Fricke’s Picks: The Kristofferson Vaults

In her new memoir, Just Kids, Patti Smith tells of a night in New York when she saw Kris Kristofferson — an Oxford-educated, ex-Army songwriter struggling to make it in Nashville — sing his tune “Me and Bobby McGee” for Janis Joplin, who soon recorded it. His own first take on Please Don’t Tell Me [...]

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