Alice's Restaurant (album)
Alice's Restaurant is the debut studio album by Arlo Guthrie released in October 1967 by Reprise Records. It features one of his most famous songs, "Alice's Restaurant Massacree". A steady seller, the album peaked at No. 17 on the Billboard Top LPs chart in March 1968. The album re-entered the chart in October 1969 and reached No. 63 in November of that year. Alice's Restaurant went gold (500,000 units sold) in September 1969 and Platinum (1,000,000 sold) in October 1986.
| Alice's Restaurant | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | October 1967 | |||
| Genre | Folk | |||
| Length | 34:36 | |||
| Label | Reprise | |||
| Producer | Fred Hellerman | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |
| Rolling Stone | Positive |
| The Village Voice | B+ |
The cover depicts Guthrie sitting shirtless at a table set for a meal, holding his knife and fork and waiting for Thanksgiving dinner to be served. He wears a black bowler hat and has a napkin spread across his chest.
In 1996, Guthrie recorded the same material live for the album Alice's Restaurant: The Massacree Revisited.