Watch Kris Kristofferson's Final Concert Performance - Taste of Country

Watch Kris Kristofferson's Final Concert Performance - Taste of Country

Watch Kris Kristofferson's Final Concert Performance - Taste of Country

Posted: 30 Jan 2021 11:12 AM PST

Kris Kristofferson surprised fans and the music industry on Wednesday (Jan. 27) with the announcement that he had quietly retired in 2020. The music icon played what turned out to be the final full concert of his career on Jan. 30, 2020, and footage is available online.

The 84-year-old singer-songwriter continued to record and tour well into his later years, giving solo performances and also touring with the members of Merle Haggard's legendary band, the Strangers. They backed him up at his final show, which took place in the Stardust Theater onboard the Norwegian Pearl during the fifth annual Outlaw Country Cruise.

Rolling Stone first ran the audience-shot footage below, captured during the show. According to Setlist.fm, Kristofferson began the performance with "Shipwrecked in the Eighties" and ran through a set of classics that included "Me and Bobby McGee," "Help Me Make It Through the Night," "Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)," "The Pilgrim, Chapter 33," "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down," "For the Good Times" and "Why Me," as well as a number of lesser-known tracks and several Haggard covers.

Kristofferson closed the final performance of his concert career with "Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends."

As Rolling Stone reports, a number of writers Kristofferson has influenced, including Lucinda Williams, Shooter Jennings, Jim Lauderdale, Steve Earle and more, also paid tribute to Kristofferson with a special performance during the cruise. The all-star lineup assembled on stage to finish that show with a group rendition of "Why Me" that Kristofferson led.

The news of Kristofferson's retirement was part of a press release announcing that his son, John, is now heading up the family's businesses, adding that there are "many exciting projects" coming up to bring Kristofferson's legacy to old fans and introduce his body of work to new generations.

Kristofferson's final performance capped off an incredible career. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1977, the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1985 and the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2004. He joined the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame in 2016, and the Country Music Association awarded him the Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019.

The music legend also had a parallel film career. Highlights from his filmography include Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Blade, He's Just Not That Into You, Dolphin Tale and more. Kristofferson won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor — Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his role in A Star Is Born opposite Barbra Streisand in 1976.

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Concert Adds to Fund Set Up to Help Country Music Workers - NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

Posted: 27 Jan 2021 09:11 AM PST

A small crowd at Billy Bob's Texas in Fort Worth did something good to help those in the country music industry who are struggling as the pandemic goes on.

Singer Scotty McCreery played a limited capacity show last Saturday night, and fans may not have realized it, but a dollar of their ticket price went to the ACM Lifting Lives COVID Response Fund.

It added up to $2,100 to help country music workers facing hard times.

"We were thrilled at the opportunity to work with Scotty McCreery and partner with such an incredible and important organization again," Billy Bob's Texas General Manager Marty Travis said in a news release.

"I love having an opportunity to help a great cause like ACM Lifting Lives, and doing it while performing at a legendary venue like Billy Bob's Texas is an added bonus," McCreery said.

The philanthropic arm of the Academy of Country Music created the fund last March when the pandemic shut down live music and continues to write checks today.

"We're hearing from our colleagues, the bus drivers, songwriters, lighting techs saying, 'I'm still out of work'," said the nonprofit's executive director Lyndsay Cruz, "I think we reached about 200 people in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, to date, and our grants are small, $1,000 to $1,500, $2,000. So really, any amount helps."

Cruz says $3.5 million has been raised, so far, and checks sent to members of the industry in 345 cities.

"We thought this might help keep people going a couple of weeks, a couple of months. We had no idea the pandemic would last this long," Cruz said. "We had no idea the live music industry would be shut down this long."

ACM Lifting Lives continues to accept donations. The link is here.
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