Last evening I was doing errands in the car when I happened to hear the 1995 live version of Arlo Guthrie performing "Alice's Restaurant." 
As a coda on the 30th anniversary of the original events that inspired the song, he adds an anecdote in which Jimmy Carter's son Chip tells him of discovering, when the Carter family moved into the White House, the "Alice's Restaurant" album. The text of the anecdote is at the link above. Funny.Arlo Guthrie, born in 1947, would have been only 18 in 1965 when the "massacree" transpired, 20 in 1967 when the original recording was made, and 22 when he appeared as himself in the Arthur Penn movie.
Yet he is now an old man. How do these things happen? Arlo Guthrie grown up, I can handle; middle-aged, okay. But not like this.
technorati: Arlo Guthrie, Alice's Restaurant, 1995
1 comment:
Listen to it every turkey day on KFOG. Thanks for the story and links. And hey, my husband was born in '50 so there's just no way we can consider Arlo an "old man". I don't know how these things happen either. I just turned 50 last month! sgtg.
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