Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Brenda Lee

• The Winning Hand [Monument, 1982] B-

See Also:

• Merle Haggard/Willie Nelson
• Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson
• Kris Kristofferson
• Kris & Rita
• Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge
• Loretta/Dolly/Tammy
• Willie Nelson
• Willie Nelson & Asleep at the Wheel
• Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard
• Willie Nelson/Merle Haggard/Ray Price
• Willie Nelson with Waylon Jennings
• Willie Nelson/Wynton Marsalis
• Willie Nelson & Roger Miller
• Willie Nelson and the Offenders
• Willie Nelson & Webb Pierce
• Willie Nelson & Ray Price
• Willie Nelson & Leon Russell
• Willie Nelson and Sister Bobbie
• Willie Nelson & Hank Snow
• Dolly Parton
• Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris
• Streisand/Kristofferson
• Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton
• merge all

Consumer Guide Reviews:

The Winning Hand [Monument, 1982]
This twenty-song mix-and-match isn't even monumental in theory, because two of these "kings and queens of country music" haven't earned their crowns--BL is a rock and roll princess who never really graduated, KK a frog ditto. But BL is also a pleasing bedroom-voiced journeywoman who turns in half of a surprisingly definitive "You're Gonna Love Yourself in the Morning." The other half comes from WN, who's on nine cuts and sounds like he's thinking even when he also sounds like he's asleep. DP teams with WN on a surprisingly definitive "Everything's Beautiful in Its Own Way," but sounds more at home on the album's two utter unlistenables--"Ping Pong," in which DP at her cutesiest is outdone by KK at his klutziest, and "Put It Off Until Tomorrow," in which DP kisses KK's warty little head and he croaks back. B-