No, I don't have that one Wesley but I have an Amazon Gift certifictae I earned from product testing and can't think of a better way to spend it! I'm on a major Kristofferson kick lately having spent about $30 on tunes by him at iTunes in the past month or so!

Some people don't like his voice but I always have.

I was born in 1964 into a very musical family and I was just getting into singing and playing the guitar when he hit big as a songwriter. I remember hearing Sammi Smith's version of 'Help me Make it Through The Night' almost every day on the radio in our kitchen when we lived in this neat old cabin on the edge of a forest in a small town where my dad was stationed when he was a NYS Trooper. That and songs like 'Sunday morning comin' down', 'For the good times' and others were some of the first songs I learned to play. I have a sister who is just under 4 years older and a gifted musician so I was exposed to more mature music at a young age.

It was the melodies more than anything that I loved so much. It took me more years and maturity to appreciate his lyrics the way I do now. The melody is one of the most striking things about 'the Circle'. it's simple but it has a clever descending pattern that mirrors the lyrics.


It's nice that Oh Boy records is reissuing some of his early 1980s albums like Third World Warrior which didn't register with most people.   I always loved that album!