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Bruce Langhorne : The Hired Hand score
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A unique, folkly but ethereal piece of Americana film scoring.
Genre: Folk: Gentle
Release Date: 2004
The Hired Hand score
Bruce Langhorne
Record Label: Bruce Langhorne
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Preview Song Name Time Buy
1. Opening 3:39 Album Only
2. Dead Girl 0:37 Album Only
3. Leaving Del Norte 1:57 Album Only
4. Riding Thru the Rain 2:35 Album Only
5. Three Teeth 1:26 Album Only
6. Spring 0:48 Album Only
7. Windmill 1:46 Album Only
8. No Further Need 1:19 Album Only
9. Arch Leaves 2:23 Album Only
10. Harry & Hannah 2:53 Album Only
11. Ending 4:36 Album Only
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Album Notes

The soundtracks by Greenwich Village scenester and session guitarist Langhorne (his oversize tamborine inspired Dylan to write "Mr Tamborine Man") was, at times, an unbearably lovely needlepoint of ever-so-gently pyschedelicised instrumental Americana. Hillbilly figures morph into modular ragas and echoes of gamelan ring hypnotically. Four stars.

Danny Eccleston. Mojo Magazine. 2004

Predating the high plains melancholy of Ry Cooder's Paris, Texas soundtrack by more than a decade, Bruce Langhorne's gorgeous, spectral soundtrack for Peter Fonda's cult 1971 western The Hired Hand was recorded in 1969. The likes of fiddle, dulcimer, banjo, guitar, piano, harmonica and drum, augmented by an ancient, tube-based Echoplex and the wooden mouthpiece of a recorder, create a haunting soundscape that may clock in at under 24 minutes, but lingers in the mind's ear long after the music's over. Astonishingly for such a seminal figure, it is also his first-ever solo release.

Tim Cumming. The Guardian 2004

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REVIEWS

he was just a hired hand
author: toto
                            
sang the Eagles, ages ago; this movie just was on pbs in germany; brilliant, the actors, the colors - vilmos szigmond - and of course, long before Gustavo Santaolalla, there was Bruce Langhorn. I*ll get a good night's sleep and then go looking for these sounds tomorrow morning, it will be a good morning indeed, at my local dealer.

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The Hired Hand Soundtrack
author: Laura Parker-Garrison
                            
Beautiful and haunting.

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Hired Hand
author: Michael K
                            
Some of the most moving music i have ever heard. It is a perfect accompaniment to the film, and also works well on it's own. The sparseness and "lo-fi" element add to the music's appeal. I only wish there was more music, as the CD is relatively short. But definitely still worth it.

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Hired Hand Soundtrack
author: james adam
                            
this is just a great album that I waited a long time. 
the service from CD Baby was great.

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