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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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  • 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

  • imaginaryseoul

    Ahhh....yes.

    July 2011

  • zwurbelkurbel

    love him!

    December 2010

  • revoltingly

    Arlo is amazing!

    October 2010

  • AliceInChains15

    I just saw him live, it was fantastic, he sounds basically the same as always. His story telling was certainly a highlight!

    October 2010

  • Rodrigo-TAS

    Excepting Alice!

    August 2010

  • codypalooza

    You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant.

    August 2010

  • Lucefur

    the movie with him and johnny cash is brilliant one of my fave

    July 2010

  • Guztavzepagan

    Oh this is great!

    June 2010

  • thomaserak8

    dude motorcycle song is the best easy dunno why its not on top

    March 2010

  • Inmensidad_Azul

    i want to have his babies!!!!!!! no, im kidding... ._.

    March 2010

  • aqueouus

    i definitely fantasize about arlo.

    March 2010

  • Maxivernious

    Does anyone have a link of him preforming Walking Down the Line @ Woodstock?

    March 2010

  • ardneks

    hey ive uploaded ta new image ☮ http://www.last.fm/music/Arlo+Guthrie/+images/42509995

    February 2010

  • PablolitaScobar

    He definetively should tour in a city with a higher Postal Code number in Germany

    February 2010

  • PablolitaScobar

    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??]

    February 2010
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