Many of his songs are better known by other singers’ interpretations, like Janis Joplin’s “Me and Bobby McGee,” Johnny Cash’s “Sunday Morning Coming Down” and more.

They wanted to hear the song, and what it meant ... I never wrote that for a girl to sing,” he revealed. “But Janis [Joplin], I can’t do it without thinking of her.

Grammy-winning singer and actor Kris Kristofferson has been remembered as an “inspiration” who left a “resounding legacy” ...

Within four months of her tragic death from a heroin overdose, Janis Joplin ... For most listeners, Joplin’s recording is the first they heard and the only one worth hearing. Which is fitting, given ...

"It's a very vulnerable position you're in when you're a songwriter singing your own songs." Maybe he didn't like singing them, but others sure did, most famously, Janis Joplin. It wasn't until ...

Music legend Kris Kristofferson who is remembered as an artist, singer, songwriter, actor and activist, passed away ...

“He later admitted that Janis Joplin, his lover for a brief period, was an inspiration for the song’s heroine, the narrator’s hitchhiking buddy who was game for anything. Joplin sang the ...

You didn’t know the former helicopter pilot and Rhodes scholar had written “Me and Bobby McGee,” which Janis Joplin had turned into her signature song. Or “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down,” which he gave ...

Kristofferson with his second wife Rita Coolidge in 1972 Credit: Gijsbert Hanekroot The song later became a hit for Janis Joplin, who had grown up in Port Arthur, several hundred miles along the ...

Nick Gravenites, the blues singer and guitarist for The Electric Flag and songwriter for Janis Joplin ... He also wrote hit songs for Joplin and a list of musicians including Pure Prairie League ...

His most famous songs included ‘Me and Bobby McGee ... He had dated doomed blues star Janis Joplin, and her death from drugs and alcohol in October 1970 aged just 27 hit him badly.

Kristofferson 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." ...