Kris Kristofferson Tribute ( Waylon Jennigs , Ray Price, Willie Nelson and more )

[Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] in the mid-60s by most standards chris christophson was a successful man he was a rhodes scholar he was a pilot he was a professor at west point or he could have been he could have been professor west point but he gave all of that up to write songs in 1965 he moved to nashville and he was here to pitch songs and went to work as a night janitor and he joined a new generation of renegade songwriters who challenged the conservative country music establishment and here are just some of the songs that chris christopherson has given us through the years ladies and gentlemen mr ray price [Music] [Applause] [Music] don't look so sad i know it's over but life goes on and this old world will keep on turning [Music] let's just be glad we had some time to spend together there's no need to watch the bridges that we're burning lay your hands up on my pillow hold your warm and tender body close to mine hear the whisper of the raindrops blowing song against the window and make me believe you love me one more time for the good times [Music] i'll get along you'll find another and i'll be here if you should find you ever need me don't say a word about tomorrow or forever [Music] when you leave me [Music] lay your hands [Music] close to mine [Music] hear the whisper of the raindrops blowing soft against the window [Music] and make me believe you love me one more time [Music] for the good times [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] i'm real happy to be a part of this the first roger miller songwriter award and i'm also really happy that i got to regard some of chris christopherson's hit songs i just wish he'd given me a shot at this classic help me make it through the night here's my old buddy waylon jennings [Music] take the ribbon from your head shake it loose and let it [Music] like the shadows on the wall a man lay down by myself till the early morning all i'm taking is your time [Music] help me make it blue tonight i don't care what's right or wrong [Music] i won't try to understand let the devil take tomorrow [Music] yesterday is and tomorrow's [Music] helping me up it through the [Music] [Applause] the night you know i probably should have recorded a lot more of chris's songs through the years but some people beat me out of the running middle millsap if i can say it when you order my mail you never can talk when ronnie milsap beat me out of a number one song when he did please don't tell me how the story ends and right now here's a lady to tell you the other side of the story ladies and gentlemen tanya good looking tucker this could be our last good night together [Music] we may never pass this way again [Music] just let me enjoy it till it's over or forever please don't tell me how to stop see the way our shadows come together softer than your fingers on my skin [Music] someday these may be all we remember of each other please don't tell me how the story [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] so let me go on loving and believing [Music] till it's over don't tell me [Music] don't you tell me that's a toughie you know whenever i'm out somewhere and someone asked me to sing with a strange man well i always sing a chris christopherson song you know what i believe roger miller was the first to record this classic christopherson song me and bobby mcgee and wait too till you hear this gal sing it here's my buddy shelby lynn [Applause] [Applause] across the flat baton rouge waiting for a train feeling nearly faded as my jeans bobby thumbed a diesel down just before it rained took us all the way to new orleans well i pulled my harpoon from my dirty red bandanna i was playing softball barbie sing the blues [Music] [Music] freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose nothing ain't worth nothing law but it's [Music] feeling good was free enough for me [Applause] [Music] not good enough for me and my bobby maggie all right [Music] i'm from the kentucky coal mines to the california song and bobby share the secrets of my soul and through all kinds of weather through everything we've done yeah [Music] he was looking for that home and i hope he finds [Music] is nothing to [Music] [Music] feeling good lose good enough for me [Music] good enough for me they're good enough for me [Music] la la la thank you i feel real lucky to be a part of this award tribute to chris i've been listening to his music and singing his songs all my life and now i get to introduce another hall of famer songwriter and someone i'm proud to call my good good friend with loving her was easier than anything i'll ever do again here's willie nelson i have seen the morning burning in the sky aching with a feeling and the freedom of an eagle when she flies [Music] turning all my world away she smiles upon my soul as i lay dying healing has the colors in the sunshine the shadows of her eyes waking in the morning [Music] to the feeling of her fingers on my skin wiping out the traces of the people and places that i've been teaching me that yesterday was something that i never thought of trying [Music] talking off tomorrow the money love and time we will have to spend [Music] loving her was easier than anything i'll ever do again [Music] coming close together with a feeling that i've never known before in my time [Music] it's been ashamed to be a woman she's not afraid to be a friend [Music] and dreaming is as easy [Music] as believing it was never gonna end [Music] loving her was easier than anything i'll ever do again [Music] so [Music] a feeling that i've [Music] she's not afraid to be a friend [Music] and dreaming this is easy just believing that it's never gonna end but it was easier than anything i'll ever do again [Music] what they heard was easier than anything i'll ever do [Music] again thank you you know this year marks the 25th anniversary of chris's first songwriting award when sunday morning came down coming down was named cma song of the year congratulations from all your friends here and now it's our pleasure to bring out someone very special to all of us and special to you in the 1970s mary arnold was a member of the first edition with kenny rogers and it was then that she met and married roger miller made me awful mad she remains a special part of the songwriting community ladies and gentlemen mrs roger miller [Applause] [Music] thank you chris would you come up here with us uh this is the music city news country songwriters award the roger miller songwriters award presented to chris christopherson [Applause] [Music] and this is the roger miller songwriters award in memory of roger miller's songwriter to chris christopherson songwriter to recognize your place beside roger in the select circle of songwriting greats who have changed the course of country music roger once said to write something is to lift someone's spirits he would be so proud of you tonight [Applause] thank you mary thank you so much i'm so glad you didn't give it to willy or somebody else oh man it's it it's a very humbling experience to stand up here and uh and to uh to to be with a bunch of of uh heroes that turned into friends and uh and old friends it turned into heroes around here and and it's uh got it just flooding me with memories and uh i couldn't begin to to thank all the people that i'm supposed to that i would like to because nashville was so important to me it saved my life and and people like mary john wilkin and and bob beckham and cab midnight and johnny daryl and cowboy jack clement and uh and uh and a bunch of people like harlan howard who had in common a fierce love and respect for country music songwriting and songwriters and i'm i'm just so proud to be acknowledged now we all feel that songwriting is a craft but talent comes from somewhere else chris you wrote a song one time that expresses some of all of our feelings and i think everybody would like to hear some of those thoughts so could we have you do why me and if you'll let us we'll be the most expensive group of backup singers you'll ever have why me lord what have i ever done deserve even one of the pleasures i've known [Music] tell me lord what did i ever do [Music] that was worth loving you for the kindness you've shown lord help me jesus i'm wasting so healthy jesus [Music] help me really try me lord if you think there is a way i can try to repay all i've taken from you [Music] maybe lord i can show someone else what i've been through myself on my way [Music] [Applause] back [Music] [Music] but now that i know [Music] jesus my soul's in your [Applause] hands oh you

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Length: 26min 52sec (1612 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 02 2020