The City Of New Orleans 🗞️
#ArloGuthrie

Farm Aid's Best Moments: Willie Nelson's Concert Series at 40

On March 14th, 1992: Farm Aid V held in Irving, Texas; performers include #WillieNelson, #JohnMellencamp, #NeilYoung, #ArloGuthrie, Asleep At The Wheel, Kentucky Headhunters, Texas Tornadoes, Bonnie Raitt, #TracyChapman, #PaulSimon, and Mary Chapin Carpenter.

an older man playing a guitar with the words " i can 't stand it " next to him ALT: an older man playing a guitar with the words " i can 't stand it " next to him

Violence serves violence.
#ArloGuthrie #MusicMakers

🕊️ Peace, love & folk songs — Arlo taught us that. Who’s still listening in 2026?

#arloguthrie

"...a typical case of American blind justice..."

(apologies to #ArloGuthrie)

The music is half-decaf, if you’re curious. #folkmusic #folksongs #acousticguitar #singing #harmonica #originalsongs #coversongs #fingerpicking #fingerstyle #strumming #bobdylan #toddsnider #johnprine #katewolf #arloguthrie #woodyguthrie #acousticblues #country #peace #love #happiness #freedom #joy

The City Of New Orleans 🇳🇨
#ArloGuthrie

The week ending September 9, 1972, Arlo Guthrie earned US #OneHitWonder honors when his cover of Steve Goodman’s “City of New Orleans” entered the US #Billboard #Top40 at #36. It spent 9 weeks on the chart, peaking at #18. #ArloGuthrie #CityOfNewOrleans #OneHitWondered

So this bloke, to borrow the parlance of that great #American poet #ArloGuthrie, is the one who tells folks whether or not they are going to be consigned to the legendary "Group W bench"? 🚔

This song is called "__________________", and it's about Alice. And the restaurant. But __________________ is not the name of the restaurant, that's just the name of the song. And that's why I called the song "__________________".‎

You can get anything you want at __________________
#NTT

#ArloGuthrie should immediately cover this. youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...

I love that you used that reference! Arlo Guthrie would be so pleased. #ArloGuthrie #GroupWbench

God, I'm feeling like #ArloGuthrie at his army physical. Right now I'm heading in to see the shrink and there is only one thought in my brain.

1/23/1970-Called as witnesses, folksingers Judy Collins, Country Joe McDonald, Arlo Guthrie, Phil Ochs, & Pete Seeger were denied permission to sing as part of their testimony for the defense at the trial of "The Chicago Seven."

1/23/1970-Called as witnesses, folksingers Judy Collins, Country Joe McDonald, Arlo Guthrie, Phil Ochs, & Pete Seeger were denied permission to sing as part of their testimony for the defense at the trial of "The Chicago Seven."

#JudyCollins #CountryJoeMcDonald #PhilOchs #PeteSeeger #ArloGuthrie

This Friday at Villain Crepes & Coffee in St. Johns (north Portland, OR)! I play from 7-8pm, followed by open mic from 8-9pm! #acousticguitar #harmonica #folkmusic #protestsongs #neilyoung #woodyguthrie #arloguthrie #bobdylan #johnprine #originalsongs #ukulele #banjo #accordion #concertina #violin

Arlo Guthrie- Troubadours of Folk Fest, UCLA, Los Angeles Ca 6/5/93 xfer f/1st gen Audience VHS Migraine has subsided. I am not a big prescription drug guy, but Imitrex is like magic. I had something different planned for today’s collections post, but I apparently digitized 2 of Craig H…

VIDEO: Arlo Guthrie- Troubadours of Folk Fest, UCLA, Los Angeles Ca 6/5/93 xfer f/1st gen Audience VHS

Collections post for Monday, Jan 5.

partial set, not the official video version
#arloguthrie #troubadoursoffolkfest #UCLA
sacramentomusicarchive.com/1993/06/05/a...

