"Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose " Many may be familiar with this line, without potentially knowing where it comes from. Other may know it from Janis Joplin and her hit ' Me & Bobby McGee '. But only few may know, that the song was written by Kris Kristofferson. Born and raised in Texas, Rhodes scholarship in Oxford (England), Helicopter pilot in the US Army eventually brought Kris Kristofferson to Nashville in 1965 to try his luck at music. Being very shy on stage, he was more interested in combining his love of Hank Williams and his interest in literature as a songwriter than being a singer on stage. Soon he got a reputation in Nashville for writing songs in a new poetic style that talked about sexuality very open and yet spoke directly to people in the stories he told. While he was trying to meet ends in Nashville, he managed to meet Johnny Cash. The way he made him listen to one of his songs by landing with a helicopter in Johnn
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