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Larry, I'm hoping that George will approve them (on Arlo's word) and I'll bring some up to sell. I use an 8" square pan so they're a little thicker and chewier than if I used the specified pan for the "recipe." In some batches I add instant coffee to the water.

My brownies are 2x2" and I thought 50 cents would be a decent price. Someone suggested a dollar. At 50 cents, The Church would make $4.00 per pan. Any ideas on price so I can email George with this idea?

Thanks Arlo, I'll take that as a yes......I think. Anyway, I think Terrie has the job!

Thanks, Larry I'm looking forward to October already! The funny thing (for me, anyway) was when Abe said he wanted a 2nd one, but pnly a corner! Those are my favorites, too... I guess it's being an Aries.

Hey Arlo I see the brownies worked on ya already! Is the room spinning yet? LOL! Good luck with selling the brownies at the church...

Back in '69 LIFE magazine had out a special issue of LIFE that was all on WOODSTOCK. Arlo was in it. Sadly I couldn't find a copy of it. Well, LIFE has reprinted that issue & a pic of Arlo is in it. He is so cute in the pic!

Mooses Come Walking into NPR spotlight

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Weekend Edition ambassador to the world of kiddie literature, Daniel Pinkwater, about a book written by Arlo Guthrie and........

http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=3851407

Arlo Guthrie has recorded what seems to be two separate sets of songs even though one can easily see the single origin of all of them. It is his first album and it is without qualification excellent. (RS 1)

JANN WENNER

http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/alb ... mainRegion

First, take a look at the cover of the album. Seated at a dining table, set with candles, three glasses, cigarettes and three plates for an elegant dinner is Arlo Guthrie. Arlo, incredibly dopey-looking, wearing a black formal derby hat on top of his sloppy long curly hair, is holding a fork and a knife in each hand like a hillbilly, and has no shirt on but for a napkin pasted to his chest.

If you don't dig the cover, which is incredibly funny looking, then don't listen to the title song of the record, "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" which is 18 minutes long and takes up all of one side.

The composition, done in a very happy talking-blues style, is the true story of how 20-year old Arlo was arrested for littering, went through a draft physical and was rejected because of his police record for littering. Naturally it is a little more complex than that, and it is vastly funny on a dozen rehearings. Arlo sings and talks against a pretty guitar chord melody he wrote and ultimately brings the whole audience (recorded live), into singing the chorus "You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant."

What makes the artist so thoroughly charming on the cover photo is the same unconscious insouciance that makes "Alice's Restaurant Massacree,"—a type of piece that, at this point in musical history, would seem to be totally out of date, trite and boring — an unqualified and complete success.

It is another one of those coincidences — inexplicably except by belief in them—that Woodie Guthrie's son, whom Arlo is, should be born into his musical career via this, his first album, on the eve of his father's death. There is something happening here and it is obvious.

There is a flip side to the album. The appearance of the cover and the title song leaves you completely unprepared for the other songs Arlo has written.

Arlo Guthrie is electric; he has gathered ideas and snatches of styles from many places — Bob Dylan, Donovan, Tim Hardin, Paul McCartney. The influences include his father and the entire folk milieu of Pete Seeger, Leadbelly, Sonny Terry et al, in which he was raised. In fact, the album was produced by Fred Hellerman who sang with the Weavers.

Arlo has not done anything imitative; his eclecticism is of the sort where what you hear and what is happening enters as perfectly natural. For example, the style of melody in "Highway in the Wind." is reminiscent of Donovan and the accompanying quiet electric guitar and soft percussion calls to mind Dylan's Bringing It All Back Home days. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the organist on the session was Al Kooper. (Some hip radio Program Director is going to make a name for himself when he discovers the obvious Top-40 potential of some of these tracks, like "Now and Then.")

The lyrics are excellent. Take the lines from "Chilling of the Evening," itself a perfect title:

Though you know, my love

That I must go away

Following the winds that blow inside me;

I've nowhere left to run or hide

Except if you will come and run Beside me.

And even if you do

There'll be a lot for us to do

To keep believing, yes

Take me from the chillin' of the evening.

Also included on the second side are "Ring-Around-a-Rosy Rag," and "The Motorcycle Song," humorously done songs in funky, but contemporary idiom. One must rarely use the word, but the songs, especially the gentler ones, are beautiful.

