Tag: classic
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Alice Brock, who helped inspire Arlo Guthrie’s classic ‘Alice’s Restaurant,’ dies at 83
NEW YORK — Alice Brock, whose Massachusetts-based eatery helped inspire Arlo Guthrie’s deadpan Thanksgiving standard, “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree,” has died at age 83. Her death, just a week before Thanksgiving, was announced Friday by Guthrie on the Facebook page of his own Rising Son Records. Guthrie wrote that she died in Provincetown, Massachusetts, her residence for some…
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‘Beyond Black Beauty’ brings together an 1877 classic novel and a Black family in Baltimore
Black cowboy culture is getting its moment in the sun. Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” album, Shaboozey’s popular single “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” films like “The Harder They Fall,” and the Black riders on horseback during the George Floyd protests have helped further shed light on the popularity of Black cowboys and cowgirls. Now a new series…