A Prairie Home Album
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.
- O Father Dear Why
- That Sound Friends
- Old [Shep (song)|Old Shep]
- When I Was a Boy
- Mom Angel
- Breakfast Hymn
- Joy to the World & Time for a Word
- My Mailbox Is Empty
- The Timber Wolf
- Hobo's Meditation
- On the Road
Personnel
- Garrison Keillor: Vocal
- Bill Hinkley: guitar and vocal harmony and fiddle
- Judy Larson: guitar and vocal harmony
- Stephen Gammell: guitar and vcal
- Jon Pankake: fiddle
- Tom Ardnt, Larry P. Gagne, Slim Graves: vocal harmony
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.