The song was recorded by C. W. McCall (an alter ego of Bill Fries and Chip Davis), and was the inspiration for the 1978 movie CONVOY, that starred Kris Kristofferson, Ali McGraw, and Ernest Borgnine.

Kristofferson’s aforementioned second album, The Silver Tongued Devil And I, played something of a supporting role in ...

The song was recorded by C. W. McCall (an alter ego of Bill Fries and Chip Davis), and was the inspiration for the 1978 movie CONVOY, that starred Kris Kristofferson, Ali McGraw, and Ernest Borgnine. ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar with a deft writing style and rough charisma who became a country ...

Kris Kristofferson, who was a success as both a country music singer-songwriter and a Hollywood film and TV star, died Saturday at home in Maui, Hawaii. No cause of death was given. He was 88.

With his long hair and bell-bottomed slacks, he represented a new breed of country songwriters with his peers like Willie ...

Through the ‘70s, he enjoyed a rising movie profile ... (Kristofferson went on to star in Peckinpah’s “Convoy” (1978), based on C.W. McCall’s CB radio-themed hit; while the film made ...

His first film role was in Dennis Hopper’s “The Last Movie,” in 1971 ... Kid,” a truck driver for the same director in 1978's “Convoy” and a corrupt sheriff in director John Sayles ...

Live from New York! It's 50 seasons later for “SNL.”The landmark NBC sketch comedy show “Saturday Night Live” premiered Oct. 11, 1975, ...

Kris Kristofferson has been in the country music scene my entire life. He was already a force to be reckoned with when I was ...