Easy Rider: Original Soundtrack 1969 (The Smith, The Byrds) CD-New $49.99

Description

Easy Rider is a 1969 American road drama film written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda, and directed by Hopper. Fonda and Hopper play two bikers who travel through the American Southwest and South, carrying the proceeds from a cocaine deal. Other actors in the film include Jack Nicholson, Karen Black and Toni Basil. The success of Easy Rider helped spark the New Hollywood era of filmmaking during the early 1970s.

Easy Rider is the soundtrack to the cult classic 1969 film Easy Rider. The songs that make up the soundtrack were carefully selected to form a “musical commentary” within the film.

Video: Easy Rider (1969) Trailer

Tracklist:

Most of the tracks on the Easy Rider soundtrack were previously released on other albums by their respective artists.

1. “The Pusher” (Hoyt Axton) – 5:49
   • Steppenwolf – Steppenwolf (1968)
2. “Born to Be Wild” (Mars Bonfire) – 3:37
   • Steppenwolf – Steppenwolf (1968)
3. “The Weight” (Jaime Robbie Robertson) – 4:29
   • Smith (1969)
4. “Wasn’t Born to Follow” (Carole King/Gerry Goffin) – 2:03
   • The Byrds – The Notorious Byrd Brothers (1968)
5. “If You Want to Be a Bird (Bird Song)” (Antonia Duren) – 2:35
   • The Holy Modal Rounders – The Moray Eels Eat The Holy Modal Rounders (1969)
6. “Don’t Bogart Me” (Elliot Ingber/Larry Wagner) – 3:05
   • Fraternity of Man – Fraternity of Man (1968)
7. “If 6 Was 9” (Jimi Hendrix) – 5:35
   • The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Axis: Bold as Love (1967)
8. “Kyrie Eleison/Mardi Gras (When the Saints)” (Traditional, arranged by David Axelrod) – 4:00
   • The Electric Prunes – Mass in F Minor (1968)
9. “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)” (Bob Dylan) – 3:39
   • Roger McGuinn (1969)
10. “Ballad of Easy Rider” (Roger McGuinn/Bob Dylan) – 2:14
    • Roger McGuinn (1969)