Over half a century since her sudden death at the age of 27, Janis Joplin's loss remains one of the most tragic in rock ...

There’s something wistfully romantic about the second verse of “Me And Bobby McGee” that makes it hard not to daydream about an untethered life on the road. “Windshield wipers slappin’ time, I was ...

Kris Kristofferson was playing a show in Iowa on Wednesday night, but one of his most famous compositions was blaring throughout Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena at the 53rd annual CMA Awards. Sheryl ...

Janis Joplin’s version of “Me and Bobby McGee” was released on Jan. 12, 1971. One day earlier, a Food Stamp Amendment was passed, establishing uniform work requirements for eligibility. “Busted flat,” ...

Lawsuit filed against Piere’s, Bobby McGee’s for pirating UFC fights Massie: Number of Republicans voting to release Epstein files ‘could snowball’ Police raided a Kansas newspaper. Now they have ...

Before he was an outlaw-country pioneer and a movie star, and after he was a Rhodes scholar and a helicopter pilot for the U.S. Army, the jarringly handsome young man was a janitor in Nashville, for ...

Saturday, March 15, 2025 at 9 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport + Encore Sunday, March 16 at 6:30 p.m. on KPBS 2 On March 16, 2016, a multigenerational “Who’s Who” of ...

Pink performed a couple of classic rock covers at FireAid on Wednesday evening. After performing her original 2017 hit "What About Us," she transitioned into a cover of Janis Joplin's "Me and Bobby ...

After marking the New Year under the slithering Chinese zodiac and casting hope with premonitions of “transformation, renewal, and spiritual growth,” Bobby Weir reemerged at The Park in Fort ...

Kris Kristofferson at the Roskilde Festival in 2013 (Wikimedia Commons) Many obituaries for Kris Kristofferson, the singer and movie star who died last week at the age of 88, noted his importance to ...