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“Delta Lady: A Memoir” book discussion and signing by Rita CoolidgeWhen: 7:30 p.m. April 13Where: Warwick’s, 7812 Girard Ave., La JollaAdmission: Free. Seating can be reserved with purchase of book from Warwick’s, but book purchase is not required to attend.Phone: (858) 454-0347Online:“I cried for an hour when I finished reading it for the first time,” Coolidge said.

She was worried she had made a grievous error by being so candid in the 227-page chronicle of her life, which will be published April 5 by HarperCollins.How candid?Jim Gordon, her former boyfriend and the drummer in Delaney & Bonnie and the Eric Clapton-led Derek and the Dominos, punched her so hard in a hotel hallway in 1970, Coolidge writes, that she was briefly rendered unconscious. In 1983, Gordon stabbed his mother to death. He won’t be be eligible for parole until 2018.Kristofferson was a heavy drinker who at one point consumed “a quart of vodka a day.” He arrived, late and stoned, to his 1974 wedding to Coolidge in Malibu. She was on Valium during the ceremony, because of her nerves.While their relationship reached heady highs, Kristofferson also cheated on her, she writes, including with French actress Isabelle Huppert.

After he did a nude photo shoot for Playboy with another actress and co-star, Sarah Miles, Kristofferson came home so drunk, Coolidge recounts in her memoir, that “suddenly he whirled around and struck me with his fist square in my eye.”They divorced in 1978. In 2004, she married now-retired UC Irvine computer science professor Tatsuya Suda, with whom she quietly lives in Fallbrook.

She moved there from Los Angeles in 1996.The view from three of the four sides of her home offer a stunning panorama. Pointing out the living room window of the mountainside home to the steep valley below, Coolidge smiled. Then, in a quip that could refer to her new book as much as the plunging mountainside, she said: “I call this the jumping-off-point!”.

Special Report: Spring Arts Preview.‘No more secrets’Coolidge grew more serious.“The thing about doing a book like this is, I have no more secrets,” she said, during a recent interview at her rustic home on an avocado farm. The veteran singer will discuss “Delta Lady” and sign copies April 13 at Warwick’s in La Jolla.“After Michael and I finished the book, I read through it one more time, and I almost had a panic attack. I called some friends, and said: ‘Oh, my God! What have I done?’ They said: ‘It’s OK.

You’re not a bad person. You’re fine.’ It’s just a choice that I made (not to hold back). And, now, we’ll see, won’t we?”One of the friends Coolidge called is Connie Nelson. They have been confidantes since meeting in 1973 at a Fourth of July concert in Texas, which was headlined by Willie Nelson, Connie’s husband at the time.“Rita absolutely did call me,” Connie Nelson said, speaking from her home in Austin.“I told her: ‘The truth is the truth, and you can’t argue with it’.

This is not about any other thing except telling your story, and that’s how I reassured her. She threw herself into it, and I’m so proud of her.

It’s an amazing book.“Everything matters so deeply to Rita, and it always has. That’s one of the reasons we bonded.

She comes from really good, good parents and a good family, and she has that survival instinct. No matter what you go through, no matter how tough times are, you don’t dwell on it; you just get back up. That’s the Rita I know.”Coolidge had plenty to write about.The daughter of a Cherokee Baptist minister and his Cherokee/Scottish wife, she grew up in rural Tennessee and learned to sing with her siblings at home and in church.

Her rise as a backing vocalist in the 1960s and early ’70s coincided with the rise of various music legends with whom she toured, recorded, or both. They included Clapton, Joe Cocker (whose legendary Mad Dogs & Englishmen concert tour prominently featured her), George Harrison, Dave Mason and the all-star Delaney & Bonnie.In a few instances, her professional relationships turned romantic.Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Russell wrote his classics “A Song for You” and “Delta Lady” for Coolidge. Fellow Rock Hall of Famer Stephen Stills wrote “Cherokee” for her and featured her harmony singing on his 1970 hit, “Love the One You’re With.” Later, she scored hits of her own, beginning with 1977’s “Your Love Has Taken Me Higher and Higher.” Wooed by Graham Nash and Stephen StillsThrough subterfuge, Coolidge writes in her memoir, Stills tried his best to woo her away from Nash — before she and Nash actually became an item. When Nash caught on, he wooed her away from Stills, and they entered into an intense love affair. Stills responded, she writes, by physically attacking Nash in front of her.“Probably one of the greatest mistakes I made was not staying with Graham,” she said. “We were so very young, and I didn’t want to marry anybody then.”David Crosby has since opined that the resulting friction led to Crosby, Stills & Nash imploding, although he now qualifies that observation.“I don’t think I really said that.

