Audiobooks by Garrison Keillor

Keillor's follow up to Lake Wobegon Dayshas his protagonist, John Tollefson, returning years later to Minnesota for a life-changing visit. Wobegon Boy is the story of John Tollefson, last seen in Lake Wobegon Days leaving home, now a forty-something Norwegian bachelor public-radio manager living in upstate New York. Amidst his tribulations—his gloomily neurotic staff, his controlling boss, his bumpy relationship with his querulous father, his love affair with a Columbia University historian—John returns to Minnesota for a visit. There, sitting at the Sidetrack Tap and the Chatterbox Cafe—talking and listening to the people he has known his whole life—he discovers what is truly important to him.

Garrison Keillor (Author), Garrison Keillor (Narrator)

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WLT: A Radio Romance

See what WLT was "really like" before it became the radio station featured in the Robert Altman film. In 1926, brothers Ray and Roy Soderbjerrg plunge into radio by founding Station WLT (With Lettuce and Tomato) in order to rescue their failing restaurant and become the Sandwich Kings of South Minneapolis. For the next 25 years, the "Friendly Neighbor" station produces a dazzling, not to mention, odd, array of shows and stars. Brilliantly weaving together the real lives and radio lives of his characters, Garrison Keillor has given us a comic, poignant, and slightly steamy novel, full of romance, intrigue, tough business, and loose living.

Garrison Keillor (Author), Garrison Keillor (Narrator)

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When I Get Home: Songs

You've heard Garrison Keillor and the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band perform on the radio. Now you can enjoy their feel-good music on this collection.A Prairie Home Companionlisteners are frequently treated to a song-sometimes to a familiar tune, sometimes to original music-with words by Garrison Keillor. In them, he sings of home, love, friendship, family, faith, or just plain fun. These sixteen songs, specially recorded for this collection, are some of his best."I carry this solemn mug around in public to encourage strangers to mind their manners, but when I get home I am glad to make faces, quack like a duck, dance a little dance, and even sing a little. For many years now I have felt at home on the radio. These are some of the songs."-Garrison Keillor Tracks: 1. What Floats Your Boat 2. My Grandfather's Clock 3. My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose 4. Homestead on the Farm 5. Everybody Knows It 6. Home on the Range 7. Boy's Best Friend 8. Frankie and Johnny 9. What'll I Do 10. Old Backstage 11. There Once Was a Shy Young Man 12. My Minnesota Home 13. Nearer My God to Thee 14. Only for You 15. Goodbye to My Uncles 16. Tell My Ma

Garrison Keillor (Author), Garrison Keillor, Guy's All Star Shoe Band (Narrator)

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Tom Keith: Sound Effects Man (A Prairie Home Companion)

Tom Keith had a wonderful ear for sound and beautiful sense of comic timing. As a schoolboy imitator of birds, livestock, and people being punched in the face, he had natural abilities that pointed to a career in the Live Radio Sound Effects Production Industry. But by the time he graduated from the University of Minnesota in the late ’60s, that once well-traveled career path was deserted. Tom joined the Marines instead, and he learned to mimic helicopters and do seven different kinds of explosion. Still there were no jobs, so he took an engineering post, babysitting a public radio transmitter while a tall, quiet writer tried to turn his imaginary world into a show. Tom was enlisted as an accomplice and immediately found his calling, eventually entertaining millions as the regular sound-effects man for A Prairie Home Companion.

Garrison Keillor (Author), Ensemble Cast, Garrison Keillor (Narrator)

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Tim Russell: Man of a Thousand Voices (A Prairie Home Companion)

Fans of A Prairie Home Companion know him as Garrison Keillor's grumbling sidekick Dusty "The Lives of the Cowboys," an array of wise-cracking wise-guys from the mean streets of "Guy Noir, Private Eye," or Jim, the beleaguered husband from A Prairie Home Companion's famously catchup-deprived midlife couple. One minute he's George Bush or Julia Child, Barack Obama or Arnold Schwarzenegger. So here's the fearless Tim Russell in 19 hilarious performances from A Prairie Home Companion, embracing every hairpin turn, crazy curve, or unexpected plot twist a live radio show heard by millions each week can possibly throw at the man of a thousand voices.

