Arlo Guthrie

Not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Eligible since: 1993

First Recording: 1967

Previously Considered? No  what's this?

Arlo Guthrie
HALL OF FAME INDICATORS
🔲Rolling Stone 500 Albums
🔲Rolling Stone 500 Songs
🔲Rolling Stone Cover
🔲Saturday Night Live
🔲Major Festival Headliner
🔲Songwriters Hall of Fame
🔲“Big Four” Grammys
Nat'l Recording Registry

Essential Albums (?)WikipediaYouTube
Alice's Restaurant (1967)

Arlo Guthrie @ Wikipedia

Will Arlo Guthrie be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?
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Arlo Guthrie tells the story of how he was playing at the Quiet Knight in Chicago and the manager asked him to listen to this guy play his song. He was tired and grouchy and declined. Steve Goodman comes around the corner and says but I just want you to hear one song. Arlo Guthrie agreed that if Steve Goodman bought him a beer he would listen as long as the beer lasted. Six months later Arlo Guthrie had a hit with City of New Orleans. He calls it one of the finest beers of his life.

Thirteen years later Willie Nelson covered the song and had a hit on the Country charts. It also won a Grammy for Country song of the year.

The show Good Morning America takes its name from the chorus of the song

According to Clay Eals over eighty artists have covered the song.

The original by Steve Goodman is #2 on Tin an Alley's Listener Poll for all time greatest folk songs.

Posted by Zuzu on Sunday, 05/17/2015 @ 00:04am


@classicrocker, by your logic, "pop" music is supposed to appeal to the mainstream. Right?

Posted by Fifi on Tuesday, 12/15/2020 @ 12:12pm


Essential Song: "The City of New Orleans"

(Yes, it's a cover, but Arlo's is the famous version.)

Posted by Bookhouse on Wednesday, 02/22/2023 @ 16:50pm


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