Show #1471

November 8, 2014

Like This, Like That

DECC Auditorium Symphony Hall

Duluth, MN

This week, we’re heading north to Duluth, Minnesota for a live broadcast from the DECC Auditorium, and to balance the icy Lake Superior winds, we’re bringing a little sunny jazz and soul in the form of The California Honeydrops. Plus: North Shore songstress Sarah Krueger, singer Lynn Peterson, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman; musical director Richard Dworsky with The November Boys Orchestra (JT Bates on drums, bassist Jeff Carney, Richard Kriehn on mandolin and fiddle, guitarist Dean Magraw, and pedal steel master Joe Savage); and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.

Audio from the show

Listen to the complete show

Listen to the show in individual segments

Audio Highlights: Blue Heron | "Ships and Trees" — Sarah Krueger | "Grandma Song" — The California Honeydrops

Garrison Keillor’s monologue, The News from Lake Wobegon, is available for download and as a podcast.

Music Information

Performers, Show Rundown, Music Information & Credits

Videos from the show

"Old Rosin the Beau"

Blue Heron

Ships and Trees — Sarah Krueger

Pumpkin

Garrison talks with Duluth mayor Don Ness

Guy Noir

Grandma Song — The California Honeydrops

Minnesota Rivers

Story

"Karate"

The News from Lake Wobegon

See the full video gallery »

Watch all the videos on our YouTube channel »

Photos from the show

See the full photo gallery »

Scripts

Guest Information

The California Honeydrops

The California Honeydrops have come a long way since guitarist/trumpeter Lech Wierzynkski and drummer Ben Malament started busking in an Oakland BART station. Now, with Johnny Bones on tenor sax and clarinet, Lorenzo Loera on keyboards, and Beau Bradbury on bass, they’ve taken their music — a winning mix of R&B, funk, Southern soul, Delta blues, and New Orleans second-line — from their Bay Area home to venues across the U.S. and Europe. Their latest album is Like You Mean It (Tubtone Records).

Website | Facebook | Twitter | Find Merchandise

Sarah Krueger

Singer and songsmith Sarah Krueger may have been born and raised in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, but she credits Duluth, Minnesota, as the place that “serves as a breathing foundation” for her earnest and straightforward songwriting. Between stretches of teaching jobs, waiting tables, and holing up in a cold Duluth hillside apartment, she has crafted a lustrous folk sound. In fact, Lustrous is the title of her brand-new recording, scheduled for release next month on Chaperone Records.

Website | Facebook | Twitter | Find Merchandise

Lynn Peterson

Singer-songwriter-science geek Lynn Peterson is a native Minnesotan whose career took her to New York City, where she spent eight years as a performer, composer, and studio vocalist, before returning to the Twin Cities. And the science geek part? She studied chemistry as an undergrad and now continues graduate work focused on chemistry and sustainability. Her Norwegian roots and love of Norway are inspiration for an upcoming recording project: Songs of the Sognefjord.

Garrison Keillor

Garrison Keillor was born in Anoka, graduated from the University of  Minnesota (’66), and lives in St. Paul. He is the author of numerous books,   including Pilgrims: A Wobegon Romance; O, What A Luxury: Verses Lyrical, Vulgar, Pathetic & Profound (Grove Press); and The Keillor Reader (Viking). He is also the editor of the Good Poems anthologies.

Website | Twitter

The North Shore Orchestra — November 8, 2014

Richard Dworsky
Keyboardist, composer, and arranger Richard Dworsky is APHC’s music director. He leads the band, composes themes, improvises script underscores, and collaborates with such diverse guests as Yo-Yo Ma, James Taylor, Brad Paisley, Kristin Chenoweth, and Sheryl Crow. He has released many recordings of original material and has provided music for documentaries on HBO and PBS.

JT Bates
JT Bates started playing drums when he was seven. By the time he was 15, he was sitting in with his dad’s big band. Since then, he has backed up countless musicians, as well as working with a number of Twin Cities-based bands, including Fat Kid Wednesdays and Poor Line Condition.

Jeff Carney
Bassist Jeff Carney is always in demand — in Broadway orchestras, on jingles and film soundtracks, and as accompanist for jazz giants and popular music stars. A professor of bass and at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, he is principal bassist with the New York Pops Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.

Richard Kriehn
When Richard Kriehn turned 10, his mom bought him a mandolin; at 19, he’d won the Buck White International Mandolin Contest. He went on to play with the Nashville Mandolin Ensemble and bluegrass group 1946. On the classical side, he has performed with numerous orchestras and was principal second violin for the Washington/Idaho Symphony.

Dean Magraw
Guitarist Dean Magraw studied at the University of Minnesota and the Berklee School of Music in Boston. His first recording, 1994’s Broken Silence, won the NAIRD award for Best Acoustic Instrumental Album of the Year. Dean has since turned out an array of dazzling albums. For his latest, he joined forces with drummer Erik Kamau Gravatt to produce Fire on the Nile (Red House Records).

Joe Savage
Pedal steel ace Joe Savage may think of himself as a Perennial Sideman (title of one of his albums), and it is true that he has performed with a long list of artists in addition to being a go-to studio musician. But solo or sideman, Joe has been a welcome fixture on the Twin Cities music scene since moving from Cloquet, Minnesota, to Minneapolis in the 1980s.

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.

Website | Twitter

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.

Website

Fred Newman

Sound effects man Fred Newman is an actor, writer, musician, and sound designer for film and TV. Turns out, no one is more surprised than Fred that he’s made a career out of doing what he used to do behind the teacher’s back —crossing his eyes, making sounds, and doing voices. He readily admits that, growing up, he was unceremoniously removed from several classrooms, “once by my bottom lip.”

Website

Previous Show

November 1, 2014

Three Priests, Two Penguins, and One Chicken — Joke Show!

Battlefield Band, Vince Giordano

Next Show

November 15, 2014

Stand and Deliver

The Steep Canyon Rangers, Choral Arts Ensemble, Jane Belau, Hilary Thavis

40th Anniversary

Send a greeting — Have A Prairie Home Companion‘s host, musicians, cast and crew been a part of your Saturday nights over the years? Send us a note and we’ll share your messages online throughout our 40th Anniversary season!

Memories Through the Decades — See a timeline of the show’s memorable milestones

Join us at the Fitz! — Enter to win a travel prize package to attend a Spring 2015 show in Saint Paul

The News from Lake Wobegon on TuneIn

Now you can listen to a 24/7 stream of News from Lake Wobegon monologues on TuneIn!

Programs

Support American Public Media

American Public Media's online services are supported by users like you. Contribute now…