Garrison Keillor (Author), Garrison Keillor, Tim Russell, Tom Keith (Narrator)

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The Young Lutheran's Guide to the Orchestra

Garrison Keillor (Author), Garrison Keillor, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra (Narrator)

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The Road Home: News From Lake Wobegon

Some say a place is home when you know where all the roads go. Over in Lake Wobegon, all the roads take you there, and it's never been any different. And what you learn along the way is that-quicker than any road sign or street map or pair of shiny red shoes-all you really need is a story to get you from here to there. A story about an ordinary day, any ordinary day. About a young woman and her bridal shower, about a fishing shack and when it's prudent to drive out on the ice. A story about springtime, and air thick with desire, or about the advantages of dynamite when you're digging a grave in winter. Interim pastors, and lutefisk dinners, hunting pheasant in autumn and a food fight with spaghetti. Home is a fine place to listen. No need for a parka. No need to get up. Just light the fire, make some popcorn and hit "Play." The Road Home will take you all the way to where you already are. No place like it. No place at all. Garrison Keillor has been delighting audiences for four decades now with heartfelt, moving, and downright hilarious tales from the shores of Lake Wobegon. Never before collected, these expertly crafted stories are full of gentle humor, genuine emotion, and (more often than not) surprising insights into family, relationships, community, faith, and hope.

Garrison Keillor (Author), Garrison Keillor (Narrator)

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The Lake Wobegon Virus: A Novel

Bestselling author and humorist Garrison Keillor returns to one of America's most beloved mythical towns, beset by a contagion of alarming candor. A mysterious virus has infiltrated the good people of Lake Wobegon, transmitted via unpasteurized cheese made by a Norwegian bachelor farmer, the effect of which is episodic loss of social inhibition. Mayor Alice, Father Wilmer, Pastor Liz, the Bunsens and Krebsbachs, formerly taciturn elders, burst into political rants, inappropriate confessions, and rhapsodic proclamations, while their teenagers watch in amazement. Meanwhile, a wealthy outsider is buying up farmland for a Keep America Truckin' motorway and amusement park, estimated to draw 2.2 million visitors a year. Clint Bunsen and Elena the hometown epidemiologist to the rescue, with a Fourth of July Living Flag and sweet corn feast for a finale. In his newest Lake Wobegon novel, Garrison Keillor takes us back to the small prairie town where for so long American readers and listeners have found laughter as well as the wry airing of our foibles and most familiar desires and fears-a town where, as we know, 'all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.'

Garrison Keillor (Author), Garrison Keillor (Narrator)

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The Family Radio

A sampler of crowd-pleasers from A Prairie Home Companion: four "News from Lake Wobegon" monologues, "commercials" for Bertha's Kitty Boutique and the Fearmonger's Shoppe, and great music. All selections are from original live radio broadcasts.Contents:World Theater, Here We Come!Powdermilk BiscuitsThe Family RadioBertha's Kitty BoutiqueLifestyle WaltzFearmonger's ShoppeAs We Get OlderJason's SongDave's HarmonicaPorch SongNews from Lake WobegonBallad of The Autoharp ManOrigins of Lake WobegonMeatballsNews from Lake WobegonThe Song of the Exiles (The Lake Wobegon Anthem)News from Lake WobegonWhy Must the Show Go On?Hotel MinnesotaO Father Dear Why Did You Roam?ObedienceThe Whippets RagNews from Lake WobegonAjua!

