Country Music Hater Hears Kris Kristofferson Sunday Morning Coming Down for the First Time

Watch me go from "I don't think I like this" to "This is a really good song!" in only 2 minutes.
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[@lindabrewer3243]

This guy has written hundreds of songs across several genre's. He is very intelligent as well. One of my favorites by him is, "Why Me Lord".

[@kendallcarstens9194]

Great choice. The back story behind "Why Me Lord" sets the tone for the whole song.

[@seangates1451]

“I know this feeling.” That’s the secret to good country music, in four little words.

[@tinagardner9015]

Kris was an actual Rhodes scholar and officer in the military. He wrote Janis Joplin Me and Bobby McGee and many more.

[@guyturbide6348]

🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 Another great song that you gonna hate😂😂😂 by Chris Kristofferson is 🎶Why me, Lord 🎵 Keep the good work my friend ✌️ 👍🏻 👏

[@caryskaar4444]

In case you didn't know, Kris was a Rhodes Scholar and a helo pilot in the Army.

[@bryandamkaer3646]

Kris was a favorite of mine as a kid growing up. Mom would often times find me singing a song or two of his. At 60 , I still enjoy his classics.

[@user-vu4bf7un5t]

Johnny Cash does a fantastic Job of Kris' song as well. Hearing this in Johnny's voice brings a whole different experience to an amazing song, I recommend that version as well!

[@hinsfan1]

Very much so..love both versions, but Johnny really brings it to a high

[@ellet6560]

Some Old School suggestions: 50's: Johnny Cash "I Walk the Line"; Marty Robbins "El Paso" 60's: Patsy Cline "Crazy"; Loretta Lynn "You Ain't Woman Enough to Take My Man" 70's: Waylon Jennings "Luckenbach, Texas": Kenny Rogers "The Gambler" Thanks!

[@lefty3141591]

This is a great starting list. Let me add two more decades: 80's: Don Williams "Good Ole Boys Like Me"; Randy Travis "Diggin' Up Bones" 90's: Joe Diffie "Prop Me Up Beside The Juke Box"; Diamond Rio "How Your Love Makes Me Feel" There are of course many good songs. I've tried to add some of my favorites that show different flavors of country music and maybe challenge some of the stereo types.

[@wgj4everlong426]

when Johnny Cash debuted this on his TV show the network executives said he couldn’t day stoned on the tv, someone said to say wishing lord I was home. Cash looked at Kris and Kris said that wasn’t what he was feeling when he wrote it.Cash never said what he was going to do and when he sang it looked up to the balcony where Kris was standing and emphasized the word stoned

[@757optim]

Kris is genius.

[@cathybrookeburt2616]

This is definitely more traditional & it's over 50 years old. Johnny Cash released it too & his version has a bit of a different vibe, but both are 'old country'. There is a mellowness about this song. We can all envision the story he is painting for us. Kris is a writer & written many hits for others. He was also in a group called the Highwaymen, consisting of him, Johnny, Willie & Waylon Jennings. They were all close friends. Now just him & Willie are left. He wrote & made a great version of Me & Bobby McGee. Highly recommend.

[@OldManWhiteyReacts-ij1yd]

I did a reaction to The Highwaymen doing Highwayman. It was my first 8 out of 10! I totally agree with what you said about the song. He paints a picture with clear relatable images and the whole feeling of the song is so lonely y.

[@cathybrookeburt2616]

I caught it after this one. Just discovered you.@@OldManWhiteyReacts-ij1yd

[@bre2581]

@@OldManWhiteyReacts-ij1yd Kris has one called “help me make it through the night” one of my all time favs. Also “loving her was easier”

[@gholan4272]

Enjoying your venture into Country music and appreciate that you aren’t “writing off” a genre without experiencing it for yourself. Suggestions: “Crazy” - Patsy Cline “Fancy” - Reba McEntire “Funny How Time Slips Away” - Willie Nelson “Go Rest High On That Mountain” - Vince Gill “The Breath You Take” - George Strait “Jolene” - Dolly Parton “Me Neither” - Brad Paisley

[@dewdrop7648]

When listening to Kris, its all about the WORDS. No one comes close to the emotions Kris makes you feel. Please don't poo-poo his talent. Another person to consider, is Merle Haggard, he was called the cowboy poet for a reason. I am going to really enjoy your exploration of country music. I'm old school, so I don't know much about the newer artists, so maybe I'll learn from you too!

[@seangates1451]

“Somewhere far away a lonely bell was ringing, and it echoed through the canyon like the disappearing dreams of yesterday.” That’s just great writing. Kristofferson can write a lyric like Springsteen or Dylan, a line that’s so good it almost punches your soul out of your body for a second.

