Artist: arlo guthrie

Cover Classics: Mermaid Avenue by Billy Bragg & Wilco

Apr 26, 5:00pm Cover Me

Cover Classics takes a closer look at all-cover albums of the past, their genesis, and their legacy. It is hard to remember that in 1998, when Mermaid Avenue was released, Billy Bragg was a well-respected leftist folkie, a former busker who had progressively cleaned up and expanded his sound, and he was probably at the height of his commercial popularity. By contrast, Wilco, which was struggling to emerge from the shadows of Uncle Tupelo and Son Volt, had released two albums - a debut that was not fawned over, and a follow-up that was critically adored, but far from a hit. [...]

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Shows of Interest, April 8 – 14, 2013

Apr 8, 12:30pm owl and bear

Our San Diego picks for the week* // Follow Owl and Bear on Facebook and Twitter for contests, MP3s, and links that don't make it onto the blog.

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Better Together: One Year Later

Apr 4, 5:30pm The Daily Rind

Last year's Orchard-IODA merger brought a veritable treasure trove of great new music into our system. We've had the very pleasurable opportunity to do a fair bit of exploration over the last 13 months and thought we might share a cross section of highlights. The following playlist includes household names to ...

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Tonight’s Concert Picks: Black Francis at The Abbey, Ex Friends at The Fire, XPN Welcomes Arlo Guthrie to the McCarter Theatre

Feb 10, 11:09am The Key

Pixies frontman Black Francis comes to The Abbey Bar tonight.  When his influential college-rock band called it quits in 1993, Francis (born Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV) turned the sudden void in his life into the start a solo career that now includes a couple of 4AD releases, multiple aliases and an eventual Pixies reunion.  ... Continue reading ’

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History in the Singing: 'Sunday Bloody Sunday' & 19 Other Songs Based On Historic Events

Jan 30, 5:14pm Spinner.com

Filed under: News , Exclusive , The Hit List , Music Appreciation liveaid.free.fr January 30 marks the 41st anniversary of Bloody Sunday -- the infamous massacre in North Ireland at the hands of the British army that saw 14 people die and provided a rallying cry for generations of republicans. And while you may or may not be a history buff, songs like U2 's "Sunday Bloody Sunday" have helped history live [...]

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Tonight’s Concert Picks: Loretta Lynn at Keswick Theatre, Public Enemy with Whodini at Liacouras Center, Arlo Guthrie at Scottish Rite, Matt Duke at Steel City, Graham Parker & The Rumour at TLA

Nov 30, 2012, 8:35am The Key

The "First Lady of Country Music," Loretta Lynn, will be gracing the stage at Keswick Theatre this evening. The Appalachian songstress's last album, 20042s Van Lear Rose, is one of more than sixty studio records Lynn has released since her first #1 hit in 1967, "Don't Come Home A-Drinkin (With Lovin' On Your Mind)." Tickets for tonight's ... Continue reading ’

• Matt Duke Music - The Eyes (from the EP "Love on a Major Scale")

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Artist:	Matt Duke Music
Title:	The Eyes (from the EP "Love on a Major Scale")
File Name:	SoundCloud
Genre:	Alternative

Arlo Guthrie - Alice’s Restaurant

Nov 22, 2012, 12:59pm Head Underwater

Arlo Guthrie  - Alice’s Restaurant Thanksgiving tradition.

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Alice’s Restaurant: Arlo Guthrie

Nov 22, 2012, 11:23am Keep the Coffee Coming

Thanksgiving here on Coffee wouldn't be the same without our annual song!! Download: 01_alice_s_restaurant_massacre e.mp3

• Arlo Guthrie - Alice's Restaurant Massacree

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Artist:	Arlo Guthrie
Title:	Alice's Restaurant Massacree
Link Text:	01_alice_s_restaurant_massacre e.mp3
File Name:	01_alice_s_restaurant_massacre e.mp3
Bitrate:	256 kbps
Genre:	Folk
Year:	1977

Thanksgiving & Music History: The Last Waltz, Lennon's Final Concert & More

Nov 19, 2012, 5:27pm Spinner.com

Filed under: The Hit List NBC via Getty Images Nicole Westbrook's song "It's Thanksgiving" has drawn plenty of comparisons to Rebecca Black's universally panned "Friday." But the 12-year-old viral video singer has learned one valuable lesson about the music industry: If you record a song about Thanksgiving, it stands a good chance of getting heard -- at least one time of the year -- no matter what the quality. Because while there are plenty of themed [...]

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Your Sister’s (Record) Rack: Arlo Guthrie & ‘Alice’s Restaurant’

Nov 17, 2012, 3:03am 30 Days Out

Editor's Note: From a blog post appearing originally in 2010. This is a classic! The album, not the blog post. We have dusted off some of our own all-time favorite albums from our own collection, and today we want to share one that’s perfect for the Thanksgiving holiday – Alice’s Restaurant , from Arlo Guthrie. The title song is of course an American classic – and a song played by many radio stations on Thanksgiving Day.  It’s a true story about a 1965 Thanksgiving when Arlo, the son of legendary songwriter [...]

