Bruce Langhorne may have been the real-life Mr. Tambourine Man. He leaves behind a remarkable body of session work that in the 1960s helped move what we call folk music into the electric age. Tambourine Man.”The tambourine connection is that Langhorne was well-known for showing up at sessions with a tambourine the size of a pizza. Langhorne likened those sessions, and a lot of his other playing, to the call-and-response style he loved in gospel music. As electric music became electronic music and sounds evolved, he branched out into other areas, composing music for films and TV ads.

Source: Huffington Post April 16, 2017 05:46 UTC