Of the many things he wrote &/or played, this is one of my favorites – but I also did my avuncular duty and shared it with the next generation (I happened to have it playing in the car when one of my nephews asked who it was)
More recently I worked my way back to the Dizzy Gillespie big-band sessions & he’s all over Birks Works. That’s actually thanks to my son, who heard it in a GTA game:
Came here to post that (from a different media source, but the same info).
One of a kind talent. Perhaps a drop of sherry to toast her farewell.
Rupert Keegan, driver of the infamous Durex Surtees F1 car (although not the one that got banned from British television).
RIP to a fine, fine actor who will be missed.
After Sinead ripped up that picture of the Pope on SNL, she was performing at some event that they were both at, and when the crowd booed her, he came out to comfort her and took her off the stage…
The word legend gets thrown around probably too much, but he was an absolute legend.
Aw 
I’m going to have to find a movie of his to watch this week. My dad played a lot of Country and Western stuff when I was a kid, and Kris was in there a lot, alongside Johnny Cash and, well, all those 70s and 80s names.
I expect the Americana radio show I listen to on the weekends will be playing a few of his tracks.
John Ashton in one of his first TV appearances.
Columbo, Negative Reaction, 1974.
We just watched it the other day.
And, whenever I see Convoy in the channel guide I settle in for 2 hours of good stuff.
If you believe in forever
Then life is just a one-night stand
If there’s a rock n’ roll heaven
Well you know they’ve got a hell of a band…
The 1976 version of A Star is Born is pretty good. He stars in it with Barbra Streisand. Or you could watch the Blade movies. Maybe skip the third one, though.
ETA: I knew that a Star is Born has been made 4 different times. I got to wondering why that story seems to just keep working every generation or two. The original screenplay for the original 1937 film was written by Dorothy Parker. I had no idea. No wonder it’s such a good story.
Talk about Sunday Morning Coming Down!
Been thinking about Kris a lot today, and two “pilgrim” songs have been in my head. “The Pilgrim, Chapter 33” is a classic and, but the simple little “Pilgrim’s Promise” is his song I’ve listened to the most over the past 15 years.
required aside: evolution is not a chain
“From the rocking of the cradle to the rolling of the hearse, the going up was worth the coming down”
I’d like to think of him as the hard living foul mouthed drunken uncle we always wanted.
As opposed to the ones we had.
I studied Radio-TV-Film at UT Austin, when Austin City Limits was still taped on-campus (& it was for a good while thereafter, but anyway…). During the off-season they taped a show called The Texas Connection in the same studio (I believe for what was then The Nashville Network). During one of our last semesters our cohort was all doing externships, and a few of the students (not me, though) got to work for TX Connection.
So then, given that milieu, this is not my story, but I was near enough to hear about it: If you can picture a guy like Seann William Scott w/ glasses, but kind of acted like a cross between Spicoli & Wooderson, that guy got assigned to essentially be Kris Kristofferson’s handler (we were all 21 or 22). “All you gotta do is help Mr. Kristofferson with whatever he needs, just make sure he shows up on time.” I’d say it’s like putting the fox in charge of the hen house except I’m not sure who was who in that analogy.
This sounds like a great idea for an updated/twisted/remake of “My Favorite Year”
