bruce langhorne - the hired hand OST

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."

(xp) Oh, what a shame :( Used to have that Hired Hand soundtrack but seem to have mislaid it.

you can get it again at the link above -- (and i gather there's a new vinyl pressing as well).

:(

good interview here: http://www.richieunterberger.com/langhorne2.html

Love that interview and pretty much any other interview I've read with him

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.

Sorry to hear he's not doing so good. I've got the Scissor Tail reissue and can highly recommend it.

https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3026/2953684478_6eb6aed844_z.jpg?zz=1

Nice! Wonder how he is doing?

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.

Wait there is a benefit for him this weekend in Brooklyn.

Forthcoming tribute album is very good.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

np Root Strata's rip of the Idaho Transfer soundtrack

RIP Bruce.

RIP, really such a great player
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EjCHuqdKUs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH7OTUz-KUA

Am curious about the Masekela and Olatunji albums he's on