Kris Kristofferson Biography
Kris Kristofferson is an American retired country singer, songwriter, and actor. He gained fame after Johnny Cash introduced him at the 1969 Newport Folk Festival. There, Kristofferson first performed for a big audience and, eventually began to establish himself in the music industry. Among his songwriting credits are “Me and Bobby McGee”, “For the Good Times”, “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down”, and “Help Me Make It Through the Night”, all of which were hits for other artists.
Kris Kristofferson Career
In 1954, he earned his high school diploma from San Mateo. Kristofferson enrolled in Pomona College right away as a budding writer. Prize-winning essays from his early work were published in The Atlantic Monthly, along with “The Rock” and “Gone Are the Days” These early tales highlight Kristofferson’s earliest interests and worries. “The Rock” centers on a geographical feature that resembles a woman’s form, whereas the other film deals with a racial incident. In the western Pacific Ocean, on Wake Island, Kristofferson, then seventeen years old, accepted a summer job as a dredging contractor. It was “the hardest job I ever had,” as he put it.
Kristofferson, who was a student at Pomona College, gained his first widespread recognition in 1958, when his accomplishments in American football, track and field, and collegiate rugby union were featured in Sports Illustrated magazine on March 31. In 1958, he and his fellow students brought back the Claremont Colleges Rugby Club, which is still a Southern California rugby mainstay today. In 1958, Kristofferson earned a summa cum laude Bachelor of Arts degree in literature. During his junior year, he was chosen to join Phi Beta Kappa. During an interview with Pomona College Magazine in 2004, Kristofferson acknowledged Frederick Sontag, a philosophy professor, as a significant figure in his life. Alongside fellow performers Johnny Cash and Rita Coolidge, Kristofferson accepted an honorary doctorate in fine arts from Pomona College in 1973 during Alumni Weekend.
Professor Sontag, his aforementioned mentor, gave him his award. Kristofferson studied at Merton College at the University of Oxford in 1958 after receiving a Rhodes Scholarship. He started writing songs while at Oxford, where he also played rugby for his college and received a Blue in boxing. He got to know poet, art critic, and fellow Rhodes scholar Michael Fried at Oxford. Kristofferson recorded under the name Kris Carson for Top Rank Records with the assistance of his manager, Larry Parnes. Parnes was trying to market Kristofferson to the British public as “a Yank at Oxford.” Kristofferson was open to accepting that kind of promotion if it benefited his singing career, which he believed would help him get closer to his dream of writing novels. His music career did not succeed in this early stage. Kristofferson received his B.Phil. in English literature in 1960. He wed Frances “Fran” Mavia Beer, his longtime girlfriend, in 1961.
Kris Kristofferson Military service
Kristofferson enlisted in the U.S. Army as a second lieutenant and eventually rose to the rank of captain, despite pressure from his family. He completed his flight training at Fort Rucker, Alabama, and went on to become a helicopter pilot. He finished Ranger School as well. Kristofferson served with the 8th Infantry Division and was stationed in West Germany in the early 1960s. He started a band and continued his musical career during this time. Following the conclusion of his tour in Germany in 1965, Kristofferson was assigned to the English literature department at West Point. Rather, he made the decision to quit the Army and focus on his songwriting. His career decision caused his family to disown him; it’s unclear from sources if they were able to make amends. Though Kristofferson says he is proud of his time in the military and won the Veteran of the Year Award at the 2003 American Veterans Awards ceremony, they saw it as a rejection of everything they stood for.
Kris Kristofferson Music Career
In 1965, Kristofferson left the army and relocated to Nashville. He struggled to succeed as a musician, worked odd jobs, and had to pay for expensive medical care because his son had an esophageal defect. His wife and he split up quickly. He was hired by Nashville’s Columbia Recording Studios to sweep floors. There he met June Carter, whom he asked to give Johnny Cash one of his tapes. She did, but Cash added it to a big pile along with other things. Additionally, he flew commercial helicopters for Lafayette, Louisiana-based Petroleum Helicopters International (PHI), a company located in south Louisiana.
