Arlo Guthrie was born on the 10th July 1947, in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City USA, and is a folk musician, particularly well known for singing protest songs against social injustice; his song “Massachusetts” is considered to be the state’s folk song. Guthrie has been nominated for the prestigious Grammy Award twice, during being active in the entertainment industry since 1967.
How rich is the musician? It has been estimated by authoritative sources that the overall size of Arlo Guthrie’s net worth is as much as $10 million, as of late 2016. Music is the main source of Guthrie wealth.
Arlo Guthrie Net Worth $10 Million
To begin with, he is a son of folk music legend Woody Guthrie (1912-1967) and the dancer Marjorie Mazia Guthrie (1917-1983); his sister is record producer Nora Guthrie. Arlo Guthrie graduated from Woodward School in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn and then attended Stockbridge School in Massachusetts. For a short time he studied at Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana. Arlo made his first appearance at aged 13, continuing the musical tradition of his father. His musical development was influenced by Leadbelly, Cisco Houston, Ramblin ‘Jack Elliott, Sonny Terry and the Weavers.
Guthrie’s career began at the Newport Folk Festival in 1967, in which he performed the 18 minute song “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree”. At the age of 20, Guthrie had already toured overseas, and he performed at the now iconic Woodstock Festival in 1969, where he presented his version of “Amazing Grace” and Bob Dylan’s “Walking Down the Line”. Around the year 1972, Guthrie sang Steve Goodman’s “City of New Orleans”, which appeared in 4th position on Billboard Easy Listening and 18th on Billboard Hot 100 charts. Even 40 years later, the song with the line – Good Morning America – is regularly played overseas as well as in Europe.
In 1991, Arlo Guthrie bought the Trinity Church, known as Alice’s Restaurant, and set up the intercultural and interreligious Guthrie Center. In 1992, he was nominated for a Grammy Award for the album “Woody’s 20 Grow Big Songs”, which he recorded with his sister Nora – who is the director of the Woody Guthrie Archive – and his brother Joady. Another Grammy nomination he received was for the Best Music Album for Children entitled “This Land Is Your Land” (1997). His net worth was rising steadily.
Guthrie has mastered a variety of instruments, appeared as an actor, and written an award-winning children’s book entitled “Mooses Come Walking”. Even now the country singer is on tour almost every year. In Germany, Arlo Guthrie has toured several times with Hans-Eckardt Wenzel, with whom he also recorded a joint CD “Every 100 Years Live on the Wartburg”. It is worth saying that Arlo Guthrie preferably plays Western guitars from the company Gibson, which brought him the Arlo-Guthrie-LG-Signature guitar in his honour.
Finally, in the personal life of the singer, Arlo Guthrie has four children, including daughter Sarah Lee and son Abe, with whom he has collaborated on tour with Gordon Titcomb. His wife Jackie, to whom he was married for 43 years, died from cancer on the 14th October 2012 at the age of 68.
Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience award (1992), Honorary Doctorate from Siena College (1981), Westfield State College (2008)
Record Labels
Warner Bros. Records, Rising Son Records, Koch Records
Albums
Live In Sydney (2005), Tales Of '69 (2009), Mystic Journey (1996), Son of the Wind (1992), Amigo (1976), “Woody's 20 Grow Big Songs”, Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys (1973), Alice's Restaurant (1967), “This Land Is Your Land” (1997)
Nominations
BAFTA Award for Best Film Music, Grammy Award for Best Musical Album for Children, Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Drama, Alice's Restaurant Massacre, The City of New Orleans, Coming Into Los Angeles
Movies
Alice's Restaurant (1969), Renaldo and Clara (1978), Baby's Storytime (1989), Roadside Prophets (1992)
TV Shows
Rich Man, Poor Man: Book 2 (1976), "Byrds of Paradise" (1994), Beat Club (1970), The Muppet Show,Baby's Storytime (1989), The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time (1982), Singing in the Shadow: The Children of Rock Royalty (2003)
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Trademark
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Dansko shoes
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Long curly silver hair
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Quote
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[on Woodstock, 1969] What made it wonderful was the fact that all those people could get along together without one black eye, one cut lip. That's what went down - the kids respected the cops for doing their thing (and doing it well, too) and the cops respected the kids for not running wild - even though the conditions were terrible. You know, they could have started burnin' stuff down, but they just sat there and were grooving with each other.
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[on the advent of 'Flower Power'] All political systems are on their way out. We're finally gonna get to the point where there's no more bigotry or greed or war. Peace is on the way. People are simply gonna learn that they can get more by being groovy than by being greedy.
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My only description for me is that there's no throwaway people. That's the creed that I live by. It doesn't matter if I'm singing or not. That's the kind of person that my father and mother wanted me to be. The end obligation is to make people feel good about who they are.
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I don't do anything on stage that allows me to become a trained seal, where you're just doing the same thing over and over.
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You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
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Fact
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Is currently doing a US Tour with his four children, son-in-law and seven grandchildren. Tour is entitled "Guthrie Family Rides Again" [October 2009]
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A new CD entitled "In Times Like These" featuring the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra will be released on Arlo's 60th birthday on July 10 [July 2007]
Had a hootenanny-style bar mitzvah when he was 13. His Hebrew tutor was the then-unknown Rabbi Meir Kahane, who later became founder of the Jewish Defense League.
