Hobo's Lullaby (album)
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{{Infobox album
| name = Hobo's Lullaby
| type = studio
| artist = Arlo Guthrie
| cover = Hobo's Lullaby.jpg
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| released = April 1972
| recorded = October–December 1971
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| length = 37:20
| label = Reprise
| producer = Lenny Waronker, John Pilla
| prev_title = Washington County
| prev_year = 1970
| next_title = Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys
| next_year = 1973
}}
{{Album ratings
|rev1 = AllMusic
|rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite news |last=Newsom |first=Jim |url= https://www.allmusic.com/album/hobos-lullaby-mw0000315556 |title=Arlo Guthrie - Hobo's Lullaby |work=AllMusic |accessdate=April 21, 2020}}
|rev2 = Billboard
|rev2score = (favorable){{Cite magazine |author= |title=Billboard Album Reviews |magazine=Billboard |date=1972-05-27 |volume=84 |issue=22 |page=53 |url=https://www.proquest.com/magazines/album-reviews/docview/1017432581/se-2 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2024-03-04 |via=ProQuest}}
|rev3 = Christgau's Record Guide
|rev3Score = B+{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: G|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=G&bk=70|accessdate=February 24, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}
|rev4 = New York Times
|rev4score = (favorable){{Cite news |last=Mayer |first=Ira |title=The New Folk Singers—From Burns to Croce |newspaper=The New York Times |date=1972-08-27 |location=New York |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/08/27/archives/article-1-no-title.html |access-date=2024-03-04}}
|rev5 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide
|rev5score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite book |title=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |date=1992 |publisher=Random House |page=295}}
}}
Hobo's Lullaby is an album by the American folk singer Arlo Guthrie. It was released in 1972 on Reprise Records. It was re-released on Rising Son Records in 1997. The album contains Guthrie's only Top 40 hit, a cover of Steve Goodman's "City of New Orleans".
Track listing
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| title1 = Anytime
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| writer1 = Herbert Lawson
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| length1 = 1:46
| title2 = The City of New Orleans
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| writer2 = Steve Goodman
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| title3 = Lightning Bar Blues
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| writer3 = Hoyt Axton
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| title4 = Shackles and Chains
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| writer4 = Jimmie Davis
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| length4 = 2:49
| title5 = 1913 Massacre
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| writer5 = Woody Guthrie
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| length5 = 4:15
| title6 = Somebody Turned on the Light
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| writer6 = Hoyt Axton
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| length6 = 3:13
| title7 = Ukulele Lady
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| writer7 = Richard A. Whiting, Gus Kahn
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| length7 = 3:21
| title8 = When the Ship Comes In
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| writer8 = Bob Dylan
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| length8 = 4:24
| title9 = Mapleview (20%) Rag
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| writer9 = Arlo Guthrie
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| length9 = 2:05
| title10 = Days Are Short
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| writer10 = Arlo Guthrie
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| length10 = 4:15
| title11 = Hobo's Lullaby
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Personnel
- Arlo Guthrie – vocals, guitar
- Hoyt Axton – vocals
- Max Bennett – bass guitar
- Byron Berline – mandolin, fiddle
- Roger Bush – bass guitar
- Cozy Cole – drums
- Ry Cooder – guitar
- John Craviotto – drums
- Nick DeCaro – vocals, accordion on "City of New Orleans"
- Jim Dickinson – keyboards
- Doug Dillard – banjo
- Chris Ethridge – bass guitar
- Wilton Felder – tenor saxophone
- Venetta Fields – vocals
- Anne Goodman – cello
- Gib Guilbeau – fiddle
- Richie Hayward – drums
- Jim Keltner – drums
- Clydie King – vocals
- Bill Lee – bass guitar
- Thad Maxwell – guitar
- Gene Merlino – vocals
- Arnie Moore – bass
- Gimmer Nicholson – guitar
- Spooner Oldham – keyboards
- Thurl Ravenscroft – vocals
- Fritz Richmond – bass guitar
- Linda Ronstadt – vocals
- Jessica Smith – vocals
- Clarence White – guitar
= Production =
- Lenny Waronker, John Pilla - producer
- Donn Landee - engineer
- John Pilla - photography
References
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Category:Rising Son Records albums
Category:Reprise Records albums
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