News broke this week that the country music world has lost two more influential performers. That pushes the list of noteable country music names who have died in 2025 to at least eight. The following ...

The country music world received more heartbreaking news this week with the death of legendary songwriter Larry Bastian. Bastian was responsible for helping to craft some of Garth Brooks’ biggest hits ...

Some already have. 1. “Me and Bobby McGee” by Kris Kristofferson (1970) Kris Kristofferson wrote “Me and Bobby McGee” and included it on his 1970 debut album, Kristofferson. Months later ...

In her new memoir, Just Kids, Patti Smith tells of a night in New York when she saw Kris Kristofferson — an Oxford-educated, ex-Army songwriter struggling to make it in Nashville — sing his ...

He’s played with some of the greats, formed a strong friendship with music legend Kris Kristofferson and many others. More importantly for Flynn, it eventually led him to a program called New ...

Talking about his forthcoming album, his first in four years, James McMurtry is as no-nonsense as his songs. “It happened like all my records happened,” he said in a statement. “It’d been ...

Kris Kristofferson, Jamie Foxx, George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Little Big Town, TLC, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, along with the Recording Academy and many executives. As Variety stated in 2021 ...

One vivid example is the late Kris Kristofferson’s duet with Brandi Carlile at Joni Mitchell’s 75th birthday party in 2018. They came together to sing Mitchell’s “A Case of You.” In between swapping ...

1982 – Stars in the film “Barbarosa.” 1985 – Releases the album “Highwayman” with Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson. 1985 – Organizes Farm Aid, a concert to benefit ...

“But never has Cave been so freewheelin’ than on the giddy ‘Frogs’, “Jumping for love and the opening sky above” as “Kris Kristofferson walks by kicking a can in a shirt he hasn’t ...