Best Kristofferson album I have found.

[madfloridian]

http://www.amazon.com/Kris-Kristofferson-Time-Greatest-Hits/dp/B00005O6HR/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/105-5662543-7778022?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1181170420&sr=8-2

Great quality, good choice of music. I am glad I bought it. Just started listening to it all the way through. Well worth it.

I also bought this one of him with Rita Coolidge. Beautiful. It is called Breakaway.

http://www.amazon.com/Breakaway-Kris-Kristofferson-Rita-Coolidge/dp/B0000027HC/ref=pd_bbs_sr_11/105-5662543-7778022?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1181170420&sr=8-11

They are to me like Johnny Cash, they bridge a gap between music genres.

[Greyskye]

1. i thought you were going to say something along the lines of

... "a broken one". Guess I just don't get him - I can't handle his voice.

Cool that you found music you like though! :thumbsup:

[madfloridian]

2. I have eclectic tastes in music.

I don't think he has an especially good voice, but I love the style. I think he is a brilliant song-writer. I think he has made the hall of fame for it.

I also ordered a Perry Como album with some great songs.

http://www.amazon.com/Love-You-So-Its-Impossible/dp/B00005B51D/ref=pd_bbs_sr_4/105-5662543-7778022?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1181188239&sr=8-4

Jimmie F. Rodgers, the one who sang Child of Clay, Honey Comb. I have a couple of his. I would call him basically folk pop. Nice music.
Not the older Jimmie Rodgers.

http://www.amazon.com/Child-Clay-Windmills-Your-Mind/dp/B0000EWO50/ref=sr_1_2/105-5662543-7778022?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1181188430&sr=1-2

I love Mac Davis...
http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/exhibit_home_page.asp?exhibitId=350

Music is a very personal thing. For over 10 years I took classical piano from a professor at a nearby college. Enough recitals and a couple of individual concerts....that I almost dislike classical now.

I love music that has feeling, and I don't tolerate much of the newer stuff.

I like the ones who are in between country and pop. I like the older quarterts like The Four Lads and The Four Aces.

I have a strange mixture of music choices. And I love Johnny Cash. He didn't have a very good voice either, and I thought June was nasally...but I loved them together.

[Greyskye]

3. absolutely!

Music is definitely an extremely personal thing. I'm afraid I haven't been able to get past Kris's voice enough to appreciate his songwriting. Absolutely my loss from what I understand. :blush:

I never had any formal training as a child, other than singing in school; and unfortunately little exposure to music at home. After I got out of college I started running with a dangerous crowd - amateur musicians. I started playing bodhran (an Irish frame drum) in self defense. I've since graduated on to hacking around on everything from a solid body electric dulcimer to clarinet. In the midst of that over the past 20+ years I was in a couple small bands that were loads of fun until they stopped being loads of fun, which was when I stopped doing that. :) I still play a little for myself, and at jam sessions at the 2 music festivals I go to each year.

You can get a flavor of the music I like at my Pandora station: http://www.pandora.com/stations/a969b91b4e0c9a6729034731b33b4bc0ee56ad17f84d5fe3">The Eclectic Greyness

[madfloridian]

4. I got another album today and just love it.

I guess I am beginning to describe my choice as smooth country. From classical piano to smooth country, quite a reach.

This is a great album with Janie Fricke...Johnny Duncan gave her a start.

http://www.amazon.com/Couldnt-Have-Been-Any-Better/dp/B00006RYIY/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-0481170-0584406?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1182230361&sr=8-1

Excellent quality overall, good selection.

Then I realized he died last August at age 67. There is a site up that plays his music as you scroll the pictures at the bottom...

http://www.johnnyduncanmusic.com/index2.php

And the page from his family thanking for the thoughts about his death.

http://www.johnnyduncanmusic.com/

Go figure how transitions in music taste evolve. I even like the smoother blue grass instrumental...Country Gentlemen comes to mind. But not much twang or nasal stuff.