Here's my favorite thing he ever did -- a really cool song he performed live on the soundtrack to Celebration at Big Sur, an otherwise not so wonderful concert film from 1970.
Apart from just being a great lyrical narrative (almost a short story in song, actually), the thing that really gets me about that (and has since I first heard it on a free promo copy at my college newspaper, courtesy of the easily duped people at Ode Records), is the lead guitar work.
If those licks sounds familiar to you, it's because they should -- they're the distinctive and easily recognizable work of the Lovin' Spoonful's great Zal Yanovsky, who was then toiling in Kristofferson's touring band.
Oh, and I know this is perhaps not the way Kris would have liked his cinematic career to be remembered, but here's a very good -- complete -- print of him in Millenium (co-starring Cheryl Ladd!), which is my all-time favorite cheesy sci-fi flick of the '80s.
Trust me, you'll enjoy it.
