Without any introduction, Kris Kristofferson waltzed onstage Sunday at the sold-out Mystic Lake Casino and started singing. One line into "Shipwrecked in the Eighties" and -- uh oh -- he sounded like Jeff Bridges trying to audition for the lead role in "The King's Speech" by doing that scene with a mouth full of marbles. Fighting a bad cold, Kristofferson, a limited vocalist to begin with, was in tough shape. Luckily, he was sharing the stage with old pal Merle Haggard and, on Oscar night, Haggard turned the concert into a new-fangled bromantic comedy that could have been called "Help Me Make it Through the Night." Every fan at Mystic Lake knew the scripted part...
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