Border Lord is the third album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by Kris Kristofferson

Kris Kristofferson

Kristoffer "Kris" Kristofferson is an American musician, actor, and writer. He is known for hits such as "Me and Bobby McGee", "For the Good Times", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Night"...

, released in 1972 on Monument Records

Monument Records

Monument Records was an American record label, Washington, D.C. named for the Washington Monument, founded in 1958, by Fred Foster and Buddy Deane . Buddy Deane soon left the company, and in the early 60's bought KOTN in Pine Bluff, Arkansas where he retired to until his death...

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Track listing

All songs by Kris Kristofferson except as noted

1. "Josie" – 3:12
2. "Burden of Freedom" – 3:22
3. "Stagger Mountain Tragedy" – 2:53
4. "Border Lord" (Stephen Bruton
   Stephen Bruton
   -Background:Born in Wilmington, Delaware as Turner Stephen Bruton, he moved with his family to Texas at the age of two. He fell into the Fort Worth music scene after graduating from Texas Christian University when he joined Kris Kristofferson's band as the latter's career was about to take off;...
   
   , Donnie Fritts
   Donnie Fritts
   Donnie Fritts is an American session musician and songwriter. A recording artist in his own right, he has been Kris Kristofferson's keyboard player for over twenty years...
   
   , Terry Paul, Kristofferson) – 3:38
5. "Somebody Nobody Knows" – 3:36
6. "Little Girl Lost" – 3:10
7. "Smokey Put the Sweat on Me" – 3:10
8. "When She's Wrong" – 4:47
9. "Gettin' by, High and Strange" – 2:37
10. "Kiss the World Goodbye" – 3:01

Personnel

• Kris Kristofferson - vocals, guitar
• Rita Coolidge
  Rita Coolidge
  Rita Coolidge is a multiple Grammy Award-winning American vocalist. During the 1970s and 1980s, she charted hits on Billboard's Pop, Country, Adult Contemporary and Jazz charts.-Career:...
  
   - vocals
• Pete Drake
  Pete Drake
  Pete Drake , born Roddis Franklin Drake, was a major Nashville, Tennessee-based record producer and pedal steel guitar player....
  
   - steel guitar
• Donnie Fritts
  Donnie Fritts
  Donnie Fritts is an American session musician and songwriter. A recording artist in his own right, he has been Kris Kristofferson's keyboard player for over twenty years...
  
   - keyboards, background vocals
• Dennis Linde
  Dennis Linde
  Dennis Linde was an American singer and songwriter whose work was primarily in country musicHe is best known for writing the 1972 Elvis Presley hit, "Burning Love"...
  
   - guitar
• Billy Swan
  Billy Swan
  Billy Lance Swan is an American songwriter and singer, best known for his 1974 single, "I Can Help".-Life:Swan was born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. As a child, he learned drums, piano and guitar, and began writing songs...
  
   - bass, background vocals
• Turner Stephen Bruton - guitar, background vocals
• Kenneth A. Buttrey - drums
• Jerry Carrigan
  Jerry Carrigan
  Jerry Carrigan is an American drummer and record producer born 13 September 1943 in Florence, Alabama. He first achieved widespread recognition by being part of the first wave of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section and later as a session musician in Nashville, Tennessee for over 3 decades...
  
   - drums
• Tommy Jackson - fiddle
• Jerry Kennedy - guitar
• Farrell Morris - percussion
• Terry Paul - bass, background vocals
• Jerry Shook - guitar
• Benny Whitehead - background vocals
• John "Bucky" Wilkin - guitar
• Charlie McCoy
  Charlie McCoy
  Charles "Charlie" Ray McCoy is an American musician noted for his harmonica playing. In his career, McCoy has backed several notable musicians including Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Tom Astor, Elvis Presley and Ween. He has also recorded thirty-seven studio albums, including fourteen for Monument Records...
  
   - harmonica, keyboards

Cultural references

In the video game Bad Company, upon facing a difficult situation one of the player character's squad members asks if "Is this as bad as Kris Kristofferson's third album?" upon which another squad member replies affirmatively, referring to Border Lord. The exact quote:
Sweetwater: "This is bad, Hags. Whatever you've done, it's worse."
Haggard: "Worse than Kris Kristofferson's third album?"
Sweetwater: "Bad, worse!"
Haggard: "No WAY!"