I think that women felt their power long before men accepted it.” It was a time of change, not only with civil rights in this country, but women were demanding to be treated as equal. It just was part of the way society looked at women at that time. Speaking with Coolidge now, her voice is gentle but there is a toughness there, which undoubtedly gave her the resilience to survive in an often misogynistic industry. “I didn’t feel I was doing her any favours by going the distance when clearly her parents were not in harmony.” The couple have a daughter together, Casey. When we divorced I didn’t ask for anything from him.” It was just enough that I cried every day, and that’s not a good way to live. “He might feel that I was abusive to him. I was making an album every year or two and I think that’s what he wanted really more than anything, but the films just kept coming at him and he made the choice. She writes about Kristofferson’s emotional abuse and how he would belittle her talent. We were equal in our jobs and in our relationship,” she says firmly. “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. Rita Coolidge: “I just cried and felt this great relief and release that the memoir was done.” Photograph: Matt BeardĬoolidge 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. And then, also, I’m very nervous because I am very frank and I don’t hold back.” “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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