Arlo Davy Guthrie (born July 10, 1947) is an American retired folk singer-songwriter.
It became a symbol of the late 1960s, and for many it defined an attitude and lifestyle that were lived out across the country in the ensuing years.
So, after a brief period in the late 1960s and early 1970s when he replaced the monologue with a fictional one involving "multicolored rainbow roaches", he decided to do it only on special occasions from that point forward. ==Musical career and critical reception== The "Alice's Restaurant" song was one of a few very long songs to become popular just when albums began replacing hit singles as young people's main music listening.
Usually, he has appeared as himself, often performing music and/or being interviewed about the 1960s, folk music and various social causes.
Special guests were Pete Seeger, Bonnie Raitt, David Bromberg and Jerry Jeff Walker. ==Politics== In his earlier years, at least from the 1960s to the 1980s, Guthrie had taken what seemed a left-leaning approach to American politics, influenced by his father.
If this world ain’t doing it for you, and your hopes are in the next one — you can’t get more protest than that." Guthrie attended Woodward School in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, from first through eighth grades and later graduated from the Stockbridge School, in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1965.
He spent the summer of 1965 in London, eventually meeting Karl Dallas, who connected Guthrie with London's folk rock scene and became a lifelong friend of his.
He is the fifth, and oldest surviving, of Woody Guthrie's eight children; two older sisters died of Huntington's disease (which also killed Woody in 1967), an older brother died in a train accident and a third sister died in childhood.
A performance at the Newport Folk Festival on July 17, 1967, was also very well received.
By the end of the decade, Guthrie had gone from playing coffee houses and small venues to playing massive and prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall and the Woodstock Festival. For a short period after its release in October 1967, "Alice's Restaurant" was heavily played on U.S.
The part of his father Woody Guthrie, who had died in 1967, was played by actor Joseph Boley; Alice, who made a cameo appearance as an extra, was also recast, with actress Pat Quinn in the title role (Alice Brock later disowned the film's portrayal of her). Despite its popularity, the song "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" is not always featured on the setlist of any given Guthrie performance.
Many stations in the United States have a Thanksgiving Day tradition of playing "Alice's Restaurant". A 1969 film, directed and co-written by Arthur Penn, was based on the true story told in the song, but with the addition of a large number of fictional scenes.
He also had a minor hit with his song "Coming into Los Angeles", which was played at the 1969 Woodstock Festival, but did not get much radio airplay because of its plot (involving the smuggling of drugs from London by airplane), and success with a live version of "The Motorcycle Song" (one of the songs on the B-side of the Alice's Restaurant album).
Guthrie's memorable appearance at the 1969 Woodstock Festival was documented in the Michael Wadleigh film Woodstock. Guthrie also made a pilot for a TV variety show called The Arlo Guthrie Show in February 1987.
and together we sang our victory songs though we were worlds apart." A 1969 rewrite of "Alice's Restaurant" pokes fun at then-former President Lyndon Johnson and his staff. In 1984, he was the featured celebrity in George McGovern's campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in Guthrie's home state of Massachusetts, performing at rallies and receptions. Guthrie identified as a registered Republican in 2008.
Since putting it back into his setlist in 1984, he has performed the song every ten years, stating in a 2014 interview that the Vietnam War had ended by the 1970s and that everyone who was attending his concerts had likely already heard the song anyway.
So, after a brief period in the late 1960s and early 1970s when he replaced the monologue with a fictional one involving "multicolored rainbow roaches", he decided to do it only on special occasions from that point forward. ==Musical career and critical reception== The "Alice's Restaurant" song was one of a few very long songs to become popular just when albums began replacing hit singles as young people's main music listening.
They continued to tour and record throughout the 1970s until the early 1990s.
But in 1972 Guthrie had a highly successful single too, Steve Goodman's song "City of New Orleans", a wistful paean to long-distance passenger rail travel.
A cover of the folk song "Gypsy Davy" was a hit on the easy listening charts. In the fall of 1975 during a benefit concert in Massachusetts, Guthrie performed with his band, Shenandoah, in public for the first time.
