Greg Brown, Bob Brozman, Butch Thompson Trio, Garrison Keillor, Odetta, Peter Ostroushko. Pop Wagner,
Dinah ( Bob Brozman ) America ( Bob Brozman ) Hawaiian hula medley ( Bob Brozman ) On the beach at Waikiki ( Bob Brozman ) My own Ione ( Bob Brozman ) Sentimental gentleman from Georgia ( Bob Brozman ) Yonder comes those blues (Odetta ) Make me a pallet on your floor (Odetta ) I just can't stop crying sometimes (Odetta ) How long blues (Odetta ) Special delivery blues (Odetta ) His eyes are on the sparrow (Odetta ) Believe I'll go (Odetta ) Maggie ( Garrison Keillor ) Times we had ( Pop Wagner ) True blue ( Pop Wagner ) Coney Island washboard ( Pop Wagner ) Little green frog ( Pop Wagner ) Tarara boom de-ay ( Pop Wagner ) Heralds of spring ( Peter Ostroushko ) Mississippi reel ( Peter Ostroushko )
Fearmonger's Shop Minnesota Language Systems Oil Gas and Grease Foundation Powdermilk Biscuits Raw Bits Thorvaldson, Senator K
Senator K. Torvaldsen is ready to come home. It's too hot in FL. The college boys on spring break are looking for girls. They gun their engines late at night. At age 76, Senator K dresses like a dude because he's looking for a young 66-year old woman. It's a lovely time of year to work with mud. As a boy, spring was better. The field next door had a magnificent pool of water to work with. Boys love hydraulic engineering. In the city, this is done by adults. In the country, children are in charge of drainage. There was great mud with a clay base for kids. They dug small ditches so that the work would last. They built a sand village, Sandburg, with dikes to protect the poor people. When the dam broke, most people escape. At school, the teacher gave them little sticks of modeling clay. In the field, they had acres of mud and clay. GK would be delighted to work with the puddle in his back yard. GK's parents took very few picture of him as a child. GK tells his audience the what people tell shrinks. He doesn't have to pay shrinks and the audience pays him and they even laugh. Science now believes that people evolved from the clay.
Hank Mohigh, auto mechanic, wins a fellowship. GK and his dad, Cargill Keillor, buy CBS so there will be truth on TV. Opening the Deep Woods Tent Casino in Ely, Minnesota
1985.04.06 Cincinnati Enquirer / rebroadcast on April 14, 1990
Archival contributors: Frank Berto