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511:, whose soft sounds and safe lyrics appealed to radio, while Kristofferson's music continued to mine the oil-stained streets for inspiration, producing ruminations on prostitution, dissipation, and getting high that proved too thorny for the broadcast airwaves.” This uncompromising artistic stance might be most apparent in the song “Sugar Man,” “a noirish study of a woman prowling the streets, selling her body, and injecting heroin.” Kristofferson, who fell out with his parents after rejecting a career at West Point to pursue a career as a songwriter, addresses his lost family in “Jesse Younger,” his anger evident in the performance, which contains much of the sarcastic aggressiveness found in “Blame It on the Stones” from his debut album. 424:". He said that he had never thought of needing help, but he was at a low point in his life. When the pastor asked the congregation, "Is anybody feeling lost?" "Up goes my hand," Kristofferson says. The Pastor then asked, "Are you ready to accept Christ? Kneel down there." "I'm kneeling there," Kristofferson continues, "and I carry a big load of guilt around...and I was just out of control, crying. It was a release. It really shook me up." Kristofferson later said, "It was just a personal thing I was going through at the time. I had some kind of experience that I can't even explain." Kristofferson met June Carter Cash and 420:
Rev. Jimmie Rogers Snow. Malone wrote, "'Why Me, Lord'" - as the song is sometimes known - "may seem greatly out of character for Kristofferson, but it can be interpreted as his own personal religious rephrasing of 'Sunday Morning Coming Down.' In this case, he is 'coming down' not from drugs, but from the whole hedonistic euphoria of the (1960s)." Malone described Kristofferson's gruff vocal styling as "perfect" for the song, since "he sounds like a man who has lived a lot but is now humbling himself before God." Kristofferson said he went with friends to the church service where he was moved by Larry Gatlin's song "
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in the pop Top 20 after a slow climb in November. That turned around the fortunes of "Jesus Was a Capricorn", which marched back up the charts and reached number one on the country charts a full year after it had been released. Both album and single went gold, giving Kristofferson his greatest success as a recording artist.
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took the song to the country Top 5 the same year. As on his previous album, girlfriend and soon-to-be wife Rita Coolidge sings on the album, contributing vocals to “Give It Time to Be Tender” and “It Sure Was (Love),” and Kristofferson also duets with Larry Gatlin on the Gatlin's composition “Help
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Another song from the album with a religious theme would become the biggest hit of Kristofferson's career: “Why Me.” According to country music historian Bill Malone, Kristofferson wrote the song during an emotionally low period of his life after having attended a religious service conducted by the
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The first two singles from the album, the title track and “Jesse Younger,” both stiffed, and "Jesus Was a Capricorn'" faded down the charts, but the label released “Why Me” as the third single and it quickly entered the country and pop charts, hitting number one in country in July 1973, and peaking
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was that it was overproduced and moved Kristofferson's songs too far away from the rough-hewn charm of his earlier work.” The title track, with its chorus containing the line “Cos everybody's got to have somebody to look down on” was interpreted by some as Kristofferson's reply to critics who
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Some critics felt Kristofferson's burgeoning film career was a distraction and his songwriting was slipping. The singer later reflected, “It was as if I were spending so much creative energy on the wrong thing, performing and movies that my songwriting was suffering. I don't think it was.”
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in 2016, "I wrote 'Jesus Was A Capricorn (Owed To John Prine)' because I was so influenced by John. When I heard his songs I felt like his writing had kicked me into doing it. You take things from all over the place, though you don't always admit it! I was really influenced by
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Although “Why Me” revealed another side of Kristofferson's songwriting, the subject matter in his songs remained rooted in the grim realities of life, exploring broken relationships, lost family, drug addiction, and prostitution. As Michael Striessguth put it in his book
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in a hotel room in 1972 to play them two songs he had written. Kristofferson had just attended a rough screening of a movie Johnny and June were heavily involved in, entitled
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to sing "one of his favorite songs." Sumner would sing the verses and Elvis would join on the chorus along with the back-up singers. The song would also be recorded by
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incorporated the song, retitled "Why Me Lord", into his live shows beginning in January 1974 up until his last concert tour. It was first released on the live album,
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called the title track a "funky song with a sing along kind of chorus with timely and clever lyrics delivered with appropriate gusto by Kris."
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McClintock, Jack (March 1975). "Just a Good Ole Rhodes Scholar: Making it through the Night with Kris Kristofferson".
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Kristofferson's albums were still being mined by other recording artists within and outside country music.
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Brenton Banks, Byron Bach, Carl Gorodetzky, David Darling, George Binkley, Lillian Hunt,
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Malone, Bill, "Classic Country Music: A Smithsonian Collection" (booklet included with
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in June 1974. The recording is from his March 20, 1974 concert in
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The song, and Kristofferson's phrasing, is very reminiscent of
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Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends: The Publishing Demos
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Outlaw: Waylon, Willie, Kris, and the Renegades of Nashville
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Outlaw: Waylon, Willie, Kris, and the Renegades of Nashville
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Lovin' Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)
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The Complete Monument & Columbia Album Collection
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4-disc set). Smithsonian Institution, 1990, p. 66-67.
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Why Me
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