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Arlo Guthrie (born July 10, 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 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). 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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farmerlister wrote:
November 2009

Wherever you are having Thanksgiving dinner, walk into the kitchen, sing "you can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant" and walk out

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soulphox wrote:
November 2009

Happy Thanksgiving!! :-p Have a Thanksgiving dinner that can't be beat, everybody!

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Bohrium wrote:
November 2009

Happy Thanksgiving

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DubbelHannes wrote:
November 2009

I can dig that...

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Who_Scared_You wrote:
October 2009

can you dig that? :)

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star_shaped_man wrote:
September 2009

...like i was rapping to the fuzz, right can you dig it?... yeah it's far out maaan :)

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diana2amazing wrote:
August 2009

Nice Stuff :D

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Bubimann wrote:
August 2009

he was the coolest guy @ woodstock!

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marcelodylan wrote:
August 2009

LOT TA FREAKS

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darwinee wrote:
March 2009

What a Beautiful Being

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moneen02 wrote:
March 2009

One of the best of all time.

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yearfuture wrote:
February 2009

Just picked up the Alice's Restaurant lp, it hasnt left my turntable since.

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carmenloofah wrote:
December 2008

arlo rocked my world!

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Pilchard Chops wrote:
December 2008

Please come to Newcastle Arlo

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Yamber wrote:
December 2008

sing the chorus to "a picture from life's other side" over "east texas red" its noice

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katokalin wrote:
November 2008

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL AT THE RESTURANT!

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MasterOfPizza99 wrote:
November 2008

Seasons greetings at the restaurant.

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Zor4n wrote:
November 2008

nice main pic :P

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Pookaquelquel wrote:
November 2008

I just clicked on his page because of his dad but, I like his sound a lot. I have a friend named arlo hahaha.

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covegirl15 wrote:
November 2008

I was raised on Alice's Restaurant, and I saw him in Concert last year with the entire family. It was a spectacular experience, one of the best concerts I've ever been too.

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