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Flashback: Kris Kristofferson's Awkward CMA Win — rollingstone.com

By 1969, Kris Kristofferson had been a Rhodes Scholar, a captain in the Army and a janitor at Nashville's Columbia Records studio. What he had yet to become was an internationally recognized songwriter and successful artist on his own. That year, however, two of his most recognizable songs were cut for the first time, setting him on his way. Yet, both "Me and Bobby McGee" and "Sunday Morning Coming Down" were first cut by acts whose success with them would pale in comparison to the hits both songs would later become. 

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