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‘A Gentleman, Kind Soul, and Lover of Words’: Tributes to Kris Kristofferson Pour In

Dolly Parton, Reba McEntire, Sheryl Crow, and many, many more from music and movies paid tribute to late songwriter and actor Kris Kristofferson.

Dolly Parton, Reba McEntire, Sheryl Crow, and more led the country contingent, while an array of other musicians and actors also paid their respects to the late songwriter Rucker, who performed with Kristofferson at the White House in 2011 (they played the Townes Van Zandt classic “Pancho and Lefty”), wrote, “We lost one of the kindest most beautiful souls that God gave us. Josh Brolin, who worked with Kristofferson on the 1993 movie Paper Hearts, called him a, “Poet, lovely human being, road scholar redneck old schooler,” before sharing lyrics from his 1971 classic “Lovin’ Her Was Easier (Than Anything I’ll Ever Do Again).”

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