Arlo Guthrie
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About Arlo Guthrie:
Arlo Davy Guthrie (born July 10, 1947) is an American folk
singer. Like his father, Woody Guthrie, Arlo often sings songs of protest
against social injustice. One of Guthrie's better-known works is "Alice's
Restaurant Massacree", a satirical talking blues song of about 18 minutes in
length.
Arlo Guthrie was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of folk singer and composer
Woody Guthrie and his wife Marjorie Mazia Guthrie. His sister is Nora Guthrie.
His mother was a one-time professional dancer with the Martha Graham Company and
founder of the Committee to Combat Huntington's disease, the disease that took
her husband's life in 1967. His maternal grandmother was renowned Yiddish poet
Aliza Greenblatt. Arlo Guthrie received religious training for his bar mitzvah
from Rabbi Meir Kahane, who would go on to form the Jewish Defense League.
"Rabbi Kahane was a really nice, patient teacher," Guthrie later recalled, "but
shortly after he started giving me my lessons, he started going haywire. Maybe I
was responsible." Guthrie attended Woodward School in Clinton Hill Brooklyn 1st
through 8th grades and later graduated from the Stockbridge School, in
Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1965, and briefly attended Rocky Mountain
College. He received an Honorary Doctorate from Westfield State College, in
2008.
As a singer, songwriter and lifelong political activist, Guthrie carries on the
legacy of his legendary father. He was awarded the Peace Abbey Courage of
Conscience award on September 26, 1992.
His most famous work is "Alice's Restaurant Massacree", a talking blues song
that lasts 18 minutes and 34 seconds in its original recorded version. Guthrie
has pointed out that this was also the exact length of one of the famous gaps in
Richard Nixon's Watergate tapes. He has been known to spin the story out to
forty-five minutes in concert. The Alice in the song is Alice Brock, who now
runs an art gallery in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
The song lampoons the Vietnam War draft. However, Guthrie stated in a 2009
interview with Ron Bennington that Alice's Restaurant is more an
"anti-stupidity" song than an anti-war song, adding that it is based on a true
incident. In the song, Guthrie is 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 and creating a public nuisance on Thanksgiving Day
in 1965, when Arlo was eighteen years old. On the DVD commentary for the film,
Guthrie states that the events as presented in the song are true to real-life
occurrences.
For a short period of time after its release in 1967, "Alice's Restaurant" was
heavily played on U.S. college and counter-culture radio stations. It became a
symbol of the late 1960s and for many it defined an attitude and lifestyle that
were lived out across the country in the ensuing years. Many stations across the
States have made playing "Alice's Restaurant" a Thanksgiving Day tradition.
A 1969 film, directed and co-written by Arthur Penn, was based on the story. In
addition to acting in this film, also called Alice's Restaurant, Guthrie has had
minor roles in several movies and television series. Guthrie's memorable
appearance at the 1969 Woodstock Festival was documented in the Michael Wadleigh
film Woodstock.
In 1972 Guthrie made famous Steve Goodman's song "City of New Orleans", a paean
to long-distance passenger rail travel. Guthrie's first trip on that train was
in December 2005 (when his family joined other musicians on a train trip across
the country to raise money for musicians financially devastated by Hurricane
Katrina and Hurricane Rita, in the South of the United States). He also had a
minor hit with his song "Coming into Los Angeles," which was played at the 1969
Woodstock Festival, and success with a live version of "The Motorcycle Song."
Guthrie's 1976 album Amigo received a 5-star (highest rating) from Rolling
Stone, and may be his best-received work; unfortunately that milestone album,
like Guthrie's earlier Warner Brothers albums, is rarely heard today even though
each boasts compelling folk and folk rock music accompanied by top-notch
musicians such as Ry Cooder.
In the fall of 1975 during a benefit concert in Massachusetts, Arlo Guthrie
performed with his band Shenandoah in public for the first time. They continued
to tour and record throughout the 1970s until the early 1990s. Although the band
received good reviews, it never gained the popularity that Guthrie did while
playing solo. They did play many of Guthrie's most famous songs, which were most
requested. By this time, Guthrie had developed his own sound in versions of
"talking blues" songs. A number of musicians from a variety of genres have
joined Guthrie on stage, including Pete Seeger, David Bromberg, Cyril Neville,
Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, Judy Collins, Wesley Gray, Josh Ritter, and
others.
Though Guthrie is best known for being a musician, singer, and composer,
throughout the years he has also appeared as an actor in films and on
television. The film Alice's Restaurant (1969) is his best known role, but he
has had small parts in several films and even co-starred in a television drama,
Byrds of Paradise.
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