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13 unusual facts about Garrison Keillor


Bombo Rivera

Rivera was the subject of a song in the late 1970s by Garrison Keillor named "The Ballad of Bombo Rivera."

Cindy Cashdollar

Cashdollar currently makes guest appearances on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion, conducts workshops nationwide and plays in a number of musical venues around Austin, Texas.

Freeport, Minnesota

Garrison Keillor, creator of Lake Wobegon and host of A Prairie Home Companion, has written that Stearns County in general and Freeport specifically, in addition to other small Minnesota towns, were inspirations for his fictional town, Lake Wobegon.

If I Had Known: Essential Recordings, 1980–96

The second disc is a 46-minute limited-edition DVD containing a 1993 documentary on Brown and his music, interviews with Brown, his parents, Garrison Keillor, and others.

Jean Redpath

Between 1974 and 1987, Redpath appeared regularly on Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion" APM radio show.

Johnny Gimble

Gimble continues to perform, and has appeared in the 1990s and 2000s on Austin City Limits and on Garrison Keillor's television broadcasts.

Karg Brothers

From there, Rich and Andy were chosen from among hundreds of other bands to perform live on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion radio show in April 2007, which was broadcast live on radio stations across the United States.

May Swenson

Judges for the competition have included Mary Oliver, Maxine Kumin, John Hollander, Mark Doty, Alice Quinn, Harold Bloom, Garrison Keillor, Edward Field and others from the first tier of American letters.

Michael Abels

During its premiere performances by Phillip Brunelle and the Plymouth Music Series of MN, narrated by both Garrison Keillor and James Earl Jones, “The charm of Frederick’s Fables... carried the day.

Mulford Q. Sibley

Garrison Keillor picked up the habit of wearing red socks from Sibley.

New Munich, Minnesota

In his book In Search of Lake Wobegon, Garrison Keillor says that he used to live near New Munich with his family.

Pamela Gemin

Gemin has published poems in such journals as Green Mountains Review and Prairie Schooner, and her poetry and anthologies have been featured on National Public Radio's All Things Considered and Morning Edition, as well as Garrison Keillor's Writers' Almanac.

Winter in the Belly of a Snake

Also, the track "January" samples popular American storyteller Garrison Keillor saying "It's January" and "I realized that if my body broke, I would break into blossom".


Carl Jackson

The double-CD tells Twain's life in spoken-word and song and features Jimmy Buffett as Huckleberry Finn, Garrison Keillor as narrator, and Clint Eastwood as Twain.

Charles J. Shields

“This biography will not disappoint those who loved the novel and the feisty, independent, fiercely loyal Scout, in whom Harper Lee put so much of herself,” wrote Garrison Keillor in the New York Times Sunday Book Review.