Consequence of Sound — Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, and Kris Kristofferson get down and dirty in live concert performance. more info

Rolling Stone — By 1973, singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson had also starred in a handful of feature film roles, playing outlaw Billy the Kid in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, which also featured Bob Dylan. That same year, just after her 14th birthday, Marie Os... more info

Rolling Stone — Kris Kristofferson serves up liquor, advice and plenty of gunfire in the new trailer for Traded, a Western film starring Trace Adkins as a sneering villain and Kristofferson as a drink-slinging, Wild West wiseman. Due out June 10th, the film follows ... more info

Uncut — The Cedar Creek Sessions arrive in June Kris Kristofferson The Cedar Creek Sessions arrive in June The post Kris Kristofferson to celebrate 80th birthday with double album appeared first on Uncut. more info

Rolling Stone — Iconic songwriter Kris Kristofferson will celebrate his 80th birthday in June with the release of a 25-track collection of songs recorded over three days in the summer of 2014. The Cedar Creek Sessions, recorded in Austin, Texas, marks the legendary ... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Imagine a homeless street musician with a soulful singing voice that earns him comparisons to R&B great Sam Cooke and, as it turns out, he also writes songs that are lauded alongside those of Kris Kristofferson, Curtis Mayfield and Tom Waits. It woul... more info

Stereogum — Elvis Costello’s memoir, Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink, is due out on October 13th, and last month he announced that the book would be accompanied by an album of the same name. The record will include some of Costello’s hits, as well as rar... more info

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Aquarium Drunkard — If things had worked out differently, Vince Matthews and Jim Casey’s 1972 album The Kingston Springs Suite might be heralded as an outlaw country standard, alongside conceptual records like Red Headed Stranger, Will the Circle Be Unbroken, and Bitt... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — The American Cinematheque's Aero Theatre on Sunday screens Sam Peckinpah's 1973 western, "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid," starring Kris Kristofferson, James Coburn and Bob Dylan. The film's production was turbulent with the director's self-destructiv... more info