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- “Me and Bobby McGee” Written by Kristofferson himself, the song “Me and Bobby McGee” has become an iconic folk-country classic, with its memorable melodies and penetrating words.
- “Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I’ll Ever Do Again)” Recorded in 1971, the song “Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I’ll Ever Do Again)” is an iconic country-rock ballad.
- “Help Me Make It Through The Night” Released in 1970, the country-rock ballad “Help Me Make It Through The Night” is a widely-known song composed by Kris Kristofferson.
- “For The Good Times” Composed by Kris Kristofferson, the 1970 country-rock ballad “For The Good Times” is an emotive plea for companionship and solace.
Songs of Kristofferson is a best-of compilation album by Kris Kristofferson, released in 1977, after he had become more well known as a movie star than as a singer-songwriter.
This solid anthology pulls together Kris Kristofferson's best-known tunes, concentrating on his classic '70s albums. Many of these songs were made famous by others, like "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down" (Johnny Cash), "Me and Bobby McGee" (Janis Joplin), and "Help Me Make It Through the Night" (Sammi Smith)–but hearing them delivered by their ...
- Loving Arms
- The Silver Tongued Devil and I
- Lovin’ Her Was Easier
- When I Loved Her
- To Beat The Devil
- Why Me, Lord
- Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down
- Help Me Make It Through The Night
- Me and Bobby Mcgee
- For The Good Times
Kicking off our list of the best Kris Kristofferson songs of all time is Loving Arms, a duet performed between Kristofferson and his then-wife Rita Coolidge for their 1973 album, Full Moon. Released in August 1973, it became a minor hit, peaking at No. 86 on the Hot 100. In later years, Dobie Gray, Elvis Presley, Petula Clark, and Olivia Newton-Joh...
Kris Kristofferson’s debut album may have enjoyed a warm reception from the press, but it flopped in the charts. His follow-up, 1971’s The Silver Tongued Devil And I, fared much better, charting in the top 30 on the Billboard Top LPs & Tapes chart and peaking in the top five of the Hot Country LPs chart. One of its highlights is the titular track, ...
Unlike a lot of his early songs that got farmed out to other artists before he got a chance to record them himself, Kristofferson was the first one to record Lovin’ Her Was Easier (Than Anything I’ll Ever Do Again). Released as a single from his 1971 album The Silver Tongued Devil and I, it reached No. 26 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 4 on the H...
When I Loved Her is another deeply emotional Kristofferson composition that proved a chart-topper for Ray Price. Kristofferson’s own performance of the song is a lot more rugged and unpolished than Price’s, but if anything, his ragged vocals only serve to enhance the heartbreak of the lyrics.
An early example of Kristofferson’s gift for songwriting, To Beat the Devil was released on Kristofferson’s debut 1970 album, Kristofferson. According to Song Facts, the song is semi-autobiographical, drawing on Kristofferson’s early days in Nashville. It tells the story of a young songwriter who’s fallen on hard times. He wanders into a bar where ...
Described by countrythangdaily.comas the most popular country gospel song of Kristofferson’s, Why Me, Lord is one of the singer’s most personal songs. He was inspired to write it after attending a church service in which the pastor asked “Is anybody feeling lost?”, and “Are you ready to accept Christ? Kneel down there.” “It was just a personal thin...
During an interview in 2013, Kristofferson revealed that Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down “opened up a whole lot of doors for me. So many people that I admired, admired it. Actually, it was the song that allowed me to quit working for a living.” Ray Stevens was the first to take it into the charts with his version in 1969. The following year, Johnny Cash...
Help Me Make It Through the Night is one of the most sexual songs of its era. Fortunately, Kristofferson’s clever lyrics kept things subtle enough for it not to be slapped with a ban, and the song went on to earn Sammi Smith a No. 1 on the country charts (not to mention a Grammy) in 1970. Kristofferson later revealed that his inspiration for the so...
Kristofferson’s inspiration for Bobby McGee came from a phone call to Fred Foster at Monument Records, who told him he was only calling as an excuse to speak to his secretary, Bobby McKee. Kristofferson switched McKee to McGee and thus created a modern classic. Roger Miller had the first big hit with the song, but it’s Janis Joplin’s version that r...
Kristofferson wrote For the Good Times during a road trip to the Gulf of Mexico, drawing on his past experiences of the end of a love affair to create one of the most tender and romantic songs in country music. Like most of his songs, it was a hit for someone else before he got the chance to record it himself. In this instance, the lucky artist who...
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- Good Morning John. Kristofferson wrote ‘Good Morning John’ for Cash in a bid to support his friend’s bid for sobriety. The song’s direct and heartfelt language expresses his love and respect for Cash and demonstrates the vulnerability that so often gives Kristofferson’s work its gravity.
- They Killed Him. Another in Kristofferson’s catalog that Cash recorded prior to its writer, ‘They Killed Him’ is a tribute to the lives and martyrdom of Kristofferson’s heroes Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Jesus Christ.
- To Beat The Devil. With its earnest, spoken word intro, half-sung verses and air of determination, ‘To Beat the Devil’ is a testament to the power of upholding one's own integrity.
- From The Bottle To The Bottom. At the same time his performance and movie careers were taking off, Kristofferson released a series of albums with his then-wife and singer Rita Coolridge, resulting in yet another string of hits.
Kris Kristofferson has 714 songs with the most popular being Me and Bobby McGee, Highwayman and One Day At A Time.
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Kris Kristofferson (born June 22, 1936) is a retired country singer, songwriter and actor from Brownsville, TX, best known for the hits he wrote and recorded in the late 1960s.
