Alice's Restaurant | ||||
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Released | October 1967 | |||
Genre | Folk | |||
Length | 34:36 | |||
Label | Reprise | |||
Producer | Fred Hellerman | |||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Rolling Stone | Positive[2] |
The Village Voice | B+[3] |
Alice's Restaurant is the debut studio album by Arlo Guthrie released in October 1967 by Reprise Records. It features one of his most famous songs, "Alice's Restaurant Massacree". A steady seller, the album peaked at No. 17 on the Billboard Top LPs chart in March 1968. The album re-entered the chart in October 1969 and reached No. 63 in November of that year.[4] Alice's Restaurant went gold (500,000 units sold) in September 1969 and Platinum (1,000,000 sold) in October 1986.
The cover depicts Guthrie sitting shirtless at a table set for a meal, holding his knife and fork and waiting for Thanksgiving dinner to be served. He wears a black bowler hat and has a napkin spread across his chest.
In 1996, Guthrie recorded the same material live for the album Alice's Restaurant: The Massacree Revisited.