This week: we look back to the fall of 2013 with a rebroadcast originally from the Fitzgerald Theater in downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota. Central Time troubadour Pokey LaFarge sings "Close the Door" and "All Night Long"; Heather Masse and pianist Jed Wilson perform "Everybody's Cryin' Mercy" and "Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye"; and Joe Newberry stops by with his tunes "The Darker the Night the Better I See" and "Singing As We Rise." Plus: Guy Noir meets a few irritable nursery rhyme characters, a message from Raoul and His Cool Car Service, and guitarist Dean Magraw delivers a little early autumn warmth on "Watchdoggin'" with help from Rich Dworsky and the band. In Lake Wobegon, Laurel returns to town from Long Beach, California, after 22 years. Notes from Jed Wilson about this weekend's rebroadcast: My most vivid memory has to do with the dead air that occurred right before "Everybody's Cryin' Mercy," an unintended consequence of [Heather Masse and I] having failed to decide together who would count off the tune. The silence -- broadcast to millions -- lasted all of a handful of seconds, but it created a portal into a dark infinity. There was the sensation of falling forever, a sinister timelessness not accounted for in Newtonian physics. I don't remember who eventually counted us in, but that return from the abyss felt like breathing air again...