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A Prairie Home Companion for May 10, 2008

May 10, 2008 broadcast with The BoDeans and Leon Redbone
DateMay 10, 2008VenueFrom The Milwaukee Theatre | Milwaukee, WIDuration01:59:01HostGarrison Keillor

Description

This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we're uncorking a live broadcast fromThe Milwaukee Theater. With special guests, the legendary wanderers from Waukesha;The BoDeans, and the most famous American performer ever to wear a bow tie and panama hat,Leon Redbone. Also with us, The Royal Academy of Radio Actors:Tim Russell, Sue Scott, andFred Newman, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and The News from Lake Wobegon.

Tags

Rundown - May 10, 2008Music Information - May 10, 2008Cheese - May 10, 2008Guy Noir - May 10, 2008Hold - May 10, 2008Ketchup - May 10, 2008Mom - May 10, 2008Open - May 10, 2008Rhubarb - May 10, 2008The Lives of the Cowboys - May 10, 2008

Rundown

Segment 1
00:00 Logo
00:12 "Tishomingo Blues"
02:58 GK opens with Fred
04:53 "Milwaukee Blues"- GK, Pat, Shoe Band
08:06 "Glory of Love"- GK/ Shoe Band
11:58 Hold script
18:04 Guy Noir script
27:58 Powdermilk Biscuit Break

Segment 2
30:51 GK intros Leon Redbone
31:17 "Sweet Mama (Papa's Getting Mad)"- Leon Redbone and Paul Asaro
34:17 GK talks to Leon Redbone
35:00 "Polly Wolly Doodle"- Leon Redbone and Paul Asaro
37:19 Lives of the Cowboys script
47:47 GK intros the BoDeans
48:11 "Wonder Wonder"- The BoDeans
51:25 "Good Things"- The BoDeans
55:38 Rhubarb script
59:10 Intermission- "Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble"- Shoe Band

Segment 3
1:02:53 Greetings/ "Polka Medley"/ Milwaukee notes
1:09:29 "Idaho" - The BoDeans
1:13:43 Mom script
1:20:53 GK brings Leon back
1:21:19 "Old Susannah" - Leon Redbone and Paul Asaro
1:23:38 "Shine On Harvest Moon"- Leon Redbone and Paul Asaro

Segment 4
1:27:28 The News from Lake Wobegon

Segment 5
1:38:55 GK talks with the BoDeans
1:39:28 "If it Makes You" - The BoDeans
1:42:58 Cheese script
1:45:29 Catchup script
1:49:02 Thanks to WUWM, "Whistlin' Colonel" - Leon Redbone
1:53:05 SFX- GK and Fred Newman
1:54:10 Credits, "Goodnight Ladies", "Merrily We Roll Along", "Dinah/ Down in the Valley/ M-O-T-H-E-R" closer

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