The Good Old Times

http://oldfortyfives.com/DYRT.htm

Bob Wills and the Three Stooges

Music AND comedy. Thanks, Mike.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGKvobvlnMU&feature=related

The Prairie Home Companion Homepage

http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/

The audiocast is on NPR stations; Sundays 10 am -12 pm CST, 90.1 FM in the Dallas market.

Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival, Chicago, Nov 2007

Here are some links to this GREAT festival with most of the greatest living guitarists. Clapton plays a set at the end with an entourage including Doyle Bramhall II and Derek Trucks with appearances by Robbie Robertson, Steve Winwood, and Buddy Guy. The 3 songs with Steve Winwood are some of the greatest guitar-playing I have ever seen!

DVR the whole thing when it reruns on PBS!

Video: "Who Do You Love," with Eric Clapton and Robbie Robertson.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/shows/crossroads2/video.html

Description of Great Performances show

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/shows/crossroads2/

Let There Be Peace on Earth

"The Twelve Days of Christmas"

A version you've never heard before. Great!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fe11OlMiz8

Thanks, Tracie.

Newspaper Story about First Baptist, Plano choir

Story in the Plano Star-Courier about the First Baptist Church choir and Christmas CD recording.

http://www.planostar.com/articles/2008/12/04/plano_star-courier/news/16.txt

Prairie Home Companion - This Week: Sauerbraten Byzantine

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Cincinnati's
Music Hall
November 29, 2008

This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we're preparing a live broadcast performance from Cincinnati's historic Music Hall. With special guests, reigning grandmasters of traditional Celtic music The Boys of the Lough, and renowned Minneapolis singer-songwriter Andra Suchy. Also with us, The Royal Academy of Radio Actors; Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman. The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and The News from Lake Wobegon.

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 Garrison Keillor will be taking up a Sunday residence at Feinstein's in New York this December. He'll sing romantic songs, and maybe tell a New York story or two. With pianist Richard Dworsky.

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"Crayola" - Kristin Andreassen
"Lonesome Valley" - GK
"Thanks Poem" - GK and Rich Dworsky
When We All Get to Heaven/Highway to Heaven/Glory Glory Hallelujah
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"Thanks" poem
Percussion script
Catchup script
Guy Noir script
"How Are Things With You" - GK and Shoe Band
"I Just Wish That She Were Here" - GK and Shoe Band
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Our post-Thanksgiving broadcast comes from Cincinnati on November 29. Then we finish out 2008 in the Big Apple, with shows at New York City's Town Hall on December 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, 20 and 27.

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Dear Host:
I'm from South Carolina and have lived in Minnesota for five years. I love Minnesota and can't imagine ever living anywhere else. What do I have to do to become officially a Minnesotan? These are the things that I have done: I lived in Duluth for 3 years, Mpls area for 2, I am on my second Subaru, I am a member of Bethlehem Lutheran church, I just saw your show live this weekend, I have been to a lutefisk dinner and lived, I am liberal and voted for Kerry and Obama. I know that I need to go to Norway and do a polar bear plunge. What more do I need to do?

Kimmie K.

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Whoever is making you feel like an outsider, Kimmie, is just being snooty. Minnesota is here to be enjoyed and you've made a good start. No need to go to Norway. (It's expensive.) Go to Sauk Center and stay in the old hotel downtown. Go to Lanesboro (another fine old hotel in what used to be a stone mill, I believe). Drive out west of Minneapolis to Willmar and then get onto one of those county roads that goes straight west and drive slowly across the prairie and when the sun starts to go down, get out of your car and walk. So beautiful. The Catholic churches and cemeteries of small towns in Stearns County. A canoe trip down the upper Mississippi. A walk on country roads on a moonlit night in January. No need to plunge ino frigid water unless you're curious. But you do need to get psyched for winter. You brave the elements, welcome the adversity and somehow it makes you more cheerful. On the coldest windiest day you go out walking into the teeth of the blizzard and when you come back to home and hearth, you will be invigorated and feel lively and witty and even giddy. Nothing like it.
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Q: What does a vegetarian zombie eat?

A: "Grains... Graaaiinnnsss."

This joke was sent in by Carlos M. of Greenville, SC. Thanks Carlos!

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For whom are you grateful?
(11/25/2008)

Listened to the show Saturday and it was not bad. I sat there in the kitchen next to the radio reading up on tips for thawing turkeys. It's probably only right that I let you in on one of my secrets: I've never before cooked a turkey...

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Tulsa Tonic
(11/18/2008)

A couple of highlights worth mention from the Mudcats Montana tour this last summer: We played in Butte where my brother Mick lives, at the Silver Dollar Saloon — he lives in the city but not at the saloon — on a Monday night...

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The Secret of Happiness
(11/18/2008)

I don't know why flight attendants put a skinny plastic swizzle stick in your cup of coffee, but there it is, and the other day, I brought the coffee to my lips and stuck the stick way up into my nostril...

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 This independent feature-length documentary film by Peter Rosen goes behind the scenes at A Prairie Home Companion, and inside the imagination of the man who created it.