Garrison Keillor (Author), various (Narrator)

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The Christmas Companion: Stories, Songs, and Sketches

The first new Prairie Home Christmas collection in ten years is a warm and wonderful celebration of storytelling, music, and the holiday spirit. It's Christmas in Lake Wobegon, Christmas at the old radio show, Christmas at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Christmas wherever friends and families gather to rejoice, reminisce, and share the holiday spirit. Contents: -Wise Men Blues, Pat Donohue -Rhubarb, Tim Russell and others -Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies, Sonos Handbell Ensemble -A Child Is Born (In Bethlehem), Garrison Keillor and Musica Sacra -Count Your Blessings, John McDonough-Away in a Manger, Rene Fleming and Emanuel Ax with Fred Hersch-The Twelve Days of Christmas, Garrison Keillor and Tom Keith -Christmas Eve Blues, Pat Donohue with the Guys All-Star Shoe Band (Richard Dworsky, Andy Stein, Gary Raynor, Arnie Kinsella) -Guy Noir, Garrison Keillor and cast -Christmastime (Just In Time), Inga Swearingen -The Christmas Fire, Garrison Keillor -Silent Night, Butch Thompson -Christmas Time's A-Coming, Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder (Mark Fain, bass; Jim Mills, banjo; Paul Brewster, guitar; Darrin Vincent, guitar; Clay Hess, guitar; and Bobby Hicks, fiddle.) -T'was the Night Before Christmas, Garrison Keillor and Richard Dworsky -Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Diana Krall-Santa, CEO-The Christmas Song, Sarah Jessica Parker -The Christ Child's Lullaby, The Boys of the Lough [Aly Bain (fiddle), Dave Richardson (mandolin, cittern, English concertina, and button accordion), Christy O'Leary (tin whistle, pipes, vocals), Cathal McConnell (flute, whistle, vocals), and Chris Newman (guitar)] -The Carolers at My Door, The Oriana Choir-Green-December Waltz, Pat Donohue National Steel -In the Bleak Midwinter, Musica Sacra-Ave Maria - Renée Fleming with Fred Hersch-Four Christmases, Garrison Keillor-Let It Snow, April Verch, fiddle -Silent Night

Garrison Keillor (Author), Ensemble Cast, Ensemble Cast, Garrison Keillor (Narrator)

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The Book of Guys

In this collection of stories you'll meet a bunch of memorable guys including Lonesome Shorty, a cowpoke torn between the proud life in the saddle and the comforts of warm apartments and women; Buddy, the teen-age leper in Sioux Falls; Earl Grey, the great tea inventor and former Republican child; Casey, at the bat in Mudville again; Dionysus, the god of wine; and Roy Bradley, boy broadcaster. Brilliantly funny, touching, and acute, The Book of Guys reveals the perilous situation of guys today. Includes: The Mid-life Crisis of Dionysus Herb Johnson, the God of Canton Casey at the Bat (Road Game Version) Lonesome Shorty Marooned Don Giovanni Buddy the Leper The Country Mouse and the City Mouse

Garrison Keillor (Author), Garrison Keillor (Narrator)

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The Best of Guy Noir Collector's Edition

It's a dark night in a city that knows how to keep its secrets, but high above the mean streets, a light burns on the 12th floor of the Acme Building, where Guy Noir-hard boiled, world-weary, yet surprisingly articulate-is trying to find the answers to life's questions. In his big swivel chair under the bare bulb beside the beat-up gray file cabinet, he awaits the call of his clientele: the disappointed, the paranoid, the embittered, the rejected-and the hilarious. Garrison Keillor's private eye spoof has thrilled audiences every week for over twenty years on live public radio broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion. Now, for the very first time, thirty-six all-time favorite Guy Noir episodes are available in one collection. Follow the intrepid detective as he solves cases no other gumshoe would touch, and enjoy Keillor's intelligent-but always funny-spin on the classic detective genre. Featuring Garrison Keillor, Sue Scott, Tim Russell, Fred Newman, Tom Keith, Walter Bobbie and special guests, with music by Richard Dworsky.

Garrison Keillor (Author), Garrison Keillor, Royal Academy Of Radio Actors, Special Guests (Narrator)

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