Alice's Restaurant (album)

Alice's Restaurant is the debut album by Arlo Guthrie released in September 1967 by Reprise Records. It features one of his most famous songs, "Alice's Restaurant Massacree". A steady seller, the album peaked at #29 on the Billboard 200 album chart on the week of March 2, 1968.[4] It then reappeared on the charts in 1969, and it peaked at #17 in November of that year.[5] Alice's Restaurant went gold (500,000 units sold) in September 1969 and Platinum (1,000,000 sold) in October 1986.

Alice's Restaurant
Studio album by
Arlo Guthrie
ReleasedOctober 1967
GenreFolk
Length34:36
LabelReprise
ProducerFred Hellerman
Arlo Guthrie chronology
Alice's Restaurant
(1967)		 Arlo
(1968)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Rolling StonePositive[2]
The Village VoiceB+[3]

In 1996, Guthrie recorded the same material live for the album Alice's Restaurant: The Massacree Revisited.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Guthrie.

Side one

  1. "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" – 18:20

Side two

  1. "Chilling of the Evening" – 3:01
  2. "Ring-Around-a-Rosy Rag" – 2:10
  3. "Now and Then" – 2:15
  4. "I'm Going Home" – 3:12
  5. "The Motorcycle Song" – 2:58
  6. "Highway in the Wind" – 2:40

Personnel
  • Arlo Guthrie – vocals, guitar
  • The unknown musicians who play the electric guitar, standup bass, and drums
  • Al Brown – assistant production
  • Richard Chalfin – cover concept
  • Diana J. Davies – photography
  • Fred Hellerman – production
  • Harold Leventhal – liner notes
  • Ed Thrasher – art direction
  • Sherman Weisburd – cover photography
  • John S. Wilson – liner notes

References
  1. Lindsay Planer. "Alice's Restaurant - Arlo Guthrie | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 2013-11-29.
  2. Jann Wenner (April 20, 2000). "Alice's Restaurant: 30th Anniversary Edition". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on May 14, 2008.
  3. Christgau, Robert (December 20, 1976). "Christgau's Consumer Guide to 1967". The Village Voice. New York. p. 69. Retrieved June 22, 2013.
  4. "Billboard 200 Chart". Billboard.
  5. "Billboard 200 Chart". Billboard.


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