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DOC: ARLO GUTHRIE'S NEW RELIGION [about 10:30 am Pacific]
Duration: 00:24:35
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Text:
Arlo Guthrie is best known for two things. He's the son of legendary
American folk singer Woody Guthrie. And Arlo wrote the anti-war classic
of the sixties,"Alice's Restaurant," making him a musical spokesperson
for his own generation. The song was based on a real incident in
Guthrie's life. Forty years ago this week the singer was arrested in
Great Barrington, Massachusetts and ended up with a criminal record for
littering. He recorded "Alice's Restaurant" two years later.
Like the song says, "Alice didn't live in a restaurant. She lived in
the church nearby the restaurant". And the song catapulted not only
Arlo Guthrie, but also the little church in Massachusettes into
national fame. What you probably don't know about Arlo is that he had a
"spiritual crisis" back in the '80's. And his search for meaning in
life led him right back to that little church in Great Barrington,
Mass.
Now the building is called "The Guthrie Center". A few years ago,
producer Cate Friesen went to the Guthrie Center to find out how a
guitar slinging hippie icon became the founder of an interfaith church
in rural New England. On the fortieth anniversary of the event that
started it all, a special repeat broadcast of her do***entary, "You Can
Get Anything You Want: Arlo Guthrie's New Religion".
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