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Bruce Langhorne
The Hired Hand OST
(Blast First/Petite , 2004)
Dylan sideman’s mystic cowpoke movie score from 1971. David Pajo loves it of course.
A film that Alex Cox, when selecting it for the Beeb’s Moviedrome slot, could only describe as “not that great”, The Hired Hand was a hazy, tedious Psych Western starring Peter Fonda and Warren Oates. The soundtrack, by Greenwich Village scenester and session guitarist Langhorne (his oversized tambourine inspired Dylan to write Mr Tambourine Man) was the best bit by a country mile, at times an unbearably lovely needlepoint of ever-so-gently psychedelicised, instrumental Americana. This is its first proper release, allowing listeners reared on the novelties of post-rock to marvel at the prescient way acoustic guitar, banjo and sitar interweave, hillbilly figures morph into modal ragas and echoes of gamelan ring hypnotically. Now Langhorne makes his own hot sauce out of Venice Beach, CA. Move over Lloyd Grossman and tell Paul Newman the news.
Danny Eccleston
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 29/11/2007
Further Listening
Bob Dylan – Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid (Columbia, 1973)
Various Artists – Zabriskie Point OST (Warner Bros, 1970)
Richard Thompson – Grizzly Man OST (Cooking Vinyl, 2005)
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