Sammi Smith

Sammi Smith (1943–2005), born Jewel Faye Smith, sang one of the defining country records of the 1970s: her 1971 reading of Kris Kristofferson’s “Help Me Make It Through the Night,” a number one country hit that crossed to pop and won a Grammy. She was part of the Nashville outlaw circle around Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings, and sings harmony on The Troublemaker.