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Arlo Guthrie's Wife of 43 Years Dies After Cancer Battle

Oct 16, 2012, 11:42am Spinner.com

Filed under: News , R.I.P. Steve Starr, AP WASHINGTON, Mass. (AP) - Folk singer Arlo Guthrie has announced the death of his wife, Jackie, at age 68. An obituary released by Guthrie's record label says Jackie Guthrie had inoperable cancer and died Sunday at the couple's winter home in Sebastian, Fla. They had recently celebrated their 43rd wedding anniversary.

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The B List: Eight Great Tunes with Eight-Plus Verses

Sep 27, 2012, 3:00pm Hidden Track

Last weekend I walked into my local Berkeley coffee shop and Bob Dylan's Desolation Row was playing on the stereo. I turned to my friend and asked if he had any way of identifying what verse we were at - but neither of us could place how far into the song we were, or how likely it was the song would still be playing when we left. It was, in fact, still playing when we left. Later that night, I saw Wilco at The Greek Theatre open with One Sunday Morning (Song For Jane Smiley's Boyfriend) - yet another song [...]

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Coverfolk, Live & Kicking (On the perils and potential of concert recordings)

Sep 16, 2012, 3:15pm Cover Lay Down

If tribute albums are a coverlover's bread and butter, then in-studio covers are quite often the wine: sweet, dry, subtle, and the perfect complement to the studio recordings which bring one to a musician in the first place. But if I take an arms-length approach to live concert recordings, it's because so many cause me more pain than pleasure. Years of ear training as a choral vocalist leave me unable to appreciate instrumentation which is even slightly out of tune, a problem endemic to the live session, where crowd-pleasing can rush the re-tuning process. Similarly, a [...]

• Arlo Guthrie - City of New Orleans (Steve Goodman cover)
• Chuck E. Costa - No Love Today (Chris Smither cover)
• Coty Hogue - I'm On Fire (Bruce Springsteen cover)
• Coty Hogue - Second Hand News (Fleetwood Mac cover)
• Good Night Moon Shine - Angel From Montgomery (John Prine cover)
• Good Night Moon Shine (Molly Venter & Eben Pariser) - Annabelle (Gillian Welch cover)
• Joshua Radin and DUGAS - Bring It On Home To Me (Sam Cooke cover)
• Karan Casey and John Doyle - Sailing Off to the Yankee Land (trad.)
• Mark Erelli - Ophelia (The Band cover)
• Mark Erelli - Summer Night (Bill Morrissey cover)
• Mary Chapin Carpenter and Shawn Covin - The Night They Drove Ol' Dixie Down (The Band cover)
• Shawn Colvin - the only living boy in new york
• Shawn Colvin & Mary Chapin Carpenter - That's The Way Love Goes (Lefty Frizzell cover)

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Artist:	Arlo Guthrie
Title:	City of New Orleans (Steve Goodman cover)
Link Text:	Arlo Guthrie: City of New Orleans
File Name:	cono.mp3
Bitrate:	128 kbps

Artist:	Chuck E. Costa
Title:	No Love Today (Chris Smither cover)
Link Text:	Chuck E Costa: No Love Today
File Name:	noloto.mp3
Bitrate:	192 kbps

Artist:	Coty Hogue
Title:	I'm On Fire (Bruce Springsteen cover)
Link Text:	Coty Hogue: I’m On Fire
File Name:	iofir.mp3
Bitrate:	128 kbps
Genre:	Country & Folk
Year:	2012

Artist:	Coty Hogue
Title:	Second Hand News (Fleetwood Mac cover)
Link Text:	Coty Hogue: Second Hand News
File Name:	2ndhand.mp3
Bitrate:	128 kbps
Genre:	Country & Folk
Year:	2012

Artist:	Good Night Moon Shine
Title:	Angel From Montgomery (John Prine cover)
Link Text:	Good Night Moon Shine: Angel From Montgomery
File Name:	anfromo.mp3
Bitrate:	192 kbps

Artist:	Good Night Moon Shine (Molly Venter & Eben Pariser)
Title:	Annabelle (Gillian Welch cover)
Link Text:	Good Night Moon Shine: Annabelle
File Name:	annab.mp3
Bitrate:	192 kbps

Artist:	Joshua Radin and DUGAS
Title:	Bring It On Home To Me (Sam Cooke cover)
Link Text:	Joshua Radin / DUGAS: Bring It On Home To Me
File Name:	bringit.mp3
Bitrate:	192 kbps

Artist:	Karan Casey and John Doyle
Title:	Sailing Off to the Yankee Land (trad.)
Link Text:	Karan Casey & John Doyle: Sailing Off to the Yankee Land
File Name:	yankeel.mp3
Bitrate:	128 kbps

