Butch Thompson Trio, Garrison Keillor, Peter Ostroushko. Stoney Lonesome,
Song of the Exiles ( Garrison Keillor ) Cat, you better come home ( Garrison Keillor ) Sometime I'm lonely (Butch Thompson Trio , Peter Ostroushko ) Airmail special (Butch Thompson Trio , Peter Ostroushko ) Back home in Indiana (Butch Thompson Trio , Peter Ostroushko ) I'm feeling high (Butch Thompson Trio , Peter Ostroushko ) Charleston (Butch Thompson Trio , Peter Ostroushko ) One more spring in Minnesota (Butch Thompson Trio , Peter Ostroushko ) Ninety and nine (Stoney Lonesome ) If I Lose (Stoney Lonesome ) He is near (Stoney Lonesome ) Blue Skirt Waltz (Stoney Lonesome ) Big Mon (Stoney Lonesome , Peter Ostroushko )
Bertha's Kitty Boutique Chatterbox Cafe Clouds of Joy Bubble Bath Powdermilk Biscuits Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery Sidetrack Tap The Telephone Company
LW German's get drunk on Gessufah Day, lasting them for three years. Norwegians are quieter. LW was settled by Unitarian missionaries who tried to convert the Ojibway Indians using interpretive dance. They went into real estate and sold lots to Norwegian Lutherans and German Catholics who had passed the good land moving west. The people are upheld by living arms of love. The story of the living flag. GK's grandfather did chores for a widow and walked home past the cemetery in the pitch dark. He sang hymns for courage. One night, he felt surrounded by the ghosts of his relatives who marched with him and sang, 'Farther along.' Walking to school, the kids sang a parody on 'Glory glory.' Miss Falconer came to LW on Monday to put the kids through choir practice. She was disturbed by the tenors. She picked three songs, 'Serenade,' by Totsi, 'Oh Tall Papaya Tree,' by Delmonte, and 'April is in my Mistress' Face,' by Morley. Miss Oberg suggested 'Red River Valley.' She made the tenors sing their parts one by one. The altos and sopranos smirked at GK. He went home feeling down on himself and sang with his mother.
Poem against reliability by Margaret Haskins Durber.
1983.04.03 Asbury Park Press / Berto: recorded on May 22, 1983 - first broadcast on June 4, 1983.