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Kris Kristofferson est mon outlaw préféré. On connaît l'histoire, le succès de la version de
Janis Joplin de
Me and Bobby McGee a permis de ressortir (la chanson-titre en guise d'étendard) ce disque passé un peu inaperçu, mais pas ses compositions. Des perles avec des arrangements qui dépassent souvent l'obédience country. Et des histoires de celles dont on ne sait s'il faut pleurer... ou rire de joie d'être encore en vie. Un chef-d'œuvre.
Deux extraits en écoute parmi mes préférés.
01- "Blame It on the Stones" (Kristofferson/John Wilkin) – 2:46
02- "To Beat the Devil" – 4:43
03- "Me and Bobby McGee" (Kristofferson/Fred Foster) – 4:23 (About this sound Listen (help·info))
04- "Best of All Possible Worlds" – 3:01
05- "Help Me Make It Through the Night" – 2:24
06- "The Law Is for Protection of the People" – 2:40
07- "Casey's Last Ride" – 3:3708- "Just the Other Side of Nowhere" – 3:39
09- "Darby's Castle" – 3:19
10- "For the Good Times" – 3:25
11- "Duvalier's Dream" – 2:5812- "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down" – 4:34
Duvalier's DreamDuvalier was a bitter man who cursed the morning sun
That brought a new betrayal every day.
He shunned the world of mortals and the sound of human tongues
And blessed the night that chased their sight away.
A disillusioned dreamer who would never love again
Who'd tried of it and found that it was rotten.
Prefering perfect strangers to the company of friends
Because strangers are so easily forgotten.
CHORUS:
Oh, it's hard to keep believing when you know you've been decieved.
To face a lie and dare to try again, but there's nothing like a woman
with a spell of make believe to make a new believer of a man.
Duvalier took the fickle turns of fortune in his stride
Expecting next to nothing out of life.
Till fortune found a girl who fanned a flame he thought had died
Whose burning beauty cut him like a knife.
She touched him through the senses that his mind could not control.
Then smiling stepped aside and watched him fall.
Betrayed by his own body and the hunger in his soul
Duvalier was a dreamer after all.
CHORUS
Oh, it's hard to keep believing when you know you've been decieved.
To face a lie and dare to try again, but there's nothing like a woman
with a spell of make believe to make a new believer of a man.