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Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid (1973)
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Tracks (Click song title for lyrics)
Album Info
Main Title Theme (Billy)
Booker T, Bruce Langhorn, Bob Dylan
Tambourine -- Russ Kunkel
Cantina Theme (Workin' For The Law)
Roger McGuinn, Bruce Langhorn, Bob Dylan
Bongos -- Russ Kunkel
Billy 1
Booker T, Bruce Langhorn, Bob Dylan
Bunkhouse Theme
Carol Hunter & Bob Dylan
River Theme
Booker T, Bruce Langhorn, Bob Dylan
Voices -- Donna Weiss, Priscilla Jones, Byron Berline
Turkey Chase
Fiddle -- Byron Berline
Banjo -- Jolly Roger
Acoustic Guitar -- Bruce Langhorn
Rhythm Guitar -- Bob Dylan
Bass -- Booker T
Knockin' On Heaven's Door
Terry Paul, Roger McGuinn, Jim Keltner, Bob Dylan
Voices -- Caroll, Donna, Brenda Patterson
Harmonium -- Carl Fortina
Final Theme
Guitars -- Roger McGuinn, Carol Hunter, Bob Dylan
Voices -- Donna & Brenda, Terry Paul
Recorder/Flute -- Gary Foster
Harmonium -- Carl Fortina
Cellos -- Fred Katz & Ted Michel
Bass -- Terry Paul
Drums -- Jim Keltner
Billy 4 (Recorded In Mexico City)
Bob Dylan & Terry Paul
Billy 7
Jim Keltner, Roger McGuinn, Terry Paul & Bob Dylan
Music Published by Ram's Horn Music (ASCAP)
Booker T and Priscilla Courtesy of A&M Records
Brenda Patterson Courtesy of Playboy Records
Songs by Bob Dylan
Produced by Gordon Carroll
Engineered by Dan Wallin
The Burbank Studios
Photography -- Manuel Palomino.
Art Direction & Design -- John Van Hamersveld
Dedicated to Sam Peckinpah
Comments
ALIAS!
They shoulda given him a bigger part but that wasn't Peckinpahs decision. Knockin' on Heavens door can stand by itself and get 5 stars. But the album as a whole is fine, nothing special.
billy
never a wrong dylan album!!
Acting ability
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Bob Dylan isn't the best actor, but how many great actors are also great musicians - and how many great musicians are also great actors?
He doesn't do a much better acting job later in his life either. In 2003, in the movie "Masked and Anonymous" he wasn't very good, but then again, not even the amazingly talented actors in that movie were great. It was just not a very well written movie.
he captures the film
he captures the film perfectley, everything before knockin on heavens door is amazing and mellow, everything after, i just coudn't turn of
I agree
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My favorite track is also Knockin' on Heaven's Door. It is an amazing song on its own and also as part of this soundtrack. You know Dylan is great when you consider how many of his songs have been covered by other artist.
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
This is very different from all his previous albums.
My favourite track on the album is:
1. Knockin' on Heaven's Door
The January 2007 issue of 'Mojo' rated this album Dylan's 20th best album - I consider it to be his 29th best album.
ckane4u ... i just love this
ckane4u ... i just love this sound track. i was very young when i heard this album for very first time... and after all this years i still like to hear it... ( sorry if my english is not very good..)
This album was unusual on
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This album was unusual on several counts. For starters, it was a soundtrack (for Sam Peckinpah's movie of the same title), a first venture of its kind for Bob Dylan. For another, it was Dylan's first new LP in three years -- he hadn't been heard from in any form other than the single "George Jackson," his appearance at the Bangladesh benefit concert in 1971, in all of that time. Finally, it came out at an odd moment of juxtaposition in pop culture history, appearing in July 1973 on the same date as the release of Paul McCartney's own first prominent venture into film music, on the Live and Let Die soundtrack (the Beatles bassist had previously scored The Family Way, a British project overlooked amid the frenzy of the Beatles' success).
Billy
While I love Knockin' On Heaven's Door, the track here is too short. It should have included the 3rd verse that Dylan added later in concerts. I love all three versions of Billy. Wonderful melody and story-telling. Dylan is a soundtrack master. I like the insturmental Final Theme. Nice flute.
It's a shame that the Director's cut (DVD) of the film deleted Knockin' On Heaven's Door from the soundtrack in the scene where sherrrif (Slim Pickins) lies by the river dying from a gunshot wound.
Bob Dylan can do everything
Mayebe Bob is not so good actor as singer and song-writer, but even a soundtrack for a movie made by him is great.
otra novedad
Hay críticos que son para echar de comer aparte
hace falta ser bobo para comparar una banda sonora con un disco de rock
está lejos de ser Dead man de Neil Young pero está muy bien
I know the track you mean,
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I know the track you mean, according to the ever reliable Wikipedia its called 'Billy Surrenders'. Its one of the best bits of music from the film and I keep hoping it will be on the Bootleg Series.
missing songs
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This soundtrack is a great example of Bob having fun instrumentally and focusing less on lyrics, as another user mentioned. Personally,I love that aspect of this record , as well as songs like "Wigwam" and "All the Tired Horses" off of the Self Portrait album. People give Bob a hard time for almost everything he does, but I urge those who are reluctant to listen closer and with an open mind to his instrumental stuff - he's got a much richer body of work if you cut him some slack and realize he's not trying to knock your socks off all the time.
That said, There's one glaring omission from this record that nobody seems to realize. It's a song that appears twice in the movie and for my money is the best song in the film. It's got an almost funky drum track and a rollicking "la la la la" wordless chorus. The first part of the movie that it appears on is when Billy surrenders to Garrett after a shootout right near the beginning of the film. It's awesome and I can't find a title or even a reference to it anywhere.
anyone know what I'm talkin' about?
Also, there's an outtake called "rock me" (I think) that ended up being interpreted and expanded into "Wagon wheel" by a band called Old Crow Medicine Show. Both the rough Dylan cut and the remake are worth checking for on the ol' internet....
happy listening!
Pat Garret
a nice soundtrack with one classic song. the whole album is fun to listen to
Sam Peckinpah!
I think I'd rather talk about the film rather than the soundtrack. The soundtrack is nice enough, though. By all means, see the film!
A good soundtrack for a western
When you listen to it you musnt not take it as a normal album, but as a soundtrack for a western. From that point of view is really good. As a normal album it would be poor, as it has only 2 real songs (very good songs by the way). The rest are instrumentals that create the right atmosphere for the film.
Pat Garret & Billy The Kid
Most people see Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid as nothing more than a really long super-maxi-single for “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” with several unnecessary re-mixes of the B-Side, “Billy”. While it’s hard to argue that there are any other songs on this album (or any other album by Dylan or not) as good as “Knockin’”, if you’re only interested in Bob for his words you’re going to miss a whole lot here. It is easily Bob’s most instrumental heavy album (and since it’s really a soundtrack, that’s too be expected). Most people can’t even really tell these songlets apart. Which means they miss all the fun goofy humor in the banjo-laden “Turkey Chase” (my second favorite song on the album). And of the songs that do have words, you get three different vocal versions of “Billy” (numbered 1, 4 and 7 for some reason) as well as another instrumental. Sure, all three offer up pretty close to identical lyrics – all which are little more than dumbed-down Cliff’s Notes versions of the plot of the movie. Musically they do each convey a subtly different mood. Okay, “Billy” is not a particularly great song, but despite its reputation as an all-time classic, “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” actually is. And regardless of Eric Clapton or Axl Rose’s attempts to steal this song, the Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid version remains the definitive one. Sure, this album is a lost great classic, but it’s certainly worth more than just that one song.