group
00:59:00 - Hey Good Lookin' (Intermission)

Segment 3
01:02:33 - Reverend Gary Davis Medley: "Let Us Get Together"
01:06:10 - North Carolina SFX script
01:08:33 - Greetings
01:11:50 - "First Trimester Blues" - Linda Williams, Pat Donohue and Richard Dworsky
01:14:45 - Mom script
01:20:08 - "Visions of Mother and Dad" - Robin &Linda Williams and Their Fine Group
01:23:42 - Coffee script
01:28:03 - GK talks with Polecat Creek
01:28:37 - "Cardinal Pair" - Polecat Creek
01:31:28 - "Mama's Hungry Eyes" - Robin &Linda Williams and Their Fine Group with Richard Dworsky

Segment 4
01:35:40 - The News from Lake Wobegon

Segment 5
01:46:40 - "Not Impossible" - Pat Donohue and Richard Dworsky
01:48:20 - "Rhubarb/Looking Toward Heaven" - Big Medicine
01:49:40 - "Mama" - Polecat Creek
01:53:38 - "Fire on the Mountain" - Big Medicine and Sarah Bryan
01:55:00 - Credits/"12 Gates to the City"

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