McBryde wrote her latest release, "Ain't Enough Cowboy Songs," out of a sense of longing to get back to simpler times. That nostalgia is something she shared with her co-writers on the track, Chris Harris and Patrick Savage.

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.

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."

In a recent interview, Ashley McBryde talked about her Kris Kristofferson tribute at the CMA Awards and what his writing meant to her.

Ashley McBryde said it “was such an honor” to perform a tribute to late music legend Kris Kristofferson during the 58th CMA Awards on Wednesday night (November 20) in Nashville, Tennessee. McBryde took the stage at Bridgestone Arena to perform a moving rendition of Kristofferson’s “Help Me Make It Through The Night,

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"I've been singing ("Help Me Make It Through The Night") since I was a child, so there was no chance that I would forget a chord or a word," she said.