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Artist: Kris Kristofferson

   Genre(s):
Country
   Rock: Folk-Rock
   Pop
   Rock
   Other

Discography:

This Old Road

Year: 2006
Tracks: 11

Help Me Make It Through The Night

Year: 2004
Tracks: 16

The Greatest Hits (cd3)

Year: 2003
Tracks: 16

The Greatest Hits (cd2)

Year: 2003
Tracks: 16

The Greatest Hits (cd1)

Year: 2003
Tracks: 16

Kristofferson

Year: 2001
Tracks: 16

The Austin Sessions

Year: 1999
Tracks: 12

Jesus Was a Capricorn

Year: 1991
Tracks: 10

The Silver Tongued Devil and I

Year: 1990
Tracks: 10

Kris Kristofferson The Greatest Hits / CD 3

Year:
Tracks: 15

Kris Kristofferson The Greatest Hits / CD 2

Year:
Tracks: 16

Kris Kristofferson The Greatest Hits / CD 1

Year:
Tracks: 15

After a lengthy point of struggle, Kris Kristofferson achieved singular success as a country songster at the start of the seventies. His songs "Me and Bobby McGee," "Help Me Make It Through the Night," "Sun Mornin' Comin' Down," and "For the Good Times," all chart-topping hits, helped redefine country songwriting, qualification it more personal and serious, much in the way that Bob Dylan's songs had transformed pop medicine songwriting in the mid-'60s. By 1987, it was estimated that Kristofferson's compositions had been recorded by more than than 450 artists. His fame as a ballad maker enabled him to launch a moderately successful career as a musical performing artist and that, in call on, brought him to the attention of Hollywood, leading to a extended life history as a film actor.

The firstborn of three children of an Air Force major general wHO retired from the military to head up air trading operations for the Saudi Arabian society Aramco, Kristofferson spent almost of his puerility in Brownsville, TX, though his household affected around, in the end settling in San Mateo, CA, by his junior senior high years. He graduated from San Mateo High School in 1954 and entered Pomona College in Claremont, CA. There he studied originative committal to writing and he north Korean won first plunder and three other placements in a collegiate short story competition sponsored by Atlantic Monthly magazine. He gradatory Phi Beta Kappa in 1958, having secured a prestigious Rhodes eruditeness to continue his studies at Oxford University in England. While at Oxford, he wrote and performed his have songs, which brought him to the attending of coach Larry Parnes (world Health Organization handled Tommy Steele and other British bulge stars). Signing with Parnes, he made recordings for Top Rank Records produced by Tony Hatch (obviously ne'er released) and performed under the name Kris Carson, simply he was non successful.

After earning a master's degree in English literature from Oxford in 1960, Kristofferson intended to continue his studies there. But during a Christmas give out back up home in California, he resumed his relationship with an old girlfriend, Fran Beir, and they matrimonial. Instead of returning to Oxford, he joined the Army. Like his father-God, he became a airplane pilot, encyclopaedism to vaporize helicopters. He was assigned to West Germany and went at that place with his married woman and their daughter. During the early '60s, patch acclivitous to the rank of master, he eventually returned to piece of writing and acting, organizing a soldiers' band to run at service clubs. Hearing his songs, a booster suggested sending them to a congenator of his, the Nashville songster Marijohn Wilkin. Kristofferson did so and he received encouragement from Wilkin, world Health Organization had become a music publisher by innovation Bighorn Music. In 1965, Kristofferson was reassigned to the West Point military academy, where he was to become an English teacher. He played out a two-week go forth in June 1965 in Nashville, where he looked up Wilkin and distinct to assay to become a country songwriter instead. He resigned his commission and touched his family to Nashville, sign language to Bighorn, which gave him a small weekly stipend that he augmented with a miscellanea of jobs, including janitorial go, bartending, and flying helicopters to and from offshore oil color rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. He and his wife had a boy world Health Organization was innate with a defective oesophagus, resulting in thousands of dollars in medical bills. Eventually, the couple divorced.

