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Bruce Langhorne (born c. 1938) is an American folk musician. He was active in the Greenwich Village folk scene in the 1960s, primarily as a session guitarist for folk albums and performances. He lost the fifth and fourth fingers on his right hand in an accident when seven years old, contributing to his distinctive finger picking style.
Langhorne worked with many of the major performers in the Folk Revival of the 1950s and 1960s, including The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem, Joan Baez, Richie Havens, Carolyn Hester, Peter LaFarge, Gordon Lightfoot, Hugh Masekela, Odetta, Babatunde Olatunji, Peter, Paul and Mary, Richard and Mimi Fariña, Tom Rush, and Buffy Sainte-Marie.
The title character of Bob Dylan's song "Mr. Tambourine Man" is inspired by Langhorne, who used to play a large Turkish frame drum in performances and recordings. The drum, which Langhorne had purchased in a music store in Greenwich Village, had small bells attached around its interior, giving it a jingling sound much like a tambourine. Langhorne used the instrument most prominently with Richard and Mimi Fariña. The drum is now in the collection of Seattle's Experience Music Project.
The Hired Hand is a 1971 American western film directed by Peter Fonda, with a screenplay by Alan Sharp. The film stars Fonda, Warren Oates, and Verna Bloom. The cinematography was by Vilmos Zsigmond, Bruce Langhorne provided the moody film score. The story is about a man returning to his abandoned wife after seven years of drifting from job to job throughout the southwest. The embittered woman will only let him stay if he agrees to move in as a hired hand.
Upon release, the film received a mixed critical response and was a financial failure. In 1973, the film was shown on NBC-TV in an expanded version, but soon drifted into obscurity. In 2001, a fully restored version was shown at various film festivals, gaining strong critical praise, and it was released by the Sundance Channel on DVD. It is now considered a classic Western of the period.
Harry Collings (Fonda) and Arch Harris (Oates) are two saddle tramps who have grown weary after seven years of wandering through the American Southwest. Along with a younger companion, Dan Griffen (Robert Pratt), they stop off in Del Norte, a ramshackle town in the middle of nowhere, which is run by the corrupt McVey (Severn Darden). Harris and Griffen discuss traveling to California to look for work when Collings abruptly informs them he has decided to return to the wife he left years before. Griffen temporarily leaves the two in a bar and goes to buy supplies. Some town thugs shoot him to death out of pure meanness. Collings and Harris escape, but they return that night. Collings shoots McVey in the feet, crippling him.
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Peter Henry Fonda (born February 23, 1940) is an American actor. He is the son of Henry Fonda, brother of Jane Fonda, and father of Bridget and Justin Fonda (by first wife Susan Brewer, stepdaughter of Noah Dietrich). Fonda is an icon of the counterculture of the 1960s.
Fonda was born in New York City, the only son of actor Henry Fonda and his wife Frances Ford Seymour; he is the younger brother of actress Jane Fonda. He and Jane had a maternal half-sister, Frances de Villers Brokaw (1931-2008), from their mother's first marriage. Their mother committed suicide in a mental hospital when Peter, her youngest, was ten.
On his eleventh birthday, he accidentally shot himself in the stomach and nearly died. He went to Nainital and stayed for a few months for recovery. Years later, he referred to this incident while with John Lennon and George Harrison and taking LSD. He said, "I know what it's like to be dead." This inspired The Beatles' song "She Said She Said".
Early on, Fonda studied acting in Omaha, Nebraska, his father's home town. While attending the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Fonda joined the Omaha Community Playhouse, where many actors (including his father and Marlon Brando) had begun their careers.
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Bruce Langhorne - Ending - (The Hired Hand)
LoveBug - Leon Rubenhold Hangin' With Bruce Langhorne
BRUCE LANGHORNE--Le Vavalou
Bruce Langhorne - The Hired Hand
BRUCE LANGHORNE guitar accompaniment--For Lovin' Me
We have always had JOY
Al Schackman Bruce Langhorne Moog Montage
BRUCE LANGHORNE--The Wind
Bruce Langhorne - Opening
Scoring Walden
'Ending' from the soundtrack/score of the 1971 western film 'The Hired Hand'. Composed by Bruce Langhorne.
Be privy like a fly on the wall to a down home front porch jam session as Singer/Songwriter Leon Rubenhold and his long time good friend and Iconic 60's session guitarist Bruce Langhorne aka: " Mr. Tambourine Man " hang out on a Summer's day and groove to the churning rhythm and mean tasty slide playing of Leon's Delta Blues influenced original tune "Love Bug" played on a vintage metal National Resonator Guitar. Betcha you'll be tappin' your foot too!
This is from Bruce Langhorne's 2011 album TAMBOURINE MAN.
Excerpt from the 1971 film starring Peter Fonda and Warren Oats "The Hired Hand". Score by Bruce Langhorne. Vinyl Reissue by Scissor Tail Records. http://www.scissortailrecords.com/2012/10/st07-bruce-langhorne-hired-hand.html https://scissortail.bandcamp.com/album/the-hired-hand Bruce Langhorne’s film score to Peter Fonda’s 1971 cult classic “The Hired Hand” was Bruce’s first solo album and Peter Fonda’s directoral debut and it’s just now seeing it’s first and limited appearance on vinyl and fittingly Scissor Tail Editions inaugural vinyl release. Bruce Langhorne is most known for his session work with artists in and around the Greenwich Village folk scene during the 1960’s. He’s been credited as working with such artists as Bob Dylan, Odetta, Joan Baez, Peter, Paul and Mary, Babatun...
