The Silver Tongued Devil and I

Kris Kristofferson was the true country outsider, a man who single-handedly pushed the genre leftward, changing forever the perception of its songwriters, its performers, and its message. He was long-haired, anti-war, and sang songs with drug use, sex, and violence always lurking as dangers in the margins, at a time when Waylon and Willie were wearing sweaters and playing golf on their album covers.

He was the outlaw, in a genre that would soon have people recording his songs and co-opting his vision for a new version of country, to much greater financial success.