Arlo Guthrie, the fifth child of Woody Guthrie, America's legendary Dust Bowl troubadour, shot to fame with "Alice's Restaurant Massacree," a nearly 19-minute talking blues song. Successful albums, drug anthems and even a major Hollywood movie followed - and a five-year collaboration with Ry Cooder, who appears on several of Arlo's albums. They even toured together in 1971. This bonus episode of The Ry Cooder Story tells the story of their projects together.

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