Sung by Peter Paul & Mary Songwriter: Gordon Lightfoot Guitar: Bruce Langhorne
Peter Fonda visits legendary guitarist Bruce Langhorne
From the soundtrack to the film Book of Numbers. A strange one for Greenwich village folkie Bruce Langhorne and blues/jazz guitarist Al Schackman.
This is from Bruce Langhorne's 2011 album TAMBOURINE MAN.
Engaging interview with Bruce Langhorne (Dylan's Mr. Tambourine Man) and Al Schackman in 2012 about their soundtrack composed and played with Gordy Ryan for Walden, A Legacy Film, directed by Sheila Laffey and Rick Cardin who filmed on 16 mm in 1970 at Walden Pond. Also includes their musings on the Occupy Movement and life. DVD of short film and this interview is distributed by Green Planet Films and also available to schools and libraries for streaming. http://www.greenplanetfilms.org/product/walden-a-short-legacy-film/ The Walden short can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video;_id=Gf9Nk0I1Vfg
Count Smokula and co-host The Delightful Kim Lankford interview Brother Bru Bru (legendary musician and hot sauce maker Bruce Langhorne) and Pamela Stonebrooke "The Intergalactic Diva" who had sex with a space alien! Great performances! First aired 6/6/96 Download Count Smokula music on itunes!!! https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/count-smokula/id196722282
In association with ISIS magazine, the world's best-selling and most respected Dylan journal, comes the second in Chrome Dreams' Dylan DVD anthology.After The Crash mixes rare historic footage with review and criticism from experts, friends and fellow musicians who played with Bob. Writers and critics Clinton Heylin, Nigel Williamson, Patrick Humphries and Derek Barker volunteer their thoughts and opinions on this icon, and Jacques Levy, in his final interview, discusses his work with Bob on the Desire album. Musicians Ron Cornelius, Bruce Langhorne, Eric Weissberg, Kevin Odegard, Rob Stoner and Scarlet Riviera all talk of their experiences working with Dylan in the studio and on the road. Friend and journalist Al Aronowitz remembers his times with Bob when one of his closest confidantes. ...
In association with ISIS magazine, the world's best-selling and most respected Dylan journal, comes the second in Chrome Dreams' Dylan DVD anthology.After The Crash mixes rare historic footage with review and criticism from experts, friends and fellow musicians who played with Bob. Writers and critics Clinton Heylin, Nigel Williamson, Patrick Humphries and Derek Barker volunteer their thoughts and opinions on this icon, and Jacques Levy, in his final interview, discusses his work with Bob on the Desire album. Musicians Ron Cornelius, Bruce Langhorne, Eric Weissberg, Kevin Odegard, Rob Stoner and Scarlet Riviera all talk of their experiences working with Dylan in the studio and on the road. Friend and journalist Al Aronowitz remembers his times with Bob when one of his closest confidantes. ...
In association with ISIS magazine, the world's best-selling and most respected Dylan journal, comes the second in Chrome Dreams' Dylan DVD anthology.After The Crash mixes rare historic footage with review and criticism from experts, friends and fellow musicians who played with Bob. Writers and critics Clinton Heylin, Nigel Williamson, Patrick Humphries and Derek Barker volunteer their thoughts and opinions on this icon, and Jacques Levy, in his final interview, discusses his work with Bob on the Desire album. Musicians Ron Cornelius, Bruce Langhorne, Eric Weissberg, Kevin Odegard, Rob Stoner and Scarlet Riviera all talk of their experiences working with Dylan in the studio and on the road. Friend and journalist Al Aronowitz remembers his times with Bob when one of his closest confidantes. ...
In association with ISIS magazine, the world's best-selling and most respected Dylan journal, comes the second in Chrome Dreams' Dylan DVD anthology.After The Crash mixes rare historic footage with review and criticism from experts, friends and fellow musicians who played with Bob. Writers and critics Clinton Heylin, Nigel Williamson, Patrick Humphries and Derek Barker volunteer their thoughts and opinions on this icon, and Jacques Levy, in his final interview, discusses his work with Bob on the Desire album. Musicians Ron Cornelius, Bruce Langhorne, Eric Weissberg, Kevin Odegard, Rob Stoner and Scarlet Riviera all talk of their experiences working with Dylan in the studio and on the road. Friend and journalist Al Aronowitz remembers his times with Bob when one of his closest confidantes. ...
In association with ISIS magazine, the world's best-selling and most respected Dylan journal, comes the second in Chrome Dreams' Dylan DVD anthology.After The Crash mixes rare historic footage with review and criticism from experts, friends and fellow musicians who played with Bob. Writers and critics Clinton Heylin, Nigel Williamson, Patrick Humphries and Derek Barker volunteer their thoughts and opinions on this icon, and Jacques Levy, in his final interview, discusses his work with Bob on the Desire album. Musicians Ron Cornelius, Bruce Langhorne, Eric Weissberg, Kevin Odegard, Rob Stoner and Scarlet Riviera all talk of their experiences working with Dylan in the studio and on the road. Friend and journalist Al Aronowitz remembers his times with Bob when one of his closest confidantes. ...
Walden is a 10 min. doc filmed on location with readings by poet John Ogden from Henry David Thoreau's classic book, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods. Directed by Sheila Laffey and Rick Cardin when college students. Music by legendary musicians, Bruce Langhorne, Al Schackman and Gordy Ryan. DVD extra includes this 8 minute interview with Langhorne and Schackman in 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HavK8ZGhcj0 Walden was stunningly filmed by Rick Cardin in 1969 on 16 mm film and re-mastered in 2013. DVD with film and interview and streaming for schools and libraries available at http://www.greenplanetfilms.org/product/walden-a-short-legacy-film/