Artist:	Mark Erelli
Title:	Ophelia (The Band cover)
Link Text:	Mark Erelli: Ophelia
File Name:	ophe.mp3
Bitrate:	192 kbps

Artist:	Mark Erelli
Title:	Summer Night (Bill Morrissey cover)
Link Text:	Mark Erelli: Summer Night
File Name:	sumni.mp3
Bitrate:	192 kbps

Artist:	Mary Chapin Carpenter and Shawn Covin
Title:	The Night They Drove Ol' Dixie Down (The Band cover)
Link Text:	Shawn Colvin / Mary Chapin Carpenter: The Night They Drove Ol’ Dixie Down
File Name:	oldix.mp3
Bitrate:	192 kbps

Artist:	Shawn Colvin
Title:	the only living boy in new york
Link Text:	The Only Living Boy In New York
File Name:	livingb.mp3
Bitrate:	192 kbps
Genre:	Folk

Artist:	Shawn Colvin & Mary Chapin Carpenter
Title:	That's The Way Love Goes (Lefty Frizzell cover)
Link Text:	Mary Chapin Carpenter / Shawn Colvin: That’s The Way Love Goes
File Name:	thatway.mp3
Bitrate:	192 kbps

Arlo Guthrie - New York, 1966

Aug 16, 2012, 4:22pm Beehive Candy

This is Arlo Guthrie very early in his musical career live at Gerdes Folk City, Greenwich Village, New York City, back in 1966. Founded by Mike Porco and regarded by many as the original Centre of Folk Music, (a coffeehouse in Greenwich Village where everyone who was anyone in folk music used to play) you can [...]

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The City of New Orleans: Arlo Guthrie

Jul 10, 2012, 10:18am Keep the Coffee Coming

Today we have birthday boys. Our first, Arlo Guthrie, can now start collecting social security! Download: 02-city-of-new-orleans.mp3

• Arlo Guthrie - City Of New Orleans

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Artist:	Arlo Guthrie
Title:	City Of New Orleans
Link Text:	02-city-of-new-orleans.mp3
File Name:	02-city-of-new-orleans.mp3
Bitrate:	192 kbps
Genre:	Country Folk Rock
Year:	1972

Celebrate Your Freedom

Jul 2, 2012, 3:54am 30 Days Out

We are taking a few days off to celebrate our country’s birthday and if you are an astute reader, you will know this is simply last year's July 4 post with a few different songs tossed in. Wherever you are, take a few moments to appreciate your freedom - and remember there are still places in the world where armed thugs can kick down your door and drag you away just for reading this blog.  Celebrate freedom this weekend, and let it ring around the world. You are welcome to enjoy the enclosed music at your [...]

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Eateries and Watering Holes: Alice's Restaurant

May 6, 2012, 4:20pm Star Maker Machine

Jeff Fiorentino: Alice's Restaurant [ download other Fiorentino tracks ] More or less immediately, Arlo Guthrie's (1967) Alice's Restaurant came to mind. I'm not sure why: maybe it's because I worked as a chef in a restaurant for a few years after graduating from college. I want to assume that any information I can provide here about the original/Arlo Guthrie is superfluous to anything you can find online. ( start here ?) While you can check out Arlo's original here, I wanted to send you a different [...]

• Jeff Fiorentino: Alice's Restaurant » shredded_turkey_at_alices_restaurant_(1)....mp3

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Link Text:	Jeff Fiorentino: Alice's Restaurant
File Name:	shredded_turkey_at_alices_rest aurant_(1).mp3

Tonight in L.A.: Garbage, Nico Vega, Haim, Duniven, So Many Wizards, Grace Woodroofe, Michael Davis

Apr 9, 2012, 1:01pm Buzz Bands

Much ado about Monday: â–º Garbage , its new album "Not Your Kind of People" due May 15, play the first of two sold-out nights at the El Rey Theatre. â–º Nico Vega (pictured), now a foursome and with news of a new album coming soon (we hope) play It's a School Night at Bardot, along with Elle King. â–º At the Echoplex, it's a night of buzzing up-and-comers: Haim headlines, supported by popsmiths Wildcat! Wildcat! and Ko Ko . â–º And it's [...]

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How are ya?

Apr 6, 2012, 5:49pm Catfish Vegas presents...

Today's song, in honor of the great Arlo Guthrie:

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Ring-A-Round-Rosy-Ra g: Arlo Guthrie

Mar 15, 2012, 12:24pm Keep the Coffee Coming

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• Arlo Guthrie - Ring-Around-A-Rosy Rag

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Artist:	Arlo Guthrie
Title:	Ring-Around-A-Rosy Rag
Link Text:	Stream
File Name:	arlo-guthrie-alices-restaurant -ring-around-a-rosy-rag.mp3
Bitrate:	203 kbps
Genre:	Folk
Year:	1967