I saw him perform it in concert a couple of years ago- it was great. The other two times I saw him (once he was in a joint concert with Pete Seeger- awesome!) he didn’t do it, although they were excellent concerts anyways. He is a really good live performer.
But I have never heard of listening to the song as a Thanksgiving tradition.
The Deep Tracks station on sattelite radio played it mutiple times during the day. Both the original and the anniversary addition. I caught most of the original in the car.
I watched it a few years back and it felt very dated to me. I saw The Graduate (which is also very dated) in the same time period and it’s a toss up in my mind which is worse.
Usually, I am headed down to Baltimore on Thanksgiving; by noon, we are in the part of western Maryland that gets a classic rock station that plays Alice’s Restaurant every Thanksgiving (at noon, duh!) and I listen to that. The kid hates it because I make her shut up while I listen! 
It was a little better this year, though, because she had an mp3 player with her, so she could listen to what she wanted to, while I listened to the radio!
My folks and I listen every year, either in the car on the way to grandpa’s or at their house while getting ready for dinner. I put it on CD about 5 years ago, but the local classic rock station plays it at noon.
My in-laws came to our place this year, so I didn’t hear it. (Usually, we go to them, and listen to it in the car.)
I own the movie on dvd, and I have the song in my regular shuffle, so I hear it many times a year. But yes we deliberately listen to it on thanksgiving =)
My wife and I drove down to Maryland and back on Thanskgiving. “Deep Tracks” plays it multiple times during the day; we caught parts of it three times (including a recent live version).
And I hope all of you who listened to it sang along.
WITH FEELING.
I’m 41 and have never heard it. I couldn’t even tell you what it’s about. I didn’t even know it was some kind of audio piece (a song I guess?) until this thread, as opposed to being a book or a movie.
Our local classic rock station plays it every year at noon and it’s tradition that I listen to it. It’s still entertaining, it’s funny. And yes, I sang along.
I know there’s someone on this board that has the lyric about it being a movement as his signature but I can’t remember who it was.
Missed KZPS playing it but we popped in the CD. It got multiple listens over the course of the weekend, with full four-part harmony, while we sat on the Group W bench and played with the pencils.
It gets played in this neck of the woods on Canadian thanksgiving. We’re just waiting for it to come back 'round again. That’s all we’re doing.
Fortunately I have the CD and play it whenever the heck I like.
We missed it on the radio, but we talked about it on the drive over to Grandma’s house and wound up putting the movie in our Netflix queue. I’ve never seen it.
I haven’t heard that song in ages but I was a DJ at a college station through much of the 80’s and I had a Thursday night show for years. I would play it every Thanksgiving.
Missed it. It’s even on my Ipod, which I brought along with my Bose noise-cancelling headphones in case I wanted to tune out somewhere!
Maybe I’ll start the tradition next year.
I had no idea it was a tradition. Coincidentally, we were watching a Woodstock show so I heard Arlo sing Amazing Grace… but nuthin’ about no Alice.
Vietnam protest song that is amusing and starts off with a Thanksgiving dinner at Alice’s Restaurant.
It’s also a somewhat comedic-ly exaggerated take on what really happened to Arlo Guthrie.
Didn’t hear it this Thanksgiving, but this thread convinced me to buy it online and put it on my iPhone. Oh, and I’m 40.
Heard it on the radio this year (probably one of the Seattle stations the OP mentioned), but I also have it on vinyl. I’m 47.
So all these folks who are entertained by them are what, stupid? Fooling themselves? Just plain wrong about what they like?