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 ...

The first time I saw Kris performing at the Troubadour club in L.A. I knew he was something special,” said Barbra Streisand.

Sometimes, rock songs can top the pop charts, and these 1970s tunes prove that it's definitely possible to be a crossover ...

“Though it had been 43 years since Streisand and Kristofferson ... of his top-charting 1973 album “Jesus was a Capricorn,” even Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley were recording his songs.

Finally, the entire cast joined Kristofferson for an all-hands-on-deck “Why Me (Lord).” “The Life and Songs of Kris Kristofferson” was filmed and recorded by Blackbird Production Partners ...

Country music was never the same after the day in 1969 when Kris Kristofferson ... to which Kristofferson turned his hand seemed to come easy and that included writing evocative songs packed ...

“He picked all the songs.” Asked how he broke the news ... “There’s no better songwriter alive than Kris Kristofferson,” Nelson once said of his Highwaymen bandmate at a 2009 award ...

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 ... different songs in the same year. Kristofferson ...

Kristofferson attended Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship; that's where he first tried to launch his music career, signing with Top Rank Records under the name Kris Carson. After college ...

Kris describes songwriting as a gift. For him, songs “come from (the) soul,” he says, “because they come with music.” Born in Texas along the border with Mexico, Kristofferson grew up an ...