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Title: Various Artists - Easy Rider (Music From The Soundtrack)
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1969, Soundtrack, Psychedelic Rock and Folk Rock, Los Angeles, California 9/26
Matrix #: DSX-50063
Condition: VG (LM) | Members: Various Artists (N/A)
Cultural Facts:

1. Soundtrack Lore: Easy Rider helped revolutionize movie soundtracks by using contemporary rock songs already loved by its filmmakers rather than relying primarily on a traditional orchestral score.
2. Song Legacy: Steppenwolf’s “Born to Be Wild” became inseparable from the film’s motorcycle imagery, helping cement the song as one of the defining road anthems of the counterculture era.
3. Rights Oddity: The film used The Band’s original recording of “The Weight,” but licensing problems kept that version off the soundtrack LP, so the album substituted a newly recorded version by Smith.

9/4/26 LM

3/31/2026 TC