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![What was the APHC crew up to 37 years ago? Just finishing our last show from the Park Square Court Theater. GK said on that evening’s broadcast: “We are sorry to be leaving this building but looking forward to our new home in the St. Paul Arts and Science Center just up the hill and across the way in downtown St. Paul. … It’s a real high-class place. They’ve got real seats in there, you know, and lights and everything.”
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What was the APHC crew up to 37 years ago? Just finishing our last show from the Park Square Court Theater. GK said on that evening’s broadcast: “We are sorry to be leaving this building but looking forward to our new home in the St. Paul Arts and Science Center just up the hill and across the way in downtown St. Paul. … It’s a real high-class place. They’ve got real seats in there, you know, and lights and everything.”
The songwriters in the Lake Wobegon area have been commissioned by Jack’s Auto Repair to compose songs for the Jack’s Autoharp, which I have right here. Songs in which all the necessary chords are incorporated right in the lyrics so there can be no mistake about it. You know, it’s not an easy thing to play these three-chord songs.
We’re trying to incorporate chords like F and G7 into the lyrics. Well, it’s kind of a hard task, as you can understand. The possibilities are rather limited after you write ten songs about “A minor’s life, A minor’s child,” write songs like they wrote last week, “Hand Me Down that Augmented Fifth, Let’s Diminish it before we Go To C.” After you use up the really good ideas you get down to things like “Doe, a deer, a female deer, ray, a drop of golden sun…” By that time you’re climbing the wall.
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Garrison talks about “the Autoharp Life” during our second broadcast — July 13th, 1974, live from the Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN
Guests included Butch Thompson (“Butch Thompson, is that his name? What’s his real name? Shirt?”), Bill Hinkley and Judy Larson, the Sundowner String Band, and poet Keith Gunderson
![GK signs off in the ‘70s, along with the Butch Thompson Trio (Red Maddock, Bill Evans, and Butch Thompson himself on piano)
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GK signs off in the ‘70s, along with the Butch Thompson Trio (Red Maddock, Bill Evans, and Butch Thompson himself on piano)
What was the APHC gang up to 33 years ago? Getting ready for this Saturday, May 26th broadcast from The Fitzgerald Theater (back then it was still the World Theater). Guests included bluesman Red Gallagher, singer Ken Bloom and jazz group Rio Nido (with a young bass player named Gary Raynor).
Fresh Air is looking for awesome vintage public radio photos so we thought we’d help out with another find from our archives.
Above: Garrison on autoharp with the Powdermilk Biscuit Band — Bob Douglas, Adam Granger, and Mary DuShane — sometime in the ’70s. (A little trivia: autoharp is the only instrument GK has ever played on the show.)
Sitting in with The Guy’s All-Star Shoe Band this week: our good friends Butch Thompson and Peter Ostroushko. Check out a few photos from their appearances on the show in its early days.
[Previously in From the Archives]
![Goodnight!
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![Garrison and Vern Sutton
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On stage in the ’70s
The APHC archives are full of great photos featuring performers and guests from show’s early days, and we’ll be posting a few here. Stay tuned for more!
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