Kris Kristofferson: C/D?

Just picked up Border Lord (which I used to own and seem to have mislaid) and Jesus was Capricorn. Nobody Wins is today's saddest song ever....

Listened to that new collection last night, it's a winner.

Streaiming on NPR now .... sounds very good: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126169194

So this demos collection... is awesome. That is all. Really nice liner notes too.

just searched this thread to post exactly that ian. listened to thing in loud cars for a month or so but the first go through at home is just killing it.

from tracks 4 to 5 alone you get pretty much most of what makes this dude mostly all time, but fuck it, whole thing is ace

oh man, amazing random roles q&a with kris: www.avclub.com/articles/kris-kristofferson,46544/

tonight is a kris greatest hits night imo

My deeply alcoholic friend blames this guy's self-titled album for his problem.

don't blame it on the .... country?

blame it on the stones is one of the few kris songs i'm really not down with.. it's just got that goofy production and vibe to it.

My deeply alcoholic friend blames this guy's self-titled album for his problem.

If I had any inclination to drink alone, I could see this as a pretty encouraging soundtrack.

ah yeah, but music to drink to isn't necessarily music that makes you drink.

in fact, i'm going to go & get a drink.

hey, kris has a new one out today -- Feeling Mortal. sounding pretty good. voice just getting more grizzled, but in a mostly good way.

https://search.mog.com/v2/albums/29523585/image.jpeg?size=800
underrated

never heard that one, but i'd like to.
<3 kris.

he's the emcee of the Johnny Cash TV show DVDs I've been watching. (Cash's "Sunday Morning Coming Down" from the show was released as a single and won awards.)

Didn't really start his music career til he was nearly 30, after being a Rhodes scholar, and a presumed Army lifer.

a texas friend quoted KK saying "Garth Brooks did for country music what pantyhose did for finger fuckin'."

haha

lol

great line in the sabre and the rose "when stagger lee had drunk his fill of moonlight / he turned his burning eyes upon my soul"

http://youtu.be/HaalvZ5S4Aw

this weird thing happened last night
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/1174611_10201727473052288_1320997475_n.jpg
l-r: kris, me, lyle lovett

okay wow!

Details!

i'm kind of distantly related to kris and he and his wife were ridiculously nice/accommodating. lyle was dropping in to discuss their duet during his set. lyle seems like mayyyybe the nicest dude in the world.

omg!! wow.

are you meeting in a mine shaft or

ha, that's just the subterranean backstage of red rocks (http://redrocksonline.com)

everything about that is awesome, lucky you!!

such a great pic.

Too bad they hadn't been sharing stories about the women in their lives at that particular moment.

that rules!

best part was kris telling me about being a helicopter pilot in the gulf of mexico

i may or may not have offered to help him write his memoirs. he said he hasn't done it yet because he sits down to start writing, but then decides he would rather be watching a football game.

Kris otm

Kris Kristofferson...pilot...Gulf of Mexico...what was he transporting?

i think he was flying people back and forth out to oil rigs. he was also a pilot in the air force for a while. and was a rhodes scholar. dude had kind of an interesting life even before he became famous, really.

yeah that helicopter pilot/military stuff has cropped up in interviews I've read with him

amazing pic btw!!

also got to talk to him a bit about mickey newbury!

oooh, what he say about mickey?

"lyle seems like mayyyybe the nicest dude in the world"

lyle love it

(Kristofferson) achieved some success as a performer himself, following Johnny Cash's introduction of Kristofferson at the Newport Folk Festival. Kristofferson had previously grabbed Cash's attention when he landed his helicopter in Cash's yard without prior arrangement and gave him some tapes

oooh, what he say about mickey?
he seemed super excited -- said that he was his best friend, mentor and pretty much "the guy I wanted to be." when kris got fired from his pilot job, mickey was like "great! come back to nashville and pitch songs to the johnny cash show." so they hung out in one of the local hotels where guests for the show stayed and just played songs for whoever. kris also said he thought mickey could've been huge if he just went out and played live but for whatever reason he never liked it. said that his favorite thing was to "play a song and then pass the guitar to someone else." i mentioned "she even woke me up to say goodbye" as one of my favorites and KK pretty much shouted "SHE EVEN WOKE ME UP TO SAY GOODBYE! Can you believe that title!?"

ha! awesome.

she even woke me up to say goodbye, the bitch

If I could have been anybody during the '70s, I think I might have chosen him. (I mean, except for myself, of course.) He was definitively a 1970-71 guy, and he got to stay a 1970-71 guy for the whole decade and become more successful and more famous along the way.

I just noticed his RS cover with Rita Coolidge has an American version (with beard) and a British version without:

http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/t427/sayhey1/kris-1_zpsa65a2de1.jpg http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/t427/sayhey1/kris-2_zps41ca728c.jpg

The headline changes on the Sex Pistols, too.

my first association with him will always be:

http://www.moviespad.com/photos/kris-kristofferson-convoy-0cef0.jpg

well that's pretty amazin'

it's unbelievable

Awesome

Sad, but he seems to be taking it in stride, and can still perform:

http://www.showbiz411.com/2014/01/26/kris-kristoffersons-memory-loss-worsens-but-his-sense-of-humor-is-great

Sorry to hear.

He frequently pops up in bios of the prior generation of musicians- Arthur Alexander, Charlie Louvin, Johnny Cash- and I am always touched by the respect he accorded these guys. The epitome of a gentleman and a scholar.

Also, wow at those RS covers.

Jerrod Niemann sings on his newest album that he, himself, is “no Shakespeare or Kris Kristofferson.”

The half assed hanging on to the words on the exhalations on "nobody wins" my god

<3

yea he's a pro

deserves more

like most dorks I fuck w those first two albums but these two from the notably less impressive Border Lord are so good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exDp_PxLcCI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI0sfsunaL4