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Arlo Guthrie - The Warner/Reprise Years (Hardcover, New)
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Arlo Guthrie - The Warner/Reprise Years (Hardcover, New)
Series: American Folk Music and Musicians Series
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Arlo Guthrie, the son of America's legendary dust bowl troubadour
Woody Guthrie and Martha Graham dancer Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, was
reared in the rarefied atmosphere of New York City's remnant Old
Left culture, a period that brought together art, political action,
and folk music. Music was part of Guthrie's life from the very
beginning and his self-confessed earliest childhood memory was
standing knee-high next to Lead Belly, the blues legend and "King
of the twelve-string Guitar." Arlo's earliest mentors were his
father's friends, and the youngster would learn his craft from the
giants of American folk music: Pete Seeger, the Weavers, Cisco
Houston, Josh White, Oscar Brand, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Brownie
McGhee, and Sonny Terry. Arlo Guthrie: The Warner/Reprise Years
revisits Guthrie's fifteen-year ride as a recording artist for the
prestigious record label. Hank Reineke guides readers through the
colorful history of Guthrie's most creative period, when the droll,
shaggy-haired troubadour promised in song that a "new world" was
surely coming. In his thoughtful consideration of Guthrie's career
as a popular, if idiosyncratic, recording artist for the
Reprise/Warner Bros. label, Reineke regales readers with stories
behind the remarkable success of Guthrie's talking
blues-turned-movie Alice's Restaurant and his celebrated appearance
at the 1969 Woodstock festival. Guthrie's time at Reprise/Warner
Bros. from 1967 to 1982 saw twelve critically acclaimed solo
albums, two staple singles of FM radio ("Coming Into Los Angeles"
and "City of New Orleans"), and a pair of treasured folk-music
recording collaborations with Pete Seeger. With a look at Guthrie's
life and times before and after this prolific period of his career,
Arlo Guthrie: The Warner/Reprise Years is the first biography
dedicated solely to this gifted artist. A goldmine of information
on the Guthrie family's legacy to American music, the
counterculture of the 1960s, and the record industry of the 1970s,
this work also features a detailed bibliography as well as the
first comprehensive discography of Guthrie's recordings through the
present day. Arlo Guthrie: The Warner/Reprise Years will appeal to
popular music historians, folk-rock fans, and readers interested in
the American counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s.
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