Dream Down A Well

hosted by Garrison Keillor
Show #1569September 24, 2016
From Fitzgerald Theater | Saint Paul, MN
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  • A Prairie Home Companion for September 24, 2016
  • Tishomingo Blues, GK Open
  • Unfriended
  • Fred Farrell script
  • Rockin' Past Bedtime
  • One By One, Deeper Down
  • The Lives of the Cowboys script
  • Powdermilk Biscuit Break
  • Grandfather's Clock
  • Guy Noir script
  • Busted, Prisoner's Tears
  • I Saw Her Standing There (Intermission), Greetings
  • Whatever Floats Your Boat
  • Radio script
  • Ruth Harrison script
  • Handful of Dust, The Bramble and The Rose
  • The News from Lake Wobegon
  • Hound Dog
  • Catchup script
  • You Never Know, Passenger Side
  • GK thanks guests, credits, Goodnight Ladies-Sponsors
Wilco, Patty Loveless
 
A Prairie Home Companion for September 24: Wilco, Patty Loveless
This week: another fall rebroadcast from the Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul, Minnesota, this one originally from October 2009. The boys of Wilco stop by to play "One By One" and "Passenger Side" and add a touch of rock'n'roll to the corner of Exchange and Wabasha, and a blast of bluegrass from singer Patty Loveless, including "The Bramble and the Rose" and "Prisoner's Tears." Plus: our Royal Academy of Radio Actors with a message from the Catchup Advisory Board, Dusty and Lefty visit a saloon in Saint Paul, and Rich Dworsky and The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band play "Rockin' Past Bedtime." In Lake Wobegon, the host recalls an autumn morning that changed him forever.
Notes from Tim Russell and Sue Scott about this week's rebroadcast:
Tim Russell:
There was a great hipster buzz about this show because Wilco showed up and did not disappoint. At the same time, the inestimable Patty Lovelace dazzles us with her own songs as well as a lovely "Bramble and the Rose." Sue Scott gets a workout with a Rhubarb script that brings back memories of the Crash of '08, she juggles a Mom and Daughter Battle like a female Senor Wences (kids, ask your parents), and in "The Lives of the Cowboys" she plays "Horror Punk" performer Salome Olson, who learns to yodel. Like I said, she got a workout. As a bonus, this show is another chance to hear the Sound Effects Magic of Tom Keith!
Sue Scott:
One of Tim Russell's venerable characters, Fred Ferrell, has a date with a skunk that turns "gamey." His tongue twister prowess is on display in Guy Noir, where Tim, Tom, and I also get to play football, Unitarian style: "Give me a U ... if you want to." A fun, full show all the way around!

Guest Information

  • Wilco

    From the time he was a kid in Belleville, Illinois, Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy was consumed with music. In the late 1980s, he and his pal Jay Farrar started the seminal alt-country band Uncle Tupelo. After that group split up, Jeff and Uncle Tupelo bassist John Stirratt formed Wilco. Since then, this Chicago-based rock band has amassed a huge following and turned out a stack of innovative albums, including two-time Grammy-winning A Ghost is Born. Their latest CD, Wilco (the Album), came out this past summer on the Nonesuch label. Wilco is: Jeff Tweedy (guitar, vocals), Nels Cline (guitar), Pat Sansone (keyboards, guitar), Mike Jorgensen (keyboards), John Stirratt (bass), and Glenn Kotche (percussion).

  • Patty Loveless

    As a youngster in Kentucky, Patty Loveless listened to the Grand Ole Opry, and she wrote songs and sang with various ones of her six siblings. After high school, she headed for Nashville and became a member of the Wilburn Brothers band. She released her first solo recording in 1987 and now has dozens of albums to her credit. These days, Patty and her husband, producer Emery Gordy Jr., make their home in Georgia -- in a small town northwest of Atlanta. Her 2008 CD Sleepless Nights: The Traditional Country Soul of Patty Loveless received a Grammy nomination for Best Country Album. Her latest recording, Mountain Soul II, was released last week on Saguaro Road Records.

  • Garrison Keillor

    Garrison Keillor was born in 1942 in Anoka, Minnesota. He went to work for Minnesota Public Radio in 1969, and on July 6, 1974, he hosted the first broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion in St. Paul. He is the host of The Writer's Almanac and the editor of the Good Poems series of anthologies from Viking.

  • The Guy's All Star Shoe Band

    The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band is led by A Prairie Home Companion music director Richard Dworsky. Keyboard player, composer and improviser in any style, he also writes all the script themes and underscores. His latest CD is So Near and Dear to Me.   Chet Atkins called Pat Donohue (guitar) one of the greatest fingerpickers in the world today. And he writes songs too -- recorded by Suzy Bogguss, Kenny Rogers, and others. Blue Yonder (Bluesky Records) is the most recent of Pat's 11 albums.   Gary Raynor (bass) has performed with the Count Basie band and Sammy Davis Jr., with whom he toured for several years. He was first call for dozens of touring Broadway shows, including the first presentation of The Lion King. Gary teaches at the McNally Smith College of Music in St. Paul.   Peter Johnson (percussion) has played klezmer music with Doc Severinsen and jazz with Dave Brubeck. He was a drummer for The Manhattan Transfer and for Gene Pitney. He has toured the world, but he always comes back to home base: Saint Paul.

    • Tim Russell

      One minute he's mild-mannered Tim Russell; the next he's George Bush or Julia Child or Barack Obama. We've yet to stump this man of many voices. Says fellow APHC actor Sue Scott, "He does a better Ira Glass than Ira Glass." A well-known Twin Cities radio personality and voice actor, Tim appeared in the Robert Altman film A Prairie Home Companion and the Coen brothers' A Serious Man. Tim has also been reviewing films professionally for over 10 years.

    • Sue Scott

      On APHC, Sue Scott plays everything from ditzy teenagers to Guy Noir stunners to leathery crones who've smoked one pack of Camel straights too many. The Tucson, Arizona, native is well known for her extensive commercial and voice-over work on radio and television, as well as stage and movie roles, including the part of "Donna" in Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion.

    • Tom Keith

      Is that water dripping? Footsteps coming this way? Car tires spinning on an icy driveway? Nope -- it's sound effects wizard Tom Keith. With vocal gymnastics and a variety of props, Tom worked his magic on A Prairie Home Companion from the mid-1970s until his passing in 2011.