The Essential Kris Kristofferson

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down
  4:32
  3.5 ★
• 2
  To Beat the Devil
  4:42
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Just the Other Side of Nowhere
  3:38
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Me and Bobby McGee
  4:21
  5.0 ★
• 5
  The Best of All Possible Worlds
  3:00
  5.0 ★
• 6
  Casey’s Last Ride
  3:36
  5.0 ★
• 7
  Help Me Make It Through the Night
  2:22
  4.5 ★
• 8
  Darby’s Castle
  3:18
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Jody and the Kid
  3:07
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I’ll Ever Do Again)
  3:46
  4.5 ★
• 11
  For the Good Times
  3:24
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Come Sundown
  2:37
• 13
  From the Bottle to the Bottom
  2:58
  4.0 ★
• 14
  Billy Dee
  2:58
  4.0 ★
• 15
  Breakdown (A Long Way From Home)
  2:43
  4.0 ★
• 16
  The Silver Tongued Devil and I
  4:18
  4.0 ★
• 17
  The Taker
  3:15
  4.0 ★
• 18
  The Pilgrim: Chapter 33 (live)
  3:16
• CD 2
• 1
  Border Lord
  3:38
  4.0 ★
• 2
  The Sabre and the Rose
  5:14
• 3
  Broken Freedom Song
  5:25
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Jesus Was a Capricorn
  2:30
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Shandy (The Perfect Disguise)
  3:39
• 6
  Sugar Man
  4:02
  4.0 ★
• 7
  The Last Time
  4:13
• 8
  Nobody Wins
  3:08
  5.0 ★
• 9
  I’d Rather Be Sorry

  Kris Kristofferson & Rita Coolidge
  3:12
  3.5 ★
• 10
  Highwayman

  The Highwaymen
  3:03
  4.5 ★
• 11
  Don’t Cuss the Fiddle
  3:25
  3.5 ★
• 12
  The Bigger the Fool, the Harder the Fall
  3:33
  4.0 ★
• 13
  Stranger
  3:09
• 14
  If You Don’t Like Hank Williams
  3:31
  3.0 ★
• 15
  Here Comes That Rainbow Again
  2:53
  4.0 ★
• 16
  Once More With Feeling
  2:51
  3.5 ★
• 17
  How Do You Feel About Foolin’ Around

  Willie Nelson & Kris Kristofferson
  2:46
• 18
  Why Me
  3:28
  4.0 ★
• 19
  Please Don’t Tell Me How the Story Ends
  2:38
  4.0 ★

More by Kris Kristofferson

A Star Is Born

A Star Is Born 1976

Extras

Extras 2016

Feeling Mortal

Feeling Mortal 2013

Closer to the Bone

Closer to the Bone 2009

This Old Road

This Old Road 2006

The Austin Sessions

The Austin Sessions 1999

Release credits

• Bill Justis
  guitar [18]
• Bobby Emmons
  keyboard [10]
• Bobby Wood
  keyboard [10, 18]
• Booker T. Jones
  producer [17]
• Brenton Banks
  strings [18]
• Carl Gorodetzky
  strings [18]
• Chip Young
  engineer [9], guitar [18]
• Chips Moman
  background vocals [10], engineer [10], guitar [10], producer [10]
• Dan Lawson
  co [17]
• David Anderle
  producer [12, 14]
• David Cherry
  engineer [10]
• David Darling
  strings [18]
• Farrell Morris
  bass [18]
• Fred Foster
  producer [1.17, 2.9]
• Fred Mollin
  producer [19], strings [19]
• Gene Chrisman
  drums (drum set) [10]
• George Binkley
  strings [18]
• Jeff Wolpert
  mix [19]
• Jimmy Colvard
  guitar [18]
• Jimmy Tittle
  bass [10]
• Joan Baez
  guest [17]
• John Willis
  acoustic guitar [19]
• Johnny Cash
  background vocals [10], performer [10], vocal [10]
• Johnny Rodriguez
  background vocals [10], guitar [10]
• Ken Criblez
  assistant [10]
• Kenny Buttery
  drums (drum set) [18]
• Kris Kristofferson
  acoustic guitar [19], background vocals [10], guitar [10], lead vocals [19], performer [10, 17], vocal [2.3-4, 2.6, 2.8, 2.10, 2.16, 2.18, 1.1-8, 1.11]
• Larry Gatlin
  background vocals [18]
• Larry Greenhill
  assistant [10]
• Larry Paxton
  acoustic bass guitar [19]
• Lillian Hunt
  strings [18]
• Mark Knopfler
  background vocals [19], guitar [19]
• Mark Linett
  engineer [19]
• Marty Stuart
  mandolin [10]
• Michael Utley
  keyboard [18]
• Mickey Raphael
  harmonica [10]
• Mike Leech
  bass [10]
• Paul Davis
  background vocals [10], guitar [10], keyboard [10]
• Paul Franklin
  Rhodes piano [19]
• Rita Coolidge
  background vocals [18], performer [9], vocal [9]
• Sheldon Kurland
  strings [18]
• Stephen Bruton
  acoustic guitar [19]
• Steven Smith
  strings [18]
• Tommy Cogbill
  bass [18]
• Waylon Jennings
  background vocals [10], guitar [10], performer [10], vocal [10]
• Willie Nelson
  background vocals [10], guitar [10], performer [10], vocal [10]
• Show all credits (46)

Issues

• 

  T
  The Essential

  2x CD
  2004