Arlo Guthrie

Arlo Guthrie (* July 10 1947 in Coney Iceland, Brooklyn, New York) is an American folk musician.

Life

The composer, singer and guitarist is a son of folk legend Woody Guthrie (1912-1967) and Marjorie Mazia Guthrie ( 1917-1983 ). Arlo Guthrie made ​​his first appearance at age 13 and continues the musical tradition of his father. In addition to his father, Pete Seeger was one of his teachers. His musical development also influenced Leadbelly, Cisco Houston, Ramblin 'Jack Elliott, Sonny Terry and the Weavers, who belonged to the circle of the family.

Guthrie's career began in 1967 at the Newport Folk Festival with the 18- minute Alice 's Restaurant Massacree. The in chanting carried forward, bureaucracy and military critical story is about a visit to Arlo at the hippie couple Alice and Ray, his conviction for illegal waste disposal and - therefore made ​​- exemption from military service. Since the trigger occurred for the withdrawal on Thanksgiving Day, the long piece is still played today by radio stations in the U.S. preferred that day. In 1969, the song by Arthur Penn with Arlo was filmed in the lead role as Alice 's Restaurant.

With 20 years Guthrie has toured overseas and in 1969 he performed at the Woodstock Festival. There he presented his version of Amazing Grace and Bob Dylan's Walking Down the Line. With the exclamation "! The New York State Thruway is closed, man" after Coming into Los Angeles, he sparked cheers from the audience; due to the large crowds it had come to a major interstate highway in a traffic chaos. Around 1972 made ​​Guthrie Steve Goodman's City of New Orleans, contain known on the LP Hobo's Lullaby, in Germany. Even 40 years later, the song with the line Good Morning America overseas / in Europe is played regularly.

1991 Arlo Guthrie bought the from the movie Alice 's Restaurant famous Trinity Church and taught in a cross-cultural and inter-religious Guthrie Center. He was nominated for album of Woody's 20 Grow Big Songs, which he had taken with his sister Nora, the head of the Woody Guthrie - archive, and his brother Joady, for a Grammy Award in 1992. Another Grammy nomination for Best Music Album for Children in 1997 received This Land Is Your Land. Guthrie mastered a variety of instruments, performed as an actor and wrote an award-winning children's book Mooses Come Walking. Even now, the folk singer is almost every year on tour. In Germany Arlo Guthrie toured several times with Hans -Eckardt Wenzel, with whom he recorded a CD together (Every 100 Years live at the Wartburg ) 2010.

Arlo Guthrie preferably plays Acoustic Guitars Gibson of the company, the honor brought out to him the Arlo Guthrie LG - signature guitar.

Guthrie has four children, including daughter Sarah Lee and son Abe, with whom he was with Gordon Titcomb on tour. His wife, Jackie, with whom he was married for 43 years, died on 14 October 2012 at the age of 68 years to cancer.

On the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock concert of 1969 Arlo Guthrie The New York Times gave an interview in which he revealed, among other things, that he had become a member of the Republican Party years ago.

Discography

  • Alice 's Restaurant ( 1967)
  • Arlo (1968 )
  • Running Down the Road (1969 )
  • Washington County ( 1970)
  • Hobo's Lullaby (1972 )
  • Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys (1973 )
  • Arlo Guthrie (1974 )
  • Together in Concert ( with Pete Seeger) (1975 )
  • Amigo (1976 )
  • The Best of Arlo Guthrie (1977 )
  • One Night (1978 )
  • Outlasting the blues (1979 )
  • Power of Love (1981 )
  • Precious Friend ( 1982)
  • Someday ( 1986)
  • All over the World ( 1991)
  • Son of the Wind (1992 )
  • Woody's 20 Grow Big Songs ( 1992)
  • 2 Songs (1992 )
  • More Together Again (1994 )
  • Mystic Journey ( 1996)
  • This Land Is Your Land: An All American Children 's Folk Classic ( 1997)
  • Alice 's Restaurant - The Massacree Revisited (1997)
  • Bouncing Around the Room on Sharin ' in the Groove (2001)
  • Banjoman - a Tribute to Derroll Adams ( 2002)
  • Live in Sydney ( 2005)
  • Together ( special limited CD only at the concerts of the tour in Germany 2006) ( with Hans -Eckardt Wenzel, 2006)
  • In Times Like These (2007)
  • Arlo Guthrie with the Thüringer Symphoniker Saalfeld- Rudolstadt: live recording of the concert special at TFF.Rudolstadt 2010, published as a second CD of the festival sampler 2010
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