Arlo Guthrie was arrested in Massachusetts 60 years ago and his tale became the unnofficial song of Thanksgiving.
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Can you get anything you want on Thanksgiving?

You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant,” Arlo sings, and we know that this is surely not true. We have lost so much these past two years: lives, innocence, time, peace of mind, security, ...
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The Apple Tree Inn, built in 1885, would be reconfigured but the Ostrich Room, a locally popular night spot, will remain ...
No folk music collection is complete without the all-time classic 1967 LP, Arlo Guthrie’s debut, the entire first side of which was the 18-minute opus called “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree.” It was a ...
I enjoyed Joan Vennochi’s Nov. 26 Opinion column, “ ‘Alice’s Restaurant’ — a fun sing-along or a serious antiwar song?” Arlo Guthrie often pointed out that the length of “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree” ...
ARLO GUTHRIE: (Singing) You can get anything you want at Alice's restaurant. SHAPIRO: The song was inspired by 1960s artist Alice Brock, who died last week at the age of 83. Viki Merrick was a close ...