HANDSOME MAN BLUES: WAVING ADIOS TO KRIS KRISTOFFERSON
Notes on an American icon (who I grew up observing).
Waking up to the news that Kris Kristofferson has died at the age of 88 wasn’t a surprise: the Texan born singer, songwriter and actor had been in declining health for several years. Not cancer or heart failure but, punishingly for such an articulate and intelligent man, a disease that wasted his mind (Alzheimers or something akin to it).
This noted, I’l…