Closer to the Bone

Closer to the Bone is the twentieth studio album by Kris Kristofferson. The album was released in the UK on September 28, 2009,^[3] and in the US on September 29, 2009^[1] on the New West record label.^[9]

ReleasedSeptember 28, 2009 (2009-09-28)

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LanguageEnglish

LabelNew West

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Closer to the Bone
Studio album by Kris Kristofferson
Released	September 28, 2009 (2009-09-28)
Genre	Country
Language	English
Label	New West
Producer	Don Was
Kris Kristofferson chronology
This Old Road (2006) Closer to the Bone (2009) Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends: The Publishing Demos (2010)

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Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
American Songwriter	[2]
BBC	(favorable)[3]
No Depression	(favorable)[4]
Now	[5]
Rolling Stone	[6]
Engine 145	[7]
Uncut	[8]

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Kristofferson has said: ''Closer to the Bone is a reflective album. It's about making sense of life at this end of the game."^[10] It was originally entitled Starlight and Stone, but Kristofferson changed it to Closer to the Bone as he felt like it was more descriptive of the meaning of the album: "...the closer to the bone you are and the closer to the truth."^[11]

The song, "Good Morning John" was written in the 1970s and is about Johnny Cash.^[12] Kristofferson wrote "Sister Sinead" as a tribute to Sinéad O'Connor. The album is dedicated to Stephen Bruton.