819376021935

The Bottom Line Archive Series: In Their Own Words: With Vin Scelsa

Lou Reed, Kris Kristofferson

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Format: 3LP

Cat No: BLRLP019

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Format Details: 3LP / BLACK FRIDAY

Release Date:  23 April 2022

Label:  The Bottom Line Record Company / BFD PC

Packaging Type:  Gate Fold Vinyl

No of Units:  3

Barcode:  819376021935

Genres:  Rock  

  • Description

    We bring you another historic, once-in-a-lifetime meeting taking place during the winter of '94 on that venerable Bottom Line stage. Culled from an evening that also included Suzanne Vega and Victoria Williams, there was perhaps no other pairing more perfectly suited to the In Their Own Words platform than this singular meeting of Lou Reed and Kris Kristofferson. As much a course in music history and songwriting as a performance, and years before VH1's Storytellers series, Allan Pepper and Vin Sclesa's ITOW series afforded the audience a window into the minds of their favorite songsmiths, in a run that lasted from May of 1990 until March of 2003.The two songsmiths in question were born and raised in two very different worlds - Lou Reed in the jungles of New York City and Kris Kristofferson in the heart of the Southland. Still, both men demanded total artistic freedom and created raw, brutally honest art that addressed strikingly similar issues of struggles - with loneliness and alienation, addiction and recovery, love and loss, good and evil, vulnerability and hopelessness - painfully aware of contradictions and critical of hypocrisy, painting pictures of characters known or imagined, yet always finding the humanity in our faults and weaknesses during our darkest hours. Through the lens of their music, Lou and Kris view the human condition with a sense of humility and no small amount of humor, which was always close at hand.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Legendary Hearts
      • 2. KK On His Childhood & Songwriting
      • 3. Sunday Morning Coming Down / The Pilgrim
      • 4. LR On New York
      • 5. Shipwrecked
      • 6. LR On Songwriting

      Disc 2

      • 1. KK On Nashville
      • 2. Help Me Make It Through The Night
      • 3. LR On Velvet Underground & Warhol
      • 4. Sweet Jane
      • 5. Why Can't I Be Good
      • 6. LR On Autobiographical Songs

      Disc 3

      • 1. KK On "Me And Bobby McGee"
      • 2. Me And Bobby McGee
      • 3. KK On "Bird On A Wire"
      • 4. Bird On A Wire
      • 5. Tracks Of My Tears