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| Arlo Guthrie plays music that swims in the conscience of social and political issues. Guthrie grew up in the footsteps of his father's (Woody Guthrie) world and learned to play guitar shortly after learning how to walk. In 1967 he wrote "Alice's Restaurant" that had nothing to do with an impatient grill cook who called his employees "dingy broads." What it actually touched on were timely issues of the draft board, the Vietnam War, and police harassment. His most famous work is "Alice's Restaurant Massacree", a talking blues song that lasts 18 minutes and 20 seconds (in its original recorded version; Guthrie has been known to spin the story out to forty-five minutes in concert). Guthrie has pointed out that this was also the exact length of one of the famous gaps in Richard Nixon's Watergate tapes. The Alice in the song is Alice Brock, who now runs an art galleryin Provincetown. |
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Arlo Guthrie
Music Memorabilia
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