Shenandoah consisted of (after 1976) David Grover, Steve Ide, Carol Ide, Terry A La Berry and Dan Velika and is not to be confused with the country music group Shenandoah.
Guthrie has performed a concert almost every Thanksgiving weekend since he became famous at Carnegie Hall, a tradition he announced would come to an end after the 2019 concert. Guthrie's 1976 album Amigo received a five-star (highest rating) from Rolling Stone, and may be his best-received work.
Maybe I was responsible." Guthrie converted to Catholicism in 1977, before embracing interfaith beliefs later in his life.
However, he apparently did not perceive himself as the major youth culture spokesperson he had been regarded as by the media, as evidenced by the lyrics in his 1979 song "Prologue": "I can remember all of your smiles during the demonstrations ...
Special guests were Pete Seeger, Bonnie Raitt, David Bromberg and Jerry Jeff Walker. ==Politics== In his earlier years, at least from the 1960s to the 1980s, Guthrie had taken what seemed a left-leaning approach to American politics, influenced by his father.
He received an honorary doctorate from Siena College in 1981 and from Westfield State College in 2008. As a singer, songwriter and lifelong political activist, Guthrie carries on the legacy of his father.
Since putting it back into his setlist in 1984, he has performed the song every ten years, stating in a 2014 interview that the Vietnam War had ended by the 1970s and that everyone who was attending his concerts had likely already heard the song anyway.
and together we sang our victory songs though we were worlds apart." A 1969 rewrite of "Alice's Restaurant" pokes fun at then-former President Lyndon Johnson and his staff. In 1984, he was the featured celebrity in George McGovern's campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in Guthrie's home state of Massachusetts, performing at rallies and receptions. Guthrie identified as a registered Republican in 2008.
Guthrie's memorable appearance at the 1969 Woodstock Festival was documented in the Michael Wadleigh film Woodstock. Guthrie also made a pilot for a TV variety show called The Arlo Guthrie Show in February 1987.
They continued to tour and record throughout the 1970s until the early 1990s.
In 1991, Guthrie bought the church that had served as Alice and Ray Brock's former home in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and converted it to the Guthrie Center, an interfaith meeting place that serves people of all religions.
A rare dramatic film part was in the 1992 movie Roadside Prophets.
A video from a concert with Seeger at Wolf Trap in 1993 has been a staple of YouTube, with Guthrie's story-telling showcased in a performance of Can't Help Falling in Love.
In 1997, Guthrie pointed out that this was also the exact length of one of the infamous gaps in Richard Nixon's Watergate tapes, and that Nixon owned a copy of the record.
6 (1995) (TV) (also known as My Generation) This Land Is Your Land: The Animated Kids' Songs of Woody Guthrie (1997) Healthy Kids (1998) (TV series) The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack (2000) Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The Early Years (1955–1970) (2000) (TV) Last Party 2000 (2001) (also known as The Party's Over) Pops Goes the Fourth! (July 4, 2001) NPR's Talk of the Nation radio broadcast (November 14, 2001) * "St.
6 (1995) (TV) (also known as My Generation) This Land Is Your Land: The Animated Kids' Songs of Woody Guthrie (1997) Healthy Kids (1998) (TV series) The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack (2000) Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The Early Years (1955–1970) (2000) (TV) Last Party 2000 (2001) (also known as The Party's Over) Pops Goes the Fourth! (July 4, 2001) NPR's Talk of the Nation radio broadcast (November 14, 2001) * "St.
Guthrie's first trip on that train was in December 2005 (when his family joined other musicians on a train trip across the country to raise money for musicians financially devastated by Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita, in the South of the United States).
Reprinted in: ==External links== The Guthrie Center World Music Central "Arlo Guthrie" Audio 2007 Interview on the Horace J.
