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Willie Nelson Album: “Moment Of Forever”
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Release Date:2008-01-01
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Type:Album
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Genre:Country, Vintage Country, Classic Country
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Label:Lost Highway Records
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Explicit Lyrics:No
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UPC:602517611986
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| 1 |
Over You Again Video |
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| 2 |
Moment of Forever |
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| 3 |
The Bob Song |
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| 4 |
Louisiana |
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| 5 |
Gravedigger Video |
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| 6 |
Keep Me From Blowing Away |
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| 7 |
Takin' on Water |
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| 8 |
Always Now |
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| 9 |
I'm Alive |
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| 10 |
When I Was Young and Grandma Wasn't Old |
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| 11 |
Worry B Gone |
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| 12 |
You Don't Think I'm Funny Anymore |
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| 13 |
Gotta Serve Somebody |
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| 14 |
You Don't Think I'm Funny Anymore |
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Review - :
After salvaging several recording careers, producer {$Don Was} formed his own imprint, {@Karambolage}, to continue such efforts in the early '90s, and among other artists worked with {$Kris Kristofferson}, dormant as a solo {\singer/songwriter} since the commercial failure of his two politically oriented {@Mercury} albums {^Repossessed} and {^Third World Warrior} in the late '80s. But {^A Moment of Forever}, the comeback album {$Was} produced for {$Kristofferson}, was shelved when {@Karambolage} lost its distribution deal, and the album wasn't released until the summer of 1995 by the independent {@Justice} label. That means it's a far more ambitious undertaking than you might expect, packed with Los Angeles studio heavyweights like drummer {$Jim Keltner}, guitarist {$Waddy Wachtel}, and {$Heartbreakers} organist {$Benmont Tench}, as well as studio wiz {$Was} on bass and behind the glass. In his late 50s, {$Kristofferson} has retreated slightly from the agitprop, but fighting is still a recurring motif in his songs, along with an old favorite subject, freedom. (Picking up on this, designer {$Cynthia S. Kinney} even sticks the dictionary definition of freedom into a collage on one of the CD booklet pages.) But the songwriter often comes off as a sage elder rather than an active combatant, and the album is as concerned with emotions as it is with politics. Two old songs, {&"Casey's Last Ride"} and {&"Good Love (Shouldn't Feel So Bad),"} and two later ones, {&"Shipwrecked in the Eighties"} and {&"Under the Gun,"} join the new compositions, and the old ones have a lyricism and clarity that makes you wish {$Kristofferson}'s mature writing wasn't so rhetorical. {^A Moment of Forever} doesn't seem like the place to start in listening to {$Kristofferson}, but those who have been following his work thus far will find it a good representation of his philosophical concerns, expressed in strong musical performances. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
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