A Prairie Home Album

Infobox Album | Name = A Praire Home Album
Type = Compilation
Artist = A Prairie Home Companion


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

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