Bluegrass legend Ricky Skaggs and his band Kentucky Thunder join Garrison Keillor with some show stopping guitar picking—and there's also an appearance from the first family of country music, The Whites.
A toe tapping program with a feast of ragtime piano, as well as blues and country music. And in the News from Lake Wobegon, that little town on the edge of the prairie, it's been a quiet week there, as in every other week—except that the post office has the latest issue of new stamps so they're pretty pleased.
Garrison Keillor has been awarded the prestigious John Steinbeck Award which, in typical contrary fashion, he uses as a springboard for an extended meditation on the decline of his show. He dates it to the day the sound effects man joined the team—and, a warning, the program includes a rendition of the sound of an ice cream being dropped into a fax machine.
Garrison Keillor strikes a mellow pose this week with jazz singer Inga Swearingen and one of the queens of gospel, Jeralyn Steele. And cowboys Dusty and Lefty are back -- they've been invited to town to teach cowboy studies at university. They've brought their cattle along and Lefty is looking forward to exploring the power of ideas with the students. It gets complicated when postmodern theory comes up against Lefty's yodelling based syllabus.
Sunday 31 August 2008
Laurie Lewis is a songwriter from Berkeley, California - and a bluegrass singer, who incorporates traditional folk instruments like the finger-pickin' banjo and the fiddle into her songs.
4pm AEST
Late Night Live
with Phillip Adams
Discussions on politics, science, philosophy and culture, with fascinating and often controversial guests
