Watching For The Love of Music: The Story of Nashville as background while I edit pics. I just heard this great line from Jon Randall I just saw Kris Kristofferson sing a song and it was like, really? You know hes erased better lines than Ill ever write. I love that! Then it cuts into a recent version of Kristofferson picking Sunday Morning Coming Down, which I think is one of the greatest songs ever written. (So as I write this Im looking for that version to post with it and it gives the history of how he wrote it with the video. I always assumed it was non fiction as its been quite relatable a many o sundays and Im sure thats why it was covered as often as it was.) Kristofferson said in an interview, This song probably was the most directly autobiographical thing I had written. In those days I was living in a slum tenement that was torn down afterwards, but it was 25 dollars a month in a condemned building, and Sunday Morning Coming Down was more or less looking around me and writing about what I was doing. One time, some people broke into that place, and I had to call the police station to answer some questions about it, and the guy said, Yeah, they really trashed the place when they went in there. But I hadnt noticed that it was any different. There were holes in the wall bigger than I was. It was quite a place, so Sunday Morning Coming Down is kind of more or less what I was living at that time. I guess it was depressing, I dont know, but the chorus was kind of uplifting. ... What I was really trying to do was to keep the feeling of loss and of sadness. For me at that time, it was the loss of my family and looking at a little kid swinging on a swing and his daddy pushing him. That was the feeling I wanted to get for the whole song. I think Sunday was the choice because the bars were closed in the morning and nobody was at work, so if you were alone, it was the most alone time... In a 2013 interview Kristofferson also noted Im just real grateful for that song because that opened up a whole lot doors for me. So many people that I admire, admired it. Actually, it was the song that allowed me to quit working for a living.
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 20:57:24 +0000
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