Bruce Langhorne - Hired Hand LP

I can’t say that I’m much of a film buff let alone someone who’s gonna sit down to listen to a soundtrack, but Bruce Langhorne’s recordings for Peter Fonda’s 1971 flick ‘The Hired Hand’ stands apart as a beautiful album of instrumental folk.

A sideman to Dylan in the mid-60s golden era (THE Tamborine Man) as well as a number of other Greenwich Village folk identities, Langhorne here writes short, droning compositions of minimal guitar and banjo arppegios below haunting and mournful folky string, flute and slide guitar lines. The Godfather to Loren Connors, Ry Cooder, and so many other New Weird American folk releases!
-Mitch