in the title frogs, extract from his latest album, wild godnick cave quotes Sunday morning comes down. “This is my favorite country song., entrusted to World on this occasion the Australian singer. And it is one of Kris Kristofferson’s masterpieces. Pure Sunday morning sadness, with its utter despair and great misery when he says he put on his cleanest dirty shirt. » Hangover cured with a beer for breakfast – which will be renewed until dessert –, wandering around the city, devastation in solitude: Sunday morning is coming down with tragic kindness he imposed the signature of Kris Kristofferson.
It was with this ballad that the American singer and actor, who died on Saturday, September 28 at the age of 88 at his residence in Hana (Hawaii), made his entry in 1969 into the circle of composers in Nashville (Tennessee). bastion of country music. He was first played by Ray Stevens before taking the lead in the stunt rankings thanks to Johnny Cash. It would be taken up by Waylon Jennings, a figure, along with Cash and Kristofferson, of the outlaw movement, which rebelled against the conformism and pop drift of Nashville. Faced with Kristofferson’s evocative power, the institution had to bow down; Sunday morning is coming down It was voted song of the year in 1970 by the Country Music Association Awards.
At the unreasonable age of 34, Kris Kristofferson was finally recognized. Not as a singer, since he had just published a first album with only his last name, which had gone quite unnoticed. His cavernous, fragile voice was singularly lacking in confidence, and he himself readily admitted it. Above all, it was the exceptional quality of her writing that impressed Fred Foster, head of the Monument Records label, which oversaw the careers of Roy Orbison and Ray Stevens, and had launched that of Dolly Parton.
brilliant revenge
Besides Sunday morning is coming downthe album Kristofferson in fact it contains the tube Bobby McGee and I… famous for her performance by Janis Joplin, on the posthumous album Pearl launched in January 1971 – with its famous formula “Freedom is just another word to say there is nothing to lose.” (“freedom is just another way of saying we have nothing to lose”); but also the heartbreaking ballads that are Help me get through the night (number 1 on the top country list for singer Sammi Smith, before being adopted by soulman Al Green) and For the good times (same interpretation by Ray Price), which in turn will be named song of the year 1971 by the Academy of Country Music.
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