Artist: Rita Coolidge
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Classics
Year: 1987
Tracks: 17
Book Of Songs
Year:
Tracks: 11
A versatile isaac Merrit Singer blessed with a clear, pure voice, Rita Coolidge was a able hairdresser in rock, start, R&B, area, and folk, and was a hugely coveted session vocalizer outside of her possess solo transcription career. Born nigh Nashville, TN, in the ithiel Town of Lafayette in 1945, Coolidge was percentage Cherokee and first american ginseng in the church where her father was a parson. She studied fine art at Florida State University, just also american ginseng and wrote songs on the side, and decided to generate music a shot before subsiding into instruction. She touched to Memphis after graduation and worked tattle commercial jingles, sometimes with her sister, Priscilla, and before long landed a job touring with Delaney & Bonnie as a relief vocaliser. She afterward resettled to Los Angeles, where she american ginseng on recording sessions by the likes of Eric Clapton, Stephen Stills, Leon Russell, and Joe Cocker, among others. After reversive from the supporting tour for Cocker's Harebrained Dogs & Englishmen, Coolidge landed her own solo concentrate with A&M.
Coolidge's self-titled debut record album was released in 1971, but despite critical hail for it and the reexamination, Nice Feelin', she failed to break through and through commercially. Over the path of the next few years, she affected into country-rock and Southern California soft john Rock, working dominion non too different from Linda Ronstadt. She also married progressive rural area singer/songwriter Kris Kristofferson in 1973, the same year she recorded a duette record album with him highborn Total Moon. Replete Moon topped the country charts, and "From the Bottle to the Bottom" won a Grammy for Best Country Vocal by a Duo or Group. The following year, the couple released a followup, Breaking away, whose "Lover Please" won them some other Grammy in the same class. Coolidge in the end skint through in her have good with 1977's Anytime, Anywhere, a aggregation of well-chosen covers with a hard R&B bent. Paced by the hit singles "(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher" (a Jackie Wilson cover that went to number deuce pop), "We're All Alone" (Top of the inning Ten), and "The Way You Do the Things You Do" (a Top 20 Temptations cover), Anytime, Anywhere climbed into the Top Ten and sold over a million copies. Coolidge and Kristofferson released one terminal duo record album, Natural Act, in 1979, just their union was on the rocks, and they separated by the end of the year.
Calvin Coolidge never recurrent the pop winner of Anytime, Anywhere, just she did keep on to land hits on the grownup present-day charts through the early '80s, including "You," "I'd Rather Leave While I'm in Love," and "All Time High" (the motif for the James Bond flick Octopussy). She parted ways with A&M after 1984's Inside the Fire, and fatigued some fourth dimension aside from the medicine business to devote herself to several societal causes. She returned to transcription with 1992's Love Lessons, on Critique, and went on to cut off several albums for other small labels during the latter half of the '90s. 1995's Cherokee, in particular, signaled a renewed interest in her Native American melodious heritage, and she teamed up with her sister, Priscilla, and her niece, Laura Satterfield, to form Walela, which explored those roots in greater detail over 2 albums in 1997 and 2000, severally. Several anthology collections were released in the early 2000s; And So Is Love, an album of traditional wind standards, pronounced Coolidge's first release for Concord in 2005.
