Kris Kristofferson News

Director Beth Harrington will be on hand 7 p.m. Sunday at the 2014 Nashville Film Festival for the local premiere of The Winding Stream , her documentary about the legendary Carter Family and its influence on successive generations of country, folk and Americana artists.

YOU could have heard a pin drop as Kris Kristofferson mesmerised his Tamworth audience with his story songs on Tuesday night.

The many facets of Harry Dean Stanton are explored in Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction , a documentary directed by Sophie Huber that has been screened at more than 50 festivals, both internationally and in the US.

HEARING him sing Please Don't Tell Me How The Story Ends was possibly the highlight of my night on Tuesday at TRECC, but then again, every song Kris Kristofferson sang that night was a moment in time I'll always treasure.

8.30am: US COUNTRY music legend Kris Kristofferson wowed his audience in Tamworth last night with his songwriting and storytelling.

SINGER STORYTELLER: The legendary Kris Kristofferson had the Tamworth audience in the palm of his hand at last night's intimate concert.

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As with his mentor, inspiration and drinking companion, Johnny Cash, these days there is something of the grand old man of music and letters about Kris Kristofferson.

When it comes to music, Jeff Bridges is not some dilettantish actor noodling around with a guitar.

He's been a Rhodes scholar, US Army captain, helicopter pilot, Oscar and Grammy winner and a Country Music Hall of Famer.

Top musicians will perform Saturday at a public memorial service for Charlotte-based entertainer Arthur Smith, who died April 3 at age 93. The noon program at Calvary Church will include Grand Ole Opry star George Hamilton IV and Smith's long-time record producer Fred Foster, who produced Roy Orbison, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson ... (more)

The album focuses solely on songs with family ties as she retools classics by country music pioneers the Carter Family , the Carter Sisters , her mother June Carter Cash and her stepfather Johnny Cash .

As the daughter of June Carter Cash and Carl Smith, Carlene Carter is tied into one of country music's greatest and most influential legacies, that of the Carter Family.

John Flynn, who has worked in Nashville, sung with Kris Kristofferson and plays earnest, affecting folk and rock, is the next artist to perform as part of the Sugar Loaf Music Series.

There should be a veritable "Landslide" of emotion when Stevie Nicks is honored by BMI with its prestigious Icon Award at the 62nd Annual Pop Awards ceremony, Tuesday, May 13, at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills.

A lost Johnny Cash album that the Man in Black recorded in the early Eighties, Out Among the Stars , came out this week, and it included the song "She Used to Love Me A Lot" and his take on tracks like Hank Snow's "I'm Movin' On" and Ed Bruce's "After All."

Many people are at a loss at pigeonholing the music of singer-songwriter Shawn Mullins.

Let's do a quick run-down of the famous folks David and Sarah Chavez have rubbed shoulders with over the last decade.

Let's do a quick run-down of the famous folks David and Sarah Chavez have rubbed shoulders with over the last decade.

Hailing from San Antonio Texas, Green branded the term 'Texas Country Music ' with songs like 'I like Texas' and 'Southbound 35'.