In 2006, the late Kris Kristofferson released an acclaimed ... I never wrote that for a girl to sing,” he revealed. “But Janis [Joplin], I can’t do it without thinking of her.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — If Kris Kristofferson's life were fiction ... of classic country music and Baby Boomer hippie culture. Janis Joplin was another close friend, and her howling rendition ...

you had never heard a note of Kris Kristofferson’s music. You didn’t know the former helicopter pilot and Rhodes scholar had written “Me and Bobby McGee,” which Janis Joplin had turned ...

Kris Kristofferson was always open about overcoming ... the time he began a relationship with his fellow contemporary Janis Joplin. "I don't know what you call a love affair, but we were real ...

Kristofferson was a singer himself, but many of his songs were best known as performed by others, whether Ray Price crooning “For the Good Times” or Janis Joplin belting out “Me and Bobby ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar with ... whether Ray Price crooning “For the Good Times” or Janis Joplin belting out “Me and Bobby McGee.” Kristofferson, who ...

Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar with a deft ... whether Ray Price crooning “For the Good Times” or Janis Joplin belting out “Me and Bobby McGee.” He starred opposite Ellen Burstyn ...