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 Scelsa’s In Their Own Words 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.

Recorded at the Bottom Line in New York, February 2, 1994

Tracklist

A1        Introduction
A2        Vin Scelsa Introduces Lou Reed
A3        Betrayed
A4        VS Introduces Kris Kristofferson
A5        Shipwrecked
A6        LR on Songwriting
B1        Legendary Hearts
B2        KK on His Childhood & Songwriting
B3        Sunday Morning Coming Down/The Pilgrim
B4        LR on New York
C1        Strawman
C2        KK talks about “Strawman”
C3        Sam’s Song
C4        LR on Writing for Wim Wenders
C5        Why Can’t I Be Good
C6        LR on Autobiographical Songs
D1        KK on Nashville
D2        Help Me Make It Through The Night
D3        LR on Velvet Underground & Warhol
D4        Sweet Jane
E1        KK on Writing
E2        To Beat The Devil
E3        LR on Writing Prose
E4        Romeo Had Juliet
E5        Burden of Freedom
F1        KK on “Me and Bobby McGee”
F2        Me and Bobby McGee
F3        KK on “Bird On A Wire”
F4        Bird On A Wire
F5        Tracks of My Tears

*Audio and/or tracklist may vary slightly from the vinyl version.

Label: THE BOTTOM LINE RECORD COMPANY
Rel. Date: 04/23/2022
UPC: 819376021935

• Format Detail: LP
• Genre: Rock
• Format: Vinyl
• Released: 04/25/2022