Many of his songs are better known by other singers’ interpretations, like Janis Joplin’s “Me and Bobby ... is a compilation of some of the best of those covers, from artists as varied ...

Kristofferson, who died Sept. 28, was a Rhodes Scholar and an Army Ranger before taking a chance at songwriting. "Me and Bobby McGee" is perhaps his most famous song. Originally broadcast in 1999.

In 2006, the late Kris Kristofferson released an acclaimed new album, This Old Road, and spoke to writer Paul Sexton frankly ...

Kris was a singer himself, but many of his songs were best known as performed by others, whether Ray Price crooning For the Good Times or Janis Joplin belting out Me and Bobby McGee. Kris ...

Kris Kristofferson was a successful singer-songwriter and actor, but there's some popular timeless hits across several ...

Johnny Cash, Janis Joplin, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Willie Nelson and many, many more enjoyed great success from Kristofferson's penmanship. "I don't think of songs in terms of hits.

Too often, hastily compiled collections of unfinished demos or songs the artists themselves ... More polished than any of Janis Joplin’s previous releases, 1971’s Pearl still crackles with ...

In fact he thought of himself first and foremost as a writer, and in songs like The Pilgrim (1971 ... Gijsbert Hanekroot The song later became a hit for Janis Joplin, who had grown up in Port ...

US country music star and A Star Is Born favourite Kris Kristofferson died peacefully at his home in Maui, Hawaii, on ...

Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar with a deft writing style and rough charisma who became a country music superstar and ...

More than 50 years ago, Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar equally drawn to the words of William Blake and Hank Williams, ...