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- Bruce Langhorne was born on May 11, 1938 in Tallahassee, Florida, USA. He was a composer, known for Idaho Transfer (1973), Fighting Mad (1976) and Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (1981). He was married to Georgia and Janet Bachelor. He died on April 14, 2017 in Venice, California, USA.
- SpousesGeorgia (divorced)Janet Bachelor(198? - April 14, 2017) (his death)
- A regular in the burgeoning Greenwich Village scene of the early 1960s, he worked first as an accompanist in clubs and later in the studio, including sessions for Carolyn Hester's first Columbia LP in 1961 where a young, then-unsigned Bob Dylan played harmonica.
- Bob Dylan wrote in the liner notes of his Biograph Box Set" "Mr Tambourine Man, I think, was inspired by Bruce Langhorne. Bruce was playing guitar with me on a bunch of the early records. And he had this gigantic tambourine. It was like, really big. It was as big as a wagon wheel. He was playing, and this vision of him playing this tambourine just stuck in my mind. He was one of those characters . . . ".
- One of the most significant session guitarists to emerge in the early years of 1960s folk rock. Though he never recorded an album of his own, he appeared on early electric recordings by Bob Dylan, Fred Neil, Richard Farina, Mimi Fariña, Richie Havens, Gordon Lightfoot, and others.
- Missing three fingers on his right-hand lost in a fireworks accident as a child.
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