Arlo Guthrie · 1967 · 1960s · Entry 266 of 272
Alice's Restaurant
Side one is the eighteen-minute 'Alice's Restaurant Massacree' — a talking-blues draft-dodge yarn that is somehow both deeply funny and deeply true. Side two is the rest of the songs. Most people own it for one track and return to it every November; that's still the right call.
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