Thanksgiving hasnt ever been the same once this song came out. Alices Restaurant Massacree was the entire A-side on Arlo Guthries first album, released on his 1967 album Alices Restaurant. The Alice in the song was restaurant-owner Alice M. Brock, who in 1964 used $2,000 supplied by her mother to purchase a de-consecrated church in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, where Alice and her husband Ray would live, and where the songs Thanksgiving dinners were actually held. The song points out that any American citizen who was convicted of a crime, no matter how minor (in his case, it was littering), could avoid being conscripted to fight in the Vietnam War.
Posted on: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 11:21:36 +0000