Kris Kristofferson

I just listened to an album of his the FIRST TIME, and I was pleasantly surprised. What a strange coincidence.

@grislybutter , he was in a lot of movies as well; he played the part of Billy The Kid in Pecinpah’s ’73 classic, Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid (which was always my favorite movie that he starred in). (Bob Dylan wrote and performed the sound track for that movie and also had a role.)

He (Kris Kristofferson) also performed and recorded with Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson, and as such, they were The Highwaymen. I really enjoy the cover they did of Steve Earle’s The Devil’s Right hand, and I particularly like one of the two verses that Kris Kristofferson sang.

Just saw that. Oh my what a talent. A true singer/songwriter with immense talent. RIP…

@immatthewj I am sure I had heard him on many occasions. In general I stay away from country which morphed into a joke lately. Of course his country genre is not this current genre...   

@immatthewj I am sure I had heard him on many occasions. In general I stay away from country which morphed into a joke lately. Of course his country genre is not this current genre...

You probably have. He wrote and recorded a ton of music. He wrote Me And Bobby McGee, and Rodger Miller and Janis Joplin both recorded it before he did. On edit, I had been under the impression that he wrote it for Janis Joplin, but after I just now did a google, I am not sure about that. I always thought of Kris Kristofferson as part of the outlaw segment of country music. Good music to drink Jack Daniels to.

Watching Cisco Pike in his honor as we speak.

He’s a poet, He’s a picker

he’a prophet, He’s a pusher

he’s a pilgrim and a preacher and a problem when he’s stoned

he’s a walking contradiction partly truth and partly fiction

Takin’ ev’ry wrong direction on his lonely way back home

He left us with classics this was a favorite