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Sings Kristofferson
Sings Kristofferson is the twenty-third studio album recorded by Willie Nelson in 1979 consisting of all covers of Kris Kristofferson songs. It reached #5 on the US Country albums chart, #42 on the US Pop albums charts, and was certified gold in Canada and platinum in the US. The cover is very simple, a single picture of Nelson's face against a black background, with the song titles to the right of his face. The back cover is the same background with both Nelson and Kristofferson
this album, Kris Kristofferson, a “brilliant writer” whose “Sunday Morning Coming Down” contained the poetic realism similar to his own lyrics. Nelson would rerecord the song on his tribute LP "Sings Kristofferson" in 1979.
Reception.
AllMusic: “Over the years, Nelson has shown that he sometimes looks at relationships differently than the average songwriter (such as ‘Crazy’), with a little more thought and from new perspectives. After all, not everyone's life is moon, June, and