Dave Dudley released “Viet Nam Blues,” a hit song by Kristofferson, in 1966. Kristofferson joined Epic Records in 1967 and put out a single called “Golden Idol/Killing Time,” but the song didn’t do well. More Kristofferson originals reached number one on the charts over the next few years, including “Jody and the Kid” by Roy Drusky, “From the Bottle to the Bottom” by Billy Walker & the Tennessee Walkers, “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down” by Ray Stevens, “Once More with Feeling” by Jerry Lee Lewis, “Your Time’s Comin'” by Faron Young, and “Me and Bobby McGee”, “Best of all Possible Worlds”, and “Darby’s Castle” by Roger Miller. After Johnny Cash introduced him at the Newport Folk Festival, he became a popular performer.
Kristofferson became a recording artist and signed with Monument Records. Fred Foster managed Kristofferson’s songwriting label, Combine Music, in addition to overseeing that label. His 1970 Monument debut album, “Kristofferson,” featured many of his hit songs from the past along with a few new ones. Although this debut album’s sales were disappointing, it would go on to become a success the following year when it was reissued under the title Me & Bobby McGee. Kristofferson’s musical works remained in high demand.
In the early 1970s, successful recordings of his songs were made by Ray Price (“For the Good Times”), Gladys Knight & the Pips (“Help Me Make It Through the Night”), Waylon Jennings (“The Taker”), Bobby Bare (“Come Sundown”), Johnny Cash (“Sunday Morning Coming Down”), and Sammi Smith (“Help Me Make It Through the Night”). The Country Music Association, the rival to the Academy of Country Music, awarded “Song of the Year” to Johnny Cash’s “Sunday Morning Coming Down” in 1970, while Ray Price’s “For the Good Times” took home the honor. This is the only instance in which a person has won the same prize from both organizations for separate songs in the same year.
The song “Me and Bobby McGee” from Janis Joplin’s posthumous album Pearl, which she had dated Kristofferson, reached number one in 1971. For weeks, it remained at the top of the charts. Ray Price (“I’d Rather Be Sorry”), Joe Simon (“Help Me Make It Through the Night”), Bobby Bare (“Please Don’t Tell Me How the Story Ends”), O.C. Smith (“Help Me Make It Through the Night”), Jerry Lee Lewis (“Me and Bobby McGee”), Patti Page (“I’d Rather Be Sorry”), and Peggy Little (“I’ve Got to Have You”) were among the other artists who subsequently had hits.
Some of Kristofferson’s compositions were recorded by country music artist Kenny Rogers. In 1969, The First Edition recorded “Me and Bobby McGee” for the Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love To Town album.
The Silver Tongued Devil and I, Kristofferson’s second album, was released in 1971. It featured “Lovin’ Her Was Easier (Than Anything I’ll Ever Do Again)” . Kristofferson’s recording career was launched by this triumph. Not too long after, Kristofferson debuted as an actor in Dennis Hopper’s The Last Movie and attended the Isle of Wight Festival. The First Great Rock Festivals of the Seventies is a three-disc compilation that includes a portion of his Isle of Wight performance.
In 1971, he released his third album, Border Lord, and starred in Cisco Pike. Sales of the album, which contained all-new material, were slow. He was also nominated for multiple Grammy Awards that year, and his song “Help Me Make It Through the Night” won Country Song of the Year. Sales of Kristofferson’s fourth album from 1972, Jesus Was a Capricorn, started slowly but picked up considerably after the release of the third single, “Why Me.” On November 8, 1973, the RIAA awarded it a gold disc after it had sold over a million copies. Kristofferson sang a more personal rendition of “Help Me Make It Through the Night” when he and Rita Coolidge appeared on British television in 1972’s The Old Grey Whistle Test. Al Green recorded his rendition of “For the Good Times” for the album I’m Still in Love with You, which was released in 1972.
Kris Kristofferson Film
Kristofferson dedicated the following few years to acting. He starred in several films, including Michael Ritchie’s Semi-Tough (1977) starring Burt Reynolds, Cisco Pike (1972) starring Gene Hackman, Blume in Love (1973), three Sam Peckinpah films (Patrick Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973), Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974), and Convoy (1978). He kept acting, appearing in films directed by Martin Scorsese such as Vigilante Force (1976), The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1976), Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974), and the romantic drama A Star Is Born (1976) starring Barbra Streisand, for which he won a Golden Globe for Best Actor.
