Kris Kristofferson

Kris Kristofferson's renegade mystique has provoked unjustly harsh attacks from writers
perhaps envious of his lifestyle. Such hostility precludes awareness of Kristofferson's
humor. While on one level his songs tell of personal and social alienation, they also carry a
strain of irony, his most down-and-out laments suggesting in their lyric indulgence and
vocal intonation deliberate self-parody, a sense of the absurd. The duality of Kri... More >