“When Kris and I were doing concerts, he didn’t have hit records. I think I made it clear how much I care about this man, how much I’ve always loved him.”īut she did get the opportunity to correct critics who accused Coolidge of hitching herself to Kristofferson’s rising star. “My intention was never to vilify Kris in this book and I don’t believe that I did. “People were fascinated with us as a couple,” she says, but his drinking and infidelity proved too much to bear. In her memoir, Coolidge details her romantic relationships with musicians such as Leon Russell, drummer Jim Gordon, Graham Nash, and, of course, her “volatile” six-year marriage to Kristofferson. “I had not been in California two years when A&M Records approached me at the end of the Cocker tour to do my first album. And then, also, I’m very nervous because I am very frank and I don’t hold back.”Ĭoolidge details her time as a backing singer on classics such as Eric Clapton’s After Midnight and Stephen Still’s Love the One You’re With, and touring with Jimi Hendrix, George Harrison and Joe Cocker before embarking on a solo career. “I just cried and felt this great relief and release that it was done. But her marriage was in tatters and she had just miscarried her second child.Ĭoolidge’s new memoir opens with this time in her life and goes on to describe more than a decade of “blue jeans and limousines” when rock stars believed they were true “counterculturists”. The legendary Delta Lady of the song had won two Grammys for performances with her husband at the time, Kris Kristofferson, and had just recorded her sixth solo album. In 1977, Rita Coolidge was 33 and one of the most in-demand rock vocalists in LA.
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