If Kris Kristofferson’s life were fiction, it would feel a little implausible. He was a Texas-born Golden Gloves boxer and star football player, a Rhodes Scholar and a helicopter-flying US Army ...

New West Records was smart (and fortunate) enough to take possession of this archival recording, and translate it onto your music media of choice, for every fan of Kris Kristofferson to enjoy.

By ’72, Kristofferson also penned “The Loving Gift,” recorded first by Cash and his wife June Carter and later covered by Kenny Rogers and Dottie West.

Kris Kristofferson led one of the most interesting lives of any songwriter in country music, and it shows in the richly textured and subtly nuanced songs that he wrote. The iconic songwriter started ...

This week we pay tribute to the late singer-songwriter, actor and counter-culture icon, Kris Kristofferson. He wrote “Me and Bobby McGee” sitting on an offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico ...

He was an Oscar-nominated actor, a Rhodes scholar, and an Army veteran who turned down a teaching position at West Point. Kristofferson left the military and moved to Nashville in the mid-‘60s.