Kristofferson turned down the romantic war films Hanover Street (1979) and William Friedkin’s Sorcerer (1977) at the height of his box office dominance. With his non-charting ninth album, Shake Hands with the Devil, Kristofferson’s solo career took a negative turn despite his success with Streisand. His subsequent production, the two-part NBC-TV film Freedom Road (1979), was not well-received by critics. Next, Kristofferson was paired with Michael Cimino in his vast and desolate 1980 anti-Western film Heaven’s Gate, where he played the mysterious Sheriff James Averill. Though at the time it was a scandalous failure that bankrupted studios and changed the industry (costing Kristofferson his Hollywood A-list status), the film was praised by critics in the years that followed.
He co-starred with Jane Fonda in Alan J. Pakula’s Rollover in 1981. He co-starred with Johnny Cash in The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James in 1986 and starred in William Tannen’s Flashpoint in 1984. The neo-noir thriller Trouble In Mind, which starred Keith Carradine and Lori Singer, came next in 1985. Alongside Robert Urich and Christine Lahti, Kristofferson starred in seven episodes of the television series Amerika in 1987. He co-starred with Cheryl Ladd as the male lead in the 1989 movie Millennium. Kristofferson received a nomination for an Oscar for Best Screenplay in John Sayles’s Lone Star (1996), in which he played the corrupt South Texas sheriff Charlie Wade.
He and Steven Seagal starred in the movie Fire Down Below in 1997. He co-starred with Wesley Snipes as Blade’s mentor Abraham Whistler in the 1998 movie Blade. In Blade: Trinity (2004) and Blade II (2002), he played the same role twice. He co-starred with Vanessa Williams and Chayanne in the 1998 film Dance with Me. He starred alongside Mel Gibson in the 1999 film Payback. At that time, he appeared in Tim Burton’s 2001 adaptation of Planet of the Apes. In the Norwegian film Yohan—the Children Wanderer, he also portrayed the title role of “Yohan” as an elderly man. He was a co-star in Dolphin Tale (2011) and Dolphin Tale 2 (2014).
Kristofferson and his longtime friend Dolly Parton were in Joyful Noise in 2012. Alongside Willie Nelson and Lyle Lovett in Angels Sing and The Motel Life in 2013, Kristofferson also starred in those films. In the 2006 movie Disappearances, which followed whiskey runners from Quebec to the US during the Great Depression, Kristofferson costarred with Geneviève Bujold. Early in the 1970s, Kristofferson became well-known for his singing and later met Rita Coolidge. Following their 1973 marriage, they put out the successful album Full Moon, which was supported by multiple hit singles and Grammy nominations. Nevertheless, the majority of his musical career was characterized by commercial failure following the release of his fifth album, Spooky Lady’s Sideshow, in 1974.
Although Kristofferson’s material was successfully recorded by artists like Ronnie Milsap and Johnny Duncan, his unique gritty voice and anti-pop style limited his own fan base. Willie Nelson, whose 1979 LP release of (Willie Nelson) Sings Kristofferson reached number five on the U.S. Country Music chart and was certified Platinum in the U.S., was among the artists who catapulted his songs to the top of the charts. Alongside Rita Coolidge, Stephen Stills, the CBS Jazz All-Stars, the Trio of Doom, the Fania All-Stars, Billy Swan, Bonnie Bramlett, Mike Finnigan, Weather Report, and Billy Joel, as well as a variety of Cuban artists like Irakere, Pacho Alonso, Tata Güines, and Orquesta Aragón, Kristofferson traveled to Havana, Cuba, in 1979 to take part in the historic Havana Jam festival, which took place from March 2–4.
Ernesto Juan Castellanos’s documentary Havana Jam ’79 features footage of his performance. Kristofferson and Coolidge sang “Help Me Make It Through the Night” with Miss Piggy, “We’re All Alone” with forest animals, and “Song I’d Like to Sing” with the Muppet monsters during their appearance on The Muppet Show on November 18, 1979. In 1980, they got divorced. Together with Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, and Brenda Lee, Kristofferson recorded The Winning Hand in 1982. It was a double album that featured updated and remastered versions of recordings the four artists had made for the Monument label in the middle of the 1960s. The album peaked at number ten on the U.S. country album charts.
