An Old Thanksgiving Story - Alice's Restaurant

[Jim Koepke]

If you are an older person you may remember the song Alice's Restaurant.

Saw this posted on a friend's Facebook page.

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All 18 minutes and 15 seconds of the story here > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m57gzA2JCcM

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I remember listening to this many times since it came out 55 years ago and I still have the 33rpm album.

Just watched an interview with Arlo Guthrie from 2017. He commented that more copies of this sold through PX stores than regular record stores.

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[Maurice Mcmurry]

Someone dumps their trash along the county road that leads to our garden plot and woodlot. I keep meaning to stop and clean it up. Jim, you have given me a sign to get that done. If I find any evidence who's trash it is, I hope I have the courage to return it to them.

[Frederick Skelly]

"You can get anything you want at Alice's restaurant."
(My Dad doesnt sing it as well as Arlo, though.)

[Maurice Mcmurry]

Giving Woody's Dust Bowl Ballads, CD anthology a spin now.

[Jerome Stanek]

Seen Arlo a few years ago he had his son and daughter in the band. He does tell some nice stories one is aboyt how he makes a living off the motorcycle song. Also about how he came up with Ring around the Rosie Rag.

[Frederick Skelly]

He does tell some nice stories one is aboyt how he makes a living off the motorcycle song.

Another great tune!

[Maurice Mcmurry]

The Folkways recording of East Texas Red is my favorite Arlo (Woody) song.

[John K Jordan]

If you are an older person you may remember the song Alice's Restaurant.
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I’m git’n older and sure remember the song. The “Walk right in it’s around the back”, and the 8x10 glossy photos with circles and arrows... One of the first I learned to finger pick on the guitar, still playing it over 50 years later.

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[Keith Outten]

I have the original Alice's Restaurant album and have been a fan of his father Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan since junior high school.
Just in case anyone here doesn't know you can order a variety of very old record albums from the Library of Congress, that's where I ordered my Woody Guthrie albums decades ago.

About three years after Alice's Restaurant came out I was at my local Draft Board experiencing some of the same issues as Arlo did :)

[Maurice Mcmurry]

Thanks to all of you who reported dutifully to the Draft Board!
The video about the Folkways Sessions is very good. Arlo's part is a highlight. It seems some one liked it so much they failed to return it to our Library. I will request acquisition of a new copy, I am ready to watch it again.

Ask a Librarian... Here it is on the web

A Vision Shared: All Star Tribute to Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie on Vimeo (https://vimeo.com/15502521)