I love Arlo

[HeeBGBz]

Check it out.

http://www.arlo.net/

Click on Schedule. Check out the tour dates in December. Pay particular attention to the pop up on mouseover.

City Of New Orleans. Train2NO

Restocking the music scene, small clubs, bars and venues.

Can I go?

[graywarrior]

1. Yep. He's cool.

[daninthemoon]

2. That song was totally going through my head the last few weeks.

Matter of fact, I just got on CD earlier today. Used to have the LP.

[daninthemoon]

3. Don't you know me, I'm your native son?

The City of New Orleans
by Steve Goodman

Riding on the City of New Orleans,
Illinois Central Monday morning rail
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders,
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail.
All along the southbound odyssey
The train pulls out at Kankakee
Rolls along past houses, farms and fields.
Passin' trains that have no names,
Freight yards full of old black men
And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles.

CHORUS:
Good morning America how are you?
Don't you know me I'm your native son,
I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans,
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.

Dealin' card games with the old men in the club car.
Penny a point ain't no one keepin' score.
Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle
Feel the wheels rumblin' 'neath the floor.
And the sons of pullman porters
And the sons of engineers
Ride their father's magic carpets made of steel.
Mothers with their babes asleep,
Are rockin' to the gentle beat
And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel.

CHORUS

Nighttime on The City of New Orleans,
Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee.
Half way home, we'll be there by morning
Through the Mississippi darkness
Rolling down to the sea.
And all the towns and people seem
To fade into a bad dream
And the steel rails still ain't heard the news.
The conductor sings his song again,
The passengers will please refrain
This train's got the disappearing railroad blues.

Good night, America, how are you?
Don't you know me I'm your native son,
I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans,
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.

©1970, 1971 EMI U Catalogue, Inc and Turnpike Tom Music (ASCAP)

[DefenseLawyer]

7. Steve Goodman

also wrote "The Perfect Country & Western Song"

[LittleClarkie]

19. My guitar teacher and I are working on an arrangement of that song

I had the devil's own time trying to find it at the library. Took me way to long to realize why.

I can also play "Alice's Restaurant" on the guitar as well, a skill I'm hoping does NOT come in useful, as the song, if you will recall, is about the draft.

Arlo is indeed quite cool.

And I'm glad to see that the old geezer also appears to be fairly healthy. No signs of Huntington's yet, near as I can tell. Go man go!

[Pepperbelly]

29. tab universe has it. I recorded my own version during the ...

hurricane.

Mine sucks but hey, it's mine.

[Autonomy]

4. I saw him years ago

at the Bethlehem Music Fest. He refused to do 'Alice's Restaurant', but the show was still great. 'City of NO' been on my mind for the last several weeks. Too bad he's not playing anywhere near me til next spring.

"I don't want a pickle
Just want to ride on my motorsickle
And I don't want a tickle
'Cause I'd rather ride on my motorsickle
And I don't want to die
Just want to ride on my motorcy...cle."

[HeeBGBz]

5. I saw him last winter. He was so much fun

This would be an awesome event.

[daninthemoon]

10. Got a pickle smile from me. I saw him about twenty years ago

with Pete Seger, but their format was only playing older folk/protest songs, so no Alice, Pickle, or anything like that. It was very cool, anyway.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

14. I just looked at his schedule and he'll be appearing with Pete in October

in Beacon, NY (about 40 mins north of here)which is Pete's town.
Last time I saw Pete was about 6 years ago when I sold at a festival held at his boat club. He worked tirelessly from early morning until night. It was just so totally cool seeing him all day long. :)

[OneBlueSky]

22. you won't have many more chances to see them together . . .

Pete's getting up there, and his voice is pretty well shot (he actually told me that himself, and this was about ten years ago) . . . he doesn't perform much anymore, so this concert should be a real treat -- but expect Arlo to handle most of the vocals . . .

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

32. I can't go. My best friends' daughter is getting married that day.nt

[Talismom]

6. I saw him in Stamford, CT 11 yrs ago and got a black cat the next day

from the humane society and named him Arlo. He's sitting on my lap right now. He's a real character, just like his name sake!

[madame defarge]

8. One of my favorite Arlo songs...

Coming in from London
From over the pole
Flying in a big airliner
Chickens flying everywhere around the plane
Could we ever feel much finer?

CHORUS:
Coming into Los Angeles
Bringing in a couple of keys
Don't touch my bags if you please
Mister Customs Man

There's a guy with a ticket to Mexico
No, he couldn't look much stranger
Walking in the hall with his things and all
Smiling, said he was the Lone Ranger

CHORUS

Hip woman walking on a moving floor
Tripping on the escalator
There's a man in the line
And she's blowing his mind
Thinking that he's already made her

CHORUS

Coming in from London
From over the pole
Flying in a big airliner
Chickens flying everywhere around the plane
Could we ever feel much finer?

