Bruce Langhorne

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Bruce Langhorne

Bruce Langhorne (born c. 1940) is an American

United States

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folk music

Folk music

Folk music can have a number of different meanings, including:* Traditional music: The original meaning of the term "folk music" was synonymous with the term "Traditional music", also often including World Music and Roots music; the term "Traditional music" was given its more specific meaning to distinguish it from the other definition...
ian. He was active in the Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village , often simply called the Village, is a largely residential area on the lower west side of southern Manhattan in New York City....
folk scene in the 1960s, primarily as a session guitar

Guitar

The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
ist for folk-rock albums and performances.

The Bob Dylan song "Mr. Tambourine Man

Mr. Tambourine Man

"Mr. Tambourine Man" is a song written and performed by Bob Dylan and featured on his 1965 in music album Bringing It All Back Home, produced by Tom Wilson ....
" is written about Langhorne, who used to play a large Turkish frame drum

Frame drum

A frame drum is a drum that has a drumhead diameter greater than its depth. Usually the single drumhead is made of rawhide or man-made materials....
in performances and recordings. The drum, which Langhorne had purchased in a music store in Greenwich Village, had small bells attached around its interior, giving it a jingling sound much like a tambourine.

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Bruce Langhorne (born c. 1940) is an American

United States

Folk music

Greenwich Village

Guitar

Mr. Tambourine Man

Frame drum

Richard Fariña

Richard George Fari?a was an United States writer and folksinger. He was a figure in both the counterculture scene of the early- to mid-sixties as well as the budding folk rock scene of the same era....
and Mimi Fariña

Mimi Fariña

Mimi Baez Fari?a was a singer, songwriter, and activist. She was the daughter of physicist Albert Baez and sister of Folk music Joan Baez.Fari?a married novelist, musician and composer Richard Fari?a in 1963 at the age of 17, and the two collaborated on a number of influential folk albums, most notably Celebrations for a Grey Day and...
. Some photos of Langhorne with his drum can be seen . The drum is now in the collection of Seattle's Experience Music Project

Experience Music Project

The Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame is a museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction located in Seattle, Washington....
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Langhorne also worked with Bob Dylan, The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem, Joan Baez

Joan Baez

Joan Chandos Baez is a Mexican-United States folk singer and songwriter known for her highly individual vocal style. Many of her songs are Topical song and deal with social issues....
, Richie Havens

Richie Havens

Richie Havens is an United States folk music singer and guitarist. Havens is perhaps best known for his intense rhythmic guitar style, soulful cover version of pop music and folk music songs and his opening performance at the Woodstock Festival....
, Carolyn Hester

Carolyn Hester

Carolyn Hester is an United States folk singer and songwriter. She was an important figure of the early '60s folk music revival.Hester's first album was produced by Norman Petty in 1957....
, Peter LaFarge, Gordon Lightfoot

Gordon Lightfoot

Gordon Meredith Lightfoot, Jr., Order of Canada, Order of Ontario is a Canada singer and songwriter who achieved international success in folk, country, and popular music....
, Hugh Masakela, Odetta

Odetta

Odetta Holmes, , known as Odetta, was an American singer, actress, guitarist, songwriter, and a human rights activist, often referred to as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement"....
, Babatunde Olatunji

Babatunde Olatunji

Babatunde Olatunji was a Nigerian drummer, educator, social activist and recording artist....
, Peter, Paul and Mary

Peter, Paul and Mary

Peter, Paul and Mary are a musical group from the United States who were one of the most successful folk song groups of the 1960s. The trio is composed of Peter Yarrow, Noel Stookey and Mary Travers ....
, Tom Rush

Tom Rush

Tom Rush is a noted folk music and blues music singer, songwriter and recording artist....
, and Buffy Sainte-Marie

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Buffy Sainte-Marie is an Academy Award-winning Canada First Nations musician, composer, visual artist, pacifism, educator and social activist....
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Langhorne composed the highly distinctive music for the cult Peter Fonda

Peter Fonda

Peter Henry Fonda is an American actor. He is the son of Henry Fonda, the brother of Jane Fonda, and the father of Bridget Fonda. Fonda is associated with Western culture counterculture of the 1960s, and the infomercial culture of the 2000s....
western

Western (genre)

The Western is a fiction genre seen in film, television, radio, literature, painting and other visual arts. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in what became the Western United States , but also in Western Canada, Mexico , Alaska and even Australia ....
film The Hired Hand
The Hired Hand

The Hired Hand is a 1971 western directed by Peter Fonda, with a screenplay by Alan Sharp. The film stars Fonda, Warren Oates, and Verna Bloom....
(1971), which combined sitar

Sitar

The sitar is a plucked stringed instrument. It uses sympathetic strings along with a long hollow neck and a gourd resonance chamber to produce a very rich sound with complex harmonic resonance....
, fiddle

Fiddle

The term fiddle refers to a violin; it is a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including European classical music....
, and banjo

Banjo

The banjo is a stringed instrument developed by Slavery in the United States Africans in the United States, adapted from several African instruments....
to great effect. He also provided the film score

Film score

A film score is a broad term referring to the music in a film, which is generally categorically separated from songs used within a film. The term Soundtrack is often confused with film score, though a soundtrack may also include songs featured in the film as well as previously released music by other artists, while the score does...
for Fonda's 1973 science fiction film

Science fiction film

Science fiction film is a film genre that uses Speculative fiction, science-based depictions of phenomena that aren't necessarily accepted by mainstream science....
Idaho Transfer
Idaho Transfer

Idaho Transfer is a 1973 science fiction film directed by Peter Fonda. It stars Kelley Bohanon, Kevin Hearst, Dale Hopkins and Keith Carradine....
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In 1992 Langhorne founded a hot sauce company known as Brother Bru-Bru's African Hot Sauce. This hot sauce is unique for containing "African Spices."

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from Richard and Mimi site