Ashley McBryde paid tribute to the late Kris Kristofferson with a stripped-down, acoustic rendition of Kristofferson's "Help Me Make It Through the Night" at the 2024 CMA Awards. Accompanying ...

“Help Me Make It Through the Night” became ubiquitous because it was a great song, and because it was written by a man whose own vocal limitations precluded the need for multi-octave leaps.

The narrator of “Help Me Make It Through the Night”—a male in Kristofferson’s version, female in Smith’s—is trying to avoid such desolate loneliness by finding a stranger to sleep with.

During the 2024 CMA Awards, Kris Kristofferson was remembered with a performance by Ashley McBryde. She performed an acoustic version of "Help Me Make It Through the Night." ...

Midway through the night, Ashley McBryde sang “ Help Me Make It Through The Night,” the desperately horny song that Kris Kristofferson wrote and released in 1970.

Kris Kristofferson's best songs, including 'Me and Bobby McGee,' 'For the Good Times,' and 'Stranger.' ...

Kris Kristofferson, a singer-songwriter whose trove of country-pop hits such as “Me and Bobby McGee” and “Help Me Make It Through the Night” pushed him to the forefront of American popular ...

Help me make it through the night, indeed. After really, truly hearing that song for the first time, I understood something about people who approached the dance of courtship with hunger, not joy ...

From 'Sunday Morning Coming Down' and 'Help Me Make It Through the Night' to 'Feeling Mortal,' Variety picks 10 Kris Kristofferson immortal classics.