Word: kris
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...English one-man music industry whose songs range panoramically from country rock to blues. Leon Russell, the presiding master of gospel rock, invokes the Lord Jesus with piano playing that has a touch of Fatha Hines and a voice that has a touch of bayou frog. Nashville's Kris Kristofferson, an ex-Rhodes scholar, sings bluntly sensual protest songs that have made him the most controversial country songwriter-singer of the day. Van Morrison, an Irishman late of Them, flavors his blues-gospel-folk broth with a salty pinch of jazz. In the wings are two virescent newcomers...
...singer. In contrast to the blowsy, brassy backing of three earlier LPs, she is supported this time by the Full Tilt Boogie Band, a tightly knit combo dominated by Richard Bell's superb piano. Never before did she exercise such control over her voice. To hear her build Kris Kristofferson's country blues ballad, Me & Bobby McGee, from tree-shaded quiet into high-noon bustle is to know that pacing and nuance are not just the property of lieder singers. The familiar full-throated Joplin warbling is still present-in Cry Baby and My Baby. But the final...
...Kris Johnson, 23, an electronics technician in Redmond, Wash., is working only four days a week now, and his income has dropped 15%. He and his wife have given up moviegoing in favor of getting together with friends for beer and popcorn, and the Johnsons are growing a vegetable garden to cut food bills. Johnson gave his wife a choice of giving up either bowling or driving to reduce expenses; she chose to continue bowling, so last week he sold the family's 1966 Galaxie, keeping a 1962 Buick. "I think this is the time to liquidate whatever...