Kristofferson Makes It Through Two Nights

8/15/2007 Stephen L. Betts Continuing their successful artist-in-residence performance series, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum welcomed Hall of Fame member Kris Kristofferson for two performances in a two-day period. Music journalist Bill Friskics-Warren reviewed his first performance on Tuesday night (8/14) in an article for the Tennessean, and reveals that it was a night filled with humor, tenderness, and some classic country music. “From ‘Help Me Make It Through the Night’ to ‘For the Good Times’ to ‘Sunday Morning Coming Down,’ he sang all of the songs that made him famous, plus more than a dozen recent ruminations on family, both nuclear and global, during his two-and-a-half-hour performance,” he writes. Noting that the 71-year-old singer-songwriter was “rail thin and dressed head-to-toe in black like his hero Johnny Cash,” the article also says that he “seemed smaller and frailer than the hunky star of such Hollywood movies as Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and A Star Is Born. To check out the entire review, click HERE