Arlo Guthrie Running Down The Road Raritan
The inclusion of “Coming Into Los Angeles” on the Woodstock (1970) feature film documentary made it one of Arlo Guthrie’s most memorable works. The sheer novelty and anti-authoritarian stance are key components in this 1960s counter-cultural anthem. Deeper still and even more resonant is the bold political and social statement that Guthrie makes in this folk-rocker. In much the same tongue-in-cheek fashion as his epic “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree”, the song is based on events as interpreted and recalled through Guthrie’s left-of-centre vantagepoint. The Felliniesque juxtaposition of imagery from “Flying in a big airliner” to “Chickens flying everywhere around the plane” immediately sets up the druggy subject matter and further suggests a method of transportation other than typical commercial aviation. The undercurrent of paranoia in the chorus looms over Guthrie’s confession of “ bringing in a couple of keys read: kilos”, spilling over into the lines “Don’t touch my bags if you please/Mister customs man.” Although the Woodstock version is the most familiar, it was originally included on Running Down The Road (1969), one of the artist’s most underrated studio efforts. Bad News - a British sort of Spinal Tap, featuring Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Adrian Edmundson, Rik Mayall and Nigel Planer - included a cover of “Coming Into Los Angeles” on their second long player, the brilliantly satirical Two Steps Forward (1981).
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Although this album's 'Coming in to Los Angeles' crossed over and into the rock underground, especially via its performance at Woodstock, most of his third record is actually far more laid-back country-rock. Very much a production of its time, in a slightly negative sense, features employing the cream of L.A.' S top country-rock players as session men:, and Chris Etheridge. The tone is good-natured and easygoing - too good-natured and easygoing sometimes, in fact, as on the unexciting cover of 'Stealin'.' Acknowledges his folk roots with covers of tunes by his father ('Oklahoma Hills'), ('Living in the Country'),.
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These are surrounded by originals that follow the Dylan 'back to basics' mold of the late '60s, both in musical and lyrical concerns ('My Front Pages' might even be taken as a gentle Dylan satire). As such, much of the record is inoffensive but inconsequential, although the drug smuggling ode 'Coming into Los Angeles' adds a touch of much-needed urgency. The title track is entirely uncharacteristic of the album, with its harsh blasts of distorted psychedelic guitar and tough, walking-blues stance - for these reasons, it's a standout.