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"Border Lord" is probably my favorite country song of all time, and Border Lord might be my favorite Kristofferson album, although The Silver-Tongued Devil and I is in close contention. Listening to my well-loved LP, I wondered if Border Lord was finally available on CD. I absent-mindedly checked Amazon, and, although I thought it had never been released on CD, third-party vendors had an old version of the out-of-print CD - for $110. Yikes, I wonder why CBS has never reissued this album if people are presumably willing to pay that much for a CD.

I dragged the needle back to the start of side one, and the chorus "How much did you lose/ between the laughter and the tears?" stuck out at me. "What a great line," I thought. I then remembered Lou Reed's line, "Between thought and expression/ lies a lifetime" from "Some Kinds of Love." Is this just a coincidence, or are "between" constructions particularly effective in songwriting?

Nigel recently expressed skepticism about The Velvet Underground's third, self-titled album. I'd say "Some Kinds of Love" alone is worth the price of the record, which isn't to mention "Jesus" and "I'm Set Free," which got me through plenty of stressful undergraduate evenings.