Alice's Restaurant: The Massacree Revisited
Alice's Restaurant: The Massacree Revisited | ||||
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Released | 1996 | |||
Recorded | 1996 | |||
Genre | Folk, folk rock | |||
Length | 42:13 | |||
Label | Rising Son | |||
Producer | Arlo Guthrie and Gabe Guthrie | |||
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Alice's Restaurant: The Massacree Revisited is a 1997 album by American folk singer Arlo Guthrie. The album is a new recording of all material from the entire original Alice's Restaurant album, as performed live 29 years later at The Church in Housatonic, Massachusetts. The cover of this release also pays homage to its predecessor as it pictures Guthrie in the same pose as the original album: sitting shirtless at a dinner table with a napkin spread over his chest, holding his fork and knife and waiting for Thanksgiving dinner to begin. This time, however, he is without his black bowler hat (displaying a full head of gray hair, longer than in the original picture) and 29 years older.
Each song is essentially faithful to the original, with one notable exception. At the end of the re-recording of "
Track listing
All tracks composed by Arlo Guthrie.
- "Alice's Restaurant Massacree (The Massacree Revisited)" – 22:26
- "Chilling of the Evening" – 3:52
- "Ring-Around-a-Rosy Rag" – 2:36
- "Now and Then" – 2:22
- "I'm Going Home" – 3:50
- "The Motorcycle Song" – 2:53
- "Highway in the Wind" – 4:14
Personnel
- Arlo Guthrie – vocals, keyboards
- Terry A La Berry – drums
- David Grover – guitar
- Sean Hurley – bass guitar
- Steve Ide – guitar
References
- ^ Ruhlmann, W. (2011). "Alice's Restaurant: The Massacre Revisited - Arlo Guthrie | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 22 July 2011.
- ^ Doyle, Patrick (November 26, 2014). Arlo Guthrie looks back on 50 years of Alice's Restaurant. Rolling Stone. Retrieved November 29, 2014.