Something pretty new again:
Sound interesting, will check out the show tonight: "Jake Vaadeland & the Sturgeon River Boys, Emily Nenni & the Rough Riders"
I enjoyed that - so, how was the show?
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Something pretty new again:
Sound interesting, will check out the show tonight: "Jake Vaadeland & the Sturgeon River Boys, Emily Nenni & the Rough Riders"
Short, but good. They probably don't have alot of songs yet.I enjoyed that - so, how was the show?
He seems to have a massive appetite to making new music and tourings. Already released two albums since his last tour. Fingers crossed we see him down under again soon.I'm still spewing I couldn't get to see Charley on his Australian tour this year, having been on his case over the past 4 years.
He's been a constant companion for many years. Barely a day would go by when I don't listen to at least a couple of KK songs.Damn. I lost another dear friend today.
Kris Kristofferson, US country singer and actor, dies aged 88
Prolific artist who was a major star in both Nashville and Hollywood retired in 2021 after a six-decade careerwww.theguardian.com
He's been a constant companion for many years. Barely a day would go by when I don't listen to at least a couple of KK songs.
He's one of the all time greats that I was lucky enough to have seen at The Palais several years back.
I've come home, poured me a whiskey in honour of Kris - and the whiskey I had for Kris wasn't bad, so I had one more for dessert. For as Bob Dylan said of this songwriting great - “You can look at Nashville pre-Kris and post-Kris, because he changed everything.” His history and music can be found on posts # 661-667, and there was much to tell of this larger than life character from his hell-raising days in Nashville on to Hollywood fame.
These are my 5 Kristofferson penned favourites -
'Sunday Morning Coming Down', as performed by Johnny Cash at the Ryman on his ABC TV show in 1970, Cash was told by ABC he would have to change the lyrics - “... wishing Lord that I was stoned ..." to remove any drug reference (post # 341). It might have been a suggestion to satisfy conservative censors, but can you imagine how different the song and the performance would have been without it? Instead, Cash, with Kristofferson watching on in the audience, gave the line extra emphasis -
What happens when a great vocalist (without doubt one of the finest in country music history in Ray Price), got together with one of its greatest song writers. I'll just repeat the somewhat personal reflection from way back on post # 273 - "I felt moved by this first Kristofferson song, worthy of being listened to with the smoothest of smooth Tennessee whiskeys. In fact, this was the first time I've ever properly listened and took in the lyrics of this song and it had an effect - bringing up some long suppressed memories of a certain someone in my life and I confess I even shed a tear or two. A great songwriter, allied with a great singer, can do that with a song like this #1 hit from 1970" -
'For Thé Good Times' Ray Price -
the first person to record 'Help Me Make It Through The Night' was R&B and Soul singer, Percy Sledge in 1970. However, his version was overlooked, with many considering the song as too risqué. Kristofferson's lyrical seduction piece, a perfect evocation of the times, expresses a direct sexuality unusual for its time, with Smith singing: "Take the ribbon from my hair“, a neat amendment to the original lyrics, written from the male point of view, which read - "Take the ribbon from your hair. It’s hard to imagine now, but at the time, it was considered controversially bold for a country singer. However, Sammi Smith had no such problems, saying she appreciated the frankness of the song and didn’t see anything scandalous or provocative about the track. ‘Help Me Make It Through The Night’ became, far and away, Smith’s biggest ever hit, the one she’s still remembered for, her signature song (post # 822). On Kristofferso’s history, in post # 661, there’s a youtube video of Smith singing (well, lip-syncing) this live on the Johnny Cash show, so here I’ve opted for a better quality studio clip -
Unknown to Kristofferson, after he left her, Joplin recorded 'Me and Bobby McGee' to included on her posthumous classic album "Pearl". Tragically, she OD'd on heroin and died just a few days after she recorded it. She never got to see how big it would become, hitting # 1 on the pop charts, her only # 1 hit and living on to become hailed in time as an all time American classic (and along the way, cementing Kristofferson's position as one of the most important songwriters of his generation).
Kristoffeson himself was cut to the core, later saying - “The first time I heard Janis Joplin’s version was after she died. Paul Rothchild, her producer, asked me to stop by his office and listen to this thing she had cut. Afterwards, I walked all over L.A., just in tears. I couldn’t listen to the song without really breaking up. So when I came back to Nashville, I went into the Combine [Publishing] building late at night, and I played it over and over and over again, so I could get used to it without breaking up." -
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And one sung best by Kristofferson himself, 'From The Bottle To The Bottom', included for the immortal lines -
“... If happiness means empty rooms and drinking in the afternoon / Then I suppose I’m happy as a clown ...” -
Kris Kristofferson's has passed after one helluva life. His music will live on. Time for another whiskey ...
I saw him for the first time on the tour he did with his daughter and when he sang that line she said "and he still does" to great giggles from the audience. The world has lost a great pothead, spark up for Kris if that's your thing.Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the term 'stoned' in America - prior to the mid 70s relate to being affected by alcohol rather that pot?
The origin of the term “stoned” dates back to biblical times, when sinners were pelted with stones as a form of punishment (as per Monty Pythons Life Of Brian). In the 1920s and 1930s, people started using “stoned” or “stone drunk” as slang for people who were heavily under the influence of alcohol. But this changed to the effects of cannabis in the 1950's, so Bob Dylan's 'Rainy Day Women #12 & 35' (in the mid-sixties, a “rainy-day woman” was a slang term for a marijuana cigarette), it was clear what he meant by stoned -Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the term 'stoned' in America - prior to the mid 70s relate to being affected by alcohol rather that pot?