Border Lord was a crucial album for Kris Kristofferson. After five years of scuffling in Nashville, he had broken through in 1970-1971 largely because of a series of song...
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The period between the September 1979 release of Kris Kristofferson's ninth album, Shake Hands With the Devil, and the January 1981 release of his tenth, To the Bone, was an...
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Having suffered a commercial disappointment with his fifth album, Spooky Lady's Sideshow, Kris Kristofferson re-affirmed his movie stardom in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore...
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The fall-off in the quality of Kris Kristofferson's albums after his initial success is sometimes ascribed to his moonlighting as a film actor, dividing his time and...
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As advertised, this album contains many of Kris Kristofferson's "super hits, " though it's worth noting that, with the exception of the gold, chart-topping "Why Me," none of...
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After salvaging several recording careers, producer Don Was formed his own imprint, Karambolage, to continue such efforts in the early '90s, and among other artists worked...
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The success of Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge's first duo album, Full Moon, which topped the country charts, went gold, and won a Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal...
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Featuring the singer's own renditions of classic compositions like "Help Me Make It Through the Night" and "Me and Bobby McGee, " The Best of Kris Kristofferson is a smart...
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Kris Kristofferson is pictured smiling in sunglasses on the cover of Jesus Was a Capricorn, accompanied by his girlfriend and soon-to-be-wife Rita Coolidge. The album...
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Having gone above and beyond the usual effort for the sort of discount-priced, secondary-market compilations that are the typical province of its division with the elaborate...
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In the late 60s and early 70s, Kris Kristofferson's adult, reality-based songs were the most shocking thing to hit Nashville in a long time, and what's more, they were hits....
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A good rule of thumb in judging Kris Kristofferson compilations (of which there are quite a few) is whether they include the six songs for which he is best known: "Me and...
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By the time Monument came to release Kristofferson's second album, The Silver Tongued Devil and I, in July 1971, he was the author of four songs that had topped the country...
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Kris Kristofferson is known for a half-dozen compositions that became pop or country hits in the early 1970s, most of them for other artists: "Me and Bobby McGee," "Help Me...
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In the spring of 1977, Kris Kristofferson was at the apex of his film career, having recently co-starred in the box-office hit A Star Is Born and won a Golden Globe Award...
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He's authored some of the most enduring and unique songs in country music history, and on this newly recorded collection of his biggest hit compositions, Kris Kristofferson...
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For the follow-up to Moment of Forever, his first set of new original songs in years, Kris Kristofferson decided to record a set of stripped-down new versions of his classic...
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The Australian compilation The Very Best of Kris Kristofferson is an excellent selection of Kristofferson's early work, choosing 16 songs from six of the singer/songwriter's...
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Kris Kristofferson was approaching his mid-thirties and had been kicking around Nashville for several years when he belatedly became an overnight success in 1969-1970. The...
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The two-CD Essential Kris Kristofferson compilation isn't a balanced retrospective of his lengthy career, heavily emphasizing his 1969-1971 recordings, which in fact...
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