charlene
09-25-2009, 09:31 AM
http://www.cmt.com/news/nashville-skyline/1622264/nashville-skyline-kris-kristofferson-carries-countrys-torch.jhtml
Kris has a new one and so does Roseanne Cash..
Kris Kristofferson's Closer to the Bone and Rosanne Cash's The List represent both artists at the height of their musical maturity. They also demonstrate each artist's role as a carrier of cultural values, of musical verities. They're like the fire carriers and fire starters of old, as it were, the person in each tribe assigned to the precious duty and tending the fire and carrying it to the new camping ground when the tribe needed to move. Or the wise elder who knew how to start a fire. No fire equals no life. No music being passed on equals chaos.
Closer to the Bone, to be released Tuesday (Sept. 29), like its immediate predecessor This Old Road, is stripped-down both musically and lyrically as Kristofferson works closer and closer to the raw, bare elements of songs. By examining his life and his achievements and shortcomings, he manages to project personal observation and emotions as larger universal truths, as he has always done in his best work. Interestingly, besides including Kris' latest compositions, this album also has, as a hidden track, the first song he ever wrote, at age 11. It's called "I Hate Your Ugly Face." Even as a child, Kris was working with the bare essentials.
Rosanne's CD brings another side to both father Johnny Cash's legacy and that of all of country music. The songs from The List (due Oct. 6) are from a list of 100 essential country songs he gave her in 1973, when she was 18. The songs span the history of recorded country from its beginnings, but it's not just her father's history that she passes on. She also talks, in an upcoming CMT interview, about learning the music from such elders as Maybelle and Helen and Anita Carter while on tour with her father. Maybelle Carter, as one of the original Carter Family, was there at the dawn of recorded country music in 1927 and passed on musical teachings from across the span of many years. Rosanne's own career and life mirror changes in pop and country music themselves. She became a Nashville country star in the 1980s, on her own musical merits, and later put that aside to move to New York to write prose and record in other music genres. Now she's home again.
Kris has a new one and so does Roseanne Cash..
Kris Kristofferson's Closer to the Bone and Rosanne Cash's The List represent both artists at the height of their musical maturity. They also demonstrate each artist's role as a carrier of cultural values, of musical verities. They're like the fire carriers and fire starters of old, as it were, the person in each tribe assigned to the precious duty and tending the fire and carrying it to the new camping ground when the tribe needed to move. Or the wise elder who knew how to start a fire. No fire equals no life. No music being passed on equals chaos.
Closer to the Bone, to be released Tuesday (Sept. 29), like its immediate predecessor This Old Road, is stripped-down both musically and lyrically as Kristofferson works closer and closer to the raw, bare elements of songs. By examining his life and his achievements and shortcomings, he manages to project personal observation and emotions as larger universal truths, as he has always done in his best work. Interestingly, besides including Kris' latest compositions, this album also has, as a hidden track, the first song he ever wrote, at age 11. It's called "I Hate Your Ugly Face." Even as a child, Kris was working with the bare essentials.
Rosanne's CD brings another side to both father Johnny Cash's legacy and that of all of country music. The songs from The List (due Oct. 6) are from a list of 100 essential country songs he gave her in 1973, when she was 18. The songs span the history of recorded country from its beginnings, but it's not just her father's history that she passes on. She also talks, in an upcoming CMT interview, about learning the music from such elders as Maybelle and Helen and Anita Carter while on tour with her father. Maybelle Carter, as one of the original Carter Family, was there at the dawn of recorded country music in 1927 and passed on musical teachings from across the span of many years. Rosanne's own career and life mirror changes in pop and country music themselves. She became a Nashville country star in the 1980s, on her own musical merits, and later put that aside to move to New York to write prose and record in other music genres. Now she's home again.