SW: Hello and welcome to A Prairie Home Companion
We're are "I'm With Her" we're so glad to be hosting Garrison asked us to host this episode - this show today
SJ: We've all been friends for a long really long time and formed this new band about a year ago.
AO: It was about a year and a half ago it was at the Telluride bluegrass festival in June of 2014 -15, what year is it now? Our band, we didn't have a name until March when we hopped on a ship and went sailing in the eastern Caribbean with Prairie Home Companion and it was on that ship that Garrison himself decided that we should call ourselves "I'm With Her."
SW: A great name.
AO: A fabulous name.
SJ: A name so good that the Hillary Clinton campaign
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SW: BORROWED OUR NAME. They borrowed it as a slogan for Hillary's campaign.
SS: (FOOTSTEPS) Hold on, hold on, hold on. Did I hear someone say my name? (Laughs) Hello to you and to the four million listeners out there in radio land.
SS: I heard you mention me in that little song and it sounds like you perhaps have some feelings about it.
AO, SJ, SW: We do. Yes. Duh. (etc)
SS: Stick with those feelings. And did I hear that you're from New York and California?
AO SJ SW: Yes. Uh huh. (etc)
SS: Two of the most biggest most beautiful blue states in this great land.
AO: Hilary, why you would just take the name of a band and put it on your sticker? Why would you take something that belonged to somebody elsee?
SJ: Yeah, and what was the process? Were there conversations or meetings or what?
SS: Well listen to you. My campaign could use some go getters like you.(LAUGHS) You know how it is, someone sends you a message, it seems like a good idea and you just go for it.
SJ: What kind of message was it?
SW: Yea. Was it an email?
SS: NO. NO. Not an email. No. Anyway, I'm here to say, that you sound fabulous, and I want your audience to know that I'm with her, I'm with her, and I'm with her. Thank you. Thank you so much.
SW: Thank you Madame Secretary.
SW: Thank you, Madame secretary.
It's a gorgeous Autumn afternoon here in St. Paul and we have a great show for you. Jeremy Kittle and his trio are here, and from the great state of North Dakota, singer songwriter Tom Brousseau, and, of course, Rich Dworsky and the Exchange Street Band.
AO intro Shadow Blues