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Delta Lady
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Rita Coolidge
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
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Publisher's Summary
The two-time Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter bares her heart and soul in this intimate memoir, a story of music, stardom, love, family, heritage, and resilience.
She inspired songs - Leon Russell wrote "A Song for You" and "Delta Lady" for her; Stephen Stills wrote "Cherokee". She cowrote songs - "Superstar" and the piano coda to "Layla", uncredited. She sang backup for Eric Clapton, Joe Cocker, and Stills before finding fame as a solo artist with such hits as "We're All Alone" and "(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher".
Following her story from Lafayette, Tennessee, to becoming one of the most sought-after rock vocalists in LA in the 1970s, Delta Lady chronicles Rita Coolidge's fascinating journey throughout the '60s-'70s pop/rock universe. A muse to some of the 20th century's most influential rock musicians, she broke hearts and broke up bands. Her relationship with drummer Jim Gordon took a violent turn during the legendary 1970 Mad Dogs & Englishmen tour; David Crosby maintained that her triangle with Stills and Graham Nash was the last straw for the group. Her volatile six-year marriage to Kris Kristofferson yielded two Grammys, a daughter, and one of the baby boom generation's epic love stories. Throughout it all, her strength, resilience, and inner and outer beauty - along with her strong sense of heritage and devotion to her family - helped her to not only survive but thrive.
Cowritten with best-selling author Michael Walker, Delta Lady is a rich, deeply personal memoir that offers a front-row seat to an iconic era and illuminates the life of an artist whose career has helped shape modern American culture.
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- Robbin
- 2023-06-05
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I’m a 76 year old Canadian woman from NW Ontario in a rural lake area who moved west to BC in my early 20’s and my favourite song at the time was Rita Coolidge singing Bird on a Wire. Most of my music loves are Canadian and I grew up with The Who, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Dylan, Joan Baez, Gordon Lightfoot, Neil Young and so many more as well as the musicians Rita talks about in her memoir. I haven’t really followed American Country music. Rita and Kris’s marriage and early collaboration was so sweet and romantic and so full of hope that I felt very sad for them when it ended as it did. No wonder though as it was a time of cultural chaos as Vietnam war sentiments ran high. Ritas love story with Kris’s led me to his music and I’m rather in awe of his creative talents both in music and acting and am now exploring excitedly American Country music of the outlaw variety. He seemed to live from his heart and gut creatively while Rita is more cerebral in her approach while having a beautiful voice. In the present it seems that their connection was a powerful one that extracted a sacrifice for them both, it’s not easy navigating through this deceptive world so full of Beauty. They are both thriving now although Rita appears more guarded and it seems sad they can’t be friends. We don’t know the whole story. It seems to me that Kris is more in touch with his energy centres and expresses gratitude and humility and continues to be creative. Thanks for the music as it has supported & decorated my life’s journey. Thanks Rita for bringing me to the inspiring music world of Kris K.
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