Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (album)
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Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (album)
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid is the 12th studio album and first soundtrack album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on July 13, 1973 by Columbia Records for the Sam Peckinpah film, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Dylan himself appeared in the film as the character "Alias". The soundtrack consists primarily of instrumental music and was inspired by the movie itself, and included "Knockin' on Heaven's Door", which became a trans-Atlantic Top 20 hit. Certified gold by RIAA, Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid reached No. 16 US and No. 29 UK.-Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
1973. the original soundtrack of Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid is an extension of its myth-destroying predecessor Self-Portrait, a record which further eliminates the possibility of anyone placing Bob Dylan on a pedestal.
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All Music
Dylan's work comprised an entire LP, and the resulting album was a beautifully simple, sometimes rough-at-the-edges and sometimes gently refined piece of country.
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Blog Critics
2008. Dylan would prove his genius by creating music that not only accompanied, but also reflected, the content of the film and in the final analysis superseded it.
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Countdown Kid
2013. Bob Dylan’s lifelong fascination with Westerns probably made the offer to score and write songs for 1973’s Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid impossible to refuse.
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Daily Vault
2017. Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid is a surprisingly good album, if you refuse to believe all the negative hyped piled up around it
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Alltime Records
2018. As is the nature with many soundtrack albums, its pieces weren't designed to be listened to but rather listened 'with'. Nevertheless, surprisingly, this album provides plenty of moments that are well worth their weight in gold (or perhaps that's not so surprising, since Bob Dylan was still riding high on his awesome streak).
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itunes Apple Music
most of this acoustic-based album is occupied by atmosphere-laden instrumentals.
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Lobo to Radio
Consisting of primarily instrumental music and inspired by the movie itself, the soundtrack included "Knockin' On Heaven's Door", which became a trans-Atlantic Top 20 hit.
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The Current
2017. It’s best-known for producing the mournful “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door,” which Dylan rarely omits from any live set list.
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Warehouse Eyes
It is an album that time has been kind to. Wonderfully atmospheric it is a perfect accompaniment to Peckinpah's beautifully realized vision of a dying way of life.
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George Starostin's Reviews
Still working strictly within the limits of country-rock where Bob had driven himself six years ago and which he was not yet intending to leave, he managed to bring together an ounce of creativity, an ounce of his usual humbleness and introspection, a handful of cute musical ideas, a bunch of excellent backing musicians, including Booker T, Roger McGuinn, and Jim Keltner on drums, and a delicious relaxing atmospher.
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Wilson & Alroy's Record Reviews
Some of the instrumentals are interesting, particularly "Bunkhouse Theme" and the haunting "Final Theme," with the melody stated on a recorder, but overall this hardly ranks among Dylan's most enduring work. (DBW)
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Don Ignacio
However, even as a soundtrack album, this is a must for his fans. It's another bit of evidence that Bob Dylan could do anything that he set his mind to in the '60s and '70s.
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Robert Christgau
At least the strings on this soundtrack are mostly plucked and strummed, rather than bowed en masse, but it's still a soundtrack: two middling-to-excellent new Dylan songs, four good original Bobby voices, and a lot of Schmylan music.
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Stuck In The Past!
2014. He was still very much lost in the wilderness, but somehow one of his best-known songs had emerged from this strange chapter in his career. It would go on to become something of a cliché as it was covered by a myriad of artists over the years.
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Mark Prindle
It gets a little dull what with most of the songs sounding pretty much identical and all, but at least the melodies are pleasant, which is more than I can say about the two previous records.
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Untold Dylan
2016. This was the first new music of Dylan’s since New Morning in 1970. So I find the album very interesting, and worth a review.
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The Daily Beast
2016. largely consists of instrumentals not worth revisiting. It does, however, earn its keep with four versions of theme song “Billy” and, of course, “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door.”
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Paste Magazine
2012. In 1973 Dylan released the album Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid as the soundtrack for Sam Peckinpah’s film of the same name. Dylan himself appears in the film. The 10 tracks are written by Dylan and are nothing short of perfect.
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