"'''Alice's Restaurant'''" is singer-songwriter Arlo Guthrie's most famous work, a talking blues based on a true story that began on Thanksgiving Day 1965, and which inspired a 1969 movie. The song lasts 18 minutes and 20 seconds, occupying the entire A side of Guthrie's 1967 debut record album, also titled ''Alice's Restaurant'' (Warner Reprise Records). It is significant as a satirical, first-pe...(continue reading)