Watch Kris Kristofferson give a very short speech after winning Song of the Year at the 1970 CMA Awards for "Sunday Morning ...

In the world of music, there are unsung heroes and there are, well, sung ones. For a time, Kris Kristofferson was the former but since then he has most definitely become one of the latter.

Kris is also known for joining the Highwaymen, a band that consisted of Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, and Kristofferson. In 2004, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Young musicians looking for longevity would be wise to follow the sensible word of Willie Nelson: Do what feels right, and if ...

"He was a great songwriter," Nelson told AP of Kristofferson. "He left a lot of fantastic songs around for the rest of us to sing, for as long as we're here." Kris Kristofferson dies:Legendary ...

And, you know, we just kind of had a lot of fun together and made a lot of music together — videos, movies. I hated to lose him. That was a sad time.” Kristofferson died in September at 88 ...

and Beck’s “Lost Cause.” “He’s a real artist,” Nelson says of his son. “He picked all the songs.” Asked how he broke the news to his producer Buddy Cannon that Micah was taking ...