Music Monday: Alice’s Restaurant by Arlo Guthrie

Back in the day, unless you owned a song on cassette tape, you just had to wait for the radio to play it.  The pleasure in listening to Alice’s Restaurant was almost entirely in its rarity: you heard the 18-minute-long song on the radio exactly once a year, on Thanksgiving.  Now, of course, you can listen to Alice’s Restaurant on demand.  But I must encourage you this Thanksgiving to be a Walt Longmire, not an Arlo Guthrie.