After writing "Me And Bobby McGee", which would later be covered by Janis Joplin, Kris Kristofferson's career exploded.

Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar with ... Me Make it Through the Night,” “For the Good Times” and “Me and Bobby McGee.” Kristofferson was a singer himself, but many of his songs ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kris Kristofferson ... Make it Through the Night,” “For the Good Times” and “Me and Bobby McGee.” Kristofferson was a singer himself, but many of his songs were ...

“Janis having a hit with ‘Me And Bobby McGee’ changed everything ... “It was important to me.” * Kris Kristofferson & The Strangers perform in MACC’s Castle Theater on Saturday ...

Kris Kristofferson will always be known as an incredible country musician, but his time in Hollywood is nothing to sneeze at, either.

His breakthrough album followed Janis Joplin’s posthumous No 1 hit with “Me And Bobby McGee” and contained “Epitaph”, written in her memory. “Epitaph” was written when Janis died.

When Bob Dylan was honored in 2015 as the MusiCares Person of The Year ceremony in Los Angeles, he paid tribute to fellow music icon Kris Kristofferson ... like “Me and Bobby McGee ...

Few songwriters have had as profound an effect on country music as Kris Kristofferson. His chart-topping hits of the late 1960s and early 1970s – “Me and Bobby McGee,” “Sunday Morning ...

Joplin, who had a close relationship with Kristofferson, changed the lyrics to make Bobby McGee a man and cut her version just days before she died in 1970 from a drug overdose. The recording ...

Patti Smith tells of a night in New York when she saw Kris Kristofferson — an Oxford-educated, ex-Army songwriter struggling to make it in Nashville — sing his tune "Me and Bobby McGee" for ...

Kris Kristofferson ... his compositions like “Help Me Make It Through the Night” (Sammi Smith), “For the Good Times” (Ray Price), and “Me and Bobby McGee” (Janis Joplin) into radio ...