[@davidjennings1771]

You need to watch this Video Whitey and also listen to Johnny Cash singing this. All Kris's songs were stories and he painted pictures you'd see in your mind. He lived his music and sang from his heart like Hank Williams did. You believed them whether happy or sad. The Amelas One

[@weslennon3425]

No one could write a song like this one, without having lived it...not had been in his shoes. This man is a US army Helicopters in Vietnam, is/was (May he rest in peace). Song writer, actor, Rhodes Scholar. He wasn''t talking about Marajuana when he said "Stoned", he meant drinking. What I like about Kris Kristofferson, not only writing, but the stoires and how they were written. You can see what he's singing or has wirtten,. Thank you.

[@maureenlacore2461]

This song epitomizes loneliness. It breaks my heart.

[@lindasmith4171]

LoL. Yes, they knew of weed! Woodstock?! Kris was there!

[@wendel5520]

Kris was a lyrical genius. He was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford with a major in English Literature. No one can put words to music like Kris. He was slated to go to west Point and teach but gave it up to become a songwriter. His family disowned him for this choice. He was a true Renaissance Man. Football star and scholar, Rhodes scholar, Army helicopter pilot, songwriter,actor

[@johncarroll9489]

So many artists and songs, where to start. George Jones, Merle Haggard, Cash. Older country, Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, the list is so long, have fun!

[@doloresburns3301]

One of my favorites is Kris's For The Good Times. Also if you're checking out country, you really must look into an a capella group who won Sing Off in 2014 called Home Free. I've never been a fan of a capella until I tumbled onto these guys during quarantine when I saw their video of Man of Constant Sorrow. I had to watch it several times to convince myself that the guy didn't actually have a harmonica hidden in his hand! They call themselves a country all vocal band and they are incredible. There are three or four groups that are pretty good, but Home Free are a cut above. They do several Johnny Cash covers i.e. Folsom Prison Blues, Ring of Fire and Elvira. They also do covers of Boyz2men End of the Road and Keith Urban's Blue Ain't Your Color in a Temptations style. Brothers in Arms is a super cover of Dire Straits piece. They will blow your socks off. They do John Mayer's In The Blood. Their arrangements are amazing since they sound like a choir sometimes. Have subbed to see if/when you are impressed with them also.

[@greggoodman3520]

I agree with this comment, except for one thing: Elvira isn't Johnny Cash's song. It's an Oak Ridge Boy's song.

[@davidjennings1771]

Greggoodman3520 is right Deloresburns3301, Elvira is the Oak Ridge Boy's song. The Home Free guys do a Cover of the song with the Oak Ridge Boy's. It's nice and the Boys's liked it too!

[@ouachitawoman]

My intro to them was Flowers on the Wall, during quarantine, and oh yes, they are amazing. I always was a Statler Brothers fan.

[@kathygann7632]

I LOVE Home Free.

[@kathygann7632]

You’re right. The thing I don’t like about country music is the obsession with alcohol. There is a saying that if you play country music backwards, your girl comes back, your dog is no longer dead, and life is fine. This song sure follows that formula.

[@deanakeefer1798]

Read Kris' biography. You will be surprised.

[@joeyhester5936]

Kris will pull you into places that you have never been, and it's amazing..

[@Urugami45]

I've loved this song for decades, but I've never heard THIS recording of it before. Thank you! And Yeah, you're going to need a couple more Country Lists.... Regular, Happy, Sad, and Comedy. To start filling in the comedy, check out Ray Stevens: Mississippi Squirrel Revival, Shriner's Convention, Guitarzan, The Streak

[@stevefoulston]

Kristoffer Kristofferson (born June 22, 1936) is an American retired country singer, songwriter, and actor. Among his song writing credits are "Me and Bobby McGee", "For the Good Times", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Night", all of which were hits for other artists. Kris Kristofferson was born in Brownsville, Texas appeared in films like Star is Born, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Blade, He's Just Not That Into You, and Planet of the Apes. Peace out.

[@maureenboychuk420]

…one of my very favourite songs

[@deloresdunbar1464]

He wrote so many songs it would be hard to count.

[@dirktully4324]

It's just plain honest to the core.

[@TheLenyon]

Lovely reaction. Happy to subscribe. Thank you

[@sandramoore]

More than "intelligent," Kris was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford in England. His father was a high ranking military officer. At some point, Kris was a Golden Gloves boxer. He was offered a position as an English professor at West Point. How pleased his parents must have been until Kris refused the offer. Kris moved to Nashville and took a job as janitor in the recording studio at Columbia Records where Johnny Cash did his recordings. Johnny apparently didn't listen until Kris (a veteran) borrowed a helicopter and landed on the lawn at Johnny's lakeside home.

