while it wasn't the most impressive, i need to keep track of all of them so here it is...i was reading the de capo best music writing of 2002 book that i got in 2002 but have never really read completely. i think i like started the book 4 or 5 times and re-read the first 5 stories a couple times. however, each time they felt just about new. so anyway, one of them is a detailed account of the making of 'help me make it through the night.' kris kristofferson wrote the song and recorded it with sammi smith singing and a bunch of nashville sessionists playing on it. i'd never heard the song before i read the piece and went and downloaded it a couple days ago. for all the prasie this david cantwell guy gives it, i couldn't really get down. i may need to listen to it a few more times since its apparently some sort of classic that won a grammy in 71. that just shows my ignorance right there: i grew up so punk that i refused to listen to anything not derived from punk rock. consequently, i missed out on a lot of dope shit from pre-1975. i honestly never seriously listened to bob dylan before this summer! i know, its ridiculous. but now i decided to catch up on anything i ignored through my spikey haired ignorance.
oh but anyway, the coincidence: this morning, i read a review of kristofferson's new album that would have made absolutely no sense to me if i hadn't just finished the story of the song. and then, they even mention the song in the last line of the review for absolutely no reason at all. it was almost as if they mentioned the song just because it was the one song i knew about or some such nonsense. but thats what i'm talking about when i say coincidences haunt me. that type of shit always happens.
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