Running Down the Road by Arlo Guthrie

Running Down the Road, Arlo Guthrie's second studio album, came out in 1969, with Van Dyke Parks producing, and it finds Woody Guthrie's boy stretching out past the talking-blues shaggy-dog saga of "Alice's Restaurant". Two members of the Byrds' current lineup, Clarence White and Gene Parsons, sit in on some tracks, and you can hear that country-rock twang loosening up the folk.

"Coming Into Los Angeles" is the track that made the countdowns, and Guthrie's take on the traditional "Stealin'" later found its way into the film Two-Lane Blacktop. The cover gets the mood right: Arlo astride a Triumph TR6 Trophy motorcycle, which turns up again inside the gatefold, ready to hit the highway.

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