Kris Kristofferson will release 'Feeling Mortal' on Jan. 29

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Legendary country star Kris Kristofferson will release his first collection of new material in four years, "Feeling Mortal," on Jan. 29, 2013.

Kristofferson is a Country Music Hall of Famer who ranks among the most versatile of American talents. He’s been a Golden Gloves boxer, a Rhodes scholar, a college football player, an acclaimed actor, a military officer, a helicopter pilot, a Grammy-winner, and an icon. "Feeling Mortal" is produced by Don Was, and is part of a twilight years trilogy, which follows 2009's "Closer to the Bone" and 2006's "This Old Road."

"Going back to the beginning, the songs have been reflections of where I was at that point in my life," Kristofferson says in a press release. "I always try to be as honest as I can in the songwriting, otherwise there’s no point in doing it: I might as well be doing an advertising job or something. And what I'm finding, to my pleasant surprise at this age, is that I'm more inclined to laughter than tears. I hope I'll feel this creative and this grateful until they throw dirt over me."

The now 76-year-old Kristofferson did not always imagine this would be so. "If I look like a mean old man, that's what I am,” he sang, back when he was still immortal and when he was sometimes a mean-feeling younger man. But now he's mostly truthful and thankful, as he sings, "For the laughter and the loving/ That I'm living with today."

Feeling Mortal Track List:

1. Feeling Mortal

2. Mama Stewart

3. Bread For The Body

4. You Don t Tell Me What To Do

5. Stairway To The Bottom

6. Just Suppose

7. Castaway

8. My Heart Was The Last One To Know

9. The One You Chose

10. Ramblin Jack

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