A Prairie Home Album
Appearance
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Genre | Spoken Word; Radio |
Length | 43:56 |
Label | Minnesota Educational Radio |
Producer | Evelyn Wills Duvalier, Larry P. Gagne |
A Prairie Home Album is an album from the Prairie Home Companion radio show. It features items written for the early days of the program, when it was a morning show broadcast from KSJN in St. Paul, MN.
Track listing
[edit]Side One
- Six A.M. [4:55]
- O Father Dear Why (Gagne) [2:55]
- That Sound Friends [3:45]
- Old Shep (Foley) [3:20]
- When I Was a Boy [3:33]
- Mom Angel (Keillor/Raygor) [2:45]
Side Two
- Breakfast Hymn (Will L. Thompson, 1879) [2:58]
- Joy to the World & Time for a Word [3:00]
- My Mailbox Is Empty (Gagne) [3:50]
- The Timber Wolf (Gagne/Hinkley) [4:55]
- Hobo's Meditation (Rodgers) [2:40]
- On the Road (Keillor) [5:20]
Personnel
[edit]- Garrison Keillor: Vocal
- Bill Hinkley: guitar and vocal harmony and fiddle ("Joy to the World")
- Judy Larson: guitar ("O Father Dear Why" and " Joy to the World") and vocal harmony
- Stephen Gammell: guitar and vcal ("Old Shep" and "Hobo's Meditation")
- Jon Pankake: fiddle ("The Timber Wolf")
- Tom Ardnt, Larry P. Gagne, Slim Graves: vocal harmony ("Mom Angel")
Production
[edit]- "That Sound Friends" recorded at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
- "Old Shep", "Hobo's Meditation" and "Time for a Word" recorded at St. Paul Arts & Science Center
- "Breakfast Hymn" recorded at Henry Schoolcraft State Park on the Upper Mississippi River
- All others recorded at the studios of KSJN
- Album cover: Barbara and Patrick Redmond
- Technical direction by David Carlton Felland
- Engineering assistance from D. Michael Shields, Jerry Vanek, and David Rassmussen