[@DBShouse69]

Older country the main part of the songs is the lyrics, the music is there to accompany them. The lyrics in a great song will paint a picture in your head, because you can relate to them or see yourself in that picture, either you've been there, are there, or can see yourself going there, or maybe it's someone you know that's there and you know how they are doing. A great country song will be generic enough to impact a lot of people with enough details to really impact you. Also, back then "stoned" could also mean drunk. Try Merle Haggard "Sing Me Back Home".

[@Code9]

Oddly enough, many of Kristofferson's best writing were songs that never got any radio play but which make up some of the best stuff on his albums. Two of my favorites are "Jesus Was a Capricorn" and "Border Lord". Of course now that I've said that, a whole list of his other "unknown" songs from those albums are flooding into my mind. LOL He was such a great songwriter that there was a time when nearly every country singer in Nashville wanted to record a Kristofferson song. And, of course, many did.

[@impudentdomain]

Kristopherson used to fly helicopters for PHI while he was writing songs but before he got established. He flew my dad out to his offshore platform many times.

[@jeremiahrose4681]

Kris was a pretty good actor as well. Great song writer and underrated vocalist.

[@lauriebutler4115]

Best hangover song ever…..

[@hinsfan1]

He wrote Sunday Morning Coming Down, for Johnny Cash

[@levvellene570]

I'm not an expert, but I really love Kristofferson's 'The Silver Tongued Devil and I'! You should try that one, I think. Of course, this one was a song he got Johnny Cash to do, so most will know JC's version best. And JC kept the very controversial words for his TV version!

[@michaelclarke5153]

Well done, push them boundaries! You should try Guy Clarke or James McMurtry, IMHO...both a bit different, The Band of course, but I guess they are country/rock. Thanks for all the hard work...country ain't easy, ha

[@daveholyoak7472]

Theres a lot of Kristofferson music ( and many others ). Keep listening

[@jeremiahrose4681]

Love Cash's version of this song.

[@namparaohara9060]

Kris Kristofferson is a poet. His songs are so good. He's so good....

[@lt.spears1889]

Sounds Country to you, songs like life to a lot of us It’s the only genre left that mainly deals with real life, real joy, and real pain, and in this day and age I totally identify with…….. As Hank Williams said, “Country music is three chords and the truth”

[@jmtv1963]

This song always leaves me with a yearning feeling I can't explain.

[@beeg56]

Kristofferson was a poet who just happened to have music in his soul, too. I was 16 in 1972, the height of my angsty years, and remember listening to this over and over and over in the cocoon of my bedroom. (I def didn't have a hangover, just resonated with the plaintive sounds and emotions with which he imbued this song.) I **wasn't** a country music fan, per se, back then (or now, really) - at least not the classical country. But back then all the designations and labels of music were melding, and mixing, and merging to offer up a LOT of new sounds and choices. Kristofferson and his music was among the best of them.

[@christorrence1114]

This isn't a normal country song; the man is a poet with a genius IQ.

[@waynecheatham5894]

Country, rather older country is the one genre that actually tells a story

[@cindyphifer970]

Kris is a wonderful songwriter. Me and Bobby McGee

[@loritoigo8020]

This guy stole a helicopter and flew it up the mountain and landed in Johnny Cash's yard to give him one of his songs. Was an Army pilot and couldn't get to him. Has written so many songs for so many people. As an add on, watch him in A Star is Born with Barbara Streisand. It's gut wretching but beautiful.

[@TheFireMonkey]

There are a lot of songs I could suggest, but one of my favourite albums by Kris is "Jesus Was a Capricorn", and from that album I'd suggest "Nobody Wins" or "Out of Mind, Out of Sight" - though honestly, the whole album. Oh, I should say, while I enjoy a lot of country, I'm actually more a rock fan - kind of on the progressive and the psychedelic side. So my while I do enjoy country, my view is from outside that genre.

[@maggynewtown3500]

The alcoholic on Sunday morning. Regretting his wasted life. Such evocative lyrics. "The Sunday smell of someone frying chicken" eg.

[@markjo9626]

I have been there. This song takes me back to those horrible days. 33years sober now.

[@carolynussery8189]

How about reacting to Jim Stafford " Wildwood Flowers"... talking about getting stoned 😂😂. Also Hank Williams Jr and Kid Rock " In Country Music You Just Can't Say The F Word"😂

[@spruce381]

You got it - I know that feeling - was first thought when I heard it too. Me and Bobby McGee worth checking too. kk ain’t typical country / he’s a middle class educated scholar / who chose a different path. Improve your sound / but subscribed anyway.

[@hinsfan1]

Gotta hear ya do some Merle Haggard.." Workin Man Blues"

[@jerryactrik1901]

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes have an amazing punk cover of this

[@Newfie-zc7ug]

long before weed became mainstream ,thus "stoned".......getting really drunk was getting "stoned "....but , you'd have to ask Kris on this one......LOL

[@slucas60]

This song was a number one hit for Johnny Cash. It is more up tempo with an orchestra

[@sandramoore]

I want to recommend Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again). Pure poetry.

