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Arlo Guthrie (born 10th July 1947, Brooklyn, New York ) is an American singer who is the son of folk singer and composer Woody Guthrie and his wife Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, a one-time professional dancer with the Martha Graham Company and founder of The Committee to Combat Huntington’s Disease. He graduated from the Stockbridge School of Massachusetts in 1965, and briefly attended Rocky Mountain College.

His most famous work is Alice’s Restaurant, a talking song that lasts eighteen minutes and twenty seconds (in its original recorded version; Guthrie has been known to spin the story out to forty-five minutes in concert). The song, a bitingly satirical protest against the Vietnam War draft, is based on a true incident. In the song, Guthrie was called up for a draft examination, and rejected as unfit for military service as a result of a criminal record consisting in its entirety of a single arrest, court appearance, fine and clean-up order for littering. In reality, Guthrie, though a carrier of the genetically inherited disease Huntington’s chorea, was classified as fit (1A); however, his draft-lottery number did not come up.
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  • zuppi-fm

    arlo gonna reach 1 million scrobbles soon ;)

    last month

  • Piccard42

    I saw Arlo play live last February whilst I was visiting american relatives. Absolute class act. He spices up his live shows by dropping personal anecdotes, and he's awesome at it! He's as good a storyteller as he is a musician. Hope to see him again one day.

    October 2011

  • phterrell

    GUABI GUABI

    September 2011

  • Druid66

    Wonder if he can still "get anything he wants at Alice's Restaurant"? A real old-time character, Arlo is.

    September 2011

  • Crowriver

    Interestingly, Alice's Restaurant still features in my own personal top twenty favourite films of all time. I love the understated humour in it.

    July 2011

  • Cojage

    Class act

    July 2011

  • zwurbelkurbel

    love him!

    December 2010

  • revoltingly

    Arlo is amazing!

    October 2010
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