Kris Kristofferson ... wearisome 1972 tune “Why Me”, which topped the US country charts. Alongside a successful music career, ...

Kris Kristofferson, who died Sunday at the age of 88, was truly one of the greatest songwriters of the past 60 years. No less an eminence than Bob Dylan said of him, "You can look at Nashville pre ...

Kristofferson relocated to Nashville in 1965 and, soon after, famously landed a helicopter on Johnny Cash's front lawn to hand-deliver a song, "Sunday Mornin' Coming Down;" although Cash was not ...

Country music was never the same after the day in 1969 when Kris Kristofferson landed his ... 1972’s Jesus Was A Capricorn – which included “Why Me”, his biggest hit as a solo recording ...

When Bob Dylan was honored in 2015 as the MusiCares Person of The Year ceremony in Los Angeles, he paid tribute to fellow music icon Kris Kristofferson ... Down,” “Why Me Lord, and ...

Few songwriters have had as profound an effect on country music as Kris Kristofferson. His chart-topping hits of the late 1960s and early 1970s – “Me and Bobby McGee,” “Sunday Morning ...