 For his final Monument album, Norbert Putman replaced David Anderle in the production chair, only the third producer to work on Kristofferson’s solo albums since 1970, the other being Fred Foster.Like Bob Dylan’s 1975 album "Blood on the Tracks", "To the Bone" was a deeply personal album that explored the disillusion and heartache in the wake of a disintegrated relationship – specifically Kristofferson’s failed marriage with ex-wife Coolidge.By all accounts, the ending had been a bitter one; "Heaven’s Gate" co-star Ronnie Hawkins remembers that while on the set “Rita had lawyers up there suing him – so he had to have meetings regarding all that stuff as well as all the other stuff that was going wrong in his life.” In his assessment of the album, biographer Stephen Miller writes