Arlo Guthrie signed Guitar FDC Alice's Restaurant Folk

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1979 first day cover issued for the Guitar stamp, autographed by musician and Woodstock artist Arlo Guthrie. Like his father Woody Guthrie , Arlo Guthrie has carved out a career as a folksinger and songwriter with a social conscience who leavens political messages with humor. Arlo grew up in a musical community that included Pete Seeger , Leadbelly , and Cisco Houston . He learned to play the guitar at age six and was performing in coffeehouses by his late teens. His early fame was based on his anti-Establishment shaggy-dog story in song, " Alice 's Restaurant," actually a comic monolog about the singer's troubles with the police and the draft board that was extremely timely when it appeared on record in 1967. The Alice's Restaurant album became a gold record, and Guthrie went on to make a series of folk-rock records through the '70s. They were filled with his own songs and those of his contemporaries, notably Steve Goodman 's "The City of New Orleans," which became a hit single for Guthrie in 1972. Guthrie performed at the now legendary Woodstock concert in upstate New York in 1969. In the early 1980s, he launched his own label, Rising Son, which has reissued his Warner albums and released his new recordings. He continues to tour extensively and to work for such causes as environmentalism, issuing Mystic Journey in 1998. COA read more

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