That's too bad. what else is like The Hired Hand?? 26 minutes is not enough!
Also, has anyone seen the Collector's Edition DVD of The Hired Hand? I've heard there's a Langhorne interview in the bonus material, wondering if it's worth checking out
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Friday, 18 January 2013 02:37 (eleven years ago) link
bummer news about langhorne: http://recordmecca.com/news/22745/donate/buy here: http://www.shop.brobrubru.com/been loving hearing the extra langhorne action on the Bringing it all Back Home sessions included on the Cutting Edge box set. Such a great sound.
― tylerw, Friday, 8 January 2016 18:14 (eight years ago) link
in less bummer news, marisa anderson's forthcoming album seems like it'll have some of those hired hand vibes:
"The next full length is on the way; look for it in Spring 2016. I’m crazy excited to share this one with the world, as I really went some new places with it. The record features 10 new songs, created as the score to an imaginary sci-fi western multi-tracked(!) and built around me playing the pedal steel (!!) In making this record I wanted to address issues surrounding border politics and immigration and ask the questions who is an outsider, what are they outside of, and who is entitled to decide? I was inspired compositionally and sonically by Ennio Morricone, and by two specific records-Bruce Langhorne’s The Hired Hand and Willie Nelson’s The Red-Headed Stranger."
― tylerw, Friday, 8 January 2016 18:16 (eight years ago) link
(xp) Oh, what a shame :( Used to have that Hired Hand soundtrack but seem to have mislaid it.
― Anyway, it's not a three, it's a yogh. (Tom D.), Friday, 8 January 2016 18:26 (eight years ago) link
you can get it again at the link above -- (and i gather there's a new vinyl pressing as well).
― tylerw, Friday, 8 January 2016 18:28 (eight years ago) link
:(
― Green Dolphin Street Hassle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 January 2016 18:28 (eight years ago) link
good interview here: http://www.richieunterberger.com/langhorne2.html
― tylerw, Friday, 8 January 2016 18:34 (eight years ago) link
Love that interview and pretty much any other interview I've read with him
― Green Dolphin Street Hassle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 January 2016 18:36 (eight years ago) link
It's such an incredible record and to me is something of an Ur-text for a lot of that creaky, haunted folk stuff that sort of fits the New Weird America vibe but not quite - and of which there isn't nearly enough. Best proponent for me is Scott Tuma, though I reckon Erik Enocksson's early records are pretty damn close.
― Poacher (Chinaski), Friday, 8 January 2016 19:33 (eight years ago) link
Sorry to hear he's not doing so good. I've got the Scissor Tail reissue and can highly recommend it.
― Poacher (Chinaski), Friday, 8 January 2016 19:34 (eight years ago) link
https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3026/2953684478_6eb6aed844_z.jpg?zz=1
― nomar, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 04:41 (seven years ago) link
Nice! Wonder how he is doing?
― Louder Than Borads (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 February 2017 04:59 (seven years ago) link
Anyway this is an excellent overview. https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/20850-forgotten-heroes-bruce-langhorne?page=3 Linked into the middle of it- page 3- because I love the picture so much of Langhorne, Dylan, Carolyn Hester and Spike Lee's dad.
― Louder Than Borads (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 February 2017 05:04 (seven years ago) link
Wait there is a benefit for him this weekend in Brooklyn.
― Louder Than Borads (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 February 2017 05:07 (seven years ago) link
Forthcoming tribute album is very good.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 05:35 (seven years ago) link
And speaking said forthcoming tribute album, my short review of it:
https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/02/27/various-artists-the-hired-hands-a-tribute-to-bruce-langhorne-review/
The original is of course ridiculously great.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 27 February 2017 18:10 (seven years ago) link
Crazy to think that such a simple template - dude gets high and, reacting to a film, overdubs himself playing very simple parts on acoustic instruments - produced such a singular release.
I thought I posted this already, but wasn't that basically how Neil Young did the Dead Man soundtrack?
― the_ecuador_three, Monday, 6 March 2017 17:59 (seven years ago) link
Not to provide the dorkiest thought here, but as someone who's played lots of video games in my life this always gives me a heavy RPG soundtrack vide, personally.
― Evan, Monday, 6 March 2017 19:24 (seven years ago) link
Very sad news that Bruce Langhorne has passed
https://www.facebook.com/dylan.aycock.1/posts/10158474469685640
Bruce Langhorne passed away this morning. Endless gratitude to the tambourine man. I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing if it weren't for him.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 14 April 2017 22:51 (six years ago) link
Sad, if expected. So glad he got to see that comp, which maybe helped him realize how tremendous an influence he was on a lotta very creative weirdos. RIP
― Wimmels, Friday, 14 April 2017 23:44 (six years ago) link
np Root Strata's rip of the Idaho Transfer soundtrack
― Milton Parker, Friday, 14 April 2017 23:57 (six years ago) link
RIP Bruce.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Saturday, 15 April 2017 09:24 (six years ago) link
RIP, really such a great playerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EjCHuqdKUs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH7OTUz-KUA
― tylerw, Monday, 17 April 2017 14:48 (six years ago) link
Am curious about the Masekela and Olatunji albums he's on
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 13:59 (six years ago) link