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RIP Kris Kristofferson

Only one highwayman left. RIP

Man this news hit me hard enough to not have to think about this too. Got my little toddler asleep this afternoon for his nap by singing him Red Headed Stranger.

Kristofferson was a living legend in my eyes and too few people like him in the music industry are left. Rest in Peace indeed. Thankful for the hundreds of hours I’ve spent with his music.
 
Damnit. Definitely a legend. The somber truths of his lyrics will live on forever. Wish I hadn’t opened this one. RIP and prayers to his family. What an amazing life
 
The latest Friday tunes brought back floods of memories and then reporting Kristoffersons passing made me think how much music has changed my life. Some good and some not so good. Reading the replies, I see too that it has changed many of all your guys lives also.
 
One of my favorites due to the common background in army aviation.
Same for me. His family legacy was steeped in military service, as was expected of him. After amazing collegiate academic success resulting in Kristofferson being a Rhodes scholar, likely building his literary background and wizardry at great lyrics and "forever famous" music, he was commissioned in the US Army, completed helicopter pilot training and was stationed in Germany. His academic excellence propelled him into an assignment to teach at West Point, but his heart took his life for a turn into music ... and the rest is history to which we all love to listen.

RIP, Kris Kristofferson. May you soar like an eagle through the beautiful clouds of heaven and may your music resonate eternally.
 
"In an interview with Laura Hamilton for the Washington Post in 2014, Kristofferson says “I am sorry if I hurt anybody’s feelings along the way. It wasn’t intentional. I tried to be a good person. I think I did all right.” He says “I am grateful every morning I wake up. I’ve a big family full of kids, who laugh all the time and love each other. I feel very grateful with my life, being as public as it has, that I am able to have this now.” I think of what he said after “Heaven’s Gate” tanked in a legendary way, taking an entire studio down with it in what Kristofferson referred to later as an organized hatchet job. Despite the harm its failure did to his film career, Kristofferson said “sure, it put me out of work for a while, but poor Cimino hasn’t done anything since then.” And I think about how he said that he’d like his gravestone to be engraved with the first few lyrics of Leonard Cohen’s “Bird on the Wire:”

Like a bird on the wire
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free"

 
Very sad to see this. I saw The Highwaymen in concert in a large arena in New York and it was a great concert. The guys I talked into going with me told me repeatedly for months what a great idea it was to go. Then I saw him perform a solo concert in a small bar (the Buffalo Rose) in Golden, Colorado back in the mid 90's.

Death of a legend.
 
Written by Jimmy Webb, who also wrote Macarthur Park, Galveston, Wichita Lineman. . .
Man, those songs are all good that have stood the test of time. Probably were all on my napster downloads back in the day haha. Kristifferson's son is sing too I believe, I heard him on a track with Corb Lund, whom I really enjoy be cause he sings about cows a lot. Haha
 
This song written by KK and made most popular by the John Denver version came across my music feed today.

The number of amazing and complicated songs KK wrote is amazing. Every time I listen to this one it seems to have a slightly different meaning and takes my mind to a different place.

 

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