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Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
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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
- Billy (Main Title Theme)
- Workin' for the Law (Cantina Theme)
- Billy 1
- Bunkhouse Theme
- River Theme
- Turkey Chase
- Knockin' on Heaven's Door
- Final Theme
- Billy 4
- 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
