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Alice's Restaurant: The Massacree Revisited

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Released
  
1996

Length
  
42:13

Artist
  
Arlo Guthrie

Producer
  
Arlo Guthrie

Genres
  
Folk music, Folk rock

Recorded
  
1996

Alice's Restaurant The Massacree Revisited (1996)
  
Mystic Journey (1996)

Release date
  
1996

Label
  
Rising Son Records

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Son of the Wind, Outlasting the Blues, Hobo's Lullaby, Live in Sydney, Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys

Alice's Restaurant: The Massacree Revisited is a 1996 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 album cover of this release also pays homage to its predecessor as it pictures Arlo in the same pose as the original album—sitting at the dinner table holding his fork and knife, waiting for Thanksgiving dinner to begin. This time he is without his hat (displaying a full head of gray hair) and 29 years older.

Contents

Each song is essentially faithful to the original—with one notable exception. At the end of re-recording of "Alice's Restaurant Massacree", Arlo launches into a postscript story wherein he relates going to Jimmy Carter's inauguration in 1976, and meeting Carter's son, Chip, who tells Arlo of the discovery of an opened copy of Alice's Restaurant left behind by the Nixons when they left the White House, leading to speculation around the fact that the title song and the gap in the Watergate tapes are both 18½ minutes in length. The Massacree Revisited continued a tradition of Guthrie's to perform "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" only once every 10 years, with this version coinciding with the 30th anniversary of the song.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Arlo Guthrie.

  1. "Alice's Restaurant Massacree (The Massacree Revisited)" – 22:26
  2. "Chilling of the Evening" – 3:52
  3. "Ring-Around-a-Rosy Rag" – 2:36
  4. "Now and Then" – 2:22
  5. "I'm Going Home" – 3:50
  6. "The Motorcycle Song" – 2:53
  7. "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

    Alice's Restaurant: The Massacree Revisited Wikipedia