classic Thanksgiving Day tune “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree.”Nearly 2,000 people pitched in over the last two months to a GoFundMe for the 80-year-old hippie, who’s been hit by hard times since the 1967 release of Guthrie’s 18-minute talking blues ballad.“It’s been tremendous.
God, what a relief,” Brock told The Post on Thursday about the outpouring of support.The Brooklyn-born woman’s home and former diner in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, were the setting of Guthrie’s song about how the singer’s 1965 Thanksgiving Day arrest for littering kept him out of the Army during the Vietnam War.“You can get anything you want at Alice’s restaurant,” the ballad begins.A comedy film based on the song, “Alice’s Restaurant,” came out in 1969, and Brock,.
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