The Boston Globe

Alice Brock, whose restaurant inspired Arlo Guthrie’s classic song, dies at 83

To Alice Brock, the song that immortalized her name and her long-ago Stockbridge restaurant stirred memories of the best parts of the 1960s. And she remained friends with folksinger Arlo Guthrie, who ...
Paste

You Can Get Anything You Want From Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree”

A week ago today, the “no-nonsense gal” Alice Brock passed away at a hospice home after years of living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. She was 83, and maybe if you’re my age you don’t ...
People

Alice Brock, Who Helped Inspire Arlo Guthrie's Classic 'Alice's Restaurant,' Dies at 83

Arlo Guthrie's 18-minute long, 1967 folk song "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" was inspired by his 1965 Thanksgiving meal with Alice Brock in Massachusetts Tommy McArdle is a Writer-Reporter on the ...
Berkshire Eagle

She's most known as namesake of 'Alice's Restaurant,' but friends remember Alice Brock for her talent and her spirit

Alice Brock’s impact — in the Berkshires and beyond — is more than the epic Arlo Guthrie folk song that bears her name. Brock, who died Thursday in Provincetown at the age of 83, was a pioneer in ...
The Boston Globe

Arlo Guthrie announces that Alice Brock of ‘Alice’s Restaurant’ fame has died

Alice Brock, the “Alice” in folk singer Arlo Guthrie’s Thanksgiving classic, “Alice’s Restaurant,” died Thursday at 83. Her death was first announced by Guthrie through Rising Son Records, his Great ...
CNN

Alice Brock, who helped inspire Arlo Guthrie’s classic ‘Alice’s Restaurant,’ dies at 83

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 ...