Kris Kristofferson was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, dated Janis Joplin and Barbara Streisand, married Rita Coolidge, formed friendships with some of country music\u2019s elite, acted in close to fifty films and won a Golden Globe Award, <\/i>but most importantly, he has been an American songwriter of the highest caliber for close to four decades.<\/p>\n
During my college years in the early \u201870s, Kristofferson was one of my first introductions to country music. His seminal releases The Silver Tongued Devil And I, Border Lord, <\/i>and Jesus Was A Capricorn <\/i>consistently made their way onto my turntable while sharing shelf space with Hendrix, Cream, The Jefferson Airplane, and a bevy of other rock artists. Even in the midst of my college haze, I realized that he was creating songs of substance and clarity. These albums and a number of others that have appeared through the years have stood the test of time well.<\/p>\n
Closer To The Bone, <\/i>Kristofferon\u2019s latest studio release, is similar in content and texture to 2006\u2019s This Old Road. <\/i>He is now seventy-three years old, and his music reflects his seven-plus decades of life.<\/p>\n
He is still a grand poetic storyteller and a traditional country\/folk artist. His voice and acoustic guitar are backed by keyboardist Rami Jaffee, guitarist\/mandolin player Stephen Bruton, drummer Jim Keltner and bassist\/producer Don Was.<\/p>\n
Kristofferson wisely keeps it simple, putting the focus upon his lyrics. The songs explore the human condition and run the gamut from love to loss to tributes. \u201cGood Morning John\u201d is a fitting farewell to his old friend Johnny Cash, while \u201cFrom Here To Forever\u201d was written for his children. The title song and \u201cStarlight and Stone\u201d both look at life from the perspective of advancing age. <\/p>\n
He composed ten of the tracks and co-wrote the eleventh; his ability to paint pictures with words and evoke an emotional response from the listener is still very much intact all these years later.<\/p>\n
Kris Kristofferson has nothing left to prove. He has produced a quiet and contemplative album of authentic American music. Hopefully there will be more chapters in his continuing musical saga, but for now, Closer To The Bone <\/i>is a worthy addition to his artistic legacy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":30137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[8488],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-41776","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-kris-kristofferson","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41776"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=41776"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=41776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}