He remarried Lisa Meyers and focused on acting for a while, making appearances in the 1984 motion pictures Songwriter, Flashpoint, and The Lost Honor of Kathryn Beck. Both Kristofferson and Nelson made appearances in Songwriter, and Kristofferson received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song Score. Nelson-Kristofferson duets appeared on the album Music from Songwriter, which became a huge hit in the country music scene. The Highwaymen were a supergroup that included Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, and Nelson and Kristofferson in addition to themselves. After the success of their debut album, Highwayman, the supergroup carried on with their collaboration for a while. Originally recorded by Jimmy Webb in 1977, the album’s lead single “Highwayman” won the 1985 ACM Single of the Year award.
In addition to starring in Trouble in Mind, Kristofferson released Repossessed in 1985, a politically conscious album that became popular in the country thanks to songs like “They Killed Him” (which Bob Dylan also performed) and “Mahatma Gandhi,” which paid homage to his heroes, Martin Luther King Jr., Jesus, and Mahatma Gandhi. Around the same time, Kristofferson made an appearance in the miniseries Amerika, which tried to portray life in America under Soviet rule. Although Kristofferson continued to record well with the Highwaymen, his solo career took a serious hit in the early 1990s despite the success of Highwayman 2.
Following the success of John Sayles’ 1996 film Lone Star, Kristofferson’s acting career took off, and he went on to feature in films such as Chelsea Walls, Payback, The Jacket, Blade, Blade II, Blade: Trinity, A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries, Fire Down Below, and Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes remake. Both the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame inducted Kristofferson in 1977 and 1985, respectively. With the assistance of musicians like Mark Knopfler, Steve Earle, and Jackson Browne, Kristofferson reworked some of his favorite songs for the 1999 album The Austin Sessions. Broken Freedom Song, a live album recorded in San Francisco, was released in 2003. The Americana Music Association presented him with the “Spirit of Americana” free speech award in 2003.
He was admitted to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2004. In the film Dreamer, which came out on October 21, 2005, Kristofferson portrayed a retired thoroughbred horse trainer named “Pop.” The true story of Mariah’s Storm, the mare that won the Turfway Breeders Cup Classic, served as the inspiration for the film. In 2006, he was honored with the Songwriters Hall of Fame’s Johnny Mercer Award and released This Old Road, his first album with all-new songs in eleven years. Kristofferson received the Johnny Cash Visionary Award from CMT on April 21, 2007. Cash’s daughter Rosanne Cash accepted the award at the Nashville awards ceremony on April 16.
Several of Kristofferson’s hits were performed when he appeared on CMT’s Studio 330 Sessions in July 2007. On June 13, 2008, Kristofferson Patty Griffin, and Randy Owen (Alabama) played an acoustic in-the-round set for a special recording of a PBS songwriters series that was broadcast in December. Every artist performed five songs. “The Best of All Possible Worlds,” “Darby’s Castle,” “Casey’s Last Ride,” “Me and Bobby McGee,” and “Here Comes that Rainbow Again” were among the songs Kristofferson performed. It was recorded in Nashville. On September 29, 2009, Kristofferson released a new album of original songs called Closer to the Bone. Don Was produces it under the New West label.
Kristofferson received recognition as a BMI Icon on November 10, 2009, at the 57th BMI Country Awards. 48 BMI Country and Pop Awards have been given to Kristofferson’s songwriting throughout his career. It was revealed in December 2009 that Kristofferson would play Joe in the next Ghost Brothers of Darkland County album, which is a joint project of rock musician John Mellencamp and author Stephen King. Light in the Attic Records released demos recorded during Kristofferson’s time working as a janitor at Columbia on May 11, 2010.
Don’t Tell Me How the Story Ends, Please: Some of the material from the original “Me and Bobby McGee” recording and other Kristofferson recordings, as well as recordings by other well-known artists, are included on the Publishing Demos, which marks the first release of these recordings. At a solo acoustic performance at the Maui Arts and Cultural Center on June 4, 2011, Kristofferson played a mix of newer songs and some of his original hits that had been covered by other artists. Feeling Mortal, Kristofferson’s new album of original songs was released at the beginning of 2013. In September 2014, the live album An Evening With Kris Kristofferson was made available.
