Arlo performing Alice’s Restaurant at the Guthrie Center. July 2, 2005. Happy Thanksgiving!
This one was really fun to put together with clips from the movie & Arlo performing “Alice” in the same Church 40 years later.
Arlo Guthrie/Alice’s Restaurant
Alice’s Restaurant
“Alice’s Restaurant Massacree” [sic] (commonly referred to simply as “Alice’s Restaurant”) is one of singer-songwriter Arlo Guthrie’s most prominent works, a musical monologue based on a true story that began on Thanksgiving Day 1965, and which inspired a 1969 movie of the same name.
The song lasts 18 minutes and 34 seconds, occupying the entire A-side of Guthrie’s 1967 debut record album, also titled Alice’s Restaurant (Warner Reprise Records). It is notable as a satirical, first-person account of 1960s counterculture, in addition to being a hit song in its own right. The final part of the song is an encouragement for the listeners to sing along, to resist the draft, and to end war.
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