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Kristofferson 1991
Kris Kristofferson 1991 - Singer/Songwriter was released on CD and I suspect the daughter of a fan became a big ...
Kris Kristofferson Cross Stitch
by Gina Evanson Gina was gifted with this piece of work by her special other. I just love it and ...
Vicki Krzanich, Wellington, October 2019
Vicki Krzanich saw Kris Kristofferson and the Strangers in Wellington, 2019. Kris was on tour with the Strangers. I had ...
Petter Alvestad – On Kristofferson’s Bus
Petter was at the Kris Kristofferson and the Strangers gig in Haugesund, Norway. It was his first-ever Kris Kristofferson live ...
Mike Wilkinson
Kris' has always been more popular in countries outside the USA and Europe than some realise. His music has received ...
Megan Coreno
I have seen many Kris Kristofferson autographs in my day. This one really makes me grin. Date: 18 May 2017 ...
Kristofferson – Baton Rouge 2018
Beverly went to see Kris Kristofferson perform at the Manship Theatre, 100 Lafayette St, Baton Rouge, LA 70801, USA. It ...
Kris Kristofferson and Helen Kiddle
Kris Kristofferson and Helen Kiddle go back a long way. I am updating this post because Helen has just been ...
Moment of Forever – with Kris Kristofferson 2011
Kris Kristofferson has an amazing wife, Lisa. There is another Lisa - Lisa Wisnoski Robbins is a precious human and ...
Joe’s Mancave
Joe Jakubowski is a music fan. We like him because he has a lot of respect for Kris Kristofferson. He ...
Kris Kristofferson Sketches
Kris Kristofferson sketches - Art from the heart. Milan Gagic captures Kris Kristofferson in his collection of sketches. It is ...
Kristofferson European Tour Highlights
Kris Kristofferson European Tour Highlights (2018) - The Alternative version Kris Kristofferson European Tour Highlights is a work in progress ...
Kristofferson Nuremberg 2018 June 20th
Kris Kristofferson Nuremberg 2018 Kris Kristofferson Nuremberg 2018 took place on June 20th. The venue was the Serenadahof - A ...
Kristofferson Dublin Ireland 2018
Kris Kristofferson Dublin Ireland 2018 Dublin, Ireland is a long time favourite place. Kristofferson, Dublin, Ireland is a great fit. It even ...
Belfast Waterfront 2018
Kris Kristofferson : Belfast Waterfront 2018 The concert at the Belfast Waterfront 2018 was a friendly warm event that took ...
Ulster Hall, Belfast, 1995
Kris Kristofferson Belfast 1995 Kris Kristofferson Belfast 1995 was part of a UK u0026amp; ROI wide tour. He appeared at ...
Kris Kristofferson Basel, 17 June 2018
Kris Kristofferson Euro Tour 2018 The long awaited Euro tour brought Kristofferson to Basel, Switzerland on 17 June. Kris Kristofferson ...
Kris Kristofferson Ireland (Dublin) April 1982
Kris Kristofferson - Ireland, 1982 Note and pictures by Norman Nabney Kris Kristofferson, Ireland - There seems to be a ...
Kris Kristofferson Tour 2018 Sweden
Kris Kristofferson Tour 2018 Sweden 9 June 2018 The European tour is off to a great start. Kris Kristofferson Tour ...
Kris Kristofferson Tour 2018 – Essen, Germany 13 June 2018
Kris Kristofferson Tour 2018 - Europe Kris Kristofferson Tour 2018 is well underway. The audience at the gig in Germany ...
Kris Kristofferson Tour 2012
Kris Kristofferson Tour 2012 Kris Kristofferson Tour 2012 (Europe) was different to the previous tour. The songs were softer somehow ...
Kris jams with Merle’s band
Kris Kristofferson Jamming with Merle's band Kris Kristofferson toured extensively with Merle Haggard. There is a lovely article here about ...
Kris Kristofferson Private Collection
Private Collection - by Kris Kristofferson Fans Gérard Leblanc ...
Who loves Kris Kristofferson?
A site for fans, by fans. Contribute. If it fits, we'll post it. Kris Kristofferson Lovers Kris Kristofferson lovers are ...
Kris & Boris
Legend and legacy. Both of these words are often used in articles about Kris, and I hate them anew every ...
Kris Kristofferson Black & White
Kris by M C Roed - Photographer Photographer Marc Roed took some photographs of Kris Kristofferson last year in Denmark ...
Kris Kristofferson May 2017
Kris Kristofferson Concert 11 May 2017 Ellie Llew saw Kris at the Warner in DC. She has kindly shared her ...