Kristofferson scored his low gear succeeder as a songwriter with "Viet Nam Blues," which was recorded by Dave Dudley and peaked in the rural area Top 20 in April 1966. As a recording creative person, Kristofferson was gestural to Epic Records and released a alone single, "Golden Idol"/"Killing Time," in 1967, simply it missed the charts. (He later re-recorded both songs for his Phantasmagoric Thing album.) Roy Drusky recorded Kristofferson's "Jody and the Kid" and took it into the country Top 40 in the summer of 1968 and Billy Walker and the Tennessee Walkers' translation of his "From the Bottle to the Bottom" peaked in the Top 20 of the country charts in April 1969. But by that spring, those triplet graph placings and his failed exclusive were all Kristofferson had to show for nearly four-spot years of feat in Nashville. He had moved to Fred Foster's Columbine Music and begun to collaborate now and again with Foster, and he got a give out when Roger Miller distinct to record one of their songs, "Me and Bobby McGee," a ballad some hoboing that recalled in the first place Miller hits like "King of the Road," simply with more than of a hipster cant over. Miller all over up recording not only "Me and Bobby McGee," simply as well deuce other Kristofferson compositions, "Best of All Possible Worlds" and "Darby's Castle," for his August 1969 album, Roger Miller. "Me and Bobby McGee" was released as a individual in get on of the album and it peaked in the nation Top 20. Meanwhile, Kristofferson had begun to gain recognition as a performer, thanks to Johnny Cash, wHO introduced him at the Newport Folk Festival that summertime and featured him on his mesh television usher.

In September 1969, Kristofferson earned another crucial hide when Ray Stevens released a version of his reflection on a hangover, "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down," as a single. It entered both the pop and country charts. The undermentioned calendar month, Faron Young released "Your Time's Comin'," co-written by Kristofferson and Shel Silverstein. It gave the ballad maker his biggest attain so far when it peaked in the country Top Five in December 1969. Jerry Lee Lewis' transcription of Kristofferson and Silverstein's "Once More with Feeling" did regular better, just missing the top of the country charts in March 1970.

In addition to Columbine Music, Fred Foster besides ran Monument Records, an independent label, and he signed Kristofferson to it as a transcription artist. Kristofferson went into the studio and cut his possess versions of some of the songs others had already done -- "Me and Bobby McGee," "Topper of All Possible Worlds," "Darby's Castle," "Lord's Day Mornin' Comin' Down" -- as comfortably as some new songs, notably "Help Me Make It Through the Night" and "For the Good Times," both romantic ballads with a emphatically erotic step. His debut album, titled Kristofferson, was released in April 1970 and he promoted it with his first-class honours degree major concert tour, debuting at the Troubadour in Los Angeles on June 23, coming into court at the colossus Isle of Wight Festival on July 26, and playing the Bitter End in New York in August. But regular at a time when standards for singers had fallen perceptibly, the album was criticized for Kristofferson's rough vocals; it sold under the weather and promptly went out of print.

The demand for his songs, however, only when increased. The same calendar month that Kristofferson was released, Ray Price reached the state charts with "For the Good Times," though it had been intended as the B-side of the single. It hit number one in September and crossed all over to the pop charts, where it reached the Top 20; as a consequence, "For the Good Times" was named Song of the Year for 1970 by the Academy of Country Music. In August, Waylon Jennings reached the state charts with Kristofferson and Silverstein's "The Taker," which unwell in the Top Five in October and crossed all over to the pop charts. By then, Johnny Cash had entered the state charts with his version of "Dominicus Morning Coming Down" (as he called it, restoring the dropped "g"s). It hit number one in October and crossed all over to the pop charts, and that same calendar month it won the Country Music Association's Song of the Year Award for 1970, putting Kristofferson in the unusual status of victorious the same accolade from country's two touch organizations for the same year with different songs.