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Was named as "King of Brooklyn" at the Welcome Back to Brooklyn Festival in 2001
performer: "Coming into Los Angeles" / writer: "Coming into Los Angeles"
From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks
2007
Documentary performer: "The Ballad of Harry Bridges"
Kurt Cobain About a Son
2006
Documentary performer: "The Motorcycle Song" / writer: "The Motorcycle Song"
Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The Early Years (1955-1970)
2000
TV Movie documentary performer: "The Alice's Restaurant Massacree" / writer: "The Alice's Restaurant Massacree"
The '60s
1999
TV Movie performer: "Comin' Into Los Angeles" / writer: "Comin' Into Los Angeles"
Renegade
TV Series performer - 1 episode, 1997 writer - 1 episode, 1997
Mystery Science Theater 3000
1993
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Lucky Luke
1992
TV Series performer - 8 episodes
Lucky Luke
1991
performer: "The Lonesomest Cowboy in the West", "Lopin' Along"
Woodstock: The Lost Performances
1990
Video documentary performer: "Walking Down the Line"
Lady Liberty
1971
writer: "Gabriel's Mother's Hiway"
Clay Pigeon
1971
lyrics: "I Could Be Singing", "Gabriel's Mother's Highway Ballad # 16 Blues" / music: "I Could Be Singing", "Gabriel's Mother's Highway Ballad # 16 Blues"
The Omega Man
1971
writer: "Coming Into Los Angeles" - uncredited
Two-Lane Blacktop
1971
performer: "Stealin'" / writer: "Stealin'"
Once Upon a Wheel
1971
Documentary performer: "Wheel Of Fortune" / writer: "Wheel Of Fortune"
The Johnny Cash Show
TV Series performer - 2 episodes, 1970 writer - 1 episode, 1970
Woodstock
1970
Documentary performer: "Coming Into Los Angeles" / writer: "Coming Into Los Angeles"
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Renegade
1997
TV Series
Jamie Jackson
Relativity
1996
TV Series
Mick Hillis
The Byrds of Paradise
1994
TV Series
Alan Moon
A Change of Heart with Ram Dass
1994
Musician
Roadside Prophets
1992
Harvey
Baby's Storytime
1989
Video
Narrator
Renaldo and Clara
1978
Mandolin Player
Alice's Restaurant
1969
Arlo Guthrie
Composer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Baby's Storytime
1989
Video
Alice's Restaurant
1969
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Alice's Restaurant
1969
song The Alice's Restaurant Massacree
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal
2004
Documentary executive producer
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Bound for Glory
1976
thanks
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Lead Belly: Life, Legend, Legacy
Documentary post-production
Himself
The Resurrection of Victor Jara
2015
Documentary
Himself
Cherry Cottage: The Story of an American House
2012
Documentary
Himself
Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation
2012
Documentary
Himself
Radio Unnameable
2012
Documentary
Himself
On Your Mark, Get Set, MOW!
2012
Documentary
Himself
My First Guitar
2011
Documentary
Himself
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
2010
TV Movie
Himself
Sid Bernstein Presents...
2010
Documentary
Himself
The Power of Their Song: The Untold Story of Latin America's New Song Movement
2008
Documentary
Himself
1968 with Tom Brokaw
2007
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
2007
Documentary
Himself
Music Rising
2006
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Sacco and Vanzetti
2006
Documentary
Himself - Interview / Performance
The Sixties: The Years That Shaped a Generation
2005
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Penn & Teller: Bullshit!
2005
TV Series documentary
Himself
This Machine Kills Fascists
2005
Video documentary
Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal
2004
Documentary
Himself
Natural Heroes
2004
TV Series documentary
Himself
Get Up, Stand Up
2003
TV Series documentary
Himself - Interviewee
Singing in the Shadow: The Children of Rock Royalty
2003
Documentary
Himself
Judy Collins: Wildflower Festival
2003
Video
Himself
ABC 2002
2001
TV Movie documentary
American Roots Music
2001
TV Series documentary
Himself
Last Party 2000
2001
Documentary
Himself
Roadie Chefs II
2001
TV Movie documentary
Recording Artist
ABC News 2001
2000
TV Movie
Himself
Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The Early Years (1955-1970)
2000
TV Movie documentary
Himself (uncredited)
The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack
2000
Documentary
Himself
Man in the Sand
1999
Video documentary
Himself
Behind the Music
1997-1999
TV Series documentary
Himself
Healthy Kids
1998
TV Series
Himself
Politically Incorrect
1998
TV Series
Himself
This Land Is Your Land: The Animated Kids' Songs of Woody Guthrie
1997
Video short
Himself
Troubadours of Folk Music
1996
TV Special
The History of Rock 'n' Roll
1995
TV Series documentary
Himself
The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts
1994
TV Special
Himself
Woodstock Diary
1994
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Woodstock: The Lost Performances
1990
Video documentary
Today
1989
TV Series
Himself
Arena
1988
TV Series documentary
Himself
A Vision Shared: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly
1988
Video documentary
Himself
Farm Aid '87
1987
TV Special
Himself
Nashville Now
1985
TV Series
Himself
Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin'
1984
Documentary
The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time
1981
Documentary
Himself
The Mike Douglas Show
1977-1980
TV Series
Himself - Folksinger
The Muppet Show
1979
TV Series
Himself - Special Guest Star
Personenbeschreibung
1978
TV Series documentary
Himself
All You Need Is Love
1977
TV Series documentary
Himself
Good Morning America
1976
TV Series
Himself
Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II
1976
TV Series
Himself
The Smothers Brothers Show
1975
TV Series
Himself
The Hoyt Axton Country Western Boogie Woogie Gospel Rock and Roll Show
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