As an artist and as a songwriter Kris Kristofferson holds a special place in country music history. THE ESSENTIAL KRIS KRISTOFFERSON is a definitive 2-CD career spanning compilation of Kris's best-loved recordings. Album tracks include "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down," "Just the Other Side of Nowhere," "Darby's Castle." Higher education and loads of life experience gave this immensely talented songwriter a vast palette. His songs have been covered by over 500 artists, and this 2-CD anthology collects all his essentials: Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again); Jesus Was a Capricorn; Why Me; Me and Bobby McGee; Highwayman (with Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash); For the Good Times , and 31 more!
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1 Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down
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2 To Beat the Devil
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3 Just the Other Side of Nowhere
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4 Me and Bobby McGee
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5 The Best of All Possible Worlds
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6 Casey's Last Ride
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7 Help Me Make It Through the Night
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8 Darby's Castle
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9 Jody and the Kid
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10 Lovin' Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)
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11 For the Good Times
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12 Come Sundown
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13 From the Bottle to the Bottom
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14 Billy Dee
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15 Breakdown (A Long Way from Home)
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16 The Silver Tongued Devil and I
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17 The Taker
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18 The Pilgrim: Chapter 33 (Live)
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1 Border Lord
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2 The Sabre and the Rose
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3 Broken Freedom Song
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4 Jesus Was a Capricorn (Owed to John Prine)
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5 Shandy (The Perfect Disguise)
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6 Sugar Man
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7 The Last Time
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8 Nobody Wins
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9 I'd Rather Be Sorry - Rita Coolidge
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10 Highwayman
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11 Don't Cuss the Fiddle
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12 The Bigger the Fool, the Harder the Fall
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13 Stranger
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14 If You Don't Like Hank Williams
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15 Here Comes the Rainbow Again
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16 Once More with Feeling
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17 How Do You Feel About Foolin' Around - Willie Nelson
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18 Why Me
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19 Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends
As an artist and as a songwriter Kris Kristofferson holds a special place in country music history. THE ESSENTIAL KRIS KRISTOFFERSON is a definitive 2-CD career spanning compilation of Kris's best-loved recordings. Album tracks include "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down," "Just the Other Side of Nowhere," "Darby's Castle." Higher education and loads of life experience gave this immensely talented songwriter a vast palette. His songs have been covered by over 500 artists, and this 2-CD anthology collects all his essentials: Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again); Jesus Was a Capricorn; Why Me; Me and Bobby McGee; Highwayman (with Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash); For the Good Times , and 31 more!