Only the bowed stringed instrument of hits was far from all over. In December, Sammi Smith entered the state charts with "Serve Me Make It Through the Night," giving the song a surprising twist by having the char ask the man to sleep with her rather of the other way around. The single crossed over to the pop charts, finally reaching the Top Ten and passing gold, and it gave Kristofferson his third area chart-topper in February 1971. Meanwhile, Bobby Bare's transcription of Kristofferson's "Follow Sundown" besides had reached the area charts in December and it unwell in the Top Ten in February 1971. Up to this power point, Kristofferson had been acquiring about of his recognition in state music, simply that changed in January 1971 when Janis Joplin's posthumous album Pearl was released. Joplin had covered "Me and Bobby McGee" and it was released as a individual, shooting up the pop charts to act one in March. That same calendar month, Ray Price followed "For the Good Times" with another Kristofferson song, "I Won't Mention It Again," which crossed over to the pop charts and in May gave the songwriter his fourth land act one hit within ashcan School months. Meanwhile, Joe Simon got into the drink down charts with his adaptation of "Help Me Make It Through the Night" in April, Bobby Bare charted nation in May with Kristofferson's "Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends," which peaked in the Top Ten in July, and Peggy Little reached the nation charts with his "I've Got to Have You."

Despite all this sudden achiever as a songwriter, Kristofferson had not yet achieved whatever great notice as a performer. Monument had been purchased by CBS Records and off into a subordinate of the Columbia pronounce, giving its artists the benefit of major-label distribution and promotion. Kristofferson released his endorsement album, The Silver Tongued Devil and I, in July 1971. Again, it combined the songwriter's have versions of songs that had scored for others -- "Jody and the Kid," "The Taker" -- with crucial modern run, notably the ballad "Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)," which Roger Miller cursorily covered for a Top 40 nation hit. The album last stony-broke Kristofferson as a recording artist, emerging into the Top Five of the nation charts and the Top 20 of the drink down charts and going au, with the songwriter's possess adaptation of "Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)" becoming a Top 40 drink down and Top Five easy listening collide with. In August, Monument re-released Kristofferson's low gear album, renaming it Me and Bobby McGee. This fourth dimension, the LP reached the nation Top Ten and the drink down Top one C and went gold. Meanwhile, Ray Price released his third base straight single of a Kristofferson song, "I'd Rather Be Sorry," and it just lost topping the state charts in October spell crossing over to the start charts. Patti Page as well made the land charts with her version of the song. Jerry Lee Lewis place "Me and Bobby McGee" into the charts for a third base time in November; it was tending some land airplay as the B-side of his issue one land unmarried "Would You Take Another Chance on Me," spell pop up radiocommunication flipped the disk all over and made it a Top 40 drink down hit. The same calendar month, O.C. Smith got into the drink down charts with his adaptation of "Help Me Make It Through the Night."

Kristofferson himself, meanwhile, had traveled to Peru at the behest of manager Dennis Hopper, and he made his pic debut in a moment part in The Last Movie, released in September, to which he as well contributed songs. The same calendar month, persona of his performance from the Isle of Wight Festival was in the charts on the triple-record set Showtime Great Rock Festivals of the Seventies: Isle of Wight/Atlanta Pop Festival. (In 1997, the film and CD Message to Love: The Isle of Wight as well featured his appearance.) He had a more significant film role in Lake herring Pike, released early in 1972, likewise acquiring to sing several more of his songs. In February, he released his third album, Border Lord. It was his number one aggregation to consist of all-new material and proved to be a slim commercial-grade dashing hopes, reaching only the Top century of the pop charts and the Top Ten of the country charts, its single "Josie" becoming a pop and nation graph ledger entry just not a big hit. In March, however, three of his songs, "For the Good Times," "Facilitate Me Make It Through the Night," and "Me and Bobby McGee," were among the quintuplet nominees for the 1971 Grammy Award for Best Country Song, patch "Help Me Make It Through the Night" and "Me and Bobby McGee" were likewise up for the Song of the Year Grammy. Competing against himself, he managed to gain his number 1 Grammy for Best Country Song for "Facilitate Me Make It Through the Night." The same month, Gladys Knight & the Pips brought the vocal back into the pop Top 40 and likewise made the R&B Top 20 with their rendition. In April, Kristofferson was in the charts with some other live recording, appearance on the various-artists collection Boastful Sur Festival/One Hand Clapping. In June, Sammi Smith made the rural area charts with her rendering of "I've Got to Have You," which seedy in the Top 20 in September and likewise crossed over to the pop charts.

