Shortly after serving as a captain in the U.S. Army and earning a master’s degree at Oxford University, Kris Kristofferson was living in a run-down tenement in Nashville, Tennessee, and working as a ...

Kris Kristofferson did his best to get Johnny Cash to listen to his songs when he was still a struggling artist. At the time, though, Cash was a major star and had grown accustomed to receiving tapes ...