Coney Island, New York, U.S.| Died = | Origin = | Instrument = guitarharmonicapiano | Genre = Folk, blues | Occupation = Singer-songwriter | Years_active = 1967 - present | Label = Rising Son Records | Associated_acts = ShenandoahPete Seeger | URL = Official Website | Notable_instruments = }} Arlo Davy Guthrie (born July 10, 1947) is an American folk singer.[1] Like his father, Woody Guthrie, Arlo often sings songs of protest against social injustice. One of Guthrie's works is "Alice's Restaurant Massacree", a satirical talking blues song of about 18 minutes in length. ContentsEarly life "Alice's Restaurant" Legacy Family Discography Select filmography Notable television guest appearances Film and television composer Producer Writer Appearances as himself References Footnotes External links Early lifeArlo 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. 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."[2] Guthrie 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.[3] "Alice's Restaurant"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[4] in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The song, a bitingly satirical protest against the Vietnam War draft, although Guthrie stated in a 2009 interview with Ron Bennington that Alice's Restaurant is more an "anti-stupidity" song than an anti-war song, 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.[5] He told the New York Times Magazine that he is a Republican because, "We had enough good Democrats. We needed a few more good Republicans. We needed a loyal opposition."[6] LegacyLike his father, Woody Guthrie, Guthrie often sings songs of protest against social injustice. He collaborated with poet Adrian Mitchell to tell the story of Chilean folk singer and activist Víctor Jara in song. He regularly performed with folk legend Pete Seeger, one of his father's longtime partners. In 1991, Guthrie bought the church that had served as Alice and Ray Brock's former home in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and converted it to the Guthrie Center, an interfaith meeting place that serves people of all religions. FamilyGuthrie and his wife Jackie reside in the Town of Washington, Massachusetts. Guthrie's son Abe Guthrie and his daughters Sarah Lee Guthrie and Cathy Guthrie have also become musicians. Annie Guthrie writes songs and performs, and also takes care of family touring details. Sarah Lee performs and records with her husband Johnny Irion. Cathy plays ukulele in Folk Uke, a group she formed with Amy Nelson, the daughter of Willie Nelson. Abe Guthrie was formerly in a folk-rock band called Xavier, and now tours with his father. Abe Guthrie's son, Krishna, is a drummer and toured with Arlo Guthrie on his European tour in 2006[7] and plays guitar for the 2009-2010 Tour. Krishna plays drums in another local band and aspires to be the lead of his own band some day. Arlo Guthrie is a grandfather of Abe's son Krishna and daughter Serena, Annie's son Shiva Das (Mo) and daughter Jacklyn, Sarah Lee's daughters Olivia Nora and Sophia Irion and Cathy's daughter Marjorie Maybelle Midwood. He is third cousin to Canadian composer and musician Jan Randall. Discography Alice's Restaurant (1967) Arlo (1968) Running Down the Road (1969) Alice's Restaurant Soundtrack (1969) Washington County (1970) Hobo's Lullaby (1972) Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys (1973) Arlo Guthrie (1974) Together In Concert (1975) Amigo (1976) The Best of Arlo Guthrie (1977) One Night (1978) Outlasting the Blues (1979) Power Of Love (1981) Precious Friend (1982) Someday (1986) All Over the World (1991) Son of the Wind (1992) 2 Songs (1992) More Together Again (1994) Alice's Restaurant - The Massacree Revisited (1996) Mystic Journey (1996) This Land Is Your Land: An All American Children's Folk Classic (1997) "BanjoMan - a tribute to Derroll Adams" (2002) Live In Sydney (2005) In Times Like These (2007) 32¢ Postage Due (2008) Tales Of '69 (2009)[1] Select filmography Alice's Restaurant (1969) Renaldo and Clara (1978) Baby's Storytime (1989) Roadside Prophets (1992) Notable television guest appearances Beat-Club (episode # 1.52) February 28, 1970 Byrds of Paradise (1994) Relativity December 29, 1996 Renegade in episode: "Top Ten with a Bullet" (episode # 5.14) January 24, 1997 The fourth season of "The Muppet Show". Film and television composer Alice's Restaurant (1969) (song "The Alice's Restaurant Massacree") Woodstock (1970) (song "Coming Into Los Angeles") Clay Pigeon (1971) also known as Trip to Kill (UK) Baby's Storytime (1989) Producer Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal (2004) Writer Mooses Come Walking (2004) (Children's Book)[1] Appearances as himself Hylands hörna (episode # 4.4) January 31, 1970 Woodstock (1969) (also known as Woodstock 25th Anniversary Edition and as Woodstock, 3 Days of Peace & Music) The Dick Cavett Show September 8, 1970 Arthur Penn 1922-: Themes and Variants (1970) (TV) The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson playing "Himself" August 17, 1972 The Muppet Show (episode # 4.8) June 19, 1979 The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time (1982) Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin (1984) Farm Aid '87 (1987) (TV) A Vision Shared: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly (1988) Woodstock: The Lost Performances (1990) Woodstock Diary (1994) (TV) The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1994) (TV) The History of Rock 'N' Roll, Vol. 6 (1995) (TV) (also known as My Generation) This Land Is Your Land: The Animated Kids' Songs of Woody Guthrie (1997) Healthy Kids (1998) (TV series) The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack (2000) Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The Early Years (1955–1970) (2000) (TV) Last Party 2000 (2001) (also known as The Party's Over) Pops Goes the Fourth! (July 4, 2001) NPR's Talk of the Nation radio broadcast (Nov. 14, 2001) St. James Infirmary and The City Of New Orleans Singing in the Shadow: The Children of Rock Royalty (2003) Get Up, Stand Up (2003) (TV series) From Wharf Rats to the Lords of the Docks (2004) Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal (2004) 1968 with Tom Brokaw (2007) Pete Seeger: The Power of Song (2008) (American Masters PBS TV special) References Lee, Laura, Arlo, Alice & Anglicans: The Lives of a New England Church (Berkshire House Publishers, 2000; W.W. Norton, 2000 paperback ISBN 1-58157-010-4) Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities' Mass Moments: "Arlo Guthrie Convicted of Littering," November 28, 1965" "Youths Ordered to Clean Up Rubbish Mess": contemporaneous news article reprinted in This is the Arlo Guthrie Songbook p. 39 (offline) Footnotes External links Official Website Arlo Guthrie's Rising Son Records Audio 2007 Interview on the Horace J. Digby Report, Ann Arbor, Michigan Audio from April 2007 interview The Guthrie Center World Music Central "Arlo Guthrie" YouTube video of Alice's Restaurant YouTube video of the Motorcycle Song Performance, Folk Festival 50 in Newport 2009 Clark Center Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at 7:30pm de:Arlo Guthrie fr:Arlo Guthrie it:Arlo Guthrie he:ארלו גאת'רי nl:Arlo Guthrie no:Arlo Guthrie pl:Arlo Guthrie pt:Arlo Guthrie simple:Arlo Guthrie fi:Arlo Guthrie sv:Arlo Guthrie

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