Arlo Guthrie - Deportee (Live at Farm Aid 2000)

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Channel: Farm Aid

Views: 80,243

Keywords: farmaid, farm aid, concert, live, music, Live Concert, Farm Aid (Music Festival), Live Music (Record Label), Arlo Guthrie (Musical Artist), Deportee/Plane Wreck At Los Gatos

Id: gtigp6DA314

Length: 4min 2sec (242 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 21 2014

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Arlo Guthrie
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Arlo Guthrie (born 10th July 1947, Brooklyn, New York ) is an American folk singer who is the son of folk singer and composer Woody Guthrie and his wife Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, a one-time professional dancer with the Martha Graham Company and founder of The Committee to Combat Huntington's Disease. He graduated from the Stockbridge School of Massachusetts in 1965, and briefly attended Rocky Mountain College.

His most famous work is Alice's Restaurant, a talking blues song that lasts eighteen minutes and twenty seconds (in its original recorded version; Guthrie has been known to spin the story out to forty-five minutes in concert). The song, a bitingly satirical protest against the Vietnam War draft, is based on a true incident. In the song, Guthrie was called up for a draft examination, and rejected as unfit for military service as a result of a criminal record consisting in its entirety of a single arrest, court appearance, fine and clean-up order for littering. In reality, Guthrie, though a carrier of the genetically inherited disease Huntington's chorea, was classified as fit (1A); however, his draft-lottery number did not come up. Read more on Last.fm.

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tags: folk, singer-songwriter, 60s, classic rock, americana

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