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His work as a composer fed into both, and across his recording career he used the English language as his sole working medium — a plain-sounding fact that nonetheless mattered, given how much of his songwriting leaned on direct, unadorned expression.\n\nThe honors he received reflected the breadth of what he'd done. The Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award acknowledged a recording and performing career that had spanned decades and genres, sitting alongside the National Defense Service Medal from his time in the military. Kristofferson died on September 28, 2024, in Hana, in Maui County, having spent his final years in Hawaii. The Grammy recognition remains one of the more concrete measures of how his work as a singer-songwriter and country musician was received over the long arc of his career.","The 1960s and 1970s saw country music stretch its borders, absorbing threads of folk and rock into something harder to categorize than the Nashville mainstream had traditionally allowed. 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