Saturday, April 15, 2017

Bruce Langhorne

Musician and composer; vital part of Greenwich Village folk scene, he was Dylan's  'Mr. Tambourine Man' -- via Fact. Worked extensively with Dylan; he plays lead guitar on "Subterranean Homesick Blues" and "Maggie's Farm," among pretty much every active folk performer of the era. He composed several film scores, beginning with an innovaative one for Peter Fonda's "The Hired Hand"; he composed the score for Demme's splendid "Melvin & Howard."