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Photos by Rob Grabowski
Two giants of country graced the stage of the Rosemont Theatre last Sunday
night. Merle Haggard and Kris Kristofferson are two of county music's
greatest legends - dead or alive. Kristofferson peels away the protective
gloss on human emotions that many would prefer not to deal with and
exopses a stark and beautiful nerve. Haggard makes his music a biopic on
his own life...the wrong roads taken, the loves lost and the fleeting
moments of happiness and the long days of sadness.
The two traded lyrics and chemistry on songs "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down"
(a song that Kristofferson wrote and Johnny Cash later made famous), "From
Here to Forever," "Why Me," "Runaway Mama," Haggard's famous "Okie From
Muskogee," "Shipwrecked in the Eighties," "Workin" "Man Blues," "Pretty When
It's New," and "I Take A Lot of Pride In What I Am." The final song was a
simple and harrowing duet of "Anthem '84" (written by Kristofferson and
sung by Johnny Cash during their stint together with the Highwaymen in the
early '90s).
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