Genre: Folk rock
Places I remember: Spellbound Wax Company (Gisborne)
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: City Of New Orleans
Gear costume: Mapleview (20%) Rag
Active compensatory factors: I guess Arlo is best known for Alice's Restaurant - a shaggy dog story that remains an endearing artifact from the sixties.
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: City Of New Orleans
Gear costume: Mapleview (20%) Rag
Active compensatory factors: I guess Arlo is best known for Alice's Restaurant - a shaggy dog story that remains an endearing artifact from the sixties.
This album has a stellar cast of musicians: Ry Cooder; Jim Keltner; Doug Dillard; Chris Ethridge; Linda Ronstadt; Spooner Oldham; Clarence White - just some of those helping Arlo out.
So, it sounds great! Arlo's vocals are very distinctive and you either lean into them or you don't. I find him a delight but there are many who would be turned off.
Paradoxically, there is both a keen sense of the sixties surrounding an album like this, and a sense of foreshadowing the Americana movement of the last 20 years.
Where do they all belong? This joins a compilation in my collection and really, a compilation is all you really need, unless you are a super Arlo fan.
Where do they all belong? This joins a compilation in my collection and really, a compilation is all you really need, unless you are a super Arlo fan.
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