Alice Brock, the Massachusetts restaurant owner and artist who inspired folk artist Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant ...
She was best known for Guthrie's 1967 antiwar song Alice's Restaurant, a Thanksgiving staple classic-rock production. In the ...
The 1967 album “Alice’s Restaurant” also made Ms. Brock a reluctant counterculture doyenne as the purveyor of the place where “you can get anything you want.” “It’s a lot of fun ...
Alice Brock, the “Alice” in folk singer Arlo Guthrie’s Thanksgiving classic, “Alice’s Restaurant,” died Thursday at 83. Her death was first announced by Guthrie through Rising Son ...
They were arrested for littering the next day and the conviction later made Guthrie ineligible for the draft. The story would ...
The death of Alice Brock sent me back to the modest collection of high school- and college-era albums that’s still kicking around my basement. Music is such a powerful force, it can take you ...
He called his 1967 rant, “Alice’s Restaurant Massacre.” In it Guthrie intones the now famous line, “You can get anything you want at Alice’s restaurant.” Brock said she got a kick out ...
The story would be woven into the folk singer’s 1967 tune, commonly referred to as “Alice’s Restaurant.” At over 18 minutes in length, the long and winding track offered a satirical ...
Arlo Guthrie announced on Facebook that Alice Brock, the inspiration behind his 1967 hit song, “Alice’s Restaurant,” had died ...
Alice, famously immortalized in Arlo Guthrie’s 1967 classic Alice’s Restaurant Massacree, passed away last week. The song, which recounts a Thanksgiving meal at a deconsecrated church where ...
Alice Brock’s impact — in the Berkshires and beyond — is more than the epic Arlo Guthrie folk song that bears her name. Brock, who died Thursday in Provincetown at the age of 83, was a pioneer in ...