Having taken only seven months 'tween his second gear and third albums, Kristofferson waited only nine more months ahead delivering his quarter album, Good Shepherd Was a Capricorn, in November 1972. Initially, the LP did non do as advantageously as Border Lord, itself a step mastered from The Silver Tongued Devil and I, as the deed of conveyance song scantily made the pop singles charts and a second single, "Jesse Younger," missed the charts only. But in March 1973, Monument released a third single, the slow, pious "Why Me," which topped the rural area charts in July and went gold, as well crossing over to the pop Top 20. With that, gross revenue of Deliverer Was a Capricorn rebounded and the record album pip phone number one in the nation charts a year later on it was released. (In the meantime, Brenda Lee had covered "Nonentity Wins" from the record album for a Top Five country pip and a pop chart introduction.)

Kristofferson, meanwhile, had returned to playing, getting more satisfying celluloid roles and working with of import directors. In 1973, he appeared in Paul Mazursky's Blume in Love, likewise tributary a duo of songs, and in Sam Peckinpah's Rap Garrett and Billy the Kid, co-starring as Billy the Kid in the latter. His notices tended to be better than those for the films themselves and indicated that he had a future in films.

On August 19, 1973, Kristofferson married isaac Merrit Singer Rita Coolidge (wHO before long bore him a second daughter) and the following month the couple released a duad album, Full Moon. It was a swelled pip, topping the country charts, arrival the Top 40 of the pop charts, and release gold. Its number one single, Kristofferson's composing "A Song I'd Like to Sing," was a Top 20 well-to-do hearing hit, a Top 40 pop pip, and a land chart introduction. "Loving Arms," a minute single, made the easy listening Top 40 and also reached the pop up and country charts. The couple's version of "From the Bottle to the Bottom" north Korean won the 1973 Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group. (Due to the peculiarities of the Grammy eligibility rules, "Loving Arms" was nominated in the same category the following year.) Kristofferson also earned 1973 Grammy nominations for Best Country Song and Best Country Vocal Performance, Male, for "Why Me."

In April 1974, "One Day at a Time," written by Kristofferson and Marijohn Wilkin, reached the land charts in a recording by Marilyn Sellars that went on to peak in the Top 20. Later in the year, it reached the pop up Top 40. Kristofferson's fifth album, Spooky Lady's Sideshow, was released in May. Compared to sooner releases, it was a commercial-grade disappointment, arrival the Top Ten of the land charts just only when the Top C of the pop up charts, with no charting single. From this point on, Kristofferson's albums would be only mild sellers at best. But he remained a potent country ballad maker. In July, Ronnie Milsap entered the land charts with a revival meeting of "Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends"; by September it had topped the country charts and crossed over to the pop charts. Kristofferson continued to follow his pic career, pickings a small portion in Sam Peckinpah's Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, released in the summer and a co-starring theatrical role in Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, which appeared in December. Also that month, Kristofferson and Coolidge released their minute duette album, Breakaway. Though less successful than their number 1 i, it reached the Top C of the pop up charts and the Top Five of the land charts. The individual "Pelting" made the country and easy hearing charts. "Lover Please" also got into the easy listening charts and it went on to come through the duet a second Grammy for Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group.

