Greg Brown, Butch Thompson Trio, Country Gazette, Garrison Keillor, New Orleans Ragtime Ensemble. Peter Ostroushko, Alice Parker, Plymouth Church Festival Choir,
Grow gardens grow ( Greg Brown ) I Still Miss Someone ( Greg Brown ) Our little town ( Greg Brown ) Hello operator (Country Gazette ) Go now (Country Gazette ) Honey baby mine (Country Gazette ) New river train (Country Gazette ) Hound dogs never die (Country Gazette ) Where the Soul of Man Never Dies (Country Gazette ) Grown man cry (Country Gazette , Peter Ostroushko ) Bill Monroe medley ( Peter Ostroushko , Country Gazette ) At the end of a long lonely day ( Garrison Keillor ) Brownie and Pete ( Garrison Keillor ) My creole belle (New Orleans Ragtime Ensemble ) Don't leave me here (New Orleans Ragtime Ensemble ) American soldier rag (New Orleans Ragtime Ensemble ) Amazing Grace (Plymouth Church Festival Choir ) Charlie is a dandy (Plymouth Church Festival Choir ) Children of a heavenly father (Plymouth Church Festival Choir ) Wondrous love (Plymouth Church Festival Choir ) Careless love (Plymouth Church Festival Choir )
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Weather turned cold, worrying the tomato growers. The Lundburgs only sleepwalk on hot nights. Roger Hedlund wouldn't let his daughter Martha's kitten sleep in the house. She said 'murderer" under her breath. He could hear the kitten crying on the front step and then the sound went away. Roger worried about the kitten, so he went out to look for it with his dog. Bruno sniffed his hind end and he fell forward. Martha came out and asked if he was all right. Roger decided that the kitten could stay in for one night. GK was chilly in bed so that he got up and got Grandma's quilt, which was made from old worn out children's clothes. The quilt carries the characteristic Keillor smell. Remembering being a small child. Now so many of them are dead. Old Aunt Marie was fat and lonely. She used to take GK for walks in the snow. GK fell through a hole in hay mow. He fell into the bull's manger, which was full, fortunately. GK is rediscovering his sense of smell after he stopping smoking. Smell is an animal sense, the key to memory. Tobacco deadens taste and smell.
GK is sad because his wife is on vacation. What animals say in foreign languages.
Cincinnati Enquirer Jun 12 1986
1986.06.13 Star Tribune
Archival contributors: Frank Berto