Listen to Kris Kristofferson’s 2009 & 2013 Daytrotter Sessions

The world lost a giant of the music world this past weekend when Kris Kristofferson died at his home at the age of 88 after a career of unvarnished truth-telling. Kristofferson twice came by to record Daytrotter sessions, first in 2009 at Swing House in Los Angeles, and then again at Big Light Studio in Nashville four years later.

“Kris Kristofferson, for as long as the world’s known him, has been reflective, prying open his heart at its stitches and pulling apart the protective casing surrounding the vaporous and mystical soul that’s been ever-important to the Texan, and just giving them air, staring into the holes and getting drowsy on what they’re each telling him silently,” Daytrotter’s Sean Moeller wrote at the time.

Kristofferson started his first session with a “Sister Sinéad,” a lovely tribute to fellow music legend Sinéad O’Connor.

He returned for another session in 2013, this time in Nashville. “The soul, to which Kristofferson addresses the majority of his concerns is still something that he will be figuring out, trying to demystify until the very day of his final ache, his final breath and the last fading dream,” Moeller wrote about him after recording the four-song set, which included another tribute, this time “Ramblin’ Jack” about Cowboy Jack Clement.

If anyone out there is looking for a songwriting prompt, we’d might humbly suggest Kristofferson’s rich life and career is plenty ripe for other musicians to write a tribute or two.