We going to follow up our posting yesterday with Sarah Lee Guthrie and her father Arlo with a wonderful companion piece. Albeit a bit of an oddish one. This features Arlo Guthrie, though comes from a concert he did with Pete Seeger. But not just them, but also Pete's son Tao Rodriguez. Also, there are three young women singing back-up, and as I looked closer, I thought that one of them might be Arlo's daughter Sarah Lee. Though I couldn't quite tell for 100% certain which she was. So, I wanted to see if there were credits at the end of the video. And there weren't. However, when I watched the video again, it turned out that there were credits at the beginning, but in small letters. So, I paused the video...and it turned out that, yes, Sarah Lee Guthrie was one of the three background singers. It also turned out that there was a good reason I wasn't completely sure which of the three she was -- since the other two were her sisters! Cathy Guthrie and Anne Guthrie. (I should note that I was lucky enough once to see Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie in concert together, and it was wonderful. Though it was just those two -- not a full clan of six...) Fun as this collection of Guthries and Seegers is, what leaps out is that Arlo Guthrie goes into top-notch Arlo Guthrie Mode and tells a long and wonderfully funny story about having performed years before with Pete Seeger and singing (to Seeger's shock) an Elvis Presley song. And though Seeger obviously knew the story, it's clear he takes great pleasure in hearing Arlo Guthrie tell it on stage. (And I should add though Arlo's storytelling here is in the manner of his classic "Alice's Restaurant," it is nowhere near as 18-minute long -- just long for most concerts where maybe you get a 30-second or minute introduction and told with the same sensibility of Alice whimsy.) And then they all sing Elvis. As Arlo interrupts the song throughout with his continued storytelling. (Fun, too, is at one point watching the three Guthrie sisters just sort of ignoring their dad and talking together at the microphone.) So, then, here are Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Pete Seeger's son (in blue, between them) and three Guthrie sisters at Wolftrap on August 8, 1993 -- with an absolutely charming version of "I Can't Help Falling in Love with You." And I'm pretty sure that Sarah Lee Guthrie is the sister on the left in blue.
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