In the critically acclaimed 2010 video game Fallout: New Vegas, Kristofferson provided the voice of Chief Hanlon of the NCR Rangers. On October 23, 2015, Matt Kelemen disclosed in an interview for Las Vegas Magazine Q&A that he was working on a new album called The Cedar Creek Sessions, which was recorded in Austin and would feature both new and old songs. The album received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Americana Album in December 2016. Kristofferson’s 2017 album Cover Stories featured a cover of “Turpentine” by Brandi Carlile. On November 7, 2018, Kristofferson celebrated Joni Mitchell’s 75th birthday at the Both Sides Now – Joni 75 A Birthday Celebration. With help from Carlile, he performed the song “A Case of You” from the 1971 Mitchell album Blue.
As part of Barclay’s Summertime Concert series, Kristofferson became known in June 2019 as one of the supporting acts for a July 7 “exclusive European concert” featuring Barbra Streisand in London’s Hyde Park. It was declared that Kristofferson had retired in January 2021. Contrary to popular belief, his last performances were on the Outlaw Country Cruise in January 2020. On February 5, 2020, Kris Kristofferson gave his final, complete performance at Fort Pierce, Florida’s Sunrise Theatre. He had the Strangers’ support, just like on the Outlaw Country Cruise.
Kris Kristofferson Age
Kristofferson was born on June 22, 1936, in Brownsville, Texas, United States. He is 87 years old as of 2023 and he celebrates his birthday on the 22nd of June every year.
Kris Kristofferson Height and Weight
Kristofferson stands at a height of 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) and weighs 90 kg (199 lbs).
Kris Kristofferson Family
Kristofferson was born in Brownsville, Texas, to Mary Ann Ashbrook and Lars Henry Kristofferson, an officer in the United States Army Air Corps who would go on to become a major general in the United States Air Force. In the Swedish Army, Kristofferson’s paternal grandfather served as an officer. His father encouraged Kristofferson to enlist in the military when he was a young boy. As a young boy, Kristofferson moved around a lot due to his father’s military service before settling in San Mateo, California. He grew up alongside his two siblings, sister, Karen Kirschenbauer and brother, Kraigher Kristofferson.
Kris Kristofferson Wife and Children
He married Frances “Fran” Mavia Beer, his lifelong girlfriend, in 1961 and later got divorced. Janis Joplin dated Kristofferson for a short while before she passed away in October 1970. In 1973, he entered into his second marriage to singer Rita Coolidge, which ended in divorce in 1980. In 1983, Kristofferson married Lisa Meyers. Together with their Malibu, California, home in Los Flores Canyon, Kristofferson and Lisa Meyers also keep a house in Hana, on the island of Maui. After three marriages, Kristofferson has eight children: two with Fran Beer from his first marriage, one with Rita from his second marriage, and five with Lisa (Meyers) Kristofferson from his third marriage.
Kris Kristofferson Salary
Kristofferson has not disclosed information about how much he makes annually. However, an update of this information will be made when available.
Kris Kristofferson Net Worth
Kristofferson has an estimated net worth of about $200 Million which he has earned through his career as a singer, songwriter, and actor.
Kris Kristofferson Health | What Disease Does Kris Kristofferson Have?
Over the past few decades, Kristofferson has experienced several health complications. In 1999, he underwent a successful coronary bypass procedure. Later on, he began to lose his memory. According to the National Institute of Aging, Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive condition that gradually impairs memory, thinking abilities, and ultimately the capacity to perform even the most basic tasks. Kristofferson was misdiagnosed with this illness. The country music icon was afflicted with Lyme disease, a tick-borne illness, for a considerable amount of time. When the Grammy Award winner and Golden Globes boxer’s wife provided some insight into what ultimately led to the country music star’s discovery of the truth, news of Kristofferson’s misdiagnosis was leaked to Rolling Stone and a few other news outlets back in 2016.
