A hard-drinking singer-songwriter with an outlaw spirit, Kris Kristofferson transformed the country music scene in the 1970s ...

Chart success doesn't always tell the whole story of an artist's career. Here are four country legends with only one No. 1 ...

Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar with a deft writing style and rough charisma who became a country music superstar and A-list Hollywood actor, has died. Kristofferson died at his home in Maui, ...

Television: The evening reaches its high point when Daniel O’Donnell and Shona McGarty perform the late Kris Kristofferson’s ...

Two of today's fast-rising blues-rock stars – Marcus King and Grace Bowers – recently joined forces at King's show at the ...

including “Me and Bobby McGee,” for which Mr. Foster was credited as a co-writer. (That song was originally recorded by Roger Miller, who had a Top 20 country hit with it in 1969.) Mr ...

He was out of the country shooting a film when she recorded it. More than a half-century after it was written, “Me and Bobby McGee” holds some elevated status in American song. It started ...

Kristofferson’s version was slow and cerebral, and Reba’s was fast-paced, heart-nosed, and aggressively encompassed both rock ‘n’ roll and country. Despite completely changing the song ...

Kristofferson was inducted the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2004 and the ... He performed the hits—‘Help Me,’ ‘Bobby McGee,’ and ‘Sunday Mornin’’ among them—and dug deep into ...

Kris Kristofferson didn’t just write songs like he was destined for country ... in Kristofferson’s very wise catalog. “Me and Bobby McGee” topped the Hot 100 in March 1971, less than ...

Kris Kristofferson plays at the International Festival of Country Music ... One of his most recorded songs, “Me and Bobby McGee,” was written based on a recommendation from Monument Records ...