A Prairie Home Album is an album from the Prairie Home Companion radio show released in 1972. 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
Side One
Six A.M. [4:55] O Father Dear Why (Gagne) [2:55] That Sound Friends [3:45] Old Shep (Foley) [3:20] When I Was a Boy [3:33] Mom Angel (Keillor/Raygor) [2:45]
Side Two
Breakfast Hymn (Will L. Thompson, 1879) [2:58] Joy to the World & Time for a Word [3:00] My Mailbox Is Empty (Gagne) [3:50] The Timber Wolf (Gagne/Hinkley) [4:55] Hobo's Meditation (Rodgers) [2:40] On the Road (Keillor) [5:20]
Personnel 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 "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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