Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, will celebrate the 80th birthday of American music legend Kris Kristofferson with the release of The Complete Monument & Columbia Album Collection, a 16 CD deluxe box set, on Friday, June 10th.

The most comprehensive Kris Kristofferson musical library ever assembled, The Complete Monument & Columbia Album Collection brings together 11 essential studio albums, recorded by the artist from 1970 through 1981, individually packaged in a facsimile sleeve reproducing the original album artwork. In addition, the boxed set includes five bonus discs of unreleased and hard-to-find live and studio material drawn from Kristofferson’s extraordinary golden era with the Monument and Columbia Records labels. Bonus material includes three highly-collectible concert recordings (two of them previously unreleased) from 1970-1972 and two full discs of rarities featuring non-LP singles, studio outtakes, rare appearances, previously unavailable demos and more.

The Complete Monument & Columbia Album Collection box set includes a deluxe booklet featuring essays and liner notes penned especially for this anthology: 1) an introduction to Kristofferson written by Fred Foster, the visionary founder of Monument Records who signed Kris as a songwriter to Combine Music and a recording artist for Monument, who released his debut album in 1970; 2) an aesthetic appreciation of the artist–“Kris Kristofferson True American Hero””–by famed musician/producer Don Was; and 3) a revelatory and insightful portrait of Kris Kristofferson and his music from acclaimed American writer and journalist Mikal Gilmore.

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Kris Kristofferson – The Complete Monument & Columbia Album Collection

  • Kris Kristofferson
  • The Complete Monument & Columbia Album Collection
  • Kristofferson (Monument, 1970)
  • The Silver Tongued Devil and I (Monument, 1971)
  • Border Lord (Monument, 1972)
  • Jesus Was a Capricorn (Monument, 1972)
  • Spooky Lady’s Sideshow (Monument, 1974)
  • Breakaway—Kris Kristofferson & Rita Coolidge (Monument, 1974)
  • Who’s To Bless…and Who’s To Blame (Monument, 1975)
  • Surreal Thing (Monument, 1976)
  • Easter Island (Monument/Columbia, 1978)
  • Shake Hands With The Devil (Monument/Columbia, 1979)
  • To The Bone (Monument/Columbia, 1981)

Bonus Discs

  • Live At The Big Sur Folk Festival (recorded 1970, previously unreleased)
  • The WPLJ-FM Broadcast (recorded 1972, previously unreleased)
  • Live At The Philharmonic (recorded 1972/released 1992)
  • Extras (previously released non-LP singles, outtakes and appearances)
  • Demos (previously unreleased)