CMRivdogs Posted Sunday at 11:46 PM Share Posted Sunday at 11:46 PM Me and Bobby McGee, For The Good Times, Help Me Make It Thru The Night, Sunday Morning Coming Down. Just a few of the great songs he penned. Singer, actor, pilot. RIP Kris Kristofferson 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.TaterSalad Posted yesterday at 12:01 AM Share Posted yesterday at 12:01 AM God dammit, this one sucks. Kristofferson was one of the very best songwriters of all time. The stories and poems he told through song sang to the joy, hardship, love, pain, and struggles of real life. Perhaps the greatest storyteller in modern American music in line with the late Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Jason Isbell, EmmyLou Harris, and an elite few others. RIP! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigeraholic1 Posted 11 hours ago Share Posted 11 hours ago One of the best for sure, RIP. Who from the Outlaw country scene are left? Will Nelson and David Allan Coe come to mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oblong Posted 11 hours ago Share Posted 11 hours ago On the Ken Burns Country Music doc they spend a lot of time on Kris and Bobby McGee in particular. He was hanging around the studio doing janitorial work and the bosses didn't want him hanging around the studio. Johnny liked him for some reason and told him to stay. After he started writing songs Fred Foster, the owner of Monument Records suggested a song with a title based on a secretary there, Bobby McKee. Kris mishead it and wrote it as McGee. He gave Foster a writing credit for coming up with the name. Roger Miller recorded it and it didn't do much. When Joplin recorded it, and died before it's release, Kristofferson said "After that I never had to work again". Kris was a Rhoades Scholar and english lit guy. The song is based on a Fellini movie for God's sake. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Mr.TaterSalad Posted 10 hours ago Share Posted 10 hours ago 1 hour ago, Tigeraholic1 said: One of the best for sure, RIP. Who from the Outlaw country scene are left? Will Nelson and David Allan Coe come to mind. Waylon's ex-wife Jessi Colter is still around too. But there aren't many left. We're gonna lose Willie in the coming years too and that's really gonna suck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oblong Posted 8 hours ago Share Posted 8 hours ago I never saw his verison of Star is Born but I did see the Bradley Cooper/Lady Gaga incarnation. I liked it a lot more than I thought I would. Lukas Nelson helped with the music and he and his band are Cooper's band in the movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigeraholic1 Posted 8 hours ago Share Posted 8 hours ago Pretty cool story about Tony Keith and Kris interaction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oblong Posted 7 hours ago Share Posted 7 hours ago I don't know if it's true, Kris said he didn't remember it but he forgets things (He was misdiagnosed with Alzheimer's and Dementia and it was Lyme Disease) but his wife remembrs things and she relayed it. I'd like to think it's true. He also "rescued" Sinead O'Conner when she was getting booed at a Dylan tribute not long after her infamous SNL appearance. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smr-nj Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago On my mind’s memory, I’ll always think of Rita Coolidge when I think of him, though I don’t know how long they were actually married to each other. I loved Kris. Stellar artist and human being. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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