Arlo Guthrie has recorded what seems to be two separate sets of songs even though one can easily see the single origin of all of them. It is his first album and it is without qualification excellent. (RS 1)



JANN WENNER

Arlo Guthrie headlines Saturday night's RiverReach benefit concert

http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/music ... 02,00.html

Show a benefit for at-risk youths

"Arlo Guthrie's concert Saturday night at the Gothic Theatre is theRiverReach Rendezvous, a fundraiser for the River Reach Youth Initiative.

The program helps at-risk kids by getting them into programs to help the elderly, the homeless and the environment, as well rafting, skiing and other activities. Tickets cost $150 and $250 and cover catered food and drinks.

Guthrie happily accepted the date.

"We have our own struggling foundation that tries to do the good stuff. We know what it's like to be on the other end of trying to do stuff at a time when funds are harder and harder to find because people got less and less cash walking around," he says."

Here are some Arlo news alerts, one being a Club Passim review...

Wednesday, November 17, 2004 4:23 AM PST
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Boston Globe, Tue, 16 Nov 2004 10:44 PM PST
Guthrie offers set that couldn't be beat http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living ... rts%20News

Forty years ago, Arlo Guthrie cut his teeth in little coffeehouses like Club Passim. More than most '60s folk stars, he was able to bring the intimate charms of that small-stage style into the pop arena, with his trademark blend of literate goofiness, acute political satire, and sweeping balladry. So it's not surprising that he seemed so utterly ...

Long Beach Press-Telegram, Wed, 17 Nov 2004 0:29 AM PST
A folk/rock saga grows http://www.presstelegram.com/Stories/0, ... 92,00.html
ALICE'S RESTAURANT, CHURCH, ETC.: In our Turkey Tunes Tuesday column, reader Lindsay Schnebly wrote to let us know we forgot to include Arlo Guthrie 's "Alice's Restaurant' in our mixtape of Thanksgiving songs.

http://www.troyrecord.com/site/printerF ... d=13394174

11/18/2004
Arlo explores another side of Guthrie tradition
By Don Wilcock , The Record

