Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for October 08, 2024

Losing Kris is really a difficult one for a lot of us.

RIP Kris, a life well done. I can’t think of him without thinking of “Why Me”. I saw an interview of him on how the song came about.

Amazing!

Yesterday a few comments questioned how Mr. Johnson could have the “lead time” to honor Kris Kristofferson just nine days after his death but Arlo’s musings today leave little doubt that was just what JJ was doing. A couple years ago Willie Nelson summed up the kind of force Kris was. “Everything he writes is a standard and we’re all just going to have to live with that.”

That’s my favorite one Arlo. I’ve played Me and Bobby Mcgee in bar bands. Very fun song to play.

It must be Earworm Season.

Gonna miss Kris Kristofferson. Johnny Cash did him proud.

I do that song quite a bit although it’s usually just Send In The Clowns.

Anyhoo:

Well, I woke up Sunday mornin’

With no way to hold my head that didn’t hurt

And the beer I had for breakfast wasn’t bad

So I had one more for dessert

Then I fumbled in my closet through my clothes

And found my cleanest dirty shirt

Then I washed my face and combed my hair

And stumbled down the stairs to meet the day

I’d smoked my mind the night before

With cigarettes and songs I’d been pickin’

But I lit my first and watched a small kid

Playin’ with a can that he was kickin’

Then I walked across the street

And caught the Sunday smell of someone’s fryin’ chicken

And Lord, it took me back to somethin’ that I’d lost

Somewhere, somehow along the way

On a Sunday mornin’ sidewalk

I’m wishin’, Lord, that I was stoned

‘Cause there’s somethin’ in a Sunday

That makes a body feel alone

And there’s nothin’ short a’ dyin’

That’s half as lonesome as the sound

Of the sleepin’ city sidewalk

And Sunday mornin’ comin’ down

In the park I saw a daddy

With a laughin’ little girl that he was swingin’

And I stopped beside a Sunday school

And listened to the songs they were singin’

Then I headed down the street

And somewhere far away a lonely bell was ringin’

And it echoed through the canyons

Like the disappearin’ dreams of yesterday

On a Sunday mornin’ sidewalk

I’m wishin’, Lord, that I was stoned

‘Cause there’s somethin’ in a Sunday

That makes a body feel alone

And there’s nothin’ short a’ dyin’

That’s half as lonesome as the sound

Of the sleepin’ city sidewalk

And Sunday mornin’ comin’ down

Season depression ?

Kris Kristofferson was a musical genius…

This is a reference to Kris Kristofferson who died recently, not earworms in general.

Songs of Kris Kristofferson all, no doubt.

RIP Kris. If you’ve never heard Johnny Cash sing this one, take a few minutes and do it.

Well, it ain’t Arlo Davy, but Johnny Cash….

A poem of loneliness by Kris, one of his best.

…I wish it Lord that I were stoned!Cause there’s somethin in a SundayThat makes a body feel alone…

Kris Kristopherson…the music of our lives…

Johnny Cash did it proud but the best ever was Vicki Carr on the album “Nashville by Carr”

" I got a brand new pair of roller skates…" Ha, I got you started.

Thanks again to Kris Kristopherson and to Johnny Cash. Good music in my opinion.

Janis Joplin died October 7th in 1970. Kris Kristofferson died 11 days ago on September 28th.

Kris Kristofferson was more than a singer. He was a poet and a story teller, and a good one at that.

old songs bring memories

Kris K. was worthy of remembering. Thanks!

Tribute to and RIP, K.K.

I have long thought that there’s a place in the world for a new profession: song exorcist. I think it could probably be practiced either in person or remotely.

I am purposely not reading any comments for A&J today because I don’t want to run across someone else’s least favorite earworm and have that in my head all day!

Homes bring back memories, memories bring back songs.

I hate it when I get a song or tune in my head and can’t get rid of them…

Kris will be missed.

another legend lost forever except in the words of his songs

Who would have ever thought Willie would be the last Highwayman standing? RIP Boys. This world misses you.

One of Cash’s best.

Why Me Lord?

It’s been a tough year, not just for music

and now only Willie is left, the last of the Highwaymen ….

Arlo is feeling the passing of time.

That is a great song. Kris was never really mainstream. His songs became hits for others and nobody knew or cared who wrote them.

“I took my harpoon out of my dirty red bandanna,And was blowin’ sad while Bobby sang the blues.With them windshield wipers slappin’ timeAnd Bobby clappin’ hands, we finallySang up every song that driver knew.”

You’d never know the man graduated from Pomona summa com laude and was a Rhodes Scholar.

(Deliberately misspelled the middle Latin word: GoComics has little grasp of context and other languages.)

I hope that his passing was peaceful.

For me, lately, the earworm has been “Mr. Bojangles.” Couldn’t tell you why.

At least Arlo didn’t have the theme song to George of the Jungle stuck on his mind this morning…..

Now spend the next two weeks watching KK movies.

Bet youre glad you didn’t buy that house on the coast right now.

Me, too, Arlo. Me too.

Don’t know that one off hand.

Kris Kristofferson played in my home town in 2013, my wife got to shake his hand. RIP Kris, your songs will live forever.

Kris Kristofferson was a poet.

I got up at 1:30 am today to Google alligator lizards in the air!?%

Oof. No wonder Janis sang “Me and Bobby McGee” yesterday.

Let’s not wait until our favorite artists have passed away. Honor them whilst they’re still alive to know how we feel and/or what their music has meant to us. One of my favorites singers is Grace Slick (and Jefferson Airplane).

Me too.

“I’ve had a lot of songs on my mind the past few days.”

It could also be about the increasing demise of singers and other artists integral to our youths, creators of fond memories, bits of our pasts coming to an end.

“Waking in the morning to the feeling of her fingers on my skin.Wiping out the traces of the people, and the places that I’ve been”

Our local township has (or at least had as we have not looked to see the concerts in the past 5 or so years) free summer concerts at one of the town beaches. They will have a variety of different music over the season.

One year they had Johnny Cash with June Carter Cash, their song and I think one of their daughters and maybe someone else. That was a great concert and one of the ones which stands out in my mind.

The other one which stands out was Peter Noone and a couple of the Hermits from when he was Herman’s Hermits. In the 1960s everyone was crazy for the Beatles, I was enamored of Herman (Peter) and his hermits. I finally got to see them at one of these beach concert when I was in my 40s or 50s. My husband is always upset that I don’t want anything and won’t let him buy me anything – but him finding out about and taking me to that concert was more valuable to me than anything he could have bought me.

Kris Kristofferson on their minds, I guess