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Segment 1
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| 00:00 | Logo |
| 00:13 | "Tishomingo Blues" |
| 03:15 | GK opens talks about the crowd at Tanglewood |
| 04:57 | "Down By The Sally Gardens"/ "All I Have to Do is Dream"- GK/ Inga Swearingen |
| 09:15 | GK talks about the lawn crowd, intros Del McCoury |
| 10:00 | "40 Acres and a Fool"- Del McCoury Band |
| 14:12 | GK talks to Del McCoury |
| 15:04 | "Get Down on Your Knees and Pray"- Del McCoury Band |
| 19:46 | Guy Noir script |
| 32:13 | Powdermilk Biscuit Break |
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Segment 2
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| 34:00 | "You Have To Start Out Low"- GK/ Shoes |
| 36:44 | English Majors script |
| 39:00 | "Summer Kitchen"- Inga Swearingen |
| 40:33 | GK intros Donald Hall, Donald recites poetry |
| 49:00 | GK talks about the Koussivitsky Music Shed, Tanglewood |
| 49:45 | Diary script into "Flower Duet"- Inga Swearingen and band |
| 57:00 | "Let Them Talk"- GK, Inga, band |
| 1:00:32 | Intermission- "Exactly Like You" |
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Segment 3
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| 1:04:22 | Greetings |
| 1:08:06 | "Sonnet for Summer (One Day With You)"- GK and Pat Donohue, more greetings |
| 1:11:16 | GK talks with Donald Hall, he recites more poems |
| 1:16:40 | GK talks about the area |
| 1:18:52 | Rhubarb script |
| 1:23:03 | "Moneyland"- Del McCoury Band |
| 1:27:16 | GK talks to Inga Swearingen |
| 1:28:00 | "Two Trees"- Inga Swearingen and band |
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Segment 4
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| 1:31:36 | News From Lake Wobegon (Download MP3) |
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Segment 5
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| 1:43:26 | "Working on a Building"- The Del McCoury Band and GK |
| 1:46:08 | "Tuba Blues"- Pat Donohue, band, Mike Roylance |
| 1:48:45 | "Will We Go, Darling, Go"- GK/ Inga/ Shoe Band |
| 1:52:25 | SFX script |
| 1:54:40 | Credits, "Goodnight Ladies"/ "Soldier's Joy" |
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| Garrison Keillor |
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Inga Swearingen and GK |
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| GK lends his voice to The Del McCoury Band. |
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Tim Russell and Sue Scott share a laugh"Bread Line Blues." |
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| Donald Hall, Poet Laureate of the United States 2006–2007 |
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Thomas Haggerty and Mike Roylance on tuba |
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Everyone is here—Pastor Ingqvist, the Sons of Knute, Sister Arvonne of Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility and her ocarina band, the Norwegian bachelor farmers, Dorothy and the Chatterbox Café, Wally in the Sidetrack Tap—as crowds converge on the little town to celebrate American independence, even as the chairman of the event broods on the great question of the day: Shall we struggle on valiantly here or shall we burst the bonds and find beautiful life in the golden west?
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