# Kris Kristofferson has died **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [September 29, 2024, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kris-kristofferson-has-died/1008260 "2024-09-29T22:54:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kris-kristofferson-has-died/1008260/21 "2024-09-30T01:12:31Z")
Just this morning, before I’d heard the news, I’d listened to one of my (many) favorite songs of his, _The Silver Tongued Devil and I_. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kris-kristofferson-has-died/1008260/22 "2024-09-30T02:16:19Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > A star has died. And, A Star is Gone. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kris-kristofferson-has-died/1008260/23 "2024-09-30T02:22:01Z")
I got to see him live, at some point in the '90s, when he toured with the rest of the Highwaymen. I was never a big fan of his singing voice, but he was an amazing songwriter, and a true Renaissance man. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kris-kristofferson-has-died/1008260/24 "2024-09-30T04:23:07Z")
Let me suggest **Payback** , **Lone Star** and **Chelsea Walls** if you haven’t seen them. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kris-kristofferson-has-died/1008260/25 "2024-09-30T04:42:13Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Dude did it all. Probably shouldn’t have done _Convoy_, though. No, _Convoy_ was great fun, for a movie based on a novelty song. A good drive-in B-picture, which is where I saw it. He was also great in _Dreamer_. Sad to hear of his passing. His life truly was a tapestry (thanks, Carole King), and he made the most of it at every opportunity. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kris-kristofferson-has-died/1008260/26 "2024-09-30T04:47:21Z")
Nobody but me seems to remember him in Amerikkka. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kris-kristofferson-has-died/1008260/27 "2024-09-30T05:18:52Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](#): > > Only Willie remains. I bet the poor guy is having a rough night. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kris-kristofferson-has-died/1008260/28 "2024-09-30T05:49:28Z")
> > > Peter Alexander @PeterAlexander Great story about a very conservative country star (Toby Keith, here obfuscated) giving Kristofferson shit about the politics in his music, and Kristofferson having absolutely none of it. The man was a real one, for sure. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kris-kristofferson-has-died/1008260/29 "2024-09-30T11:32:54Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > It’s the friendship that I love. Kris was good friends with Johnny Cash. I saw video of Cash and Kris doing _Sunday Morning_ together. Cash talks about it being his favorite song and Kris was so happy he looked like he was going to cry. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kris-kristofferson-has-died/1008260/30 "2024-09-30T13:40:07Z")
At work, I am a leader in our Military and Allies Resource Council on the Communications team and I wrote about Kristofferson in the last newsletter. I admit that I kind of ran out of steam by the time I got to 1992 and with the deadline approaching, I chose to end it about him comforting Sinéad O’Connor. [![](https://i.imgur.com/zdoXmYV.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/zdoXmYV.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kris-kristofferson-has-died/1008260/31 "2024-09-30T14:12:16Z")
**MrsFtG** is a big fan. Her favorite song of his is _Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down_. For me it’s _Me and Bobby McGee._ The New Riders of the Purple Sage have a song _Lonesome L.A. Cowboy_ with the line: “Kris and Rita, and Martin Mull are meeting at the troubadour.” Hope Rita Coolidge is doing okay. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kris-kristofferson-has-died/1008260/32 "2024-09-30T15:19:08Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > So many great lines. What a poet! Yeah, this one hits hard. I grew up listening to my parent’s copies of _Me and Bobby McGee_, _The Silver-Tongued Devil_, and _Songs of Kristofferson_. In my opinion, the only American songwriter who can match him as a poet and lyricist in the last seventy years is Ani DiFranco. He was a self-proclaimed country singer – in the spoken-word introduction to his version of _Me and Bobby McGee_, he says “If it sounds country, man, that’s what it is; this is a country song” - but his writing really transcended genres. Or perhaps it’s better to say, he wrote country songs about non-country situations and characters. One of my favorite songs is the lesser-known “Casey’s Last Ride”, a meditation on loneliness from the point of view of a Londoner, one of Eliot’s Englishmen who “live lives of quiet desperation”, remembering a tryst with an ex-lover. “Darby’s Castle” is another genre-crosser, a folk-style song about a man who builds a house for his beloved wife, and grows so obsessed that he ignores her and loses her love: “Though they shared a common bed,/ there was precious little said/in the moments that were set aside for sleeping./For his busy dreams were filled/with the room’s he’d yet to build/and he never heard young Helen Darby weeping.” But then, Kris was also capable of writing a purely country line like “I’ve got a mind to see the headlights shining on that old white line/between my heart and home” or “That silver-tongued devil/just slipped from the shadows/and smilingly stole her away”. Man. Georgia lost, the Browns lost, and Kris Kristofferson died. What a shitty weekend. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kris-kristofferson-has-died/1008260/33 "2024-09-30T15:34:26Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Nobody but me seems to remember him in Amerikkka. Pretty crappy miniseries, it wasn’t really his fault. I was going to say I started a thread about it a “little while ago”, but it was actually in 2016! > [@Amerika (1987 miniseries)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amerika-1987-miniseries/763260): > > I just finished watching the miniseries “Amerika” (about a Soviet-dominated U.S.) which premiered in 1987. I remember the hype at the time (and the spoof “Amerida” on SNL where Canada took over the U.S.), but I never saw it. It wasn’t very good. The exact mechanism how the Soviets took over America was deliberately left vague (Wikipedia says the novelisation explains that America was crippled by a huge EMP), but it didn’t seem very plausible. There was a lot of choppy jumping between the var… ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kris-kristofferson-has-died/1008260/34 "2024-09-30T16:26:29Z")
Stood up for Sinead after the Pope picture thing. Took guts. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kris-kristofferson-has-died/1008260.md?page=1)