Mr. Keillor Went a Courtin'

And he did ride, with Sara Watkins by his side.

Garrison Keillor’s Summer Love Tour reached erogenous zones all the way back to the balcony of the War Memorial Auditorium last Saturday night with an intoxicating and incongruous mixture of love songs, patriotism, poetry, slightly off-color humor and Christian hymns. First, an ad hoc rap set to music expressed interest in his intended lover, the entire city of Chattanooga. He followed that with foreplay--intimate duets and revealing fantasies designed to give us palpitations.  Like a practiced con artist, he took us for all we were worth and left carrying our hearts, a large chunk of our change and our blessings.