Langhorne, Bruce: The Hired Hand OST (Vinyl LP)

In 1969 Langhorne was asked by Peter Fonda to score his directorial debut. He decided to opt out of scoring the film in a projection room, instead choosing to shoot the film onto a small black and white camera to take back to his home in Laurel Canyon. He would watch the film and play along to it as his girlfriend at the time would record him and play it back, allowing him to overdub Farfisa Organ, piano, banjo, fiddle, harmonica, recorder, and Appalachian dulcimer onto his Revox reel to reel.

Bruce's 1920 Martin guitar is most prominent throughout the record. The results were a uniquely wide and lonesome soundscape. The closest comparison might be Sandy Bull or possibly John Fahey, but nothing of its kind or even of its time poses a resemblance to Langhorne's minimal masterpiece.

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 And Hannah
11. Ending