To the Bone

This is not just one my favorite Kristofferson albums but one of my all-time favorite albums period. It came out my second year of college and spent a lot of time on the turntable in the dorm. Though the vinyl ended up locked away in storage around the mid-80s, along with about 500 other albums, I kept waiting for this to show up in print again as a CD -- and in the last several years kept waiting to see it in iTunes. The music playing was tight and the songwriting cut, well, to the bone. Every song on here is hummable and sticks with you -- they have stuck with me for almost 30 years now. This is one overlooked gem from Kris's career so far, and of the singer/songwriting genre in general.