His chart-topping hits of the late 1960s and early 1970s – “Me and Bobby McGee,” “Sunday Morning Coming Down,” “Help Me Make It Through the Night,” and others – opened Nashville to ...

Kris Kristofferson, the ragged country music star who wrote “Me and Bobby McGee” and “Help Me Make It Through the Night” and later found fame as a leading man in such 1970s films as “Pat ...