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  • "Alice's Restaurant Massacree," or simply "Alice's Restaurant," is a satirical talking blues song by singer-songwriter Arlo Guthrie, released in 1967 as the title track of his debut album.
  • The nearly 18.5-minute song uses a comically exaggerated, yet largely true, story from Guthrie's own life about his 1965 arrest for illegal trash dumping in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, to deliver a deadpan protest against the Vietnam War draft.
  • It primarily consists of a protracted spoken monologue set to a continuous fingerstyle blues guitar backing, punctuated by a short chorus about a restaurant owned by his friend, Alice Brock.
  • The work became Guthrie's signature song, inspiring a 1969 film, and was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress in 2017 for its cultural, historical, and aesthetic significance.