Today’s Song of the Day is “Shipwrecked in the Eighties” by Kris Kristofferson.
It’s late again, but I spent the day without a laptop. The cool part was that I got to watch a bunch of songwriter’s perform in Nashville for most of the day, so I’m not complaining.
Kris Kristofferson is probably my favorite songwriter; I honestly could pick a song of the day from him every day until I ran through his entire catalog. But this one is special to me. I was born in the eighties, so it’s not the timeframe, but I can certainly can identify with the sense of being shipwrecked in a time period—not fitting in, barely surviving, and not sure where to turn for help.
My story for this song involved seeing Kris Kristofferson play live at Summer Fest in Wisconsin. I worried I would never get a chance to see him live, so I was mostly happy about getting to see him perform at all—but he led his set with this song, and it made it all the more special.
Check it out if you haven’t heard it!