Riding on _______________________,
Illinois Central, Monday morning rail
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail
All along the southbound odyssey
The train pulls out at Kankakee
Rolls along past houses, farms and fields

#NameThatTune

The City Of New Orleans 🌑
#ArloGuthrie

Tonight! 12/19/25 at Villain Crepes & Coffee in St. Johns (Portland, Oregon) #folkmusic #folksongs #folkmusician #singersongwriter #acousticguitar #singing #harmonica #originalsongs #covers #Christmassongs #bobdylan #woodyguthrie #arloguthrie #johnprine #johnlennon #thebeatles #coffee #crepes #fun

I'm playing at Villain Crepes & Coffee in north Portland, OR next Friday, Dec. 19 at 7pm, followed by an open mic at 8pm. I'll be doing originals & covers with acoustic guitar & harmonica, by #bobdylan #johnprine #woodyguthrie #arloguthrie #neilyoung #johnlennon #thebeatles #theymightbegiants & more

The Dark - Stranger Songs - 2025-12-09 The theme on this edition of Stranger Songs is The Dark. Click on LISTEN NOW to hear this show. Click on LISTEN to hear the current CKCU broadcast.

The Dark is this week’s #StrangerSongs theme on #CKCU. You can hear the show anytime at this link.

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#GuyClark #SteelRail #KateCampbell #AnaEgge #ArloGuthrie #ElizaGilkyson #CarolineDoctorow #EricAndersen #LeonardCohen #TomRussell #JohnnyCash #CarrieNewcomer

Come in from the cold & have a nice hot, steaming cup of music at Just Bob in north Portland, OR! The coffee & food are fantastic too! Sun. 12/14 #originalsongs with #acousticguitar #harmonica & #singing - #covers by @johnprine.bsky.social @johnlennonofficial.bsky.social #bobdylan #arloguthrie etc.

Trippy acronyms:
Is #santa real
is #satan real
Is #evil flipped-off #LIVE
And who thought #dog and #god should pair;
—English language riddles give.

Modern day #SantaClaus has a roly-poly #CocaCola body.

#arloguthrie
Wins the Season
every year
🎄🍒
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Extrait de l'album "Last Of The Brooklyn Cowboys" sorti sur le label Reprise Records (MS 2142) en 1973.
youtu.be/R7Y3mqo69uE
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#ArloGuthrie #webradio #tilala

Good "Song": Alice's Restaurant Massacree Magic American Thanksgiving ritual.

Good "Song": Alice's Restaurant Massacree

Magic American Thanksgiving ritual.

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#ArloGuthrie, #hermitpractice, #music, #review, #Thanksgiving, #the60s, #video, #Zen

Good "Song": Alice's Restaurant Massacree This unlikely 1967 Arlo Guthrie classic has become a Thanksgiving ritual for American radio stations, many of which spin it on that day. Some play it over and over for several hours, if not all day – though seldom or never on any other. Yet everything about this track is anomalous. For starters, in a market that then insisted that all songs come in under threee minutes – and remains uncomfortable with four to this day – this one tops 18. The whole A-side of its album! It's also harshly critical of a particular American war, and conservatism in general, and despite what some would have you believe, that sort of thing has always been embargoed by American media. (Yes, even in the 60s.) And finally, of course, it's not a song at all; more like a long monologue with a chorus at both ends. (This art form is called "talking blues": a sort of redneck rap that gained mainstream appreciation in the 30s when Arlo's dad, of whom some have heard, scored a hit of his own with one.) In sum, it's a bit of a mystery how the Massacree met such wide success, or came to be so deeply associated with a quasi-religious holiday. Or that such a scathing assault on Cold War conventions still calls so many of the nation's angrily divided citizens to enjoy a good-natured laugh. (And it's had that magic from the beginning. I played this recording in my high school history classes to Reagan-era students who seized it with delight. There's just something about it. Discuss.) One thing is clear: this gem of American pop culture is a true Thanksgiving blessing, given the genius of the writing and performance and the welcome relief of whimsy on such a solemn day. Guthrie's text and tone evoke the spirit of the era – and the rollicking ideals of its young. Realism and optimism; hope and resolve; humour and candour, all in equal measure. I miss that. And them. For the rest, this story that Arlo tells in first person is fundamentally true, with allowance made for good storytelling. Alice really existed, she really had a restaurant, and it really wasn't called Alice's Restaurant. He and a friend really were arrested for an environmental offence on Thanksgiving Day. They really did go to court. He really was later called up for the draught. As for me, I don't know when I first heard it – early 70's, I'd guess; radio, no doubt – but it's been a favourite ever since. I loved Arlo's rural delivery, his youthful smartassery, his opposition to militarism and the Vietnam War, and his parody of military posturing. Above all I loved his trenchant wit. All of which reinforced my own burgeoning career as a wiseacre. Now friends, there's only one or two things that the adults in my life might've done in response to this and the first was that they could have risen to their feet cheering, which wasn't very likely and I didn't expect it. Anyway, here a half-century on, we're suddenly back in a place where singing a couple bars of _Alice's Restaurant_ and walking out may be a duty we must all again perform. And two decades of Zen practice, with its tales of eccentric japes in the coercive glare of authority, have done little to spoil my taste for it. So Happy Thanksgiving to my American brothers and sisters; peace and insight to all.

