Alice's Restaurant - A Thanksgiving Tradition

On Thanksgiving day, 97.3 KBCO will be playing Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant" in its entirety. LISTEN at noon.

Despite its tenuous connection to the holiday, the album has become a traditional spin on rock stations during Thanksgiving. The true, but over exaggerated story begins with Arlo and his friend getting busted for illegally dumping garbage from a Thanksgiving feast at Alice's Restaurant, and quickly devolves into a farcical tale about dodging the Vietnam draft.


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