Alice's Restaurant?

[dbsfgyd1]

I now live in and grew up in Greater Cincinnati. Each Thanksgiving day at noon the local rock station plays Arlo Guthrie's epic story/song.

Listened to it today and I wonder; is that "tradition" a Cincy thing or do other markets have a station that does it too?

I don’t know about what’s traditional about it, but I haven’t heard Alice’s Restaurant since the early the early 70s and I’ve resided in 5 states. Does that say anything about my choice of residential areas?

 

[Spupilup]

I don’t know about what’s traditional about it, but I haven’t heard Alice’s Restaurant since the early the early 70s and I’ve resided in 5 states. Does that say anything about my choice of residential areas?

Perhaps!

 

[Alkali Ike]

KRVM is playing a newer 1997 "revisited" version of the song with some different lyrics. It's about 4 minutes longer than the original.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice's_Restaurant:_The_Massacree_Revisited

This newer version has added lyrics referencing Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon. It claims that Nixon left behind an opened copy of Alice's Restaurant and how coincidental it is that the song and the gap in the Nixon tapes are about the same length. Ha. And the derogatory references to gays are gone.

 

[Dropped D]

Growing up outside of St. Louis, it was a noon tradition on KSHE 95 for my cousins and I.

 

[Gries Amps]

Alice has been living in Provincetown, MA for 40 years. alicebrockstudio.com

 

[Spectrum]

Every year for the past 30 years or more, Pierre Robert Pierre Robert Celebrates 40 Years On-Air at WMMR - DMS on WMMR 93.3 Philadelphia plays the entire piece. This year, he played it at 10am and again at 2pm. A big Thanksgiving tradition here.

More than 30; I remember him playing it in the early 80s, so that puts a lower bound of 40 years on it now. Don't know when he started it; before that I was too young. Robert has been at WMMR forever. Probably as long as Channel 6 Action News has had their theme song.

 

[ERMAL]

Alice!?……who the F is Alice?

 

[DJ Bebop]

For us, it happens here...
The Tradition Continues - 101.9 KINK

 

[El Güero]

"What funny smell?"

 

[jamro217]

It used to be on the radio in Rhode Island every year, too.

 

[Neo1]

The local station here (WAMC - Albany, NY public radio) keeps it up as a tradition on Thanksgiving, followed by an interview with Arlo Guthrie about the song (and movie they made) done by the station manager a few years ago. The interview is actually worth a listen (and much more interesting than the song, once you've heard it a few times all the way through). Give the first 2-3 minutes a try, and you'll be hooked:

WAMC's Alan Chartock In Conversation With Folk Icon Arlo Guthrie

 

[Michedelic]

My first choice over Alice's Restaurant would be.................

(You don't even want to listen to this album. But you should!)

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Ah yes, “ The Iliad”; some things never change.

 

[packhowitzer]

Atlanta used to be able to hear it on Z93 (92.9) and/or 96 Rock (96.1). These days classic rock is split between 97.1 the River and Rock 100.5, and I'm not certain that either one of them play it (i've not been able to find it on either one of those anyway...). I try to keep the tradition going with help from youtube and spotify. It's a great song that tells a great story.

 

[Michedelic]

It got played a lot when I was a kid, but it faded away eventually, especially as FM rock radio playlists got more restricted. But while we’re here, here’s another long form tune that got endless plays…

 

[S-Bigbottom]

Wish someone would have hipped me to this song before I done dumped me a mess of stuff in a most likely non dumping area.

Now I am nervous... they are coming to get me...



I just needed to use the bathroom.

 

[DJ Bebop]

Wish someone would have hipped me to this song before I done dumped me a mess of stuff in a most likely non dumping area.

Now I am nervous... they are coming to get me...



I just needed to use the bathroom.

No envelopes in the pile?

 

[theduke1]

It plays on Thanksgiving all over Wisconsin
Duke

 

[Spidey2112]

I now live in and grew up in Greater Cincinnati. Each Thanksgiving day at noon the local rock station plays Arlo Guthrie's epic story/song.

Listened to it today and I wonder; is that "tradition" a Cincy thing or do other markets have a station that does it too?

Go Bucks!

 

[getBAK]

I think’Alice’s’ is a thanksgiving tradition everywhere in the US.

I’d encourage you to check out the rest of Arlo Guthrie’s catalog. “Darkest Hour” has some outstanding bass work

 

[LBS-bass]

In every town I've lived in, though I haven't really heard it here because I rarely listen to the radio here, so I don't know.

I did see Arlo perform it in Davis, CA in 2015.