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Arlo Guthrie

Arlo Guthrie

Arlo Guthrie has been played on NTS in shows including Jazzman, featured first on 9 May 2014. Songs played include Coming Into Los Angeles, I‘m Going Home and Amazing Grace.

Arlo Guthrie (born 10th July 1947, Brooklyn, New York ) is an American folk singer who is the son of folk singer and composer Woody Guthrie and his wife Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, a one-time professional dancer with the Martha Graham Company and founder of The Committee to Combat Huntington's Disease. He graduated from the Stockbridge School of Massachusetts in 1965, and briefly attended Rocky Mountain College.

His most famous work is Alice's Restaurant, a talking blues song that lasts eighteen minutes and twenty seconds (in its original recorded version; Guthrie has been known to spin the story out to forty-five minutes in concert). The song, a bitingly satirical protest against the Vietnam War draft, is based on a true incident. In the song, Guthrie was called up for a draft examination, and rejected as unfit for military service as a result of a criminal record consisting in its entirety of a single arrest, court appearance, fine and clean-up order for littering. In reality, Guthrie, though a carrier of the genetically inherited disease Huntington's chorea, was classified as fit (1A); however, his draft-lottery number did not come up.

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Arlo Guthrie

Arlo Guthrie has been played on NTS in shows including Jazzman, featured first on 9 May 2014. Songs played include Coming Into Los Angeles, I‘m Going Home and Amazing Grace.

Arlo Guthrie (born 10th July 1947, Brooklyn, New York ) is an American folk singer who is the son of folk singer and composer Woody Guthrie and his wife Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, a one-time professional dancer with the Martha Graham Company and founder of The Committee to Combat Huntington's Disease. He graduated from the Stockbridge School of Massachusetts in 1965, and briefly attended Rocky Mountain College.

His most famous work is Alice's Restaurant, a talking blues song that lasts eighteen minutes and twenty seconds (in its original recorded version; Guthrie has been known to spin the story out to forty-five minutes in concert). The song, a bitingly satirical protest against the Vietnam War draft, is based on a true incident. In the song, Guthrie was called up for a draft examination, and rejected as unfit for military service as a result of a criminal record consisting in its entirety of a single arrest, court appearance, fine and clean-up order for littering. In reality, Guthrie, though a carrier of the genetically inherited disease Huntington's chorea, was classified as fit (1A); however, his draft-lottery number did not come up.

Original source: Last.fm

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Coming Into Los Angeles
Arlo Guthrie
Warner Bros. Records1979
I‘m Going Home
Arlo Guthrie
HanseSound Film & Musik2020
Amazing Grace
Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger
Warner Bros. Records1982
The Motorcycle Song
Arlo Guthrie
Reprise Records1967
Chilling Of The Evening
Arlo Guthrie
Reprise Records1967
The City Of New Orleans
Arlo Guthrie
Reprise Records1972
I`m Going Home
Arlo Guthrie
Reprise Records0