Wearin' Yesterday's Misfortunes Like A Smile

Renaissance man Kris Kristofferson - singer, actor, activist, veteran, Rhodes Scholar and "one of the greatest songwriters of all time” - has died at 88. Known for meticulously crafted songs of regret and longing - despite a voice "like a barking bullfrog" - he was also "an epic human with the biggest heart" who advocated for farmworkers, peacemakers, political prisoners, the Nicaraguan and other liberation struggles. What he wanted to emerge from his songs and shows, he said, was "a belief in...