| Alice's Restaurant | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Arlo Guthrie |
| Cover: | Arlo Guthrie - Alice's Restaurant.jpg |
| Alt: | Guthrie seated at a table in front of an empty plate and candles |
| Released: | October 1967 |
| Genre: | Folk |
| Length: | 34:36 |
| Label: | Reprise |
| Producer: | Fred Hellerman |
| Next Title: | Arlo |
| Next Year: | 1968 |
Alice's Restaurant is the debut studio album by Arlo Guthrie released in October 1967 by Reprise Records. It features one of his most famous songs, "Alice's Restaurant Massacree". A steady seller, the album peaked at No. 17 on the Billboard Top LPs chart in March 1968. The album re-entered the chart in October 1969 and reached No. 63 in November of that year.[1] Alice's Restaurant went gold (500,000 units sold) in September 1969 and Platinum (1,000,000 sold) in October 1986.
The cover depicts Guthrie sitting shirtless at a table set for a meal, holding his knife and fork and waiting for Thanksgiving dinner to be served. He wears a black bowler hat and has a napkin spread across his chest.
In 1996, Guthrie recorded the same material live for the album .
All tracks composed by Arlo Guthrie.
Side one
Side two