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Bruce Langhorne : Peter Fonda’s “The Hired Hand” score US,1971)**°°
If we think of one guitar album that made a perfect accompaniment to a movie most people might think of “Paris-Texas” from Ry Cooder. This album predates that movie and soundtrack, but should not have been forgotten so easily, and has its own sphere as well. Bruce Langhorne was a studio musician mostly (like on the three Richard & Mimi Farina's albums). He was most known for his association with "Mr. Tambourine Man," by Bob Dylan which was inspired by him and his oversized tambourine. This was his first record. It’s full of subtle arrangements and open evolutions built up by American folk elements and improvisations, opening up and then disappearing in the fade-out. The soundtrack moves slowly, in framed fragments, like a movie, showing deserts, images of villages like old detailed photographs of frozen moments with its own beauty, where one would like to look closer and longer at the details until one moves further to the next.
Instruments used were mostly guitars : a 1920 Martin guitar, combined with an Appalachian dulcimer played with a steel bar, fiddle, farisfa organ, upright piano, five string banjo, soprano recorder, Honer marine band harmonica and a tube-based Echoplex.
Audio : 1. "Opening"(or here), 2. "Dead Girl", 3. "Leaving Del Norte" (or here), 4. "Riding Thru the Rain" (or here), 5. "Three Teeth", 6. "Spring", 7. "Windmill", 8. "No Further Need"(or here), 9. "Arch Leaves"(or here), 10. "Harry & Hannah", 11. "Ending"
