Jesus Was a Capricorn (Remaster) Kris Kristofferson

• 1 Jesus Was a Capricorn (Owed to John Prine) 02:28
• 2 Nobody Wins 03:06
• 3 It Sure Was (Love) 02:51
• 4 Enough for You 03:05
• 5 Help Me 03:22
• 6 Jesse Younger 02:40
• 7 Give It Time to Be Tender 03:26
• 8 Out of Mind, Out of Sight 02:58
• 9 Sugar Man 03:59
• 10 Why Me 03:26
• Total Runtime 31:21

Info for Jesus Was a Capricorn (Remaster)

„Kris Kristofferson is pictured smiling in sunglasses on the cover of Jesus Was a Capricorn, accompanied by his girlfriend and soon-to-be-wife Rita Coolidge. The album followed his previous LP, Border Lord, by only nine months and was his fourth album to be released within two-and-a-half years, which meant that a man who had struggled for half a decade to get anybody to listen to his songs was now writing and recording them as fast as he could. Not surprisingly, he was having trouble filling the pipeline; he borrowed the melody of John Prine's "Grandpa Was a Carpenter" for the title song and even recorded a cover song for the first time, performing a duet with Larry Gatlin on Gatlin's "Help Me." There was nothing here that matched his best songs, but the overall quality of the material was quite good, as Kristofferson went back over familiar ground, singing about religion, romance, and roughhousing with equal fervor. Especially impressive were the two duets with Coolidge, "It Sure Was (Love)" and "Give It Time to Be Tender," which looked forward to their duo albums. Commercially, Jesus Was a Capricorn can be seen either as a case of record company ineptitude or perseverance, or both. Border Lord had marked a falloff in sales from Kristofferson's first two albums, and initially Jesus Was a Capricorn looked like it was going to do even worse, as Monument Records couldn't seem to figure out what the right single was. The label started by releasing a single version of the title track, in which Kristofferson described Christ as a sandals-wearing hippie, and, despite the subject matter, pop radio gave it enough play to get it into the bottom of the charts for a few weeks. But the LP quickly peaked in the charts and started to fade, not helped by the second single, the medium-tempo rocker "Jesse Younger," which made no impression. (Meanwhile, Brenda Lee had no trouble locating the album's best song; she covered "Nobody Wins" and established herself in country music by taking it into the country top five.) Finally, four months after the album's release, Monument issued a third single, the slow-paced statement of faith that closed the LP, "Why Me." (Actually, a disc jockey had started playing the song, which Monument hadn't even wanted on the album. Though sometimes described as a spoof, "Why Me" sincerely reflects a religious experience, according to Kristofferson.) It quickly entered the country and pop charts, hitting number one in country in July 1973, and peaking in the pop Top 20 after a slow climb in November. That turned around the fortunes of Jesus Was a Capricorn, which marched back up the charts and reached number one on the country charts a full year after it had been released. Both album and single went gold, giving Kristofferson his greatest success as a recording artist.“ (William Ruhlmann, AMG)

Kris Kristofferson, vocals, guitar
Chip Young, guitar
Dennis Linde, guitar
Fred Carter Jr, guitar
Grady Martin, guitar
Jerry Shook, guitar
James Colvard, guitar
John Buck Wilkin, guitar
John L Christopher Jr, guitar
Mac Gayden, guitar
Stephen Bruton, guitar
"Uncle Josh" Graves, slide dobro
Weldon Myrick, steel guitar
Bobby Emmons, piano
Bobby Wood, piano
David Briggs, piano
Dr. John Harris, piano
Mike Utley, piano
Norbert Putnam, bass
Tommy Cogbill, bass
Andy Newmark, drums
Kenny Buttrey, drums
Brenton Banks, strings
Byron T Bach, strings
Carl Gorodetzky, strings
David Darling, strings
George Binkley III, strings
Lillian Hunt, strings
Sheldon Kurland, strings
Steven Smith, strings

Produced by Fred Foster

Digitally remastered

Kristoffer "Kris" Kristofferson
(born June 22, 1936) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, actor, and former soldier. He is known for writing and recording such hits as "Me and Bobby McGee", "For the Good Times", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down" and "Help Me Make It Through the Night". Kristofferson is the sole writer of most of his songs, and he has collaborated with various other figures of the Nashville scene such as Shel Silverstein. In 1985, Kristofferson joined fellow country artists Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash in forming the country music supergroup, The Highwaymen. In 2004, Kristofferson was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. He is also known for his acting work, including starring roles in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and A Star Is Born, the latter for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.

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