Mud Season Blues from 2003
featuring Stephanie Davis and VocalEssence
City Winery Tour & More
Yes, get your travel on — we have a great assortment of full-on A Prairie Home Companion shows plus solo shows, a few with Rich, a few with Heather, and so much more! It all begins with a City Winery trek through large cities near you! Hope you can join us on the road! With stops in New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Nashville, St. Louis, and Chicago, there is a great chance we’ll be near you with a unique setting to see Garrison’s solo show.
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Listen to the May 17, 2003 show
This week, we travel back to 2003 for a show originally performed Live from the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota, with singer Stephanie Davis and Philip Brunelle with VocalEssence. Jorja Fleezanis drops by, and Dan Newton sits in with the Shoe Band.
Back when she lived on her Montana ranch, Stephanie Davis found songwriting inspiration in everything from baling twine to border collies. During a stint in Nashville, her songs were recorded by Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, Martina McBride, and others. These days, she makes her home in Austin, Texas, where she enjoys hiking the Texas Hill Country, grooving to all styles of Texas music, and continuing to keep her fans happy by writing and performing her own songs. View available music >>>
Since 1991, the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers — the 32-voice core of the full VocalEssence Chorus, under the direction of Philip Brunelle — have toured widely and garnered acclaim at every stop. The Oxford Times (UK) wrote, “VocalEssence have a blend that could — and should — be the envy of every choir in the business.”
Tune in to this week’s classic episode featuring a humorous sketch called United America. It contains a riff about Republicans titled “We’re All Republicans Now.” Still relevant today? The chorus is below. And if you enjoy the sketch and the song and wish to share with friends, we have the sheet music available in our store.
We're all Republicans now,
We've all come around somehow
We are one land
One old party that’s grand,
We're all Republicans now.
Affirmative action must go,
Unless you're somebody we know.
We'll get conservative judges back on the bench,
Cut government spending and down with the French
No more arguments, we've taken a vow.
No more dissent, just smile and bow,
We're all Republicans
We're all Republicans
We're all Republicans now
Boom Town: A Lake Wobegon Novel AUDIOBOOK
The wait is over! Many have inquired about getting Boom Town read by Garrison himself. Well, last year Garrison visited a recording studio in New York City for over a week to read his most recent work, which he feels could be his best. The result is a download or CD set that spans over 12 hours.
Lake Wobegon is having a boom year thanks to millennial entrepreneurship — AuntMildred’s.com Gourmet Meatloaf, for example, or Universal Fire, makers of artisanal firewood seasoned with sea salt. Meanwhile, the author flies in to give eulogies at the funerals of five classmates, including a couple whom he disliked, and he finds a wave of narcissism crashing on the rocks of Lutheran stoicism. He is restored by the humor and grace of his old girlfriend Arlene and a visit from his wife, Giselle, who arrives from New York for a big love scene in an old lake cabin.
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Lake Life Tote
Grab a towel, some water, and suntan lotion, along with this roomy and spacious tote bag, and head to the beach. The lake life is so relaxing. Yes, “Sumos Quod Sumos” (we are what we are) is our motto and this bag is certainly fitting.
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Summer Love from A Prairie Home Companion
In the summer of 2010, Garrison Keillor, Nickel Creek’s Sara Watkins, the Guy’s All-Star Shoe Band, and sound-effects artist Fred Newman went on a whirlwind tour of 25 cities in less than two months. The theme was everlasting love; the shows were jam-packed with tender duets and ballads, poetry, and stories of passion and marriage, all done Prairie Home Companion-style.
Now the best performances from that tour are available on this Summer Love collection. Never broadcast and therefore available for the first time on this collection, selections include favorite Prairie Home Companion elements: Guy Noir, “show sponsor” commercials, and the News from Lake Wobegon.
If you are one who misses the old show, our State Fair shows, or summer tours, you will LOVE this collection featuring all the elements you like about Prairie Home, from the music to the sketches to the stories.