Track Listing

1. Alice's Restaurant Massacre
2. Chilling Of The Evening
3. Ring-Around-A-Rosy Rag
4. Now And Then
5. I'm Going Home
6. The Motorcyle Song
7. Highway In The Wind

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #24713 in Music
• Released on: 1993-10-01
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

From Amazon.co.uk
Seminal 1960s folk-rock document which, like Don Maclean's American Pie, is now known almost exclusively for its title track: an epic 18-minute narrative, anecdotal in style, based on the singer's own experiences during 1966, when he'd been barred from the US Army due to his criminal record (something to do with the unlawful dumping of garbage). By turns hysterically funny and savagely satirical, it inspired a film, directed by Arthur Penn and starring Guthrie, and its various political barbs can still draw blood today. But the album also contains two magnificent examples of Guthrie's talents as a songwriter, rather than a commentator: both "Chillin' of the Evening" and the gorgeous, sweeping "Highway in the Wind" are more lyrical, evocative and beautiful than virtually anything he would write subsequently. Vocally and instrumentally, his style seems poised equally between two great influences--his father (folk legend Woodie Guthrie) and Bob Dylan, Guthrie's heir and successor; his vision, however, was all his own. --Andrew McGuire

Chronique amazon.fr
Il fut un temps où il semblait qu'Arlo Guthrie allait avoir un impact qui dépasserait celui de son père, le légendaire Woody Guthrie. A la fin des années soixante, Guthrie était un personnage culte, alors que son fils transformait un curieux morceau de blues appelé "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" en un hit et un film apprécié. Aujourd'hui, Arlo Guthrie est un chanteur de folk respecté, alors que Woody Guthrie, décédé, est devenu une légende. Cette bande originale contient les meilleurs moments du fils. Tirée de l'adaptation cinématographique de la chanson d'Arlo par Arthur Penn (Bonnie & Clyde), cette bande originale propose un assortiment de plaisirs comprenant la chanson titre d'Arlo Guthrie, de la musique acoustique du compositeur Gary Sherman et une version peu sincère de "Songs To Aging Children" de Joni Mitchell par un certain Tigger Outlaw. --Steven Stolder