The last timeKris Kristoffersonever performed in public, he was paying tribute to a friend.
(In anessay forRolling Stone, Cash wrote about the power of Kristoffersons performance that night.)
Loving Her Was Easier is a song about the way regret shapes memory and memory shapes regret.
Kris Kristofferson performed a pair of duets in 2023 at Willie Nelson’s 90th birthday concerts, including one with Rosanne Cash.Joshua Timmermans | Noble Vision*
It is, perhaps, the most affecting depiction of the one-that-got-away repentance in popular music.
But on this night in April 2023, Cash transforms the song.
This was not the final time Kristofferson sang one of his songs in public.