[@VIDSTORAGE]

The Taker by Kris Kristofferson from the album Silver Tounge Devil and I is great but make sure it is that original album version and not same possibly latter weak version. ..

[@user-fz8jv1ru4x]

You should check out Earl Thomas Conley" HOLDING HER AND LOVING YOU" or Alan Jackson " MONDAY MORNING CHURCH" TY

[@Jane-AnimalFriend]

I love Holding Her and Loving You.

[@Julia_Teeker]

Stoned = drunk … in the old days. Stoned drunk was the actual term. 😁

[@thundernels]

Oh this song is a laugh riot

[@KevinRCarr]

Willie? Yah. We always knew. 🙂

[@shanedeal2356]

Try his “Darby’s Castle”

[@theemaygoogleme151]

Kris himself admits he's a better songwriter than singer. And I wouldn't argue with a Rhodes scholar because Johnny Cash brings it in his version of this tune and it's the one most people are familiar with.

[@user-xg1rp5oj8b]

This was written when the blue laws are were still hard and fast in the south especially.

[@davisworth5114]

Please react to "My Elusive Dreams" with Glen Campbell and Tammy Wynette live.

[@joeyhester5936]

Kris was in the highwaymen

[@joeyhester5936]

Kris Kristofferson is a genius, a true genius has a higher IQ than Einstein...

[@andreasauder2855]

I have only heard Johnny Cash sing this.

[@sabrinapeters786]

Stop saying “ I didn’t expect that” when you hear something good. You are showing your prejudice! Lol

[@charlesdavis7461]

It was sad not comedy, excuse me for being rude. I'm happy you enjoyed the man who won a Rhodes Scholarship.

[@jiimmyboy63]

Colter Wall... your pick, all his songs are good. But a lot of variation. Dont write him off if you dont like one song.

[@karenwalsh1143]

YOUR ONE RULE SUCKS! When people request certain songs and they say to watch the live version, it's because they want to see your reaction to guitar playing and singing (like Chris Stapleton, he's the lead guitarist and singer) or a music video we want to see your reaction cuz your missing something!!!!! PLEASE change that rule?

[@davidjennings1771]

By all means a bad rule for any reviewer not to watch the performance. If you like Rock music and Listen to the Who only, you miss more than half the show. Watch John Entwistle, the bass player, one of the best and he plays horns too! Not so much with the Who. They put on something to see at Shepperton Studios or any live shows.

[@OldManWhiteyReacts-ij1yd]

Wow, you really feel passionate about this! A fair point though. I think I’ll make an exception for live performances. In my opinion the greatest artist are revealed in live performances. I just don’t want a good or bad music video influencing the way I view the song. So from now on if they do, I think I’ll check it out!

[@757optim]

@@OldManWhiteyReacts-ij1yd There are certainly cases where the studio version is the way to go and hearing that first let's you know how it was intended to be heard and let's you gauge the quality of the live performance. For most of us, that's how we experienced the music back in the day. Having said that, there are live performances that simply should not be missed. Perhaps your subscribers can be of some help. I'll subscribe and let's see how it goes.

[@greeneyes92061]

I agree 100%, that is why I have not subscribed. I first watched the video for the reaction to Chris Stapleton/Tennessee Whiskey. I felt deflated when there was no video. So much is missed by not watching the video. BUT I gave it a chance and listened to all videos prior to that, no video to watch on any of them. 🫤 I know at least one if not more have suggested the absolute best acapella group, Home Free. I keep hoping to see a reaction video. BUT if there is no video, there is not much point. So much of Home Free comes from the way they do their videos. You get to see their many different facets-serious, goofy, comical, sad, patriotic etc… They have collaborated with Alabama, Kenny Rogers, Lee Greenwood, and the Oak Ridge Boy. Probably more I can’t think of right now. They aren’t just country either…. Definitely missing out by not watching videos..

[@asaabrahamagulnik574]

Johnny Cash covered this

[@Bijou2013]

Kris was an Army Ranger and Rhodes Scholar. Trust me, you are completely misunderstanding his lyrics!! This is the least humorous song you'll ever hear. As a matter of fact, the poetry is absolutely heartbreaking. You may want to actually read the lyrics or get a little education before you half assed react to another beloved classic.

[@danwilliams9299]

This is the worse version of this song ive ever heard🥴 there are at least two more much btr. This was much slower then what ive heard. I think you d like it btr with a different version? Idk? But i sure do. This, for me, is just BAD. Maybe im spoiled from the one i know, but??imho.🥴🥴 dan ,, north fl. 1/08/24 good to hear you givin country a chance a. Least. Its not all- tear in my beer - music..