Alice's Restaurant Massacre Illustrated
I've re-touched the original drawings, combined both parts, and made the video widescreen. This is also the original 1967 and full version of the song as well, so enjoy!
‘Alice’s Restaurant,’ an Undying Thanksgiving Protest Song
The political message came second to the humor of Arlo Guthrie’s improbable 1967 holiday hit.
In the small canon of Thanksgiving-related popular music, Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice's Restaurant Massacree” stands out for a few reasons, one of which is that it’s only barely related to Thanksgiving. The other reasons include its 16-minute runtime, and that it’s politically minded art of the sort worth revisiting this particular holiday season.
Guthrie released the story-song in October 1967 as the leadoff to his album Alice’s Restaurant, and it made such an impact that it was turned into a film, some radio stations still play it each Thanksgiving, and Guthrie now has a tradition of performing it once a decade. For last year’s fiftieth anniversary of the real-life incident that inspired the song, Guthrie told Rolling Stone, “I never expected it to even be on a record, let alone get airplay, let alone have it made into a movie. I mean, that was all like a whirlwind of events that were way beyond my control.”
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