Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)

1. Billy (Main Title Theme)
2. Workin' for the Law (Cantina Theme)
3. Billy 1
4. Bunkhouse Theme
5. River Theme
6. Turkey Chase
7. Knockin' on Heaven's Door
8. Final Theme
9. Billy 4
10. Billy 7

Notes and Reviews

The musicians:


References:

• Pat Garrett, a Lincoln County, New Mexico, sheriff, shot and killed Billy the Kid in 1881. In 1973, filmmaker Sam Peckinpah made a movie about Garrett and the outlaw Kid, and Bob Dylan wrote and recorded the soundtrack.

Trivia:

Reviews:

From The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia by Michael Gray:

"Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid [album, 1973] Dylan’s 12th album of new work, but his first since 1970, was ‘only’ a film-soundtrack album (though, in the way of these things, it isn’t the same thing as the soundtrack you hear on the movie: one of SAM PECKINPAH’s best). It is a largely instrumental album, with all the characteristic roughness and lack of polish that has kept Bob Dylan less palatable to mass easy-listening taste than infinitely less talented contemporaries such as PAUL SIMON or PAUL McCARTNEY. Though a very minor item in Dylan’s catalogue, it is a finely atmospheric work, engaging in its own right and effective as a part of the movie it was written for.
It also includes the original hit recording of the perennially popular ‘Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door’."

Best Song:
"Knockin' on Heaven's Door"
According to Alias

I couldn't agree more with Alias on this choice. This is one of the most stunningly beautiful melodies Dylan has ever written. -- Folkrockman


Favorite Lyric:
"Mama, take this badge off of me"
According to Alias