Alice's Restaurant is the debut studio album by Arlo Guthrie released in October 1967 by Reprise Records. It features one of his most famous songs, "Alice's Restaurant Massacree". A steady seller, the album peaked at No. 17 on the Billboard Top LPs chart in March 1968. The album re-entered the chart in October 1969 and reached No. 63 in November of that year.[4] Alice's Restaurant went gold (500,000 units sold) in September 1969 and Platinum (1,000,000 sold) in October 1986.
| Alice's Restaurant | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | October 1967 | |||
| Genre | Folk | |||
| Length | 34:36 | |||
| Label | Reprise | |||
| Producer | Fred Hellerman | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Rolling Stone | Positive[2] |
| The Village Voice | B+[3] |
The cover depicts Guthrie sitting shirtless at a table set for a meal, holding his knife and fork and waiting for Thanksgiving dinner to be served. He wears a black bowler hat and has a napkin spread across his chest.
In 1996, Guthrie recorded the same material live for the album Alice's Restaurant: The Massacree Revisited.
Track listing
editAll tracks composed by Arlo Guthrie.
Side one
- "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" – 18:20
Side two
- "Chilling of the Evening" – 3:01
- "Ring-Around-a-Rosy Rag" – 2:10
- "Now and Then" – 2:15
- "I'm Going Home" – 3:12
- "The Motorcycle Song" – 2:58
- "Highway in the Wind" – 2:40
Personnel
edit- Arlo Guthrie – vocals, guitar
- The unknown musicians who play the electric guitar, keyboards, harmonica, standup bass, tuned percussion and drums
- Al Brown – assistant production
- Richard Chalfin – cover concept
- Diana J. Davies – photography
- Fred Hellerman – production
- Harold Leventhal – liner notes
- Ed Thrasher – art direction
- Sherman Weisburd – cover photography
- John S. Wilson – liner notes
References
edit- ^ Planer, Lindsay. "Arlo Guthrie – Alice's Restaurant: Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 2013-11-29.
- ^ Jann Wenner (April 20, 2000). "Alice's Restaurant: 30th Anniversary Edition". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on May 14, 2008.
- ^ Christgau, Robert (December 20, 1976). "Christgau's Consumer Guide to 1967". The Village Voice. New York. p. 69. Retrieved June 22, 2013.
- ^ "Billboard 200 Chart". Billboard.
External links
edit- Alice's Restaurant at Discogs (list of releases)
- Alice's Restaurant at MusicBrainz (list of releases)
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