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By Cole Haddon
Published on October 25, 2006 at 11:32am
There is a disturbingly large contingent of country music fans who remain oblivious to the fact that Kris Kristofferson, that guy who played Whistler in the god-awful Blade trilogy, is actually one of the most significant songwriters in the genre's history. That might be because he releases albums about as often as he stars in a good movie. Still, the "Me and Bobby McGee" scribe is performing again, and considering that he's a spry 70 now, you might want to catch him before his body realizes how old he really is.
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