BOB DYLAN Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid 1973 UK CBS 1st PRESS - NEAR MINT
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BOB DYLAN Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid 1973 UK CBS 1st PRESS - NEAR MINT
BOB DYLANPat Garrett & Billy The Kid
UK CBS (S 69042) FIRST PRESSING (September 1973) OF BOB DYLAN'S SOUNDTRACK TO SAM PECKINPAH'S MOVIE "Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid"
IN EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION - SEEN LITTLE (if any) PLAY AND DELIVERS CLEAN SOUND RARELY HEARD ON THIS ORIGINAL ISSUE
PRESSED WITH THE FIRST ISSUE SOLID ORANGE CBS LABELS
MATRIX: S-69042 A1 / S-69042 B1
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL MATT AND TEXTURED SINGLE SLEEVE PRINTED BY “Shorewood Packaging Co. Ltd., England”
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL CBS ADVERTISING INNER SLEEVE (POP 3)
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.
Dylan's work comprised an entire LP, a beautifully simple, sometimes rough-at-the-edges and sometimes gently refined piece of country- and folk-influenced rock, devised to underscore a very serious historical film by one of the movies' great directorial stylists.
It was also as strong as any of his recent albums, featuring not just Langhorne but also such luminaries as Booker T. Jones, Roger McGuinn, and Byron Berline. "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" was the obvious hit off the album, and helped drive the sales, but "Billy 1," "Billy 4," and "Billy 7" were good songs, too -- had any of them shown up on bootlegs, they'd have kept the Dylan semiologists and hagiographers busy for years working over them. The instrumentals surrounding them were also worth hearing as manifestations of Dylan's music-making; "Bunkhouse Theme" was downright gorgeous. It was the first time since New Morning, in 1970, that Dylan had released more than five minutes of new music at once, and it was a gift to fans as well as to Peckinpah -- little did anyone realize at the time that it heralded a period of new recording and a national tour (with the Band), along with a brief label switch, and Dylan's greatest period of sustained musical visibility since 1966. This record also proved that Dylan could shoehorn his music within the requirements of a movie score without compromising its content or quality, something that only the Beatles, unique among rock artists, had really managed to do up to that time, and that was in their own movie, A Hard Day's Night. "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" may have been the biggest hit to come out of a Western in at least 21 years, since Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington had given "High Noon" to Tex Ritter to sing in Fred Zinnemann's High Noon in 1952 (and Katy Jurado was in both movies), and he'd also outdone Ritter on two counts, writing the music -- a full score, to boot -- and getting a cameo appearance in the film. The album was later kind of overlooked and neglected in the wake of the tour that followed and the imposing musical attributes of, say, Blood on the Tracks and Desire, but heard on its own terms it holds up 30-plus years later
Side 1:
Main Title Theme (Billy) (6:00)
Cantina Theme (Workin' For The Law) (2:50)
Billy 1 (3:51)
Bunkhouse Theme (2:10)
River Theme (1:32)
Side 2:
Turkey Chase (3:20)
Knockin' On Heaven's Door (2:28)
Final Theme (5:18)
Billy 4 (4.53)
Billy 7 (2:04)
LABELS: MINT
Clean, factory-fresh labels with no evident spindle traces
VINYL Visual: MINT
Both surfaces are unmarked and shine like new
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT
Plays beautifully throughout with exceptionally clean sound
SLEEVE: EXCELLENT+
The first issue lightly textured cover is sharp with little wear to speak of - all spine text is clear and bold - just some light discolouration to the white
POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW ANTI-STATIC LINER, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
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EUROPE: Airmail: £15.00 (International Signed For delivery)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £18.00 (International Signed For delivery)
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