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Kris Kristofferson Album: “Very Best of Kris Kristofferson”
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Very Best of Kris Kristofferson |
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Release Date:1994-01-01
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Type:Unknown
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Genre:Country, Folk, Classic Rock
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Explicit Lyrics:Yes
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UPC:766486458727
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Review - :
The Australian compilation {^The Very Best of Kris Kristofferson} is an excellent selection of {$Kristofferson}'s early work, choosing 16 songs from six of the {\singer/songwriter}'s first seven solo albums, released between 1970 and 1976, including all 12 titles that were featured on the 1977 American compilation {^Songs of Kristofferson}. As a musician, {$Kristofferson} is best known for six songs that were hits for him or others in the early 1970s: {&"Me and Bobby McGee,"} {&"Help Me Make It Through the Night,"} {&"For the Good Times,"} {&"Sunday Morning Comin' Down,"} {&"Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again),"} and {&"Why Me."} The album features all of them, and they are the first six songs on the disc. Thereafter, things are a little less systematic, though there is a concentration on some of the tracks that were released as {$Kristofferson} singles and in some cases made the lower reaches of the charts ({&"To Beat the Devil,"} {&"Josie,"} {&"Jesus Was a Capricorn,"} {&"The Pilgrim: Chapter 33"}). Other than the big six, songs that were hits for fellow artists ({&"Jody and the Kid,"} {&"The Taker,"} {&"Nobody Wins"}) are excluded except for {&"Stranger,"} which was a hit for {$Johnny Duncan}. The choices from {$Kristofferson}'s mid-'70s albums such as {^Who's to Bless...and Who's to Blame} and {^Surreal Thing} could have been better. And, of course, he recorded some worthwhile material and a few chart entries after mid-1976 that are not included. But that's only to say that this isn't a perfect {$Kristofferson} compilation, just a very good one. (Note that the correct subtitle to {&"Jesus Was a Capricorn"} is "Owed to John Prine," an admission that {$Kristofferson} borrowed the song's melody from {$Prine}, not "Ode to John Prine," as it is printed here.) ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
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