Arlo Guthrie!

[rosarugosa]

We saw Arlo live tonight! He was definitely on my live music bucket list. We got a City of New Orleans, one of my all-time most favorite songs. :)
It was a fun and very interesting show including his children and grandchildren and son-in-law, a very musical family. The family thing reminded me a little bit of Trump, but a lot more benign. :laff: The family takes their Woody Guthrie legacy very seriously, and did This Land is Your Land, among other songs of his.

[rosarugosa]

Hey this is pretty interesting:
https://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/01/25/woody-guthrie-sang-of-his-contempt-for-his-landlord-donald-trumps-father/

[bae]

I attribute a good portion of my hearing loss to an Arlo concert when I was 20. Small venue, but I was unfortunately close to a stack of speakers. Even back then, I normally brought hearing protection, but that night I didn’t, figuring “how loud could he be?”

It was a great show though!

[Tybee]

In college I went to school near Alice's Restaurant and we made a pilgrimage senior year. What an amazing meal.

[JaneV2.0]

I'm really glad that with all those children to potentially pass it along to, he didn't get the gene for Huntington's disease from his father.

[BikingLady]

How wonderful to read! I named my youngest Arlo:)

[rosarugosa]

Biking Lady: Cool! Did you name him after Arlo Guthrie?

[LDAHL]

We saw Arlo live tonight! He was definitely on my live music bucket list. We got a City of New Orleans, one of my all-time most favorite songs. :)


A song written by the great Steve Goodman, and covered by many. I kind of like his original version.

[creaker]

I saw him last year in November (again) - he had recently ended the 50th anniversary of Alice's Restaurant tour, so that wasn't played. But still a good show.

I did see David Crosby last Monday in Arlington, it was a great show as well.

[heatmiser]

A song written by the great Steve Goodman, and covered by many. I kind of like his original version.

Guthrie loves to relate how Goodman first played City of New Orleans for him. and it
is even repeated in Wikipedia:

"While at the Quiet Knight bar in Chicago, Goodman saw Arlo Guthrie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlo_Guthrie), and asked to be allowed to play a song for him.
Guthrie grudgingly agreed, on the condition that if Goodman bought him a beer, Guthrie would listen to him play for as
long as it took to drink the beer.[2] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_New_Orleans_(song)#cite_note-Spotlight_Arlo-2) Goodman played "City of New Orleans", which Guthrie liked enough that he asked to record it."

In the interviews or videos, Guthrie likes to add:
"That was the best beer I ever drank."

Dunno whether he related that at the concert that rosarugosa (http://www.simplelivingforum.net/member.php?57-rosarugosa) went to...
I love Goodman; his songs were so warm and human and told such good stories...

[rosarugosa]

Guthrie loves to relate how Goodman first played City of New Orleans for him. and it
is even repeated in Wikipedia:

"While at the Quiet Knight bar in Chicago, Goodman saw Arlo Guthrie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlo_Guthrie), and asked to be allowed to play a song for him.
Guthrie grudgingly agreed, on the condition that if Goodman bought him a beer, Guthrie would listen to him play for as
long as it took to drink the beer.[2] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_New_Orleans_(song)#cite_note-Spotlight_Arlo-2) Goodman played "City of New Orleans", which Guthrie liked enough that he asked to record it."

In the interviews or videos, Guthrie likes to add:
"That was the best beer I ever drank."

Dunno whether he related that at the concert that rosarugosa (http://www.simplelivingforum.net/member.php?57-rosarugosa) went to...
I love Goodman; his songs were so warm and human and told such good stories...

Yes, he did tell that story and many others. He is quite the storyteller!

[Williamsmith]

I ran across a first release of his vinyl album from 1967 called “Alice’s Restaurant” while digging through a dirty collection in a pizza shop storage closet in rural PA. Sadly, it wasn’t in the nicest shape but I rescued it and played the whole side one....”Alice’s Restaurant.” It was a good story then and now. But I also found some really great classics among the stash which I got for a nice price, so Arlo did me okay after all.