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...carried that integrity around the world. "He's loved in countries that don't even like Americans," says singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson, who was a janitor at a Nashville recording studio in 1965 when he first met Cash. "I've seen that firsthand in the places we've played. People love him because of everything he represents: freedom, justice for his fellow man. He is unlike any other artist I've ever known. He's as comfortable with the poor and prisoners as he is with Presidents. He's crossed over all age boundaries, all political boundaries. I like...
...growing older and his music was growing with him." It was Cash who took Bob Dylan to Music City to make the 1969 Nashville Skyline. Later, he guested on songs with Ray Charles, Emmylou Harris and U2. In the '80s, he teamed with Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kristofferson for a sometime supergroup called the Highwaymen...
...over by the acclaim. He skipped awards shows on the grounds that musicians should not be in competition and did not attend his induction to the Country Music Hall of Fame last year. He kept on making music, however, recording and touring with Nelson, Cash and Kris Kristofferson as the Highwaymen in the mid-80's, putting out more albums with ornery titles - 1992's "Too Dumb for New York, Too Ugly for L.A.," for one - and even playing a few dates on the 1996 Lollapalooza tour headlined by Metallica...
...lost on Redford: while celebrating Sundance, which is dedicated to scrappy, low-budget endeavors, its founder and protector is starring in big-budget studio movies, commanding $8 million to $10 million a pop. "Talk about contradiction," he says, laughing. "There you have it. There's a line by Kris Kristofferson: 'I'm just a walking contradiction.' Well, it sure seems that...
...returned to a hero's welcome, the Prof. would remember. Mac Bundy threw me into Bobby Kennedy's pool. I did a cameo on "Laugh-In." I wrote a song called "Bobbie Magee and I," but Kristofferson stole it, the drunk - just changed the words a little...