Alice's Resturant

[Earth_First]

[LuvNewcastle]

1. I used to know all the words to that.

My first college roommate, another friend and I used to listen to this song/story every time we went on road trips to buy alcohol. I went to a college near Jackson, Miss. and Miss. had voted to comply with the law that made alcohol illegal for anyone under 21. Lou. still had the 18-to-buy law, so we would drive about 30-40 miles away to Vicksburg and cross the river there to buy our booze. Sometimes we would hang out at the bar over in Lou. or we would drive back over to Miss. and drive down the Natchez Trace and drink our stuff there. Those were good times.

[hobbit709]

2. good thing some of the details didn't make it into the song.

I know Geoff Outlaw-who was with Arlo when they got busted for littering, he had me rolling on the floor with some of the background.

[underpants]

4. Happy Thanksgivvikah

That sounds really interesting

[Roy Rolling]

8. More?

Please share. As dated as the move is now, I must've seen it a dozen times in theaters. Would love to hear your stories...

[diabeticman]

17. Can you share any details with us?

[bearssoapbox]

3. I listen every year.

Some radio station, somewhere, plays it at noon.

I introduced my kids to it from the time they were born. Oldest 39, youngest 34

I'll be listening at noon today.

[RoccoR5955]

6. Arlo's "home" radio station

WAMC, out of Albany, NY will play it at noon, then they will have an interview with Arlo at 1 p.m. EDT.
www.wamc.org is the URL.
Check it out. Not only a good public radio station, but a great local station, and one of the most listened to stations in the Albany, NY area. They have a lot of repeaters too, so they get out to about 1/3 of NY state, as well as MA, CT, VT, NH, PA, and NJ.

I listen to this station religiously. There are many programs that they produce there, so though they may be an NPR affiliate, they do their own thing as well, and it is simply the best radio that I have heard in my time.

Oh, and if you hear something that you like, do us all a favor, and give something to the station. They don't ask for a minimum donation, and they only do three fund drives a year. They are a different kind of fund raiser. Many people tune into the fund drive, just to hear stories, and what's going on in the community as well.

I know that this is off topic, and I am preaching for our radio station, but hey, it's Arlo's "home" station. He's been on it, and contributes to it. So do I.

[otherone]

7. always nice to see wamc fans

[RoccoR5955]

9. I'm not a "fan,"

I'm a member of the huge WAMC family!

[otherone]

21. yes yes

peace and low stress..

[DeadLetterOffice]

5. I live not too far from Alice's Church...

...and think of Arlo every time I drive past.

It's kind of amazing how many of the riffs from this song have made it into the verbal shorthand of my family. The ones that show up most often:
1) shovels and rakes and implements of destruction
2) and they all moved away from me on the bench there
3) blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth
4) mean nasty ugly things
and my personal favorite:
5) I'm not proud... or tired.

[Roy Rolling]

10. And

...8-by-10 color glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back explaining what it is

[hootinholler]

12. I use

He looked at the judge and then he looked at the judge's seeing eye dog, and he realized it was another case of American Blind Justice.

Fairly often.

[MadrasT]

15. I know, right?

those are some of our favorite phrases.

[The Wizard]

11. A family tradition since 1968

A 60s anthem.

[starroute]

13. Here's something that came through on Facebook

Posted by Arlo -- but it's getting shared around a lot and wound up in my stream. Arlo writes:

This is the current interior of Old Trinity Church, where once a long time ago, lived my dear friends, Alice & Ray Brock. A little over 20 years ago we purchased and reconsecrated the old building and created an Interfaith Church and Educational foundation.

As part of our commitment to "Feed Everyone" every year (in fact every week throughout the year), there will be many people coming to our tables. Our friends, neighbors and local businesses volunteer as always to provide the best food available to anyone and everyone (until we run out). We do lots of other great things too! From our hearts to yours whoever and wherever you are - Happy Thanksgiving!

And if you want to know more or maybe even help us out, check out our website: https://guthriecenter.org/

[Earth_First]

14. +1

Thanks for sharing!

[MadrasT]

16. Tradition since 1989

Which was the first year I heard it.

Got the CD out last night to play in the car on the way to mom & dad's later.

[napkinz]

18. scene from the film ...

[Egalitarian Thug]

19. How cool is this? I'm taking a break during our annual tradition of listening

to the album and here you are!
http://svana.org/sjh/various/Arlo_Guthrie-Alices_Restaurant_Massacree.mp3
Farm out!

Kid. Have you rehabilitated yourself?

[Roy Rolling]

20. LOL

Farm out! Out of state!