Alice Brock, inspiration behind Arlo Guthrie's classic "Alice's Restaurant," dies at 83

Alice Brock, whose Massachusetts-based eatery helped inspire Arlo Guthrie's deadpan Thanksgiving standard, "Alice's Restaurant Massacree," has died at age 83.

Guthrie announced the death on the Facebook page of his own Rising Son Records label.

"This coming Thanksgiving will be the first without her," Guthrie wrote. "Alice and I spoke by phone a couple of weeks ago, and she sounded like her old self. We joked around and had a couple of good laughs even though we knew we'd never have another chance to talk together."