Breakaway (Remaster) Kris Kristofferson & Rita Coolidge

• 1Lover Please03:03
• 2We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds03:17
• 3Dakota (The Dancing Bear)03:05
• 4What'cha Gonna Do02:46
• 5The Things I Might Have Been03:08
• 6Slow Down03:05
• 7Rain03:40
• 8Sweet Susannah02:32
• 9I've Got to Have You03:29
• 10I'd Rather Be Sorry03:10
• 11Crippled Crow03:14
• Total Runtime34:29

Info for Breakaway (Remaster)

„The success of Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge's first duo album, Full Moon, which topped the country charts, went gold, and won a Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group for the track 'From the Bottle to the Bottom,' whetted appetites for its follow-up, Breakaway. But just as Kristofferson's solo album Spooky Lady's Sideshow, released earlier in 1974, had been a commercial disappointment following the popularity of its predecessor, Jesus Was a Capricorn, so Breakaway failed to match the impression Full Moon had made. That may have been in part because Monument Records, which released the album (Full Moon had been on Coolidge's label, A&M), was treating Kristofferson as an established artist who didn't need a lot of promotion, and in part because Breakaway was the seventh new Kristofferson album released within four-and-a-half years, too much product for the market to absorb. In any case, the album was a worthy successor to Full Moon. The Kristofferson/Coolidge albums were very different from each artist's solo albums, though somewhat closer to Coolidge's because they consisted largely of cover songs and the keys were set to her voice, with Kristofferson singing at the upper edge of his narrow range. This forced him to work harder and sing more, which made him a better vocalist than he usually was on his own albums. He tended to take brief vacations from songwriting for their sessions of love songs, but this album was sparked by two of his old songs, neither of which he had previously recorded, though they had been hits for others. 'I'd Rather Be Sorry' was a country hit for Ray Price in 1971 and 'I've Got to Have You' for Sammi Smith in 1972. (There is also an effective version of the latter on Carly Simon's second album, 1971's Anticipation.) The husband-and-wife team handled these songs well, making you wish they would tackle an entire album of Kristofferson love songs. But the tracks that garnered the most attention were their revival of the old Clyde McPhatter hit 'Lover Please' (written by Kristofferson sideman Billy Swan), which reached the easy listening charts as a single and won the duo a second Grammy, and their version of Larry Gatlin's 'Rain,' a country and easy listening chart entry. Those semi-hits were enough to get the album into the country top five and the Top 100 of the pop charts, but like Kristofferson's solo recording career, his teaming with his wife had passed its commercial peak.“ (William Ruhlmann, AMG)

Kris Kristofferson, vocals
Rita Coolidge, vocals
Buddy Spicher, fiddle
Bill Justis, string arrangements
Billy Swan, background vocals
Bobby Wood, keyboards
Larry Gatlin, background vocals
Harrison Calloway, horn
Chip Young, guitar
Gene Chrisman, drums
Johnny Christopher, guitar
Tommy Cogbill, bass
Jim Colvard, guitar
Sammy Creason, drums
Shane Keister, Moog synthesizer
Ronnie Eades, horn
Ray Edenton, guitar
Bobby Emmons, organ
Farrell Morris, percussion
Weldon Myrick, steel guitar
Charles Rose, horn
Don Sheffield, horn
Jerry Shook, guitar
Harvey Thompson, horn
Mike Utley, keyboards
Reggie Young, guitar
Charlie McCoy, harmonica, melodica

Produced by Fred Foster

Digitally remastered

Kristoffer "Kris" Kristofferson
(born June 22, 1936) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, actor, and former soldier. He is known for writing and recording such hits as "Me and Bobby McGee", "For the Good Times", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down" and "Help Me Make It Through the Night". Kristofferson is the sole writer of most of his songs, and he has collaborated with various other figures of the Nashville scene such as Shel Silverstein. In 1985, Kristofferson joined fellow country artists Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash in forming the country music supergroup, The Highwaymen. In 2004, Kristofferson was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. He is also known for his acting work, including starring roles in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and A Star Is Born, the latter for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.

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