Kristofferson took a break from movie making to concentrate on his melodic career and his sixth album, Who's to Bless and Who's to Blame, released in November 1975. But the extra exertion did not translate into increased sales. The LP reached the land Top 40, just it missed the Top C of the pop up charts. Johnny Duncan's recording of the Kristofferson song "Stranger" from the album became a country hit, notwithstanding, reaching the Top Five. Kristofferson returned to the movies and in the spring of 1976 was seen in Vigilance man Force and The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea, also contributive a song to the latter. His one-seventh album, Dreamlike Thing, followed his one-sixth by only if ashcan School months. It was another commercial-grade disappointment, arrival the country Top Ten while barely registering in the pop charts. But in December 1976, he enjoyed both a hit pic and a impinge on record with the vent of A Star Is Born, in which he co-starred with Barbra Streisand. Critics howled, just the plastic film was a box office smash, second only to Rocky among movement pictures released in 1976 as the top-grossing shoot, patch the soundtrack album, which featured several contributions from Kristofferson (among them the pop chart first appearance "Watch Closely Now"), topped the pop up charts and sold several million copies. Of course, Streisand had more to do with all that than Kristofferson did, but he was awarded a Golden Globe for Best Actor.

Repository Records seized upon the occasion of his increased profile to release a compilation, Songs of Kristofferson, in April 1977. It did substantially better than his recent releases of modern material, making the rural area Top Ten and the pop Top one C and earning a gold record. Making only one film in 1977, Semi-Tough, released in the fall, he worked on his one-eighth album for more than than a year and a half, non releasing Easter Island until March 1978. It marked a little commercial uptick, charting higher in the pop and rural area charts than his previous campaign, merely did non restore his commercial fortunes as a transcription artist. Returning to the movies, Kristofferson asterisked in Convoy, a film extrapolation of the 1976 birdsong strike by C.W. McCall, which open in the summer. In January 1979, he and Rita Coolidge released their third duo record album, Natural Act, which was another small vendor.

Kristofferson's personal life story and professional career were both at abject points in the late '70s and early '80s. His ninth album, Shake Hands With the Devil, was released in September 1979 and did not trade advantageously enough to get hold of the charts, though the single "Demonstrate It to You One More Time Again" was a country singles chart introduction. His succeeding pic, Freedom Road, was not minded a theatrical release in the U.S., or else organism broadcast on television in October. And on December 2, he and Rita Coolidge divorced. At the same time, however, his song catalog continued to prosper. Lena Martell's cover of "One Day at a Time" hit number one in the U.K. in October, then in the U.S. Cristy Lane revived the birdcall, taking it to number one in the res publica charts in June 1980. Willie Nelson Sings Kris Kristofferson was released in October 1979 and made the land Top Five, as did Nelson's individual release of "Facilitate Me Make It Through the Night." Kristofferson toured with Nelson during the winter of 1979-1980. During this period, he likewise was working on what should have been his greatest cinematic gloat as yet, though it sour into a fiasco. This was Heaven's Gate, film director Michael Cimino's reexamination to his Academy Award-winning film The Deer Hunter. The protracted, expensive film debuted to negative reviews in November 1980 and was such a fiscal disaster that it bankrupted the movie studio that made it. Kristofferson had already been contracted to make another film, Rollover, released in 1981, simply his association with Heaven's Gate may have scared off molding directors, since he didn't seem in some other celluloid until 1984. Meanwhile, he released his tenth part album, To the Bone, in January 1981, and it became his second gear straight LP to miss the start charts, though it made the area charts shortly, as did the single "Nobody Loves Anybody Anymore." But the old songs continued to sell; in July, Tompall and the Glaser Brothers just lost topping the nation charts with their revival of "Lovin' Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)."

Demur for a non-charting exclusive, "Hither Comes That Rainbow Again"/"The Bandits of Beverly Hills," Kristofferson was not heard from for the rest of 1981 or most of 1982, resurfacing in November 1982 with the vent of the double-album The Winning Hand, a group crusade credited to "Kris [Kristofferson], Willie [Lord Nelson], Dolly [Parton] & Brenda [Lee]." The album reached the state Top Five, though it failed to cross the hundred marking on the pop charts. On February 19, 1983, Kristofferson marital for the third base time, wedding lawyer Lisa Meyers, with whom he eventually had basketball team more children, for a sum up of eight-spot. He returned to filmmaking in January 1984 with the video broadcast of The Lost Honor of Kathryn Beck, and made it back into motion picture theaters later that year with Flash point, a whodunit, and Songwriter. In the latter, he co-starred with Willie Nelson in a story some the Nashville music industry. He wrote a number of songs for the cinema, resulting in his number 1 Academy Award nomination for original song score. Columbia Records released Music From Songwriter, a duet album by Nelson and Kristofferson on which the two sang on an individual basis and shared out a couple of duets. The album reached the pop charts and the Top 20 of the body politic charts, and i of the duets, Kristofferson's "How Do You Feel About Foolin' Around," made the state singles charts.

