Bruce Langhorne, Guitarist Who Inspired ‘Mr. Tambourine Man,’ Dies at 78

[JSngry]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/16/arts/music/bruce-langhorne-dead-guitarist-with-bob-dylan.html

Bruce Langhorne, far left, in an image from a YouTube video with Carolyn Hester, Bob Dylan and Bill Lee in 1961 in a studio in New York. Credit Brucelanghornemusic, via YouTube        

Mr. Langhorne had not set out to become a guitar player. A student of the violin, he had to forgo a career in classical music after losing two fingers and most of the thumb on his right hand in an accident involving homemade fireworks when he was 12. He took up the guitar at 17, developing a unique call-and-response approach to the instrument.

“Since I have fingers missing, some styles of guitar playing were forever unreachable for me,” he told an interviewer. “I really needed someone who had a thread going to really do my job,” he continued, alluding to his musical collaborators. “Because then they could generate a couple of lines of polyphony, or a rhythmic structure, and then I could enhance that.”

[jazzbo]

What a great player he was! I love his contributions to Dylan albums, and I have the studio Hester Bear Family 2 cd set and he makes interesting contributions there as well. A master passes. RIP.

[clifford_thornton]

yeah, he was awesome with Richard & Mimi Fariña as well. RIP.

[felser]

I have so much music he plays on.  Dylan, Richie Havens, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Tom Rush, Richard & Mimi Farina, Joan Baez. Gordon Lightfoot...  RIP.

[Bill Nelson]

Always dug Langhorne's contributions to Tom Rush's best album, 'The Circle Game', 1968.  Everything worked on that LP and Langhorne sure plays a hot guitar.

[Milestones]

I have to confess I have never heard of this guy, although I am rather knowledgeable about Bob Dylan.  

On what Dylan discs does he appear?

 

[danasgoodstuff]

5 hours ago, Milestones said:

I have to confess I have never heard of this guy, although I am rather knowledgeable about Bob Dylan.  

On what Dylan discs does he appear?

 

Bringing It All Back Home (and related?), IIRC.

[JSngry]

Should any online obituary prove problematic, try AMG: http://www.allmusic.com/artist/bruce-langhorne-mn0000635087/credits