In an interview from 1999, Kris Kristofferson recalled how he felt after moving to Nashville after leaving the United States ...

More: Kris Kristofferson, legendary songwriting master, dead at 88 Kristofferson was born in 1936 in Brownsville, Texas into ...

Few songwriters have had as profound an effect on country music as Kris Kristofferson ... and had been assigned to West Point military academy to teach English. Before accepting the commission ...

Kris Kristofferson performs in concert at The ... Oxford in England and turned down an appointment to teach at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, to pursue songwriting in Nashville.

Kris Kristofferson’s lyrics have penetrated ... he later taught English literature at West Point in New York State. A military child, his paternal grandfather was an officer in the Swedish ...

He was assigned by the military to teach literature ... Fame and Museum said he left behind “a resounding legacy”. “Kris Kristofferson believed creativity is God-given, and those who ...