Arlo Guthrie (born 10th July 1947, Brooklyn, New York ) is an American folk… Read Full Bio ↴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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Outlasting the Blues
Arlo Guthrie Lyrics
Carry Me Over There's a tavern up on the roadside, I must be…
Drowning Man Words and music by Arlo Guthrie I remember when I met…
Epilogue Words and music by Arlo Guthrie And for myself I have…
Evangelina I dream in the morning That she brings me water And I…
Prologue Words and music by Arlo Guthrie In the event of my…
Sailing Down This Golden River Words and music by Pete Seeger Sailng down my golden river …
Telephone Every morning just as soon as it's light Get out of…
Underground Words and music by Arlo Guthrie There's a river running und…
Wedding Song Words and music by Arlo Guthrie Poor Adam alone in Eden Tak…
Which Side Words and music by Arlo Guthrie There's trouble all around …
World Away From Me I've been keeping on the run I've been traveling with the…
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