Few songwriters have had as profound an effect on country music as Kris Kristofferson. His chart-topping hits of the late 1960s and early 1970s – “Me and Bobby McGee,” “Sunday Morning ...

Dolly Parton might not have been in the outlaw country movement, but these three songs prove that she could have.

L OS ANGELES – Kris Kristofferson, the ragged country music star who wrote “Me and Bobby McGee” and “Help Me Make It Through the Night” and later found fame as a leading man in such ...

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 Kristofferson ... like “Me and Bobby McGee ...

Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar with ... Me Make it Through the Night,” “For the Good Times” and “Me and Bobby McGee.” Kristofferson was a singer himself, but many of his songs ...

Kris Kristofferson ... his compositions like “Help Me Make It Through the Night” (Sammi Smith), “For the Good Times” (Ray Price), and “Me and Bobby McGee” (Janis Joplin) into radio ...