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Me and bobby mcgee
Me and bobby mcgee








At one point, like he did, he drove off and left her there. “I had the rhythm of a Mickey Newbury song called Why You Been Gone So Long, going on in the back of my mind and I developed this story of these guys who went around the country kind of like Anthony Quinn and Giuletta Masina in the 1954 film La Strada. Kris was not sure at first, “I hid from Fred for a while but I was trying to write that song all the time I was flying around Baton Rouge and New Orleans,” he remembered. He said, ‘You could make this thing about them traveling around, the hook is that he turns out to be a she.’ I said, I’ll try to write it, but I’ve never written a song on assignment. “Bobby McKee was the secretary of the songwriter Boudleaux Bryant, who was in the same building with Fred. “I thought he said McGee,” Kris recalled in an interview with Mojo magazine in 2008. He said that he had a song title in mind called It’s Me and Bobby McKee. The founder of Kristofferson’s record label, Fred Foster, rang Kris just as he was about to leave Nashville on a helicopter job. Cash eventually recorded one of the songs called Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down” and that year Kris was rewarded with an award for songwriter of the year at the Country Music Awards. His first job was sweeping floors at Columbia Recording Studios in Nashville, whilst there he met June Carter and asked her to give her husband, Johnny, a tape with some songs he’d written. He left the force in 1965 and moved to Nashville. Army where he would rise to the rank of Captain, he also gained a pilot’s licence and served as a helicopter pilot too. He came from a military background and in the late fifties he was pressured by his family to follow rank and joined the U.S.

me and bobby mcgee

Kristoffer Kristofferson, as he was christened, was born in Texas and will turn 80 later this year. In America his biggest hit, as a writer, was Janis Joplin’s 1971 number one Me and Bobby McGee. The latter of that list has, however, written some well-known songs that have charted for other people, namely Help Me Make It Through the Night, For the Good Times and the 1979 Lena Martell chart-topper One Day at a Time. Alan Jackson, Tim McGraw, Loretta Lynn, Kitty Wells, Reba McIntyre, Brad Paisley, George Strait and Kris Krisofferson are just some of the many. There are quite a number of country singers in America who have had phenomenal success over there but are virtually unknown in the UK.










Me and bobby mcgee