A Prairie Home Album

A Prairie 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


 * 1) Six A.M. [4:55]
 * 2) O Father Dear Why (Gagne) [2:55]
 * 3) That Sound Friends [3:45]
 * 4) Old Shep (Foley) [3:20]
 * 5) When I Was a Boy [3:33]
 * 6) Mom Angel (Keillor/Raygor) [2:45]

Side Two


 * 1) Breakfast Hymn (Will L. Thompson, 1879) [2:58]
 * 2) Joy to the World & Time for a Word [3:00]
 * 3) My Mailbox Is Empty (Gagne) [3:50]
 * 4) The Timber Wolf (Gagne/Hinkley) [4:55]
 * 5) Hobo's Meditation (Rodgers) [2:40]
 * 6) 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