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 A national holiday in Lake Wobegon is always gaudy and joyful. But what is going on between Clint Bunsen and Miss Liberty?
Everyone is here­Pastor Ingqvist, the Sons of Knute, Sister Arvonne of Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility and her ocarina band, the Norwegian bachelor farmers, Dorothy and the Chatterbox Café, Wally in the Sidetrack Tap­as crowds converge on the little town to celebrate American independence, even as the chairman of the event broods on the great question of the day: Shall we struggle on valiantly here or shall we burst the bonds and find beautiful life in the golden west?

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 Scripts and bits from A Prairie Home Companion celebrate the secret society of men and women who possess excellent spelling and punctuation skills. (You know who you are.) Selections include "The Six-Minute Hamlet," a tribute to Emily Dickinson, a Guy Noir adventure that exposes an MFA scam, a riveting "Professional Organization of English Majors" drama, and guests Billy Collins, Robert Bly, Roy Blount Jr., and Calvin Trillin.

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Austin City Limits Show, Oct 23rd (PBS in Dallas date)

If you like Texas music, guitar-playing, or songwriters performing
live, or all 3, check out the Oct 23rd show with Lyle Lovett, Guy
Clark, John Hiatt, and Joe Ely.

It was titled: "Lyle Lovett & Friends: A Songwriter's Special." I
don't know when it will be repeated, but watch for it!

Here's a video of one of Lyle Lovett's songs:

http://www.pbs.org/klru/austin/index.php?Itemid=673&id=217&option=com_content&task=view

New Christmas Album by First Baptist Plano Choir

This is our 2008 Christmas CD. Enjoy!

http://www.fobart.net/pwgray/Christmas%20Music/

Click on a song to play it with Windows Audio.

A Prairie Home Companion - Nov 8, 2008

There's some great humor and music here, especially in the election skits in Segment 1.


http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/2008/11/08/

FBC Plano Christmas Concert Plans

At 11:43 AM 11/12/2008, you wrote:

 
Sanctuary Choir and Orchestra Members,
 
Thank you for a wonderful Saturday of recording.  As soon as the CDs are available, we will let you know.
 
The following message is sent on Bro. Doug's behalf with a message to give people who ask questions about the "Living Christmas Tree".
 
Please tell everyone (including Church members):
 
We are not presenting the Living Christmas Tree this year.  We would like to invite you to our Sanctuary Choir & Orchestra Christmas Concert featuring
guest soloist, Scot Cameron, Tenor.  The concert will be on Sunday, December 14 at 6:30 pm in our Worship Center.  There is no charge for this concert and tickets will be available the last of November.
 
The future of the Living Christmas Tree is uncertain at this time but the Music Ministry will continue to offer two major concerts a year for our community – the
Christmas Concert and a spring concert.
 
Thanks for your help,
 
Bro. Doug
 
 
 
Joyce Roberts
Music Ministry Assistant
First Baptist Church
1300 E. 15th Street
Plano, Texas 75074
Phone: 972-422-2572
joycer@fbcplano.org

Christmas Music

If you'd like to listen to Christmas music, I posted some last year.

Go to the "Label" section on the right-hand side of the blog and click on "Holiday music."

The selections are by my church choir at First Baptist Church of Plano. I will post more in the next month since we just recorded a Christmas CD.

Hope, Music, and Finances

These are excellent features from Bill Moyers Journal, Oct 24th.

Prepare to be inspired by this piece on the hardships in today's world and how Mark Johnson is using music to bring people together. In the beginning, Moyers visits Metro Baptist Church in Hell's Kitchen, where Ronnie Adams, formerly at First Baptist, Plano, now serves.
"Playing for Change:"
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10242008/profile2.html Click on video.

Excellent discussion of the financial crisis with Dr. James K. Galbraith of the University of Texas, author of the new book, "The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too."
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10242008/profile.html Click on video.

Prairie Home Companion in Abilene

From Abilene Christian University, with lots of Church of Christ
jokes and college choirs, plus Cindy Cashdollar on dobro.

http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/2008/10/18/

The Wardlaw Brothers of Vidalia, Georgia!

Here is an outstanding gospel group that I heard and met at the New
Baptist Covenant meeting in Atlanta. I have their album, "The
ForeRunner," and it is fabulous!

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=124860002

Video with Texas version of 'I've Been Everywhere'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scjb_f95diA

Thanks, Mike.

So you think you know your Christmas Carols?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/carolquiz,0,4932856.triviaquiz

More Christmas Music

Here's a link to several Christmas songs performed by the First Baptist Plano choir and orchestra. I sing bass in the choir. Enjoy!

Farmer Gray, "Sleigh Ride" is for you! :)

http://paulw.gray.googlepages.com/christmasmusic

All music plays with Windows Media.

Merry Christmas Music and Pictures

Here's a song to bring you some Christmas cheer! It's from a 2004 recording of The Living Christmas Tree performance by my First Baptist, Plano choir. I'm singing! Enjoy!

http://paulw.gray.googlepages.com/05NutcrackerJingles.wma

It plays with Windows Media.

And here's some family Christmas pictures from the square in McKinney.

http://picasaweb.google.com/paulw.gray/McKinneyChristmasPictures

Have a Merry, Merry Christmas!!!!!