Breakaway (Kris Kristofferson album)

Infobox Album
Name = Breakaway
Type = Album
Artist = Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge


Released = December 1974
Recorded =
Genre = Country
Length = 41:51
Label = Monument
Producer = Fred Foster
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:l2jb7i88g77r link]
Chronology = Kris Kristofferson
Last album = "Spooky Lady's Sideshow"
(1974)
This album = "Breakaway"
(1974)
Next album = "Who's to Bless and Who's to Blame"
(1975)Extra chronology 2
Artist = Rita Coolidge
Type = studio
Last album = "Fall Into Spring"
(1974)
This album = "Breakaway"
(1973)
Next album = "It's Only Love"
(1975)

"Breakaway" is the second duet album by Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge, released in 1974 on Monument Records. It is one of three duet albums by the couple. Unlike Kristofferson solo albums, it features several covers. "I've Got to Have You" and "I'd Rather Be Sorry" had both previously been hits for other artists; they appear here by Kristofferson for the first time.

Track listing

#"Lover Please" (Billy Swan) – 3:03
#"We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds" (Melba Montgomery) – 2:33
#"Dakota" (Larry Murray) – 3:06
#"What'cha Gonna Do?" (Donnie Fritts, Jon Reid) – 2:48
#"The Things I Might Have Been" (Robert B. Sherman, Richard M. Sherman) – 3:09
#"Slow Down" (Kristofferson) – 3:06
#"Rain" (Larry Gatlin) – 3:41
#"Sweet Susannah (Floyd Gib Gilbeau) – 3:19
#"I've Got to Have You" (Kristofferson) – 3:31
#"I'd Rather Be Sorry" (Kristofferson) – 3:11
#"Crippled Crow" – (Donna Weiss) 3:14

Personnel

*Kris Kristofferson - vocals
*Buddy Spicher - fiddle
*Rita Coolidge - vocals
*Bill Justis - string arrangements
*Billy Swan - background vocals
*Bobby Wood - keyboards
*Larry Gatlin - background vocals
*Harrison Calloway - horn
*Chip Young - guitar
*Gene Chrisman - drums
*Johnny Christopher - guitar
*Tommy Cogbill - bass
*Jim Colvard - guitar
*Sammy Creason - drums
*Shane Keister - Moog synthesizer
*Ronnie Eades - horn
*Ray Edenton - guitar
*Bobby Emmons - organ
*Farrell Morris - percussion
*Weldon Myrick - steel guitar
*Charles Rose - horn
*Don Sheffield - horn
*Jerry Shook - guitar
*Harvey Thompson - horn
*Mike Utley - keyboards
*Reggie Young - guitar
*Charlie McCoy - harmonica, melodica
** Strings: Martin Katahn, Byron Bach, Brenton Banks, George Binkley III, Marvin Chantry, Sheldon Kurland, Martha McCrory, Pamela Sixfin, Gary Van Osdale, Stephanie Woolf