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The esteemed singer-songwriter behind "Me and Bobby McGee" and dozens of other hits was also memorable on the big screen in 'Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore' and 'A Star Is Born.'

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[-] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 49 points 2 years ago

Well, that leaves Willie, last of The Highwaymen.

[-] geogle@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Chris is still sailing his schooner around the Horn of Mexico

[-] xkbx@startrek.website 32 points 2 years ago

Fool me once

He’s probably locked up in a vampire basement somewhere

[-] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 years ago
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Is it a finished vampire basement? Is there a vampire rec room?

[-] xkbx@startrek.website 4 points 2 years ago

No, there’s nothing down there, just a shirtless incel that browses Vchan all day. Scared of flashlights for some reason

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Boring. The vampires should at least have a ping-pong table or something. What if they wake up early?

[-] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 22 points 2 years ago

the last time there was a slate of dozens of celebrities that all died in the same year like this was 2016, and we know what happened that november, so, it doesn't look good for the fate of the united states, and the rest of the world. buy batteries, plant vegetables.

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Blood sacrifices to ensure victory?

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago

It’s the only logical course of action

[-] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

The blood should be rich.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

I don't think the universe works that way.

[-] Soup@lemmy.cafe 4 points 2 years ago

Thank god rational people aren’t superstitious.

[-] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

Bellatrix or Betelgeuse?

[-] darkpanda@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

He's a poet, he's a picker
He's a prophet, he's a pusher
He's a pilgrim and a preacher, and a problem when he's stoned
He's a walkin' contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction,
Takin' ev'ry wrong direction on his lonely way back home.

The Pilgrim, Chapter 33

[-] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 years ago

Incredible talent. Not much of a singer, but a HELL of a songwriter.

All my rowdy friends done rowdied on down.

[-] tate@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 years ago

All the great song writers were mediocre singers. I'm talkin': John Prine, Steve Goodman, Townes Van Zandt, Leonard Cohen, Paul Simon, Neil Young, even Willie Nelson I would put in this category.

A weird exception is Joni Mitchell. IMHO one of the best singers of all time, and an a-list writer too.

[-] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago
[-] JesusSon@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

There's still a lot of wine and lonely girls In this best of all possible worlds

[-] aasatru@kbin.earth 2 points 2 years ago

That policeman said Mr. Cool If you're not drunk then you're a fool I said if that's against the law Tell me why I never saw A man locked in that jail of yours Who wasn't just as lowdown poor as me

Later on in live version's he'd change the last line to "who wasn't either black or as poor as me".

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Hearing about this on a Sunday morning coming down seems appropriate

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

I'm sure he wouldn't care for this, but I associate him most with the movie Millennium. I know it's an objectively terrible movie, but I like it and I like him in it.

[-] Rubisco@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 years ago

Who was the other famous old country singer who died recently? I want to say he even resembled Kristofferson a bit.

[-] Kalothar@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Is Kenny Rogers dead or does he just not know what condition his condition is in?

[-] Kalothar@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Maybe he folded his way right through death

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Wikipedia says he died in 2020.

[-] Rubisco@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 years ago

Perhaps. I was thinking in the last 1-2 years. Maybe it was that long ago.

[-] dadarobot@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 years ago

Beautiful soul rip king

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