Kristofferson and Nelson expanded their partnership into a supergroup quartette with the addition of Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings to create the album Road agent, released in April 1985. The title caterpillar track, a song around reincarnation written by Jimmy Webb, with each radical member taking a verse, topped the rural area charts in August and the LP was likewise a issue unitary state murder, passing gold. A arcsecond individual, Guy Clark's "Desperados Waiting for a Train," made the state Top 20. The recordings were billed to the four-spot participants by name, simply the group came to be known informally as "the Highwaymen," though a colony had to be made with the 1960s folk chemical group of the same name for the identify to be used legally.

In December 1985, Kristofferson starred in Alan Rudolph's moving picture Bother in Mind, likewise contributing the motif song, "El Gavilan" ("The Hawk," after the list of his graphic symbol), song dynasty by Marianne Faithfull. He assign the song on Repossessed, his number 1 solo album in six-spot years, which was released on Mercury Records in February 1987. Reflecting his left wing views particularly on American military involvement in Central America, Repossessed exhausted six-spot months in the land charts, and "They Killed Him," a testimonial to Christ, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr., placed in the state singles charts. Simultaneous with the handout of the LP, Kristofferson appeared in Amerika, a controversial weeklong television system mini-series that fantasized a U.S. below Communist domination. It was one of many TV moving picture projects the doer had done in the mid-'80s, a time when his feature picture work remained sparse.

Road agent 2 appeared in February 1990, preceded by a single, "Silver Stallion," that made the state Top 40. The album reached the state Top Five and it earned a Grammy nomination for Best Country Vocal Collaboration. Kristofferson followed Repossessed with a arcsecond Mercury album, Third base World Warrior, in March 1990. Another cultivate of agitprop, it failed to give the charts. In 1991, Columbia/Legacy released the compiling Singer/Songwriter, a double-CD gear up containing both Kristofferson's versions of his best-known songs and the best-known covers of them by people like Janis Joplin and Ray Price. The archival label followed in 1992 with the antecedently unreleased concert set Live at the Philharmonic, recorded in 1972. Kristofferson worked steadily in TV movies and independent features during the recent '80s and early '90s; he wrote the score for the 1993 film Cheatin' Hearts, in which he also appeared. The Highwaymen's third gear record album, The Road Goes on Forever, appeared in April 1995 and made the country charts. As a solo creative person, Kristofferson had teamed with producer Don Was to record a new album, A Moment of Forever, for Was' Karambolage imprint in 1993, just an initial distribution apportion fell through and the album was not released until August 1995, when it appeared on the Texan independent label Justice Records. Four age later on, Kristofferson released The Austin Sessions, an album of remakes of his to the highest degree pop songs. (In the mid-'90s, One Way Records reissued many of Kristofferson's Monument albums on CD.)

Kristofferson's appearance in director John Sayles' film Lone Star (1996) marked a turning head in his picture career. Taking a encouraging purpose as a spoil sheriff, the 60-year-old thespian displayed a dash for character parts and villains that vastly increased his offers from Hollywood in the late '90s and lED to his appearances in such major-studio action features as Fire Down Below, Blade, and Payback. He also earned admiring critical notices as a James Jones-like novelist in A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries and in another Sayles film, Limbo. By the turn of the century, complaintive that he hadn't had time to tour as a singer in years, Kristofferson was looking forward to additional picture work.

Although his early work was frequently repackaged and released in new compilation packages, Kristofferson released very small new work as the twenty-first hundred dawned. A live set, Broken Freedom Song, appeared in 2003 on John Prine's Oh Boy Records, and another Don Was-produced album, This Old Road, saw the light of day in 2006 on New West Records.

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