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Arlo Guthrie (born 10th July 1947, Brooklyn, New York ) is an American folk 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 blues 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.
His most famous work is Alice’s Restaurant, a talking blues 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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Piccard42 wrote:
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.
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phterrell wrote:
GUABI GUABI
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Druid66 wrote:
Wonder if he can still "get anything he wants at Alice's Restaurant"? A real old-time character, Arlo is.
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Crowriver wrote:
Interestingly, Alice's Restaurant still features in my own personal top twenty favourite films of all time. I love the understated humour in it.
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Cojage wrote:
Class act
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imaginaryseoul wrote:
Ahhh....yes.
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zwurbelkurbel wrote:
love him!
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revoltingly wrote:
Arlo is amazing!
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AliceInChains15 wrote:
I just saw him live, it was fantastic, he sounds basically the same as always. His story telling was certainly a highlight!
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Rodrigo-TAS wrote:
Excepting Alice!
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codypalooza wrote:
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant.
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Lucefur wrote:
the movie with him and johnny cash is brilliant one of my fave
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Guztavzepagan wrote:
Oh this is great!
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thomaserak8 wrote:
dude motorcycle song is the best easy dunno why its not on top
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Inmensidad_Azul wrote:
i want to have his babies!!!!!!! no, im kidding... ._.
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aqueouus wrote:
i definitely fantasize about arlo.
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Maxivernious wrote:
Does anyone have a link of him preforming Walking Down the Line @ Woodstock?
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ardneks wrote:
hey ive uploaded ta new image ☮ http://www.last.fm/music/Arlo+Guthrie/+images/42509995
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PablolitaScobar wrote:
He definetively should tour in a city with a higher Postal Code number in Germany
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PablolitaScobar wrote:
Why is only one concert schedulded in Germany (and nearly in Europe) so far- and why is it in Rudolfstadt? [Where is Rudolfstadt and why does the PC start with a zero??]
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