:smoke:

[Autonomy]

18. That's probably my favorite Arlo song. nt

[LittleClarkie]

24. That song has been running though my head for 3 days

funny you should bring it up.

I found the best of CD at the library so I could learn "City of New Orleans". I happened to listen to "Coming into Los Angeles" just before I surrendered the CD to the guitar teacher. Been singing it ever since.

I have Alice's Restaurant on tape, and Hobo's Lullaby and the best of on vinyl. Wish the turntable still worked...

[ET Awful]

26. My favorite would have to be . . .

I want to hop on the last train in the station
Won't need to get yourself prepared
When you're on that last train to glory
You'll know you're reasonably there

Maybe you ain't walked on any highway
You've just been flyin' in the air
But if you're on that last train to glory
You'll know you must've paid your fare

Maybe you've been lying down in the jailhouse
Maybe you've been hungry and poor
Maybe your ticket on that last train to glory
Is the stranger whose been sleeping on your floor

I ain't a man of constant sorrow
I ain't seen trouble all day long
We are all passengers on the last train to glory
That will soon be long, long gone

I want to hop on the last train in the station
Won't need to get yourself prepared
When you're on the last train to glory
You'll know you're reasonably there

[Eric J in MN]

9. I recently bought the "One Night" album which includes a version

of "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream (I never dremaed before, I dreamed the world had all agreed to put an end to war)" with harmony singing.

[Berserker]

12. His father

was not so bad either.

[Brother Buzz]

20. That be the understatement of the year

Wow, Thanks for posting that photo, I never saw it before. Sad, it's every bit as poignant today, possibly even more so considering it's our government that has become fascist this time around.

[me b zola]

11. Just a warning

I'll be bringing my pictures of me with Arlo to DC. They are circa mid 1990's, and I'm just a fan who followed him to his tour bus and asked if he would take a picture. Wow. :loveya:

[saged52]

13. I want to go, too!

saw Arlo in Akron, Ohio summer of '04 at a gig billed as the 35th anniversary of Woodstock! (John Sebastian and Melanie, too) He is absolutely precious.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

15. I have loved Arlo since I first heard Alice and even saw

his first ever Thanksgiving concert in Carnegie Hall. After the concert I went backstage for a reception line, and there he was, this tall lanky kid, not much older than me, and he was wearing a long purple robe. Big smile here in remembrance. :)

[LuCifer]

16. He rocks!

Saw him in West Palm at Carefree Theatre 2 times, Sunrise Theatre w/ Pete Seager (thank you Jehovah bastards for buying that place and killing off one of the BEST venues for shows in South Florida, turds! Glad I live closer to Orlando now!) and at Indian River Fair Grounds in 1991 w/ Don Henley!

Lu Cifer, yeah, Don's right..."JOHNNY CAN'T READ"!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Why wasn't that on Don Henley's greatest hits album!? DUH!)

[RevolutionStartsNow]

17. When I was a kid...

my parents had a red VW van named Arlo, after Arlo Guthrie. My parents were cool! (still are).

[hippywife]

21. Arlo is indeed very cool.

One of the few nice things about living in OK is the annual Woody Guthrie Festival to fund the research into Huntington's Disease:

www.woodyguthrie.com

Pic of Arlo from last year, taken by a friend of mine:

[Oeditpus Rex]

25. Man, that photo freaks me out

I have the live album "Arlo," which features "The Motorcycle Song." He's so fresh-faced (and somewhat androgynous) on the cover; looks no more than 16.
The times, they are a-changin'. :scared:

[hippywife]

30. Probably the same kind of reaction

I had when I watched "The Last Waltz" last year. Everyone looked so young then and it reminded me that I had aged, too. Don't really think about it on a daily basis but then you see something that is a real reminder.

[paineinthearse]

23. Don't be surprised if Sarah Lee joins the tour

Her schedule is free....http://www.sarahleeandjohnny.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=tour

[peacefreak]

28. Sarah Lee & her husband Johnny Irion

are great. I've seen them a couple of times already. I couldn't help thinking that their harmonies are as sweet as the Everly Brothers. Nice to see the family business still going strong.

[paineinthearse]

31. 3rd generation

I met them this past summer at a music and arts festival, they are fantastic performers. Closed their set with Woodie's "Peace".

[H2O Man]

27. There was a song

titles something like "The Pause of Mr. Claus," that had a introductory story that was dedicated to the fellows in the FBI. It was great. My friends and I used to play it over and over.