Remembering singer, songwriter and actor Kris Kristofferson Kristofferson, who died Sept. 28, was a Rhodes Scholar and an Army Ranger before taking a chance at songwriting. GROSS: Well, I'd like to close with another song from your new CD, "The Austin Sessions." His new CD, "The Austin Sessions," features new versions of his best-known songs, including the song that's quoted …
US actor and singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson has died aged 88. Kristofferson, who was from Texas, was known for many songs including Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down, Help 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 were best known when performed by others, whether Ray …
He disliked being called a poet and thought, more or less accurately, that he sang like a barking bullfrog, but Kris Kristofferson did more to change country music than a legion of golden-throated balladeers. “Because he changed everything.” Meticulously crafting songs that were mournful and fatalistic without being mawkish, Kristofferson invited listeners to share the regrets of a man who …
