Silver Tongued Devil & I

Kris Kristofferson | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 1, 1988)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sbme Special Mkts.
• ASIN: B0012GMVL2
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,735 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Silver Tongued Devil and I

2. Jody and the Kid

3. Billy Dee

4. Good Christian Soldier

5. Breakdown (A Long Way from Home)

6. Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)

7. The Taker

8. When I Loved Her

9. The Pilgrim, Chapter 33

10. Epitaph (Black and Blue)

Editorial Reviews

In this 1971 album-gone-gold, Kristofferson makes the much anticipated transition from successful songwriter to top recording artist. Jody and the Kid; Billy Dee; Good Christian Soldier, and more!

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unique classic, November 20, 2009

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T. Johnson (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews
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I'd have bought this CD just for the one song, The Silver Tongued Devil and I. Great, great song, and Kris's voice works perfectly for it. Still there are a lot of other great songs like Loving Her Was Easier, Breakdown, When I Loved Her, The Pilgrim, etc. Hard to find anything else like Kris's first albums anywhere. He has some really good stuff on other albums as well - I loved his half of the Songwriter soundtrack for instance - that are more electrified, but still great songwriting.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Devil himself!, September 11, 2009

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John Harwell (Grove City, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Silver Tongued Devil & I (Audio CD)

I have been a Kristofferson fan since I heard him play in the Tally Ho Tavern behind the Mobil station on West End in Nashville. The Tally Ho has long been gone but Kris is still here and "speaking" his mind as always.
Sometimes I wonder if he is singing his conscience or just the facts of life.
The Silver-Tongued Devil is almost my biography where a certain lady from Pittsburgh is concerned. Out of Control and only half caring.
Jody and the Kid is a real love story. The deep down in-my-soul type.
We all know Billy Dee. In fact, sometimes I wonder if I am Billy.
Good Christian Soldier just makes me want to go "Whew, Ouch".
Lovin' Her is the song that will forever define this album for me.
Maybe Kris doesn't have the best voice in the world, but man can he write.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Probably the best of his work, December 13, 2010

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R. V. Hatcher (Boston) - See all my reviews
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Kris is one of the best story-telling songwriters of all time and this album (CD, because it was an album at when it came out) is his definitive work. Who can quarrel with lyrics like "like all the fair maidens who laid down beside him, she knew in her heart that he'd lied." Or, my favorite KK song, which I swear he wrote about me in 1972, the Pilgrim "Once he had a future full of money love and dreams which he spent like they were going out of style. And he keeps right on a changin for the better or the worse, searching for a shrine he'll never find, never knowin if believin is a blessing or a curse, or if the going up was worth the comin down." WOW.

Many people don't realize that it was KK who "discovered" Steve Goodman and John Prine. Prine had invited him to a SG show and Kris was blown away. He called and invited his good friend and mentor Paul Anka who came over to the club after midnight and Steve played for them all night. Anka then invided Goodman and Prine to NYC to interview and play for his label.

The only singer/song-writer I've found that even comes close to the emotions that KK had is Fred Eaglesmith. Fred is from southern Ontario, Canada and is simply amazing, and, could be the modern day equivalent of KK. Check out his album "Bootleg Series" or "Ralph's Last Show".