It is gradually becoming a tried and tested concept: well-known singer / songwriters who sing entire albums full of Death in their old age. Kris Kristofferson is nearly eighty, so the leitmotif of his aptly named album Feeling Mortal is forgiven. With lines like 'Here today and gone tomorrow', the American songwriter faces the impending doom. But not before he has turned viciously out of the corner
… a few more times. While others in the stoppage time of their lives choose to close everything appropriately, Kristofferson takes the people around him one more time on You Don't Tell Me What To Do. In the making of Feeling Mortal, the singer / songwriter was coached for the fourth time in a row by the renowned producer Don Was. Comparisons with the American Recordings by Johnny Cash, produced by Rick Rubin, have been made before and now again arise. Feeling Mortal is a sober record with which the old bard once again makes a good impression. (JE)more
