The late singer-songwriter’s stunt would ultimately earn him the opportunity to quit his job and become a full-time musician ...

This month's edition of Eclectic Discoveries opens your ears up to a recently discovered archival release, and freshly revealed current ones, from Power Pop to Post-Punk, Country to Americana.

Musician and film star Kris Kristofferson has died at age 88. His hit songs include "Me and Bobby McGee" and he starred in dozens of films, including "A Star Is Born", opposite Barbra Streisand.

During his time in Louisiana, Kristofferson drafted songs that would go on to be hits on the radio. While sitting on top of an oil platform, he wrote "Help Me Make It Through The Night," a 1969 ...

Kris Kristofferson, who attained success as both a groundbreaking country music singer-songwriter and a Hollywood film and TV star, died Saturday at home in Maui, Hawaii.

“Kris Kristofferson” didn’t make the songwriter a household name, but it broke into the top 50 on the Billboard 200. More importantly, it was a tectonic shift in the style of songwriting in ...

Kris Kristofferson’s pre-fame years tell a story you couldn’t make up. Born in Texas in 1936, the son of a Swedish immigrant, he got the creative writing bug early and studied it at Pomona ...

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 ...