Kris Kristofferson ~ Similar Artists

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Waylon Jennings - 100% match to Kris Kristofferson

Wayland Arnold Jennings, 15 June 1937, Littlefield, Texas, USA, d. 13 February 2002, Arizona, USA. Jennings' mother wanted to name him Tommy but his father, William Alvin, insisted that the family tradition of "W.A.' should be maintained. His father played guitar in Texas... Read more

Merle Haggard - 83% match to Kris Kristofferson

6 April 1937, Bakersfield, California, USA. "Like a razor's edge, Merle Haggard sings" is how John Stewart described his voice in "Eighteen Wheels", and that razor has been honed by his rough and rowdy ways. In the 30s Haggard's parents migrated from the Dustbowl to "the land of... Read more

Willie Nelson - 82% match to Kris Kristofferson

Willie Hugh Nelson, 30 April 1933, Abbott, Texas, USA. Following their mother's desertion and the death of their father, Nelson and his sister Bobbie were raised by their grandparents. Bobbie was encouraged to play the piano and Willie the guitar. By the age of seven he was... Read more

George Jones - 67% match to Kris Kristofferson

George Glenn Jones, 12 September 1931, Saratoga, Texas, USA. Jones is the greatest of honky tonk singers but he has also been a victim of its lifestyle. He learned guitar in his youth, and in 1947, was hired by the husband-and-wife duo Eddie And Pearl. This developed into his... Read more

Guy Clark - 67% match to Kris Kristofferson

6 November 1941, Rockport, Texas, USA. Clark has achieved considerably more fame as a songwriter than as a performer, although he is revered by his nucleus of fans internationally. Brought up in the hamlet of Monahans, Texas, Clark worked in television during the 60s, and later... Read more

David Allan Coe - 59% match to Kris Kristofferson

6 September 1939, Akron, Ohio, USA. From the age of nine, Coe was in and out of reform schools, correction centres and prisons. According to his publicity handout, he spent time on Death Row after killing a fellow inmate who demanded oral sex. When Rolling Stone magazine... Read more

The Highwaymen - 59% match to Kris Kristofferson

This self-contained folk quintet comprised Dave Fisher (1940, New Haven, Connecticut, USA), Steve Butts (b. 1940, New York, New York, USA), Chan Daniels (b. 1940, Buenos Aires, Brazil, d. 2 August 1975), Bobby Burnett (b. 1940, Mystic, Connecticut, USA) and Steve Trott (b. 1940,... Read more

Hank Williams - 51% match to Kris Kristofferson

Hiram (misspelled on birth certificate as Hiriam) Williams, 17 September 1923, Georgiana, Alabama, USA, d. 1 January 1953, on the road between Montgomery, Alabama and Oak Hill, West Virginia, USA. Misspelling notwithstanding, Williams disliked the name and took to calling... Read more

Townes Van Zandt - 51% match to Kris Kristofferson

John Townes Van Zandt, 7 March 1944, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, d. 1 January 1997, Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, USA. A country and folk blues singer and guitarist, Van Zandt was a native Texan and great-grandson of one of the original settlers who founded Fort Worth in the mid-nineteenth... Read more