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Wednesday’s announcement was about Morris Higham Management taking over the reins of Kristofferson’s career from Saviano - though the fact that it talked of managing “the Kris Kristofferson estate” spoke to the fact that the singer-songwriter-actor does not plan to embark on new professional endeavors. He might wake up a month from now and go ‘I’m gonna go in the studio and make an album,’ and he will.” That said: “I’m not gonna say Kris will never record again, Kris will never take the stage again, because the moment I say that Kris will prove me wrong.Never say never. “But he’s not going to be on the road anymore.”
There are still going to be new projects” - of the archival or tribute sort. “The pandemic just changed everything,” and made the thought of ramping touring back up at some point in the indefinite future seem like a less likely or important goal.Īdds Saviano, “It doesn’t feel like a retirement because Kris’ music isn’t going anywhere. “Kris was scheduled in March to do the Luck Reunion in Austin” held annually at Willie Nelson’s property. Kristofferson hadn’t known he was going to retire when he played what might have been his final gig in January 2020, aboard the Outlaw Country Cruise. That’s why there was no announcement: It was just sort of a slow changing of the guard thing.” There was no big change - it was this sort of slow ‘What should we do now? What’s next?’ And here we are in the middle of a pandemic… It was like, ‘Yeah, let’s retire.’ To us on this side of the fence it was an organic, normal, ‘things are changing’ thing. “It was an evolution, and it just felt very organic. “It wasn’t any big stake in the ground, like ‘I’m retiring! I’m not doing this anymore!,” says Tamara Saviano, Kristofferson’s longtime manager. That may speak to Kristofferson’s unassuming nature: He really didn’t think that his withdrawal from public performance and recordings was the stuff of headlines. But when Kris Kristofferson made the decision to retire last year, there were no such fireworks set off, and the public didn’t learn about it until it was tucked deep into a press release Wednesday about a management change, as if everyone already long since knew or assumed it. It's a good 'un.When most major stars with a music career retire, proper announcements are in order, if not farewell tours or tribute shows. Though this is not one to recommend to someone getting started with Nelson, or a casual fan, hardcore fans will have to have this despite the shortcomings of fidelity. It's a bit flat and lifeless, kept alive only by the fiery performance of the band.
One would have imagined that the sonics would have been fairly top-notch by 1990, but not so here.
It's actually a bit disheartening considering how fine the performance is. The reading of "Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)," here is choice, as is the live version of "Always on My Mind," a song that, remarkably, still has a lot of life in it despite its being performed countless thousands of times.
Then there's the medley of "Funny," "Crazy," and "Night Life" that's mercurial, slippery, and a tiny bit ragged. But it's tight and well-rehearsed, yet there's more than a degree of spontaneity here in tracks like "Stay a Little Longer," with a killer Nelson guitar break and a tough rock & roll riff in the bridge. It wouldn't matter if Nelson sang nursery rhymes in front of this audience. According to Austin City Limits producer Terry Lickona's brief liner notes, Nelson was the first-ever guest on the public television-syndicated program back in 1974 for its pilot episode. Live from Austin TX reflects so many of the audience and band favorites in such a hometown setting, it would be hard to imagine it not working like a charm. This date from 1990 features Willie Nelson and the Family Band in fine form.
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