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Soundtrack to the cult 1971 Western starring and directed by Peter Fonda. Bruce Langhorne was one of the most significant session guitarists to emerge in the early years of folk rock at the start of the '60s. He is best known for playing on some of Bob Dylan's most ground breaking records, notably 1965's Bringing It All Back Home. His mood music beautifully enhances a film that is by turn trippy, surreal, downbeat and sad, the images underpinned by Langhorne's melancholy score using guitars, tonal effects, fiddle, banjo and sitar. Blast First. 2007.
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Bruce Langhorne, the Session Guitarist who Played on Bob Dylan's 'bringing it all Back Home's Only Solo Recording, a Spectral Soundtrack for Peter Fonda's Cult 1971 Western. It was Recorded in the Garage of his Laurel Canyon Home in 1969 on a Two-track Revox Tape Machine, with his Girlfriend Mixing While He Played Live Overdubs on a Panoply of Original Instruments from the Wild West. A Tumbleweed Symphony with Its Roots Deep in the Appalachian Music of the 19th Century - Music You Could Hear in the Greenwich Village Folk Clubs of the Early 60s, Where Langhorne Worked as an Accompanist to Virtually Everybody, Including Bob Dylan, who Wrote Tambourine Man after Seeing Him Play. Fiddle, Dulcimer, Banjo, Guitar, Piano, Harmonica and Drum, Augmented by an Ancient, Tube-based Echoplex and the Wooden Mouthpiece of a Recorder, Create a Haunting Soundscape.