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Few artists have legacies so mammoth their very name could be considered synonymous with the music industry, but then again, ...

Nelson laughs into the phone, "I don't know. I hope there's a few more." Maybe he'll hit 200? "Why not!" “Last Leaf on the ...

Willie Nelson released his 153rd album this week. John Spong has listened to all of them, reviewing and ranking them for Texas Monthly.

During a recent concert in New York, Marcus King, Brittany Spencer, and Grace Powers closed the show with a Kris ...

His hit songs include "Me and Bobby McGee" and he starred in dozens of films,... Kris Kristofferson, musical rebel and movie star, has died at age 88 Kris Kristofferson, who wrote indelible songs ...

A hard-drinking singer-songwriter with an outlaw spirit, Kris Kristofferson transformed ... "Maybe she's crazy, maybe she ain't," he wrote in his song "Sister Sinéad", "but so was Picasso ...

From the outside looking in, Kris Kristofferson ... “At the end of the song, he stood beaming his own light back into the spotlight and basked in the applause,” Cash wrote.

“Sorry guys,” said a beat-up Kris Kristofferson ... America’s counterculture and conscience. In his song The Pilgrim, Chapter 33, he wrote about a man who was “a walking contradiction ...

Kris Kristofferson, star of both country music and Hollywood, died at 88 on September 28. He wrote many of the 1970s’ most iconic songs, from “Me and Bobby McGee” to “Help Me Make It ...

Many obituaries for Kris ... list of suggestions of who the song was about, including Johnny Cash or Dennis Hopper, but I’ve always thought the pilgrim in question was Kristofferson himself ...