signing with Top Rank Records under the name Kris Carson. After college, Kristofferson followed in his father's footsteps: He enrolled in the Army and became a helicopter pilot and, eventually ...

If there’s a Renaissance man of country music, it’s Kris Kristofferson. A Rhodes scholar, military pilot ... bartender, even helicopter pilot for oil rigs—to pursue songwriting.

Grammy-winning country music artist and actor Kris Kristofferson has died ... joined the Army and became a helicopter pilot -- and began writing songs on the side. Inspired by Dylan, he rejected ...

LOS ANGELES — Kris Kristofferson ... a mostly exaggerated story of how Kristofferson, a former U.S. Army pilot, landed a helicopter on Cash’s lawn to give him a tape of “Sunday Mornin ...

Few songwriters have had as profound an effect on country music as Kris Kristofferson ... was a captain in the army, having served as an Airborne Ranger helicopter pilot, and had been assigned ...

Dubbed the “Yank at Oxford,” he performed as Kris Carson in ... graduating from Oxford, Kristofferson joined the Army, serving as an Airborne Ranger helicopter pilot achieving the rank of ...