Cargo Records

Soundtrack to The Hired Hand (Dir Peter Fonda) 1971

His score predates by nearly 30 years the work of David "Papa M" Pajo and Will "Bonnie Prince Billy" Oldham and even manages to match Ry Cooder's sublime Paris, Texas score for its winsome evocation of high plains drifting.

Langhorne's finest hour with Dylan is throughout the Bringing It All Back Home lp, and most tellingly on She Belongs To Me and Love Minus Zero/No Limit. The other defining track is Mr Tambourine Man, which Dylan notes in the booklet to the Biograph Box Set: "Mr Tambourine Man, I think, was inspired by Bruce Langhorne. Bruce was playing guitar with me on a bunch of the early records. And he had this gigantic tambourine. It was like, really big. It was as big as a wagon wheel. He was playing, and this vision of him playing this tambourine just stuck in my mind. He was one of those characters"