Peter Fonda's The Hired Hand Score

peter fonda's the hired hand score

Track Listings

1. Opening

2. Dead Girl

3. Leaving del Norte

4. Riding Thru the Rain

5. Three Teeth

6. Spring

7. Windmill

8. No Further Need

9. Arch Leaves

10. Harry & Hannah

11. Ending

Editorial Reviews
Danny Eccleston. Mojo Magazine. 2004
the best bit by a country mile... an unbearably lovely needlepoint of ever-so-gently pyschedelicised instrumental Americana. Four stars

Product Description
The Hired Hand (Peter Fonda's directorial debut from 1971) is a beautiful film -- a sparse and simple story -- the ideal western. You will notice the soundtrack. The music by Bruce Langhorne is just as simple and sparsely beautiful as the film itself. If I hear it right, all he does is arpeggiate a few chords on guitars and banjos, more like a sound texture than composition. But if you've ever heard a poet read his words with a musician playing behind him, and the richness and additional dimension that the music provides the experience, you will have an idea of what Langhorne's music does for this film.

Peter Fonda's The Hired Hand Score

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Peter Fonda's The Hired Hand Score

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At long last - and worth the 30-year wait!
The Hired Hand Soundtrack
Like a beautiful short story

Peter Fonda's The Hired Hand Score
Bruce Langhorne
Manufacturer: Blast First Petite
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00064JWJK
Release Date: 2004-11-29

Tracks:

Opening
Dead Girl
Leaving del Norte
Riding Thru the Rain
Three Teeth
Spring
Windmill
No Further Need
Arch Leaves
Harry & Hannah
Ending

Product Description

The Hired Hand (Peter Fonda's directorial debut from 1971) is a beautiful film -- a sparse and simple story -- the ideal western. You will notice the soundtrack. The music by Bruce Langhorne is just as simple and sparsely beautiful as the film itself. If I hear it right, all he does is arpeggiate a few chords on guitars and banjos, more like a sound texture than composition. But if you've ever heard a poet read his words with a musician playing behind him, and the richness and additional dimension that the music provides the experience, you will have an idea of what Langhorne's music does for this film.

Album Details

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.

Customer Reviews:

At long last - and worth the 30-year wait!.......2007-01-04

Bruce Langhorne, I would only recently learn, is not only a composer and musician of legendary proportion (he bears the title role in Bob Dylan's classic "Mr. Tamborine Man"), he also plays several dozen different instruments, all with virtuoso skill, and every single instrument that is heard in this remarkable, long-unavailable score. Although a soundtrack album was not available at the time, I so adored the score of this film that I recorded it while watching the movie using a cassette deck sat in front of a TV, way back in mid-70's, and listened to it for years thereafter (along with the inevitable adjacent snippits of dialogue). I was elated to hear the film had been re-discovered in 2001 and further delighted to see that the original Bruce Langhorne soundtrack had finially been released on CD for the occasion as well. This music package is a major stand-alone treat (11 superb tracks which comprise the full and complete original score) and made even better when enjoyed as companion to the The Hired Hand Collector's Edition DVD, which includes extensive interviews and insights on the 1971 not only with Langhorne but many other collaborators on the film as well. To enjoy the haunting and evocative score's closing track of "Ending" is a treasure well worth the CD's selling price all by itself. Grab it while you can.

The Hired Hand Soundtrack.......2005-08-15

I have been waiting for this soundtrack to be released for decades. I have now bought 2 copies and plan to buy many more as gifts. Bruce Langhorne's instrumental work is amazing and I am uncertain as to why this is his first actual CD to be released. His work on early recordings of Dylan, the Farinas, Baez, and Peter, Paul, and Mary is excellent as well.

Like a beautiful short story.......2005-04-08

Hmmm, why would someone be looking at this review? Peter Fonda made this movie after Easy Rider - that could be why. If you know about Bruce Langhorne, then, well, you know.

For those who don't, Bruce Langhorne was/is an interesting musician. An African American guy hanging around the folk music scene in the 60's, he was a studia musician with Dylan, Richard and Mimi Farina, Tom Rush and others. He's missing a few fingers, yet plays any string instrument you put in front of him. Folks say he was/is such an amazingly spirited person - Dylan, the story goes, wrote Mr. Tambourine Man about him. He's done the soundtrack for a few interesting movies, this one, Harold and Melvin...anyway

This is about 25 minutes of dusty, lonely, simple music. Kind of appalachian, mountain, native american wolf music. I blast it driving through the mountains at night, and, I promise, you will become attuned to sensations you never knew your body/brain could tune into. And I'm no spiritual quack.

So get the soundtrack, then see the movie, then....

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