Kris Kristofferson News

Some people go to a concert wanting to see the lead act and wanting to hear from the lead act only.

Kris Kristofferson was a struggling songwriter and part-time janitor when he first met Johnny Cash at a Nashville recording studio.

Marking the 50th anniversary of Johnny Cash's 'Bitter Tears', Sony Music Masterworks is releasing 'Look Again to the Wind: Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited' on Aug. 19 with remakes of the eight originals.

" On the gates of Graceland, there's Elvis playing guitar. We'd drive past it every day, and I said, 'Daddy, I want one of those,'" the decorated songwriter remembers.

Miley Cyrus is mostly known as the tongue-wagging pop provocateur and former Hannah Montana child star who can't be tamed , but as she showed Sunday night during her Bangerz Tour NBC television special, she could probably have a second career as a life coach should she ever want to.

Dorset Theatre Festival continues its tradition of New Play Development with a reading of acclaimed playwright Nicole Burdette 's Utterly Changed.

Shaver helped launch country music's "outlaw" faction in 1973, writing 11 of the 12 tracks on Waylon Jennings's "Honky Tonk Heroes," the album often cited as the movement's first record.

For the next four days you can immerse yourself in some of the finest country music this side of the Black Stump.

The Paula Nelson Band brings soulful vocals and their signature Americana sound to the Suncoast Showroom August 15. Surrounded by music royalty at a young age, Nelson was inspired to begin a singing career by high profile artists including Leon Russell, Kris Kristofferson , Mickey Newberry, Jesse Colter, Rita Coolidge, and her talented father, ... (more)

Sheryl Crow , Bonnie Raitt , Kris Kristofferson and close to a dozen more acts who have played before Austin City Limits television cameras over the past four decades were back in town June 26 to tape the show's 40 th anniversary special at the ACL Live at Moody Theater.

There was always a little country, and a little gospel, in Jerry Lee Lewis' groundbreaking rock sides for Sun Records - and, more than 55 years later, not much has changed.

Hazel Burt was first in line to meet Steve Earle for an autograph session following Thursday's concert at Vanier Hall.

If forty seasons of Austin City Limits has proven anything, it's that KLRU knows how to put on a show.

Armchair therapists will have a field day with this ethereal, electronica-pop in that the lead vocalist Chris Martin has admitted it was inspired by the end of his decade-long marriage to Gwyneth Paltrow.

"Austin City Limits" Celebrates 40 Years at ACL Live. It'll probably take a good find on Stubhub to get in, but this major taping for a 40th-anniversary special set to air in prime-time on PBS this fall features hosts Jeff Bridges and Sheryl Crow and will include performances by Bonnie Raitt, Kris Kristofferson, Gary Clark Jr., Jimmie Vaughan, ... (more)

WILLY VLAUTIN has a set of water glasses sitting on the floor of his office in St. Johns.

A Variety article in 1968 highlighted the appearance of Joni Mitchell at the Riverboat, a tight coffeehouse located below street level at 134 Yorkville Ave., the epicentre of the Toronto folk-music and counter-culture scene.

Rock & roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis is set to have a big year, as the 78-year-old Killer will release Rock & Roll Time , his third album in a decade, and Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story , his memoir co-authored with Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Bragg, on October 28th.

The Highwaymen Live will pay tribute to the original outlaws of country music when their acclaimed show reaches the Chumash Casino Resort's Samala Showroom at 8 p.m. Thursday, July 17. The Highwaymen Live tribute band features Michael Moore as Willie Nelson, Bob Gill as Waylon Jennings and Philip Bauer as Johnny Cash.

Authenticity and impeccable simplicity have always been Kris Kristofferson 's stock-in-trade.