Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid - Bob Dylan

The soundtrack to Sam Peckinpah's final say on the Western genre, the album is probably best known for featuring the now standard 'Knockin' On Heaven's Door'. This was Dylan's first album of new material in 3 years, since 1970's New Morning. It is made up primarily of instrumental material, perhaps making the album less than essential to many, it remains a rare example of a mainstream artist successfully composing a score of entirely self-penned material. Sharply followed by a creative spurt including 'Blood on the Tracks' & 'Desire', this album has been forgotten in several respects, it may not compare with his best work, but listened to on ...  Read the complete review

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is the soundtrack to the film of the same name, consisting of track s written and recorded by Bob Dylan. It followed on from New Morning, with many calling it an amateurish release, not pertaining to the heights of his previous earlier works, but for me this is far from the truth. As with many soundtrack albums it is made up of mainly instrumental material, with a few tracks that can be considered to be songs. It is often criticised for this aspect, and for the fact that it provides three versions of in effect the same song, Billy 1, Billy 4 and Billy 7, done in opposing styles. But there has also been much praise for Knockin' on Heaven's ...  Read the complete review