Artist: Kris Kristofferson
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #72 Nov-Dec 2007
Kris Kristofferson – Ford Theater, Country Music Hall of Fame (Nashville, TN)
“I don’t even know what an ‘artist-in-residence’ is; I don’t live here,” Kris Kristofferson contemplated for the audience. “But this is one of those nights when you want to be so good, so bad.” Naturally, he’d set himself a new test for himself for what pulling “good” off would mean. With the four previous, highly [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #62 Mar-Apr 2006
Kris Kristofferson – To beat the devil: intimations of immortality
Call the world if you please “The vale of soul-making…” I say “Soul making,” soul as distinguished from intelligence. There may be intelligences or sparks of the divinity in millions, but they are not souls till they acquire identities, till each one is personally itself. – John Keats, “The Vale Of Soul-Making” Am I young [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #55 Jan-Feb 2005
Kris Kristofferson – Freedom’s still the most important thing for me
At the Country Music Hall of Fame, they’re letting the problem children back into the fold. A few years ago, hell-raiser Faron Young was inducted, and Waylon Jennings made it even though he’d said quite clearly that he didn’t give a shit about a Hall of Fame that didn’t have Carl Smith in it. (Waylon [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #54 Nov-Dec 2004
John Prine – Wolf Trap (Vienna, VA)
John Prine had a new one, which is not an everyday occurrence. No one worries too much about the delays, mostly because Prine’s back catalogue is worthy of repeated listening and — for songwriters, at least — deserves years of study. But the fact is that he hasn’t put out an album of new songs [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #51 May-June 2004
Kris Kristofferson – The Essential
Next to Bob Dylan, Kris Kristofferson is probably the most important figure in the prehistory of alt-country-or-whatever. Dylan proved that songwriting trumped vocal prowess and that you didn’t even have to make literal sense to get a feeling over. Kristofferson took those messages to Nashville and scared the bejeezus out of people when he started [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #47 Sept-Oct 2003
Kris Kristofferson – Broken Freedom Song
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON Broken Freedom Song Oh Boy This collection of fifteen songs, four of them new, was recorded in front of a live audience at the Gershwin Theater in San Francisco in July 2002, well before the war in Iraq, but Kris Kristofferson’s song selection was eerily prescient. The blunt Rhodes scholar has always aired [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #39 May-June 2002
Kris Kristofferson Tribute – Slim’s (San Francisco, CA)
No matter how deep into the dark pit of the psyche the lyrics reached, the mood and the spirits were soaring among the hundreds who packed Slim’s on a cold and windy Good Friday. “Lots of love in the house,” declared one smiling fan, between the short set by the dreamy-voiced Mother Hips and the [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #31 Jan-Feb 2001
Kris Kristofferson – Self-Titled
“If it sounds country, man, that’s what it is. It’s a country song.” That’s Kris Kristofferson talking, just before launching into “Me And Bobby McGee”, one of the greatest country songs — hell, one of the greatest songs — ever. Looking back, it seems ridiculous that Kristofferson had to defend himself, but in 1970, when [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #24 Nov-Dec 1999
Kris Kristofferson – Partly truth and partly fiction
[Editor's note: Writer and musician Roxy Gordon published a monthly newspaper called Picking Up The Tempo in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the 1970s that covered outlaw-country music. Nowadays he lives in the small West Texas town of Talpa and writes a weekly column for the Coleman County newspaper. His most recent musical release was the [...]
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