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Arlo Guthrie - Alice's Restaurant - 180g LP

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Arlo Guthrie - Alice's Restaurant - 180g LP
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Pure Pleasure -  PPAN RS 6267  - 180 Gram Virgin Vinyl - AAA 100% Analogue

Audiophile Mastering by Ray Staff at Air Mastering London  

Limited Edition - Pressed at Pallas Germany - Reprise RS 6267

AAA 100% Analogue This LP was Remastered using Pure Analogue Components Only, from the Master Tapes through to the Cutting Head

This is a great re-mastering of an iconic sixties folk album Sound 4.5/5 Audiophile Audition

The other shock is that it sounds rather wonderful - Ken Kessler HiFi news, October 2016

The audio quality on this re-mastered vinyl is very good. Guthrie’s voice is clear and the reedy timbre is mellow and prominent. The stereo separation is precise and additional instrumentation shades the guitar and voice without unnecessary volume modulation. The iconic album cover dinner scene is a sly reminder of Guthrie’s tongue-in-cheek approach. The liner notes by Harold Leventhal give an anecdotal insight into Arlo Guthrie’s early life and career. There is also a reprinted New York Times review of his impactful performance at The Newport Festival

Although he'd been a fixture on the East Coast folk circuit for several years, Arlo Guthrie did not release his debut album until mid-1967. A majority of the attention directed at Alice's Restaurant focuses on the epic 18-plus-minute title track, which sprawled over the entire A-side of the long-player. However, it is the other half-dozen Guthrie compositions that provide an insight into his uniformly outstanding, yet astoundingly overlooked, early sides on Warner Bros. Although arguably not 100 percent factual, "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" -- which was recorded in front of a live audience -- is rooted in a series of real incidents.

This decidedly anti-establishment saga of garbage dumps closed on Thanksgiving, good ol' Officer Obie, as well as Guthrie's experiences with the draft succeeds not only because of the unusual and outlandish situations that the hero finds himself in; it is also his underdog point of view and sardonic delivery that maximize the effect in the retelling. In terms of artistic merit, the studio side is an equally endowed effort containing six decidedly more traditional folk-rock compositions. Among the standouts are the haunting "Chilling of the Evening," which is given an arrangement perhaps more aptly suited to a Jimmy Webb/Glen Campbell collaboration. There is a somewhat dated charm in "Ring-Around-a-Rosy Rag," a sly, uptempo, and hippie-friendly bit of jug band nostalgia. "I'm Going Home" is an underrated minor-chord masterpiece that is not only reminiscent of Roger McGuinn's "Ballad of Easy Rider," but also spotlights a more sensitive and intricate nature to Guthrie's craftsmanship.

Also worth mentioning is the first installment of "The Motorcycle Song" -- which was updated and discussed further on the live self-titled follow-up release Arlo (1968) -- notable for the extended discourse on the "significance of the pickle."

Tracklisting

Side 1
    Alice’s Restaurant Masacree
    
Side 2
    Chilling Of The Evening
    Ring-Around-A-Rosey-Rag
    Now And Then
    I’m Going Home
    The Motorcycle Song
    Highway In The Wind 
                        
 
Personnel: Arlo Guthrie, vocals and guitar.
 
Produced by Fred Hellerman with assist by Al Brown
 
Recorded:  1967

Arlo Guthrie - Arlo Alice's Restaurant - 180g LP

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