Kris Kristofferson News

Newcomer Sturgill Simpson steals the show from Gregg Allman on a set of flinty, beautifully crafted songs performed with grit and skill.

Making an all too rare appearance on these shores, Minneapolis alternative country rockers The Jayhawks were back for a short tour which landed at the Sage as part of the annual three-day SummerTyne Americana Festival which has previously featured a diverse range of artists from Seasick Steve and Kris Kristofferson to one of the final ever shows by ... (more)

Over the next week, your only real duty as a film lover is to see Richard Linklater's Boyhood .

By 1969, Kris Kristofferson had been a Rhodes Scholar, a captain in the Army and a janitor at Nashville's Columbia Records studio.

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian , Look Again to the Wind: Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited is released on August 19. 1964 saw the release of Bitter Tears, a concept album that aimed to reveal the problems besetting the lives of Native Americans.

In 1964, Johnny Cash released Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian, a concept album that served to draw attention to the plight of Native Americans.

Okay, let's forget for a second that Tim Burton and Marky Mark don't go well with talking apes.

YouTube series-turned-Comedy Central show Drunk History is lending its sloppy hand to the telling of notable stories in American music history this upcoming Tuesday, July 15 at 10 p.m., according to a press release.

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.