Is Kris Kristofferson Still Alive? | Kris Kristofferson Death
Kristofferson is still alive. However, he once disclosed that upon his death, he would like the first three lines of Leonard Cohen’s “Bird on the Wire” on his tombstone:
Like a bird on the wire
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free
Kris Kristofferson Movies and TV Shows
- The Last Movie 1971
- Cisco Pike 1972
- The Gospel Road: A Story of Jesus 1973
- Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 1973
- Blume in Love 1973
- Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia 1974
- Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore 1974
- The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea 1976
- Vigilante Force 1976
- A Star Is Born 1976
- Semi-Tough 1977
- Convoy 1978
- Heaven’s Gate 1980
- Rollover 1981
- The Last Horror Film 1982
- Flashpoint 1984
- Songwriter 1984
- Trouble in Mind 1985
- Big Top Pee-wee 1988
- Millennium 1989
- Welcome Home 1989
- Sandino 1990
- Night of the Cyclone 1991
- Original Intent 1992
- No Place to Hide 1993
- Paper Hearts 1993
- Knights 1993
- Pharaoh’s Army 1995
- Lone Star 1996
- Fire Down Below 1997
- Girls’ Night 1998
- Blade 1998
- Dance with Me 1998
- A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries 1998
- The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock 1998
- Payback 1999
- Molokai: The Story of Father Damien 1999
- Limbo 1999
- The Joyriders 1999
- Comanche 2000
- Planet of the Apes 2001
- Chelsea Walls 2001
- Wooly Boys 2001
- D-Tox 2002
- Blade II 2002
- Where the Red Fern Grows 2003
- Silver City 2004
- Forever Is a Long, Long Time 2004
- Blade: Trinity 2004
- The Jacket 2005
- The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico 2005
- The Wendell Baker Story 2005
- Dreamer 2005
- Brats: Our Journey Home 2006
- Disappearances 2006
- Fast Food Nation 2006
- Room 10 2006
- Payback: Straight Up 2006
- Requiem for Billy the Kid 2006
- Crossing the Heart 2007
- I’m Not There 2007
- Jump Out Boys 2008
- Snow Buddies 2008
- John Rich: Shuttin’ Detroit Down 2009
- He’s Just Not That Into You 2009
- Powder Blue 2009
- For Sale by Owner 2009
- Bloodworth 2010
- The Last Rites of Ransom Pride 2010
- Yohan: The Child Wanderer 2010
- Dolphin Tale 2011
- The Greening of Whitney Brown 2011
- Joyful Noise 2012
- Deadfall 2012
- The Motel Life 2012
- Angels Sing 2013
- Midnight Stallion 2013
- San Patricios 2014
- Dolphin Tale 2 2014
- 7 Minutes 2014
- The Winding Stream: The Carters, the Cashes and the Course of Country Music 2014
- Traded 2016
- The Red Maple Leaf 2016
- Hickok 2017
- The Star 2017
- Abilene 2017
- Blaze 2018
- Saturday Night Live 1976
- The Muppet Show 1978
- Freedom Road 1979
- The Lost Honor of Kathryn Beck 1984
- The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James 1986
- Blood & Orchids 1986
- Stagecoach 1986
- Amerika 1987
- The Tracker 1988
- Pair of Aces 1990
- Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind 1991
- Miracle in the Wilderness 1992
- Christmas in Connecticut 1992
- Trouble Shooters: Trapped Beneath the Earth 1993
- Sodbusters 1994
- The Larry Sanders Show 1994
- Big Dreams and Broken Hearts: The Dottie West Story 1995
- Tad 1995
- Inflammable 1995
- Brothers’ Destiny 1995
- Blue Rodeo 1996
- Dead Man’s Gun 1997–1999
- Two for Texas[ 1998
- The Long Kill 1999
- NetForce 1999
- Perfect Murder, Perfect Town 2000
- The Break 2003
- Lives of the Saints 2004
- 14 Hours 2005
- Handy Manny 2009
- Down Dog 2015
- Texas Rising 2015
- Gun 2005
- Fallout: New Vegas 2010
Kris Kristofferson Songs
- Kristofferson (1970)
- The Silver Tongued Devil and I (1971)
- Border Lord (1972)
- Jesus Was a Capricorn (1972)
- Spooky Lady’s Sideshow (1974)
- Who’s to Bless and Who’s to Blame (1975)
- Surreal Thing (1976)
- Easter Island (1978)
- Shake Hands with the Devil (1979)
- To the Bone (1981)
- Repossessed (1986)
- Third World Warrior (1990)
- A Moment of Forever (1995)
- The Austin Sessions (1999)
- This Old Road (2006)
- Closer to the Bone (2009)
- Feeling Mortal (2013)
- The Cedar Creek Sessions (2016)
Kris Kristofferson Social Media Platform
Kristofferson is very active on his Twitter and Facebook pages. He has 2.6k followers on Twitter and 890k followers on Facebook.