| A Prairie Home Album | |
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| Genre | Spoken Word; Radio |
| Length | 43:56 |
| Label | Minnesota Educational Radio |
| Producer | Evelyn Wills Duvalier, Larry P. Gagne |
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.
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