The Best of Arlo Guthrie
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The Best of Arlo Guthrie is a 1977 compilation album by Arlo Guthrie
Arlo Guthrie
Arlo Davy Guthrie is an American folk singer. Like his father, Woody Guthrie, Arlo often sings songs of protest against social injustice...

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Track listing

  1. "Alice's Restaurant Massacree
    Alice's Restaurant
    "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" is a musical monologue by singer-songwriter Arlo Guthrie released on his 1967 album Alice's Restaurant. The song is one of Guthrie's most prominent works, based on a true incident in his life that began on Thanksgiving Day 1965, and which inspired a 1969 movie of the...

    " 18:33
  2. "Gabriel's Mother's Highway ballad#16 Blues" 6:25
  3. "Cooper's Lament" 2:46
  4. "Motorcycle (Significance of the Pickle) Song" 6:28
  5. "Coming into Los Angeles" 3:03
  6. "Last Train" 3:03
  7. "City of New Orleans
    City of New Orleans (song)
    "City of New Orleans" is a folk song written by Steve Goodman , describing a train ride from Chicago to New Orleans via the Illinois Central Railroad in bittersweet and nostalgic terms. Goodman got the idea while traveling on the eponymous train for a visit to his wife's family...

    " 4:31
  8. "Darkest Hour" 4:04
  9. "Last to Leave" 2:35


Bonus Tracks on the CD Re-release:
  1. "Presidential Rag" 4:27
  2. "Deportees
    Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)
    "Deportee " is a protest song with lyrics by Woody Guthrie detailing the January 28, 1948 crash of a plane near Los Gatos Canyon, 20 miles west of Coalinga in Fresno County, California, United States. The crash occurred in Los Gatos Canyon and not in the town of Los Gatos itself, which is in Santa...

    " 3:49
  3. "Children of Abraham" 2:23
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