A Prairie Home Album

Compilation album by A Prairie Home Companion

A Prairie Home Album

Compilation album by

A Prairie Home Companion

Genre| Spoken Word; Radio
Length| 43:56
Label| Minnesota Educational Radio
Producer| Evelyn Wills Duvalier, Larry P. Gagne

A Prairie Home Album is an album from the Prairie Home Companion radio show. It features items written for the early days of the program, when it was a morning show broadcast from KSJN in St. Paul, MN.

## Track listing

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Side One

1. Six A.M. [4:55]
2. O Father Dear Why (Gagne) [2:55]
3. That Sound Friends [3:45]
4. Old Shep (Foley) [3:20]
5. When I Was a Boy [3:33]
6. Mom Angel (Keillor/Raygor) [2:45]

Side Two

1. Breakfast Hymn (Will L. Thompson, 1879) [2:58]
2. Joy to the World & Time for a Word [3:00]
3. My Mailbox Is Empty (Gagne) [3:50]
4. The Timber Wolf (Gagne/Hinkley) [4:55]
5. Hobo's Meditation (Rodgers) [2:40]
6. On the Road (Keillor) [5:20]

## Personnel

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* Garrison Keillor: Vocal
* Bill Hinkley: guitar and vocal harmony and fiddle ("Joy to the World")
* Judy Larson: guitar ("O Father Dear Why" and " Joy to the World") and vocal harmony
* Stephen Gammell: guitar and vcal ("Old Shep" and "Hobo's Meditation")
* Jon Pankake: fiddle ("The Timber Wolf")
* Tom Ardnt, Larry P. Gagne, Slim Graves: vocal harmony ("Mom Angel")

## Production

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* "That Sound Friends" recorded at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
* "Old Shep", "Hobo's Meditation" and "Time for a Word" recorded at St. Paul Arts & Science Center
* "Breakfast Hymn" recorded at Henry Schoolcraft State Park on the Upper Mississippi River
* All others recorded at the studios of KSJN
* Album cover: Barbara and Patrick Redmond
* Technical direction by David Carlton Felland
* Engineering assistance from D. Michael Shields, Jerry Vanek, and David Rassmussen

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Garrison Keillor

Books|

* Happy to be Here (1981)
* Lake Wobegon Days (1985)
* Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories (1987)
* We Are Still Married: Stories & Letters (1989)
* WLT: A Radio Romance (1991)
* Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon (2007)

Albums|

* A Prairie Home Album (1979)
* Songs of the Cat (1991)

Films|

* A Prairie Home Companion (2006)

Radio|

* The Morning Show
* A Prairie Home Companion
* The Writer's Almanac

Related|

* Lake Wobegon
* Guy Noir

Authority control databases |

* MusicBrainz release group

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