Alice's Restaurant

by Arlo Guthrie

Alice's Restaurant cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 4 October 1967
  • Label: Reprise
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 35:12
  • Community rating: 3.61/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Anchored entirely by its legendary, 18-minute title track, this debut album instantly established the songwriter as a vital voice of the 1960s counterculture. The sprawling, largely spoken-word centerpiece utilizes deadpan humor and acoustic fingerpicking to deliver a blistering, absurd satire of the Vietnam-era military draft. It remains an enduring, heavily beloved staple of American protest folk.

Genres

Descriptors: Folk, conscious, political, acoustic, protest, war, folk, male-vocals, narrative, conversational

Tracklist

  1. Alice's Restaurant Massacree (18:36)
  2. Chilling of the Evening (3:04)
  3. Ring A-Around-A-Rosy Rag (2:15)
  4. Now and Then (2:23)
  5. I'm Going Home (3:18)
  6. The Motorcycle Song (2:50)
  7. Highway in the Wind (2:41)

Credits

  • Phil Seymour - primary artist, guitar, percussion, vocals, written-by
  • Bryan Garofalo - bass
  • Jay Davis - bass
  • Rick Mays - bass
  • Craig Krampf - drums
  • Gerry Polci - drums
  • Bob Cowsill - guitar, written-by
  • Danny Johnson - guitar
  • Arlo Guthrie - Primary Artist
  • No Artist - Primary Artist

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