Country music was never the same after the day in 1969 when Kris Kristofferson ... any of them as filler. The hits are universally known, whether in Kristofferson’s versions or the hundreds ...

Kris Kristofferson, who died Sunday at the age of 88, was truly one of the greatest songwriters of the ... best embodied in one of his earliest hits, "Sunday Morning, Coming Down" (see below ...