The Boston Globe

‘Alice’s Restaurant’ — a fun sing-along or a serious antiwar song?

The death of Alice Brock sent me back to the modest collection of high school- and college-era albums that’s still kicking around my basement. Music is such a powerful force, it can take you back in ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Alice Brock, Who Helped Inspire Arlo Guthrie’s Classic Song “Alice’s Restaurant,” Dies at 83

'Alice’s Restaurant' also was the title of his million-selling debut album and the basis of a movie and cookbook of the same name. By The Associated Press Alice Brock, whose Massachusetts-based eatery ...
WPRI 12

Alice Brock from Thanksgiving tune ‘Alice’s Restaurant’ dead at 83

PROVINCETOWN, Mass. (WPRI) — Alice May Brock, the woman who inspired Arlo Guthrie’s Thanksgiving classic “Alice’s Restaurant” has died. She was 83 years old. Guthrie announced Brock’s passing on ...
Detroit News

Alice Brock, namesake of Arlo Guthrie’s ‘Alice’s Restaurant,’ dies at 83

On Thanksgiving Day in 1965, two young guests visiting Alice Brock and her husband, Ray, repaid the hospitality by helping clean up an old church that the couple had converted into their home in ...
Jambands

Arlo Guthrie Marks 60 Years of the Events That Inspired “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree”

This Thanksgiving marks 60 years since the events that inspired Arlo Guthrie’s signature song, “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree.” The quirky tune, which recounts Guthrie’s Thanksgiving 1965 arrest for ...