Over the past few years, Lainey Wilson has proven that she is as comfortable performing covers as she is performing songs she wrote. Today, she’s paying tribute to the late great Kris Kristofferson ...

Jewel Faye Smith was born in August 1943 and was singing professionally by age 12. She married three years later. She moved to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1967 and, through the help of Johnny Cash, was ...

Ashley McBryde paid tribute to the late Kris Kristofferson with a stripped-down, acoustic rendition of Kristofferson’s “Help Me Make It Through the Night” at the 2024 CMA Awards. Accompanying herself ...

“Help Me Make It Through The Night” appears on Kristofferson’s 1970 self-titled album. Like many of Kristofferson’s biggest offerings, this track garnered success for multiple artists, including Elvis ...

Kris Kristofferson, who died Saturday at age 88 in Maui, Hawaii, had not one but two successful careers: the first as a country-music songwriter and the second as a movie actor. But he probably wouldn ...

One of the first artists signed by Creed Taylor for CTI's subsidiary Kudu label, Hank Crawford suffered violent criticism during the period (1971-1978) he recorded for the label, being accused of ...

Few stars embodied as many contradictions as Kris Kristofferson did. On the surface, he was all hyper-masculinity—a Golden Gloves champion boxer, helicopter pilot, star football player, U.S. Army ...

Who needs the Grammys? Country music has been pretty much dominating the music business for the past few years, so the annual Country Music Association Awards broadcast feels like the biggest game in ...

As far as country songwriters go — or songwriters of any genre — Kris Kristofferson was among the most authentic. That’s a word that Nashville loves to freely toss around, but in the case of the Texas ...