Posted on 09/29/2024 3:24:32 PM PDT by janetjanet998
Singer, songwriter & actor Kris Kristofferson dead at 88
Watch until the end.
“I reached into the closet to find my cleanest dirty shirt’”
I could never come up with a line like that, much less set it to music.
Some are just talented.
88 not a bad run
OH, that’s right! I am mis-remembering again.
That vid of the BB&tHC at Monterey is one of my annual or so go-tos. It’s been over 50 years since the performance. Gurley is (imho) the marble model for psychedelic guitar. He died in Detroit a few years back. Oh, wow, it was 2009! Oh, and it was in California. WTH. Oh, that’s right, he was BORN in Detroit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1zFnyEe3nE
The key to a great lyric is to convey as much information as possible, in as few words as possible.
That line from Kris does that.
The beautiful, short-lived relationship between Janis Joplin and Kris Kristofferson
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/janis-joplin-and-kris-kristofferson-relationship/
Kris Kristofferson first met Janis Joplin through their mutual friend and folk singer Bobby Neuwirth in the spring of 1970. At the suggestion of Neuwirth, after they played a show together in New York, Kristofferson accompanied him on a flight to Larkspur, California, to the home of Janis Joplin. What was intended to be a short trip ended up lasting several weeks, and whilst staying at her residence, Kristofferson and Joplin became increasingly drawn to each other.
That song contains a lyric that is likely the most perfectly written segment expressing human regret.
“I’d trade all of my tomorrows for a single yesterday”
If you never saw “Millennium” with him and Cheryl Ladd, you should - it was a very interesting movie.
**I wouldn’t worry too much about a wonderful singer songwriter’s opinion on foreign policy.**
What’s wrong with “Shut up and sing?”
**There isn’t much music left if they all have to be vetted as moral, drug free, and solid conservatives.**
What’s wrong with military music?
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