5 Links to Consider | October 2, 2024

A round-up of this week's compelling and considered clicks, compiled from The Absolute Sound's veteran staff of experts and reviewers.

1. Before He Became an Award-Winning Double Threat, Kris Kristofferson Was a Rhodes Scholar

   An award-winning musician and actor, Kris Kristofferson had a slow start in country music until artists such as Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis began to record his songs. His big breakthrough came in 1971, when Janis Joplin’s version of his song “Me and Bobby McGee” reached the top of the charts.

   Simultaneously maintaining his legendary career as a songwriter and performer, he won three Grammy Awards, was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and Country Music Hall of Fame, and saw his songs at the top of the charts throughout much of his life. Kristofferson died in September 2024 at age 88.

   

   Actor and singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson died at his home in Maui, Hawaii, on September 28.