2008-08-08 00:00:00 0 out of 0 found this reivew helpful
You don't realize what a giant of American poetry and songwriting Kris Kristofferson is until you hear a CD full of him doing his own stuff. Success of friends like fellow Highwayman Johnny Cash ("Sunday Morning Coming Down") singing KK's... (Read full review at Amazon)
(4.5 stars) RHODES SCHOLAR, U.S. ARMY VETERAN, ACTOR, SINGER-SONGWRITER (Kris and some famous friends rework his greatest songs)
2007-07-02 00:00:00 0 out of 0 found this reivew helpful
Over the years, Kris Kristofferson has written some of country music's greatest songs. Me and Bobby McGee, Help Me Make It Through The Night, For The Good Times, Sunday Morning Coming Down, Why Me Lord, the list goes on and on. He was friends with... (Read full review at Amazon)
2006-03-04 00:00:00 0 out of 0 found this reivew helpful
How can anyone not give Kris BIG KUDOS for revisting some of his signature songs. You know he's that Silver-Pilgrim-Bobby McSunday Morning-Devil! Well HELL! He's more than that. He's even Willie's good buddy and he's Johnny Cash's favorite... (Read full review at Amazon)
2006-02-24 00:00:00 0 out of 0 found this reivew helpful
I have been a Kristofferson fan for many years but was never aware of this 1999 album until just recently (which must have been the world's best kept secret if I didn't know about it). Just about every song on this album represents an improvement... (Read full review at Amazon)
When an artist rerecords the songs that brought him fame, fans have a right to be skeptical. After all, such moves are generally prompted more by a yearning to restore one's financial rather than artistic standing. This project by country maverick Kris Kristofferson, however, has one major factor in its favor: Kristofferson's original early-1970s recordings of the likes of "Me and Bobby McGee," "Help Me Make It Through the Night," and "The Pilgrim: Chapter 33" were significant, but less than definitive. Here he returns to the tunes that helped lay the groundwork for the Outlaw movement of the '70s, but in place of the stolid Nashville arrangements on the originals is more sympathetic accompaniment. While The Austin Sessions is star-studded (guests include Steve Earle, Jackson Browne, Vince Gill, and Alison Krauss), the project really rests on the broad shoulders of Kristofferson, who fares well. Never a threat to George Jones as a vocalist, he nevertheless sounds comfortable in a largely acoustic setting rasping his way through songs he should be prouder than ever for penning. --Steven Stolder
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