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Here's your chance to ask GK your most pressing questions—about the writing life, the radio life, Lake Wobegon, Guy Noir, whatever you like. Also, feel free to send feedback about the show. Honest comments and criticism are always welcome!

Post to the Host:
As a regular, even faithful listener for more than a quarter-century, I sometimes find myself nostalgic for old, favorite snatches of sound. For example, while the opening theme of many years now is always a welcome sound, I do sometimes pine for the strains of "Hello, Love." But maybe the host has personal or sentimental reasons for not re-visiting that one. I wonder, though: How did "Lives of the Cowboys" ever lose Western Lubrication as a host? Thanks for everything you've done, and continue to do. Whatever else may be happening, you've been and remain a reliable bit of pleasure in every week of my life.

Kern C.
Seattle, WA

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We switched from Hank Snow's "Hello, Love" to the "Tishomingo Blues" way back in 1991 when the show started up again in New York, after a long sabbatical. An artistic move, from the sweet clip-clop of country to the sweet yearning of old blues. Tishomingo allows me to write new words now and then. And as a song, "Hello, Love" is no great shakes, though I can understand the nostalgic attachment. I feel it, too, but nostalgia is dangerous for a guy in his mid-sixties. Western Lubrication? I'd forgotten all about it. I'll get it right back into service. Thanks.

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Mr. Keillor,
My wife and I saw your show on Saturday in NYC. I want to say it was one of the most enjoyable 2 hours and 15 minutes I have spent on this planet. Thank you for bringing such joy to us all.

Henry H.
Manchester, MD

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I take it you enjoyed seeing Elvis Costello yodel. Well, so did I. And Tom Rush and Heather Masse and the actors and the band and all. I don't know that I would rank that show ahead of two hours and fifteen minutes hiking down into the Grand Canyon, or sailing the Norwegian coast, or riding the Zephyr through the Rockies, but, as we say in Minnesota, it wasn't bad. It could have been worse.

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