He received an honorary doctorate from Siena College in 1981 and from Westfield State College in 2008. As a singer, songwriter and lifelong political activist, Guthrie carries on the legacy of his father.
and together we sang our victory songs though we were worlds apart." A 1969 rewrite of "Alice's Restaurant" pokes fun at then-former President Lyndon Johnson and his staff. In 1984, he was the featured celebrity in George McGovern's campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in Guthrie's home state of Massachusetts, performing at rallies and receptions. Guthrie identified as a registered Republican in 2008.
He endorsed Texas Congressman Ron Paul for the 2008 Republican Party nomination, and said, "I love this guy.
Jackie died on October 14, 2012, shortly after being diagnosed with liver cancer.
Since putting it back into his setlist in 1984, he has performed the song every ten years, stating in a 2014 interview that the Vietnam War had ended by the 1970s and that everyone who was attending his concerts had likely already heard the song anyway.
"I firmly believe that different religious traditions can reside in one person, or one nation or even one world," Guthrie said in 2015.
PBS special on Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 2015 ===Film and television composer=== Alice's Restaurant (1969) (song "Alice's Restaurant Massacree") Woodstock (1970) (song "Coming into Los Angeles" – the song heard on the officially released soundtrack recording was not played at the Woodstock festival.
We needed a loyal opposition." Commenting on the 2016 election, Guthrie identified himself as an independent, and said he was "equally suspicious of Democrats as I am of Republicans." He declined to endorse a candidate, noting that he personally liked Bernie Sanders despite disagreeing with parts of Sanders' platform.
The Ides, along with Terry a la Berry, reunited with Guthrie for a 2018 tour.
While he thought it "wonderful" that Donald Trump was not relying on campaign donations, he did not believe that it necessarily meant that Trump had the best interests of the country in mind. In 2018, Guthrie contacted publication Urban Milwaukee to clarify his political stance.
He also had a home in Sebastian, Florida, which he sold in 2018.
Guthrie has performed a concert almost every Thanksgiving weekend since he became famous at Carnegie Hall, a tradition he announced would come to an end after the 2019 concert. Guthrie's 1976 album Amigo received a five-star (highest rating) from Rolling Stone, and may be his best-received work.
His final performance at Carnegie Hall was on November 29, 2019.
Cathy plays ukulele in Folk Uke, a group she formed with Amy Nelson, a daughter of Willie Nelson. On October 23, 2020 Guthrie announced he was retired from touring and stage shows citing health issues, including a stroke on Thanksgiving Day 2019 which required brief hospitalization and physical therapy.
In 2020, following his retirement, Guthrie expressed a philosophical affinity for gospel music, noting: "Gospel music to me is the biggest genre of protest music.
In 2020, Guthrie collaborated with Jim Wilson on a cover of Stephen Foster's “Hard Times Come Again No More.” On October 23, 2020, Guthrie announced via Facebook that he had "reached the difficult decision that touring and stage shows are no longer possible," due to a series of strokes that had impaired his ability to walk and perform.
All of his scheduled tour appearances for 2020 were cancelled, and Guthrie said he will not accept any new bookings offered.
His final live touring concert was on March 7, 2020, at The Caverns in Pelham, Tennessee.
He had attempted to record some private concerts in the summer of 2020 but concluded his playing was no longer up to his standards. ==Acting== Though Guthrie is best known for being a musician, singer, and composer, throughout the years he has also appeared as an actor in films and on television.
I don't pretend to be right all the time, and sometimes I've gone so far as to change my mind from time to time." Guthrie expressed support for the George Floyd protests in June 2020, stating that it would be good if politicians "embraced it rather than resist the evolving nature of what it means to be an American." ==Legacy== Like his father, Woody Guthrie, he often sings songs of protest against social injustice.
His 2020 retirement statement made note that he has a companion named Marti. Guthrie's son Abe Guthrie and his daughters Annie, Sarah Lee Guthrie, and Cathy Guthrie are also musicians.
Cathy plays ukulele in Folk Uke, a group she formed with Amy Nelson, a daughter of Willie Nelson. On October 23, 2020 Guthrie announced he was retired from touring and stage shows citing health issues, including a stroke on Thanksgiving Day 2019 which required brief hospitalization and physical therapy.
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