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    Prairie Home Companion 40th Anniversary Collection
    Prairie Home Companion 40th Anniversary Collection
    Prairie Home Companion 40th Anniversary Collection
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    Prairie Home Companion 40th Anniversary Collection

    Written by Garrison Keillor

    Narrated by Garrison Keillor

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    About this audiobook

    Since A Prairie Home Companion first went on air, July 6, 1974, a steady stream of great musicians has crossed its stage-The Steele Sisters, Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings, Peter Ostroushko, The Wailin Jennys, Robin and Linda Williams Iris DeMent, Howard Levy-plus the radio detective Guy Noir, the Cowboys Dusty and Lefty, the librarian Ruth Harrison, Duane and his Mother, and the good people of Lake Wobegon, Minnesota. An all-star roster of favorite performers joined to celebrate the anniversary on the lawn of Macalester College in St. Paul, a stone's throw from the hall where the first broadcast was made. Some highlights from that show are presented here, interwoven with archival performances by Doc Watson, Odetta, Pete Seeger, Helen Schneyer, Chet Atkins, Bill Hinkley Judy Larson, Soupy Schindler, and Tom Keith. 
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateApr 7, 2015
    ISBN9781622315581
    Prairie Home Companion 40th Anniversary Collection
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    Garrison Keillor

    Garrison Keillor, born in Anoka, Minnesota, in 1942, is an essayist, columnist, blogger, and writer of sonnets, songs, and limericks, whose novel Pontoon the New York Times said was “a tough-minded book . . . full of wistfulness and futility yet somehow spangled with hope”—no easy matter, especially the spangling. Garrison Keillor wrote and hosted the radio show A Prairie Home Companion for more than forty years, all thanks to kind aunts and good teachers and a very high threshold of boredom. In his retirement, he’s written a memoir and a novel. He and his wife, Jenny Lind Nilsson, live in Minneapolis and New York.

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    • 3/5
      Garrison Keillor has been successfully engaging in the same dialog for forty years. It's always funny, appropriate and delightful. This compilation is a wonderful review of our history with him and Prairie Home Companion.
    • 4/5
      I listened to almost all of this in a single day. I loved it. Especially getting to hear Chet Atkins again. I have to admit that I enjoyed the music more than the skits, but I think that's because I always have to mess with the volume when it switches between the two and that annoys me. I don't know if it's just my hearing, or if the people who make the recordings never quite get the balance right. My guess is it's my hearing. Regardless, this is a joy to listen to from end to end.
    • 3/5
      Garrison Keillor is a staple on NPR and I always found his wit to be very likable. This is a 40th anniversary compilation of his famous Praire Home Companion. Excerpts of skits and music from blue grass to country to gospel. If you are a fan of the show and have not had a long time to listen then you will probably enjoy this compilation.
    • 4/5
      Longtime fans of Prairie Home Companion will be thrilled by this compilation. The four disc set celebrates the show's 40th Anniversary. There is a 28 page insert with an essay on the show written by the host, Garrison Keillor. It also includes photos and track information on the dozens of songs and skits the collection includes. I am newer to the show and I was expecting more skits and fewer songs. Both are excellent, but there's a wide variety of music, from bluegrass to gospel and more, and not all of it will be to everyone's taste. It's definitely geared towards folks who already love the show instead of acting as an introduction to it.
    • 5/5
      This set of four compact disks presents the listener with an aural anthology of skits, sketches, songs, stories, mirth, music and commercials for companies that exist only in the mind of their creator, that quintessential Minnesotan, Garrison Keillor. Culled from four decades of recordings of the Minnesota Public Radio show “A Prairie Home Companion,” this set is an excellent introduction for anyone unfamiliar with the weekly broadcasts, and a wonderful way to reminisce over long forgotten shows for those who are. Representative samples include monologues by “Guy Noir,” Keillor’s hard-boiled private detective; an advertising jingle from “sponsor” Powdermilk Biscuits; an ode to rhubarb. The lion’s share of these 85 tracks, however, is devoted to music and song: instrumental numbers, polka, gospel, blues, bluegrass, you name it. Some are merely quaint, while others awe the listener. The power and glory of the unadorned human voice washes over the auditor like a sonic tsunami in the rousing a cappella rendition of “When I Wake Up to Sleep No More” (Disk 3, Track 2). This set is rounded out by a lovely little booklet containing both color and black/white photographs of some of the many musical stars to grace the stage at the Home’s home, the Fitzgerald Theater in downtown St. Paul. A complete list of tracks is given and a look back over the history of some 1,400 live broadcasts by the show’s creator and driving force, entitled, “Forty Years: An Essay from Garrison Keillor.” Simply put, this is $25.59 very well spent.
    • 5/5
      This is a wonderful collection for anyone who enjoys A Prairie Home Companion. it is as eclectic as the show and has a great selection. It is definitely worth the price. It Is great to hear performers such as Chet atkins again and to hear skits from the past. i have been a fan since the 80s... Loved this set of cds!
    • 4/5
      Of course I loved this compilation of music and skits taken from 40 years worth of material from "A Prairie Home Companion" live radio show. I listen to it on Public Radio whenever I can. It all began in 1974 and it was interesting to hear how the songs progressed from mostly "countryish" to more eclectic. The stories and jokes have remained pretty standard because they are timeless. Garrison Keillor is a poet and his cast and crew are multi-talented. Just good old-fashioned humor and music. Thoroughly enjoyable, if you like "A Prairie Home Companion."
    • 3/5
      My first music review for LibraryThing! Even though this was received through the Early Reviewer program, it’s not an audio book, but a collection of excerpts from A Prairie Home Companion’s first 40 years. Most of the excerpts are musical, although there are a few sketches (including a fabulous one with Studs Terkel as a member of the Diet Squad). There are no “News from Lake Wobegon” monologues. Since that’s my favorite part of the program, I have to deduct a star right away.If you’ve ever listened to APHC, you know the variety of music that is on this 4-CD set -- in a word, old-timey. In more words, bluegrass, gospel, folk, country, ragtime, and blues. If you care for any of these genres, you’ll be sure to find a few standout numbers. For me, hearing selections by Odetta, Taj Mahal, Jean Redpath, Chet Atkins and Iris DeMent was wonderful. I didn’t love all the numbers, and doubt that anyone would, but there’s something of value for most everyone.While I really enjoyed listening to the CD’s, I think it was a one-time experience for me – I didn’t enjoy it enough for a second listening except for a half dozen or so cuts.