The country music world lost some iconic names in 2025, and sadly the list kept on growing in December. As we get 2026 rolling, we take a moment to look back at the country music stars and influential ...

The country music world has lost some iconic names in 2025, and sadly the list kept on growing in December. As we close out the year, we take a moment to look back at the country music stars and ...

Before he was an outlaw-country pioneer and a movie star, and after he was a Rhodes scholar and a helicopter pilot for the U.S. Army, the jarringly handsome young man was a janitor in Nashville, for ...

For Barbra Streisand, country music icon Kris Kristofferson was a true star. Streisand, who co-starred with Kristofferson in 1976's "A Star is Born," paid tribute to the acclaimed singer-songwriter, ...

In 1972, Johnny Cash took Kris Kristofferson‘s “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down” to No. 1 on the Country chart and helped put his future Highwaymen bandmate on the songwriting map. “I’m just real grateful ...

This week we pay tribute to the late singer-songwriter, actor and counter-culture icon, Kris Kristofferson. He wrote “Me and Bobby McGee” sitting on an offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 1969.

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 ...

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 ...

Kristofferson, Nelson's one-time Highwaymen bandmate, died on Sept. 28 at age 88 Kevin Winter/WireImage Willie Nelson is reflecting on the death of his longtime friend and former bandmate Kris ...

Kristofferson, who died Sept. 28, was a Rhodes Scholar and an Army Ranger before taking a chance at songwriting. "Me and Bobby McGee" is perhaps his most famous song. Originally broadcast in 1999.

Kris Kristofferson's death last week hit me harder than the death of a person one doesn't know should. I didn't cry, but I felt like it, and avoided talking about it in order not to seem like one of ...

Outlaw country legend Kris Kristofferson died Sept. 28 at the age of 88, closing the book on a life practically bursting with meaning. The opening line of his online bio says it best: “Kris ...