Angelic Voices from 2006

featuring Bonnie Raitt and The Wailin' Jennys

Garrison Keillor TONIGHT in Atlanta, GA

Garrison Keillor will be performing at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, on the campus of Atlanta’s Emory University, November 11th at 8:00 p.m. THIS IS A FREE EVENT but registration is required. Be prepared to laugh and sing along as he celebrates all that unites us. Keillor has been a novelist, columnist, host of the classic radio show A Prairie Home Companion, and creator of the beloved radio segment The Writer’s Almanac. And he is fabulist-in-chief of the fictional Midwestern town Lake Wobegon. Join us for an entertaining evening that will have you laughing in your seats. Get Tickets

Listen to the October 28, 2006 show

This week we revisit a show from the Fitzgerald Theater from the fall of 2006. We’re carving blue-ribbon pumpkins and drinking hot spiced cider. Our very special guests: Queen of the Blues Bonnie Raitt and firecrackers of the Canadian prairie The Wailin’ Jennys. Also with us, the Royal Academy of Radio Acting: Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Tom Keith. Manhattan maestro Andy Stein is sitting in with the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band. And watch for the guy in a tuxedo and red sneakers handing out the candy.

Highlights include The Wailin’ Jennys’ take on “Bright Morning Stars” and “Glory Bound”; Bonnie Raitt kicking it on “Thing Called Love” and the Sippie Wallace classic “Women Be Wise”; Tim Russell and the “Vampire Blues”; talk about the fall season, Bush, and Martin Luther; plus, Catchup, a few Halloween-inspired sketches, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon. Listen now or join us via social media where the link debuts every Saturday evening.

Bonnie Raitt

Minnesota has a claim to fame in music legend Bonnie Raitt's extraordinary career: Her first album was recorded in the Twin Cities suburb of Minnetonka and produced by Minneapolis blues stalwart Willie Murphy. Born to a musical family (she’s the daughter of celebrated Broadway singer John Raitt and pianist/singer Marge Goddard), Raitt grew up in Los Angeles. Her creative journey began the Christmas she was eight, when she got her first guitar. In her teens, she heard the album Blues at Newport 1963. “That one record changed my life,” she says. By the late ’60s, as a Harvard/Radcliffe student majoring in African studies, she was making the rounds of Cambridge coffeehouses. After three years, she quit college to commit herself full-time to music. Soon she was opening for the likes of Mississippi Fred McDowell, Son House, Muddy Waters, and John Lee Hooker. These days, Raitt can claim legions of fans, stacks of recordings, and a host of awards, including thirteen Grammys and induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She continues to record and tour.

The Wailin’ Jennys

When three solo performers with powerful voices joined forces for a one-time gig in 2002, everything changed. The collaboration was a huge success, surprising everyone, including The Wailin’ Jennys. Soon the ad hoc trio was on tour, and within a few weeks the word was out: People were calling them “a bona fide Canadian sensation.” Writing in the Sydney [Australia] Morning Herald, one music critic said, “This is about as good as contemporary folk gets.” Closer to home, a Winnipeg Free Press reporter proclaimed that the group’s harmony singing has “the ability to send shivers up your spine.” Those tight harmonies have won over countless fans and loads of awards.

And here’s a message from the Fearmonger’s Shoppe for this Halloween season. Fearmonger’s — serving all your phobia needs since 1954.

Just remember to keep your thermostat turned low. Spiders slow down quite a bit around 58 degrees. So do rattlesnakes. (SLOW RATTLE) Of course your bed may get warm once you crawl into it, so make sure you take a baseball bat before you get in and (WHACKS OF BAT ON SOFT MATTRESS) make sure there aren't snakes under the covers. Then take out your duct tape (SFX) and use it to close off the little gap under the doors (TAPING) where someone could insert a hose and pump poison gas into the room. (TAPING) And any cracks in the windows. And then load your gun and put it by the bed. (SFX) And put the carpet tacks around on the floor by your bed so if intruders come in you'll hear them yell. And now lie quietly on your back. (HEART POUNDING) With your helmet on. And go to sleep. All you have to worry about is carbon monoxide. That’s all. (HEART POUNDING) Did you check the carbon monoxide alarm? Better get up and do that. First look out for the —(YELPS OF PAIN)

A Scary Home Companion: HORRORS!

Garrison Keillor's Horrors! is a grab bag of treats from Halloween broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion, with eclectic musical performances and lighthearted comedy from the show’s cast of regulars.
Halloween is a time when everyone’s a kid again — perhaps that’s why it’s so eagerly celebrated by adults! Listen to Horrors! and you’ll smile, you’ll shiver, and you might even take a peek to see what’s lurking in the shadows. Get the CDs or download.

Track Listing:

Halloween - This Wonderful World (Bats) - “In the Dark” - The News from Lake Wobegon: The Ethics of Jokes - “Blue Turtles” - “The Raven” - Halloween: The Movie - Café Bœuf - That’s Odd - Halloween at the Radio Station - Funerary Verse - Flies - Celebrity Halloween - Little Red Riding Hood - Buried Alive - “Creepy Feeling” - The News from Lake Wobegon: The Do-Rites

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