About a week and a half ago I went to a concert at The Ark, a little folk concert place here in Ann Arbor. The concert was part of a weekend full of concerts scheduled as a tribute to the guy who started and ran The Ark for decades. He’s retiring and lots of old singers came back for the tribute concert weekend. The line up was great and included Arlo Guthrie. I love his song Alice’s Restaurant. He’s really a story teller, although he sits with his guitar on his lap and plays and sings every once in a while. He and Dave Bromberg were the best two on stage (in my opinion) and at one point Arlo started singing This Land is Your Land and just took off in the middle with a winding, seemingly hair brained story, probably well practiced, although spontaneous enough sounding. It was a wonderful moment and it reminded me how much I appreciate good story telling.