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KRIS KRISTOFFERSON - This Old Road
| Jam! | When you can write songs like Kris Kristofferson, you don't need to decorate them with a bunch of fancy junk. So on This Old Road, the country maverick's first studio disc of new material in over a decade, he doesn't.
He just sits down with his acoustic guitar, his harmonica and his craggy voice, and -- with the occasional bit of help from old pals like guitarist Stephen Bruton and drummer Jim Keltner -- he casually shares some plainspoken, honest reflections on love, loss and contemporary society, along with his favourite topic, freedom....full text |
| | StylusMagazine | | Two consecutive songs on Kris Kristofferson’s This Old Road exemplify the best and worst aspects of the album; though the former category outweighs the latter by a large margin, let’s start with the downside. “Wild American” pays tribute to “the one they never tamed,” who “stood your ground / And they could not make you change.” We know it’s about left wing radicals, for a few reasons, not the least of which is Kristofferson’s name-checking of activist-artists like John Trudell and Steve Earle between verses....full text |
| | Popmatters | | If you asked the average person on the street today about Kris Kristofferson, chances are they’d tell you he is an actor. And while it’s true that Kristofferson has made quite the name for himself because of his cinematic accomplishments, many songwriting fans still fondly recall his classic works, like “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down”, which includes lines like, “I woke up this morning/ With no way to hold my head that didn’t hurt....full text |
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