After blowing away country, rock and folk audiences with his first two albums, Kris Kristofferson solidified his status as an outlaw-country pioneer with Border Lord. Reflective tunes like "Burden of Freedom" and "Somebody Nobody Knows" pick up where The Silver Tongued Devil and I left off, while tracks like the rollicking stoner anthem "Gettin' By, High and Strange" seem to revel with fresh lustre in Kristofferson’s maverick bad-boy image.