Arlo Guthrie's 18-minute masterpiece Alice's Restaurant was released 41 years ago this month and it's still an essential part of America's Thanksgiving radio broadcasts.
Play this, plus the hilarious and unforgettable coda seen here, tomorrow and you'll do just fine...
Here's the original recording, in two parts:
And the coda, seen here at Farm Aid in 1987, is our real reason for this post. He did a much better and funnier version of this story in the mid-90s, but this'll do:
Related:
OMG, I'd never heard the Nixon bit before. That's hysterical. Thanks for posting this -- I think it's my favorite Scanner item this year.
