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Live at Gilley's: Pasadena, TX: September 15, 1981 [Red] Vinyl
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Kris Kristofferson was in fine, road-hardened form when he and his band rolled into Gilley's, the famous Pasadena, Texas honky-tonk, in 1981. Live at Gilley's preserves that night in a gatefold sleeve.
By then Kristofferson was as much a movie star as a songwriter, yet on stage he was all troubadour, backed by a band that included guitarist Stephen Bruton, keyboardist Donnie Fritts and Billy Swan. The recording finally surfaced in 2022, offering a vivid snapshot of a writer revisiting the songs that had reshaped country music a decade earlier, in front of a packed and rowdy Texas crowd.
The hits are all here and sound gloriously lived-in. "Me and Bobby McGee" opens proceedings with an easy, rolling swing, "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down" lands with all its hungover melancholy intact, and "The Pilgrim" gets the warm, knowing delivery of a man who might have been singing about himself. The night ends with "Why Me", a gospel-tinged prayer that turns the honky-tonk briefly reverent.
Unvarnished and full of the gravel in his voice, this is Kristofferson as audiences heard him on the road rather than in the studio. It makes a fine companion to his classic early-seventies albums and a heartfelt document of a songwriting giant at ease in front of a crowd.
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