Good "Song": Alice's Restaurant Massacree

Magic American Thanksgiving ritual.

rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/11/good-song-alices...

#ArloGuthrie, #hermitpractice, #music, #review, #Thanksgiving, #the60s, #video, #Zen

Good "Song": Alice's Restaurant Massacree This unlikely 1967 Arlo Guthrie classic has become a Thanksgiving ritual for American radio stations, many of which spin it on that day. Some play it over and over for several hours, if not all day – though seldom or never on any other. Yet everything about this track is anomalous. For starters, in a market that then insisted that all songs come in under threee minutes – and remains uncomfortable with four to this day – this one tops 18. The whole A-side of its album! It's also harshly critical of a particular American war, and conservatism in general, and despite what some would have you believe, that sort of thing has always been embargoed by American media. (Yes, even in the 60s.) And finally, of course, it's not a song at all; more like a long monologue with a chorus at both ends. (This art form is called "talking blues": a sort of redneck rap that gained mainstream appreciation in the 30s when Arlo's dad, of whom some have heard, scored a hit of his own with one.) In sum, it's a bit of a mystery how the Massacree met such wide success, or came to be so deeply associated with a quasi-religious holiday. Or that such a scathing assault on Cold War conventions still calls so many of the nation's angrily divided citizens to enjoy a good-natured laugh. (And it's had that magic from the beginning. I played this recording in my high school history classes to Reagan-era students who seized it with delight. There's just something about it. Discuss.) One thing is clear: this gem of American pop culture is a true Thanksgiving blessing, given the genius of the writing and performance and the welcome relief of whimsy on such a solemn day. Guthrie's text and tone evoke the spirit of the era – and the rollicking ideals of its young. Realism and optimism; hope and resolve; humour and candour, all in equal measure. I miss that. And them. For the rest, this story that Arlo tells in first person is fundamentally true, with allowance made for good storytelling. Alice really existed, she really had a restaurant, and it really wasn't called Alice's Restaurant. He and a friend really were arrested for an environmental offence on Thanksgiving Day. They really did go to court. He really was later called up for the draught. As for me, I don't know when I first heard it – early 70's, I'd guess; radio, no doubt – but it's been a favourite ever since. I loved Arlo's rural delivery, his youthful smartassery, his opposition to militarism and the Vietnam War, and his parody of military posturing. Above all I loved his trenchant wit. All of which reinforced my own burgeoning career as a wiseacre. Now friends, there's only one or two things that the adults in my life might've done in response to this and the first was that they could have risen to their feet cheering, which wasn't very likely and I didn't expect it. Anyway, here a half-century on, we're suddenly back in a place where singing a couple bars of _Alice's Restaurant_ and walking out may be a duty we must all again perform. And two decades of Zen practice, with its tales of eccentric japes in the coercive glare of authority, have done little to spoil my taste for it. So Happy Thanksgiving to my American brothers and sisters; peace and insight to all.

Good "Song": Alice's Restaurant Massacree

Magic American Thanksgiving ritual.

rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/11/good-song-alices...

#ArloGuthrie, #hermitpractice, #music, #review, #Thanksgiving, #the60s, #video, #Zen

The Motorcycle Song (Arlo Guthrie), by Randy Kaplan from the album Five Cent Piece

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Roadhouse

Arlo Guthrie:
🎵 The Motorcycle Song

#ArloGuthrie

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