Most people today think of Woody Guthrie as the quintessential folk singer of the first half of the 20th century.
His lyrical accounts of the Depression and Dust Bowl era, organized labor and ethnic culture have eclipsed all other historical records of that period and become the accepted view in our collective psyche.
Son Arlo Guthrie remembers his dad dancing around the Hanukah tree at home and how this very charismatic public figure took the pressure off his son at Arlo's bar mitzvah in a New York City loft.
"My bar mitzvah was supposed to be an event that focused at least on me in part," says Arlo today, laughing as he remembers his father's entrance.
"As soon as my dad came, everyone rushed over to hang out with him. It was such a relief. He came in and saved the day. All the pressure was off me immediately, and I just remember saying, 'Thank God he's here'."
It is this aspect of the prolific Woody Guthrie that will be explored by Arlo Guthrie and the Klezmatics at the New York State Museum Saturday night in a performance called "Holy Ground: The Jewish and Spiritual Songs of Woody Guthrie." "When I first started singing," says Arlo in a phone interview, "a lot of people simply wanted to hear me do Woody Guthrie songs." Instead, Arlo, in nearly 40 years of his own career, has carved a niche for himself with signature songs such as "Alice's Restaurant" and his definitive rendition of Steve Goodman's "City of New Orleans."
At the same time, he's helped carry his father's legacy to new generations of fans with albums such as "This Land Is Your Land," a Grammy-nominated children's album on which he duets with his late father. He also carries out philanthropic work from The Guthrie Center and Guthrie Foundation at Trinity Church, the fabled location made famous in "Alice's Restaurant."
Saturday's show takes a rare view at a portion of Woody Guthrie's work that is not often considered.
"What (my father) really focused on was people taking pride in who they were and where they came from, what their story was and what their traditions were, and it didn't matter to him whether they were people of a different religion.
"He just loved the idea if you're going to bring something to the table, you bring something that's yours and unique, and that's what makes his philosophy of the world interesting. It's like going to a potluck dinner. If everyone brings the same thing, that's no fun."
When Woody fell in love with his wife, he wasn't Jewish. "And he wasn't a banker," says Arlo, who alludes to a rough time his dad had with his future in-laws, Arlo's grandfather more than his grandmother.
"My grandmother, who was a poet, I think really loved him dearly, and they got along because she got it! She understood. I think she also understood the attraction between them."
Woody ended up studying Judaism at Brooklyn College, and since he wrote daily about everything that was going on in his life, he wrote about Jewish traditions and the unique way his new family incorporated them into their lives. As with all his writings, the subject also took on the pain.
"Dad wrote a song about Ilsa Koch, who was one of the women tried as a Nazi in Germany. She was at one of the concentration camps, and I think she was the one that decided human skin would make nice lamp shades.
"My dad writes this song from the point of view of someone in that camp, and it's chilling. It's absolutely chilling. And that's what he does best. He lets you see events through the eyes of the people who were there."
Arlo's sister Nora has been collecting her father's lyrics for years and finding musicians to put them to music. In this case, The Klezmatics are a six-piece group founded in New York's Greenwich Village in 1986 and dedicated to playing Yiddish music.
Nowhere is Woody Guthrie's influence more vividly brought back into focus than in Bob Dylan's new autobiography, "Chronicles, Volume One." While the book confirms a widely held view that this icon of the '60s youth revolution has been and continues to be shockingly self-absorbed, it also confirms in his own words his absolute adulation of Woody Guthrie.
In the book, Dylan describes his visit to the Guthrie home in his quest to find Woody in 1961. The elder Guthrie by this time is dying in a hospital, but a 13-year-old Arlo befriends the then-fledgling Dylan.
"He was not the first strange looking character to come looking for Woody Guthrie, and he wasn't the last one either," Arlo recalls. "He had sort of these big chunky woodsmen-type boots, and I liked that about him.
"This is in the years nobody wore that stuff. We're talking 1961. This was before it was chic or fashionable. So, I thought he was a funny guy. I liked him instantly.
"I think within a very short time I went off together with him to go to the Newport Folk Festival. My mom said I couldn't go on my own, but he could take me. So he dragged me around there. And that was exciting and fun.
"Of course, I had no idea that he was a popular guy. When you're 13, what do you know, you know? (Besides) they were bent on having some fun that I was unable to participate in."
While Dylan is generally acknowledged to have inherited Woody Guthrie's mantel more definitively than Woody's son Arlo, you can still see Woody's glint in his son's eyes when he talks about current events.
Arlo thinks Bush was re-elected because he reflects traditional American culture, separate and distinct from the world according to Clear Channels and Time Warner. But he also sees a danger in the current "clear majority." (quotations are mine).
"You do get a certain wacko factor in there who have taken the fun out of fundamentalism, who are wholly engaged in living some kind of exclusive life that promotes their own stuff. My dad would have loved to help them promote their own stuff, but not to the exclusion of the rest of the world.
"This is where he differed from his peers at the time. This is where he became important in the '60s. This is where his stuff has new relevance."
The Holy Ground concert precedes a Carnegie Hall performance by the same group on November 27.
It also kicks offs the New York State Museum's efforts to upgrade "Bitter Hope," an exhibit that chronicles the experience of 982 Jewish refugees who escaped Hitler's Germany, only to be isolated with no legal status by the United States for 18 months at Fort Ontario.
Was the United States merely being cautious, or was that part of our ugly American image internationally? And how would that image play with Woody Guthrie today? Arlo offers fascinating context.
"In the Old West, at least in the movies, the marshal says, 'OK, you guys, get out of town,' and if they don't, he stands out in the street, and he waits for the bad guy to draw, because he knows that good always wins and that he's always faster.
"But if the marshal had gone in while the guy was sleeping and blew him apart without a fair fight, it wouldn't have made such a good movie, and we wouldn't have thought of the Old West the way we do, but that's what we've become. It ain't American. And that's what we've become.
"For the sake of convenience we're willing to use dishonorable means."

Holy Ground: The Jewish and Spiritual Songs of Woody Guthrie featuring Arlo Guthrie and The Klezmatics will be presented at the New York State Museum Clark Auditorium on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $50 at the door, $45 for non-members in advance and $40 for members. For tickets and further information, call 408-1033.

David Hinckley in the New York Daily News has a column:
Alice and Arlo and Thanksgiving at Carnegie Hall:

http://www.nydailynews.com/07-15-2002/c ... 9262c.html

Article in Orlando Sentinel

Music, religion and Arlo
The singer sits in with a klezmer band to revisit Jewish spiritual music written by his father.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertai ... almusictop

Here is a new article on Arlo I found online:

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/ae/content ... _1226.html

There was a pic of him on this other page:

but I can't show it on here or find the link to it cuz my stupid freaking browser crashed & when I brought the page back up the pic on the page had changed. GRRR... & It was a cute pic of him too... Sigh...

thanks for posting that cheryl, it's good to hear from the folksinger from time to time.