The 'Me and Bobby McGee' songwriter and former Rhodes scholar also became a leading man in Hollywood, appearing with Barbra Streisand in a remake of 'A Star Is Born.'
He disliked being called a poet and thought, more or less accurately, that he sang like a barking bullfrog, but Kris Kristofferson did more to change country music than a legion of golden-throated balladeers. “You can look at Nashville, pre-Kris and post-Kris,” Bob Dylan once said. “Because he changed everything.
” When Sammi Smith’s version of “Help Me Make It Through the Night” surged up the charts, followed by his own “Loving Her Was Easier ,” Kristofferson became the hottest songwriter in Nashville. “Within a matter of months, I had gone from being a guy flying helicopters in the Gulf of Mexico to suddenly performing in front of half a million people,” he said. “But fortunately, I didn’t know any better.” While providing material for others, he was now singing his own songs.
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