Kris Kristofferson is one of the most celebrated songwriters in country music. A laundry list of artists across multiple genres have cut his songs over the years. That long list includes Waylon ...

These singer-songwriter songs from 1971 inspired millions, and many singer-songwriters today remain influenced by these tracks.

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies. Today we remember singer-songwriter and actor Kris Kristofferson. He died Saturday at the age of 88. He was known for his evocative songwriting. Here's a sampling. ...

In remembrance of an American legend, we’ve taken a deep dive into the vault and pulled together some mementos we collected over the course of Kris Kristofferson’s storied career. This past weekend, ...

Kris Kristofferson once flew helicopters over Louisiana's marshes and wrote hit romance songs while sitting atop oil platforms. The long-winded life story of Kristofferson, who national outlets ...

“He’s a walking contradiction, / partly truth, and partly fiction,” sang Kris Kristofferson in “The Pilgrim, Chapter 33,” one of the enduring songs he composed during his creative prime in the early ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar with a deft writing style and rough charisma who became a country music superstar and an A-list Hollywood actor, has died. Kristofferson died at ...

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. No cause of death was given, ...

Before he was an outlaw-country pioneer and a movie star, and after he was a Rhodes scholar and a helicopter pilot for the U.S. Army, the jarringly handsome young man was a janitor in Nashville, for ...

Kristofferson, who died Sept. 28, was a Rhodes Scholar and an Army Ranger before taking a chance at songwriting. "Me and Bobby McGee" is perhaps his most famous song. Originally broadcast in 1999.