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Arlo Guthrie is tagged as: folk, singer-songwriter, 60s, classic rock, americana

Arlo Guthrie (born July 10, 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 18 minutes and 20 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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Top 10 Arlo Guthrie Songs
On a Monday
Pigmeat
De Grey Goose
East Texas Red
Talking Fishing Blues - Arlo Guthrie
Meeting At The Building (feat. Pete Seeger)
Coming Into Los Angeles
City of New Orleans
The Motorcycle Song
Alice's Restaurant Massacree
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Top 10 Arlo Guthrie Albums
Alice's Restaurant
The Best of Arlo Guthrie
Baby's Storytime
Hobo's Lullaby
Running Down The Road
Alice's Restaurant: the Massa
Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys
Amigo
Washington County
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