At their core, all great songs are love songs. And this one is no different. The singer wails about the specific, great times she had with Bobby. However you interpret the characters, as Joplin sings ...

Kristofferson wrote this song out of an assignment from Monument Records founder, Fred Foster. He came to him with the title. It struck enough of a chord with Kristofferson for him to flesh out a ...

Kris Kristofferson once told Creg Lovett at Houston Press: “I always feel like Houston is the place I play that’s closest to my favorite place on Earth.” His favorite place on earth was his hometown, ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — "Me and Bobby McGee" is one of Kris Kristofferson's most famous and widely covered songs, with everyone from Janis Joplin to Pink putting their own spin on it since 1969. It's ...

Before he was an outlaw-country pioneer and a movie star, and after he was a Rhodes scholar and a helicopter pilot for the U.S. Army, the jarringly handsome young man was a janitor in Nashville, for ...