Kris Kristofferson - Jesus Was a Capricorn

My Favorite Kris & Rita Album

As far as I'm concerned, this is the best that Kris & Rita ever put down on vinyl! I've owned a copy of this album in some form or another ever since 1973....I'll never be without a copy either! July 19, 2008

Probably Kris's best

The time was the late 1970's, I used to listen to WHN in NY while driving around in my VW Beetle. I often heard Why me Lord?, and the DJ would always mention "From the LP Jesus was a Capricorn". By that time, the LP seemed to already be out of print in this part of the country. You just couldn't find it anywhere. Spring forward to 1989, I discovered this LP in a large box of records at a garage sale. What amazed me upon my first listen was that there were much better songs on the LP than Why Me.The title track is hilarious as only Kris can be, and has great finger-picking. The third track (It sure was love) is a great duet with Rita Coolidge. The 5th track Help Me, is probably the best song Larry Gatlin ever wrote, the arrangement is absolutely gorgeous and heartfelt. It is a song for the addict or alcoholic or person going through great personal difficulty, and nothing can be more genuine. Side 2 starts with Jessie Younger, a very cool and funny and sarcastic song like only Kris can write. Give it time to be tender may be the BEST duet he ever recorded with Rita Coolidge. Out of Mind out of sight is another great country party song on the lines of a song from Border Lord called Getting by high and strange. Sugar Man is a great bluesy song, a real downer about a girl who overdoses - another of Kris's heroin songs. The LP ends with the hit Why Me. There is not one bad song on this LP, and there's a group of exceptional ones. This is quite simply a classic. This is American music at it's best, a long-vanished era in my opinion, before 2 or 3 dinosaur companies were allowed to swallow up the recording and radio industries. Buy this CD - you will be thankful you did because country music and country-rock was never any better than this. September 29, 2007

Nostalgic

was looking for another song, happened to remember this album from my teen years and found it on cd. What a find, brings back some wonderful and bittersweet memories. August 6, 2007

Jesus Was a Capricorn

The product is what I expected. It arrived on time and in the condition advertised. May 13, 2007

Jesus was a Capricorn - KK , review

This is one of my favourite CDs from KK. My sister and I purchased the cassette when it was originally released back in the seventies, but it eventually was wore out, hence the purchase now of the CD. Its a CD I can listen to over and over. January 10, 2007

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