Roy Blount Jr, Greg Brown, Butch Thompson Trio, Garrison Keillor, Bill Keith, Dan Lund, Red Maddox, Peter Ostroushko, Jean Redpath.
I Heard The Birds Singing ( Greg Brown , Dan Lund , Peter Ostroushko , Red Maddox ) Nola ( Bill Keith ) Old man picking a song ( Peter Ostroushko ) One more spring in Minnesota ( Peter Ostroushko ) Sweethearts on Parade (Butch Thompson Trio ) Old guy (Butch Thompson Trio ) Skipping through the heather ( Jean Redpath ) Our old cat died ( Jean Redpath ) The Blount blues ( Roy Blount Jr ) Maybe it's spring ( Greg Brown ) Understand your cat ( Garrison Keillor ) Happy golden years ( Garrison Keillor ) Banjo square dance medley ( Bill Keith )
Bertha's Kitty Boutique Billy Morrel and his Blue Movers Chatterbox Cafe Fearmonger's Shop Minnesota Fruit Council Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility Powdermilk Biscuits Ringsack Rental Truck Line Sidetrack Tap Skoglund's Five and Dime St Paul Police Department Tangerine Breath Freshener
Aunt Mae's funeral. Pet funerals / The snow in the first week of May was like a fifth season. The Unknown Norwegian looks worried in the afternoon. GK wanted more ceremony when he was young. Our Lady Church was awesome because of the statues with eyes and hands reaching out to him. The Lutheran Church was as bare as granary. He used to play weddings and funerals with his brothers and sisters. The funerals were modeled after Aunt May's funeral. Everybody was so quiet and so nice. Adult funerals were held in the Lundburg' s front parlor. The kids had funerals when their pet's died. When Pinky the cat was run over, he was buried with a full funeral. Casper Krepsbach threw crab apples until GK's sister beat him up.
RB talks about paying attention at the opera. Dept. of Folk Songs: I've got sixpence, Cookie cookie, Head, shoulders, knees. Tell me why. Gospel ship.
1984.05.05 St Cloud Times / rebroadcast on April 30, 1988.
Archival contributors: Frank Berto