One of his first acts was to capture Billy the Kid, sending him to trial for the murder of the Lincoln sheriff and his deputy. Three years later, Pat’s father, John Garrett, purchased a Louisiana plantation in Claiborne Parish, where young Garrett grew up. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid is a soundtrack album released by Bob Dylan in 1973 for the Sam Peckinpah film of the same name. Overall, there are a huge number of unanswered questions. You can track Billy the Kid – as a child – from New York City to Indianapolis, to Wichita, to Denver, to Santa Fe, to … Powerful interests want New Mexico tamed for their brand of progress, and Sheriff Pat Garrett (James Coburn) is commissioned to rid the territory of his old gunfighting comrades. Listen free to Bob Dylan – Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (Main Title Theme (Billy), Cantina Theme (Workin' for the Law) and more). At 21, he was killed -- shot by sheriff Pat Garrett -- and the man forever known as Billy the Kid was laid to rest in Fort Sumner, N.M. Then again, maybe he wasn't. Best of enemies. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Garrett_and_Billy_the_Kid Hailed as one of Sam Peckinpah’s misunderstood masterpieces, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is the film that ended the filmmaker’s informal revisionist western trilogy, after Ride the High Country and The Wild Bunch.The creation of the story of an aging sheriff hired to kill his old friend Billy the Kid, however, was riddled with problems. It's a bled of the lyrics from all the recorded versions that puts the whole story together in a somewhat timely fashion using the most poetic lyrics. Pat Garrett, an old friend of Billy the Kid who now wears star, has been sent to drive Billy out of New Mexico, or, failing that, to kill him. Pat Garrett was a cowboy, rancher, and lawman who is best known for killing Billy the Kid. 4.5 out of 5 stars 630 ratings. It's 1881 in New Mexico, and the times they are a'changing. Best of enemies. Billy is incapable of running away. Billy: [to Pat Garrett] Come on in Pat, I'll warm ya breakfast! I shot him straight up. Billy: [to his confederates] Hell, that was a year ago. Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid (1973) Recording data. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid subtitles. Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid is an amazing movie and deserves to be as widely known and loved as The Wild Bunch. Echoing Ry Cooder's adventurous, epoch-defying journeys that would soon follow, the 10-track album effortlessly breathes with country, folk, blues, and old-time pop flavors. And it’s sad. No reviews yet. Pat Garrett, erstwhile travelling companion of the outlaw Billy the Kid has become a sheriff, tasked by cattle interests with ridding the territory of Billy. Pat Garrett was elected Sheriff of Lincoln County in 1880 on a reform ticket with the expectation that he would reinstate justice in the area. But that was where the similarities between the two projects ended -- apart from the title song, Live and Let Die was Martin's project rather than McCartney's, whereas Dylan was all over Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid as a composer, musician, etc. It's 1881 in New Mexico, and the times they are a'changing. “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid” is a towering, unfinished masterpiece and one of the saddest movies I have ever seen. And even if it was, the less said the better. Tracking Down Billy the Kid. Lot's of Acoustic Guitars that sound like they are right there in the room with you. The time is 1881. The question of whether Pat Garrett really shot Billy the Kid that night in Pete Maxwell’s bedroom remains unanswered to this day. Deadliest of friends.. An aging Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons--his sole purpose being to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid. The film was first "rescued" in 1988, when it was released by Turner Television in a 122-minute "Preview Version". Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid subtitles. Billy: [Billy's braggadocio is answered by a hail of gunfire] I guess he already had breakfast. Dylan himself appeared in the film as the character "Alias". Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid is the twelfth studio album and first soundtrack album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on July 13, 1973 by Columbia Records for the Sam Peckinpah film, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Bob Dylan provides a little back-up music (and acting) and, with that and a little more help, director Sam Peckinpah gives us the penultimate scene in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.. People die. Sheriff Pat Garrett shoots Henry McCarty, popularly known as Billy the Kid, to death at the Maxwell Ranch in New Mexico.Garrett, who had been tracking the Kid … During an interview in 1983, Pat Garrett’s last surviving daughter, Elizabeth, claimed that her father did not kill the Kid. Pat Garrett, erstwhile travelling companion of the outlaw Billy the Kid has become a sheriff, tasked by cattle interests with ridding the territory of Billy. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1973 Vinyl release of "Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid" on Discogs. Pat Garrett became an Old West legend for killing Billy the Kid, yet as the years passed, rumors circulated that the Sheriff had either shot the wrong man or helped fake the outlaw’s death. Myth: Billy the Kid was born on November 23, 1859 in New York City. Dylan’s Knocking on Heaven’s Door plays hauntingly in the background; Dylan himself wanders around other parts of the movie. 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