I’ve never had the opportunity to meet Kris, but I wire his records out and songwriting became my passion, and is to this day. I never made a living at it , but I’m o k with that. This is a song I wrote after reading and article on old people in care homes suffering mentally because they couldn’t have visitors during the pandemic. I fell asleep while reading the article and woke up, so g 90% written. I’m not implying tha song it’s anything like Kris’s songs. I just hope you can tell how munch he has Infiltrated me as a songwriter.
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Hi Richard, Kris still has a group of extremely dedicated & very appreciate fans. We have a group on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/groups/434278836778276
…& host a #TalentTuesday session every week where any member can post something of their own work, whether it be musical or otherwise. I’ll share your song this week if I remember! I’ve added it to my listening playlist for later, too. Always lovely to hear from a fan – Compliments of the season & all the very best to you & yours for 2022. Regards, Donna
Dear Mr. Kristofferson. I’m one of a group of song-writers that help each other trying to get better. I am coming to it from a little different perspective. Though I’m not writing formal stanzas, I do see my lines in terms of metrical feet. I was trying to be helpful with another fellow’s lyrics, and told him he had a trochee where it was gonna be difficult. There were about twenty or so song-writers, some with a long track-record as professions, participating in the discussion. I think somewhere around the 1960’s and 1970’s those approaches got left behind. I don’t mean common meter stanzas. I just mean seeing the drum-beat of rhythm in a line and measuring it the old. People don’t seem to see lines the way I learned from poetry class a long time ago. It’s not the song-writers today decided. Most have no idea how any of this stuff works.
I don’t think it’s a straight jacket. For my part, I believe that the basic vocabulary of iamb, trochee, anapest etc gives a person efficacy over how their lyrics work. I don’t want to screw up with what’s working for people, though, and they come up with lines Alexander Pope would be pleased about, but if you know how to see it that way, maybe it makes it harder to come up with, so sometimes I feel like I’m being held up with wires looking at other people levitating.
Obviously, you don’t need me to tell you how beautiful your songs are. I’m writing because I’ve made the claim that before the 60’s or 70’s, rules of meter were common knowledge. Maybe not to the level of knowing you can put a trochee in the 2nd foot of a pentameter line if the last two feet are spondees, but people would at least know what I’m saying. Is this correct? I’m not looking for the secret recipe or anything. It’s important to me to understand a appreciate, basically, and help me develop. When song-writers got together in the 1960’s and 70’s, would it have seemed out of the blue to congratulate someone’s elegant anapest or what-not. I think maybe something has happened in song-writing similar to how TS Elliot understood metrical feet, but not someone trying to imitate TS Elliot. I’m not a pro, but some of these people I know have their stake in song-writing. If this is interesting to you and you have anything to say about it, it would sure make me a big hit to pass on anything at all. I’d just put it in the General Discussion forum at a subscription site for song-writers. So this is just a I’ll write Kris Kristofferson a fan letter and ask him! Thirty years ago I had to read a lot of poetry on a schedule and write about it. I liked to do scansions and write about those because it seemed practical for learning how to make poetry and songs and got me the professors’ good graces. I think real prosody in song-writing has a lot to it, and it’s very individual, but the individual artist wants to try to understand the method of the masters, so I am asking for your recollection or perception of song-writers applying the traditional understanding of metrical feet to measure their lines, whether in regular stanzas or not, back in the 1960’s and 70’s. I am also very curious how you think it may have been for writers of Hank Williams’ generation. I think there was a middle school teacher in Alabama who taught him common meter, which she knew from hymns, because who knows what he was coming up with. It could have been women that gave all those old guys the knowledge of song-writing in the depression, when they had them in the school-house, and they themselves understood how ballad lyrics were structured from being a combination school teacher and playing piano on Sunday. This is the only way to picture how Hank Williams could have the formal knowledge to write I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry which would have made Coleridge cry if he had written it himself.
I hope these questions are interesting for you to think about, that they reach you, but it’s basically a fan letter to you, so it’s okay if you are anybody else down there just reads it and moves on. I hope a few questions about prosody in song-writing might be enjoyable and interesting to respond about, and it would be wonderful for me, like winning the lottery for our little song-writing group online. The way it is with any fan letter is that it’s a message in a bottle. I didn’t send a gift basket. Here it is, anyway.
Hi John, a great letter – I can’t guarantee that Kris will read it, but I can run it by some of his peers & see if they anything to say. Watch this space! Best regards, Donna