Ashley McBryde paid tribute to the late Kris Kristofferson with a stripped ... Cash's "Sunday Morning Comin' Down," Ray Price's "For the Good Times," and Sammi Smith's "Help Me Make It Through ...

Kris Kristofferson ... Willie Nelson shared a new rendition of Kristofferson’s 1973 song “Why Me,” which Nelson originally covered in 1979 on his album Sings Kristofferson.

Few songwriters have had as profound an effect on country music as Kris Kristofferson ... the following year (Ray Price with “For the Good Times” and Johnny Cash with “Sunday Morning ...

Those are all good things, of course, but at various points, they all probably had an adverse effect on the songwriting ...

Kris Kristofferson was a Grammy-winning songwriter-singer — in that order — responsible for some of country music and pop’s most well-crafted songs. A north star for fellow songwriters ...