Arlo Guthrie The ‘Alice’s Restaurant Back by Popular Demand Tour’

It was Woody Guthrie’s dream to have enough kids to form a family band that would travel the country. Guthrie’s son Arlo has fulfilled at least part of the dream with his Alice’s Restaurant tour, featuring his daughter, Sarah Lee Guthrie. The tour will coincide with the 50th anniversary of the film Alice’s Restaurant, starring Guthrie and directed by Arthur Penn.

In July 2017, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the original release of Guthrie’s debut album, Rhino Records re-released the full mono version of the song on 180 gram vinyl. In March 2018, the national recording Registry at the Library of Congress inducted Alice’s Restaurant Massacree, as it is properly known, into a registry honoring the recording for its cultural, historic and aesthetic importance on the American soundscape.

That’s all true. It’s also true that “you can get anything you want at Alice’s restaurant…”