Question: The Austin Sessions featured an unplugged version of the song originally performed by whom?

Context articles: Best of Me (Chrisette Michele song)
The Austin Sessions (Kris Kristofferson album)
Nightmare: The Acoustic M.S.G.
The Way We Make a Broken Heart
Me and Bobby McGee
Fruitcake (EP)
The Red Moon EP
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (album)
Fiction and Fact
Jackinabox

"Best of Me" (also known as "The Best of Me") is the second single from the Chrisette Michele album, "I Am".
 It has not received much attention on the charts, although it was added to the VH1 video lineup.
 An unplugged version of the song was featured on the VH1 website.
The Austin Sessions is an album by Kris Kristofferson, released on Atlantic Records in 1999 (see 1999 in music).
 It features stripped-down versions of Kristofferson's most famous material, including "Me and Bobby McGee", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down" and "Help Me Make It Through the Night".
 Several well-known artists contributed vocals to the album, including Steve Earle, Jackson Browne, Matraca Berg, Vince Gill, Marc Cohn, Alison Krauss, Catie Curtis and Mark Knopfler.
Nightmare: The Acoustic MSG is an EP by the McAuley Schenker Group, released only in Japan, as a companion to the album "M.S.G.".
 It contains acoustic versions of songs from "M.S.G." and "Save Yourself" and follows the flow of unplugged recordings which were very trendy in those years.
 The recording of the unplugged version of these songs and their success in Germany and Japan inspired Schenker and McAuley to tour with only an acoustic set, which was later released in the live album ""Unplugged" Live".
"The Way We Make a Broken Heart" is a song written by John Hiatt.
 It was recorded by Ry Cooder in 1980 on his album Borderline.
 "The Way We Make a Broken Heart" was covered by both John Hiatt and Rosanne Cash in 1983 as a duet.
 The single was produced by Scott Mathews and Ron Nagle, however, Geffen Records did not release the single.
 Willy DeVille performed this song twice in Berlin 2002; once in an unplugged version and once with his electric band.
 This is documented on his 2002 album "Live in Berlin".
"Me and Bobby McGee" is a song written by Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster, originally performed by Roger Miller.
 Others performed the song later, including the Grateful Dead, Kristofferson himself, Kenny Rogers and The First Edition, Gordon Lightfoot, and most famously Janis Joplin, whose posthumously released version topped the U.S. singles chart in 1971, making the song the second posthumously released No. 1 single in U.S. chart history after "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding.
 "Billboard" ranked Joplin's version as the No. 11 song for 1971.
Fruitcake EP is an EP released by Filipino alternative rock band Eraserheads released by Sony BMG Music Philippines Inc. (Formerly BMG Records Pilipinas, Inc.) in 1996 as a promotional material for the launching of their album Fruitcake in December 1996.
 The album contains three tracks that includes the band's well-known Christmas song "Fruitcake", "Old Fashioned Christmas Carol" and an unplugged version of the song "Christmas Alphabet".
The Red Moon EP is an EP by the British band Turin Brakes.
 While released on Source Records, it was only available on the band's 2005 United Kingdom tour, although it was released digitally after the tour.
 The EP was inspired by the acoustic sound used during the radio sessions that the band had performed during their US tour in summer 2005.
 The final track, the Red Hot Chili Peppers' song "Breaking the Girl", is taken from one of those sessions.
 The other three tracks were recorded in a studio.
 The title track was previously released on "Jackinabox", but appears here in an unplugged version. "
Jet Trail" had been in and out of the band's live set list since 2001, but had not been released before. "
Love Is All You Deserve" was a new song, written for the EP.
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy is the self-titled debut album by contemporary swing band Big Bad Voodoo Daddy released on the bands-own record label Big Bad Records.
 The band re-recorded the songs "Jumpin' Jack" and "King of Swing" for their following full-length album Americana Deluxe.
 Also "So long, good bye" appears on "Americana Deluxe" in a re-recorded version having the title slightly modified to "So long, farewell, goodbye".
 "Machine gun" has been re-recorded for the third full-length album This Beautiful Life and appears under the title "2000 volt" with modified lyrics.
 "13 women" is a cover version of the song originally performed by Bill Haley & His Comets.
 "Fire" is originally performed by Louis Jordan.
Fiction and Fact is the first full-length studio album of South Korea boy band Beast.
 It was released in Korea on May 17, 2011 and contains 10 songs total: 8 new songs, an unplugged version of "Lightless" and an orchestra version of title track "Fiction".
 The album peaked at number 1 on Gaon's Monthly Chart for May 2011 with 90,000 copies sold.
 The album garnered them a win for Artist of the Year (Album) for the 2nd quarter of 2011 at the Gaon Chart K-Pop Awards and their title song, "Fiction", won Song of the Year at the 2011 KBS Music Festival.
Jackinabox is the third studio album by the British band Turin Brakes.
 Recorded in their own recording studio in Brixton during 2004, the album includes the singles "Fishing For a Dream" and "Over and Over".
 It is the follow-up to "Ether Song".
 The album reached no. 9 in the UK charts in the first week, despite the fact that first single, "Fishing For A Dream", did not sell well (charting at no. 35).
 The album was also released with a bonus DVD and on vinyl.
 The song "Red Moon" was later recorded in an unplugged version and released as an EP with new material.