Kris has a new CD !
 

http://www.cmt.com/news/nashville-sk...ys-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.

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Thanks for the heads-up. I sure hope KK made a music video for "I Hate Your Ugly Face".

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http://www.kriskristofferson.com/

“Something was making a direct communication with the audience,” he adds, “and I guess it must be down to the essence of the songs. Because God knows, there’s better guitar players and singers. But it seems to be working with my material -- just me and the song.”
http://www.kriskristofferson.com/bio

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although my ears find certain record productions tasty and mesmerizing, it doesn't get better then just "the artist and the song"...i wish Gord would put one of those out, similar to the bare bone Harmony tracks (that were then embellished by Doidge and the band)

enjoy the release...rm, that sounds more like a good rap video

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I ran across this official video for the tune "Closer To The Bone". It's well done. Still no sign of "I Hate Your Ugly Face".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDkKA4hnmJ4

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good gawd I love that guy..
Santa baby - drop a KK CD under the tree for me..I've been awfully good..
;)

some fun clips:

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this is all I found, but it sounds like a fun night.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEjThXOn0pA

this is all I found, but it sounds like a fun night.

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it pays to be 'good'..
thanks Santa..I love my new Kris CD. A lot. Really I do.
Really.
;)

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this new Kris CD is beyond tasty. The lyrics and images and emotions are delicious. There's pain and hurt and hope and love...

he sings his first ever song written when he was 11. He was an old soul. He hates her ugly face...lol. He had a way with words even then...

I LOVE this CD.

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I agree. Very reflective and somewhat melancholy. I guess that's called life.

He sounds at peace with his mortality, and that's a good thing.

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Kris does melancholy like no one else does - no doubt 'bout it.
But it's a 'happy to be melancholy' and like you say 'peace with my mortality' sensibility that cuts right to it...no bullshit at all.
I can't stop listening to it.

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I saw 2 Johnny Cash Christmas shows on {Bravo} @ the beginning of the week, 1978 & 1979. Kris Kristofferson & then wife Rita Coolidge were guest on the 1978 one I think.

Did you get to see that Charlene ?

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Johnny & Kris on that show !


http://watch.bravo.ca/web-exclusives...78/#clip247530

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Introducing Rita Coolidge !


http://watch.bravo.ca/web-exclusives...78/#clip247533

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yep -I saw the shows...!
Rita still looks and sounds the same today..Stunning!
I think they were on their way to breaking up in 1979. I saw them in 1973 at Massey a few months before their marriage..

These clips/that age was when Kris was absolutely gorgeous..
oh yeah.

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If you say so...:rolleyes: I say Feist is gorgeous. :p

I really liked Kris in "A Star Is Born," I do have the DVD.

I really do like the 4 of them, {Willie,Waylon,Johnny & Kris} 'The Highwaymen' when they sang; "Highwayman".

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Is that Willie ever a cool cat... "pot saved my life" ! http://forum.mininova.org/style_emot...nja_Smoker.gif

I love it when he sings the line 'The BastXXXs hung me in the spring of 25, but I am still alive'. Kool Dude ! :cool:

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