The Best of Arlo Guthrie

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The Best of Arlo Guthrie
Greatest hits album by
Released1977
Recorded1967–1976
GenreFolk rock
Length51:38
LabelReprise (LP) Warner Bros (CD)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Christgau's Record GuideB[2]

The Best of Arlo Guthrie is a 1977 compilation album by Arlo Guthrie.

Track listing

  1. "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" 18:33 – previously on Alice's Restaurant
  2. "Gabriel's Mother's Hiway Ballad #16 Blues" 6:25 – previously on Washington County
  3. "Cooper's Lament" 2:46 – previously on Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys
  4. "Motorcycle (Significance of the Pickle) Song" 6:28 – previously on Alice's Restaurant and Arlo
  5. "Coming into Los Angeles" 3:03 – previously on Running Down the Road
  6. "Last Train" 3:03 – previously on Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys
  7. "City of New Orleans" (written by Steve Goodman) 4:31 – previously on Hobo's Lullaby
  8. "Darkest Hour" 4:04 – previously on Amigo
  9. "Last to Leave" 2:35 – previously on Arlo Guthrie

Bonus Tracks on the CD Re-release:

  1. "Presidential Rag" 4:27 – previously on Arlo Guthrie
  2. "Deportees" (written by Woody Guthrie and Martin Hoffman) 3:49 – previously on Arlo Guthrie
  3. "Children of Abraham" 2:23 – previously on Arlo Guthrie

References

  1. ^ https://www.allmusic.com/album/r96282
  2. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: G". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved February 24, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.