But it’s well-known she was going with Graham, and I think most people noticed Stephen had a big crush on her,” Crosby told the Union-Tribune last week. “Whether they felt jealous of each other, or had any difference about it, I don’t know.

I do know she went with Graham and she was very happy. And I know Stephen was pretty enamored of her. I personally think she’s a very nice lady.”Coolidge, who looks a decade or two younger than her 70 years, rolls her eyes and almost sputters when asked if she played a role in Crosby, Stills & Nash having disbanded.“My God!” she said. “Anybody around them knew they had so many problems! I just happened to be there. I’ve heard David say that I broke up CSN. I really didn’t.

They were pretty shredded by the time I got there.”Coolidge’s book proudly celebrates her Cherokee heritage and her family, including her daughter, Casey Coolidge Kristofferson, who is now 41 and a mother of three. And it celebrates her lifelong love affair with music, as she prepares to record her next solo album in Austin and Nashville. It may include a song co-written with San Diego blues and roots-music mainstays Robin Henkel and Whitney Shay.“There are so many great musicians here, not only in San Diego, but in the Fallbrook area,” said Coolidge, who then lavished praise on some of her area favorites, including Nathan James, Andy Cohen and Kenneth Rexrode’s Six String Society.A well-worn vinyl copy of The Beatles’ debut album is perched on her piano. She avows that she can sing along, word for word, to every song on it, although she cites Bob Dylan and, especially, Aretha Franklin, as even bigger inspirations, both in conversation and in her book.“Aretha changed music for me, forever, Coolidge said.

“There’s not one singer from mt generation, or after, that she hasn’t impacted.”In her book and in person, Coolidge is happy to extol legendary and lesser-known musicians alike. She also doesn’t hesitate to take aim at those who abused her friendship.“Delaney & Bonnie was such an amazing band,” she recalled. “I would have been happy to be with them for the rest of my life.

And when George Harrison went on tour with us in England, he was such a great lovely guy. Every morning when I go on the tour bus, he’d be waiting for me, and he’d sing ‘Lovely Rita, meter maid!’It was the best, we’ get on that bus and sing for hours, every day.“Then, Eric Clapton joined the tour,” Coolidge said.:I liked his guitar-playing, but not him as human being or his personality. Somebody who read my book said: ‘Wow, you’re pretty hard on Eric!’ I said: ‘I don’t think so.

He was pretty hard on me'.”“Delta Lady” is revealing, without seeming sensationalistic. It’s a tricky balancing act that has eluded other, more experienced authors.Early in the book, she writes poignantly about the horrific car accident she and her parents were in when she was 13. The impact threw her through the windshield.

Her face was so severely cut that she required 60 stitches.Until now, only family members and a few close friends knew about the accident, which traumatized Coolidge for years. Yet, if there is a theme to the book, it is her resilience and ability to look forward, even as she reflects on a sometimes turbulent past.“It really was cathartic,” Coolidge said. “Just talking about the automobile accident I was in when I was 13 was huge. I haven’t talked about it publicly before.”She paused.“After I read the first draft, cover to cover, I cried for an hour. Because I wrote this to have it all in one place for my kids and my grandkids, and for the fans. And, honestly, for me.” A chance meeting with Sammy Davis, Jr.Coolidge’s most recent recordings are a Christmas album and a jazz album.

She performs when and where she likes, and is happy to no longer be a part of the music biz merry-go-round that once dominated her life. Intriguingly, in her book she credits a meeting decades ago with the late Sammy Davis, Jr., at a Frank Sinatra event, for providing her with the mid-career epiphany that music is its own reward.“The greatest irony of the whole Sammy experience is that, for so many years, I was very irreverent towards him,” she says now. My friends picked up a copy of his autobiography and gave it to me, because I made so many jokes about him because he seemed to be so jive.

And when I actually sat at a table with him in New York City, he said things that changed me and my life, in a lot of ways. One of them was that you never know where the special musical moments are going to come from, and that you can’t judge people.“That was one of my first real lessons in growing up. I grew to love Sammy and I was deeply saddened when he passed. But I was just so surprised when he told me his view of (the role of music). As I sat there, I thought: “He really hasn’t had hit records in a while, or gone from album to album and concert to concert, and he’s happy.” The whole recording process had kind of lost meaning to me and had became a regimen I began to follow. When he told me to sit back and just be with my craft, and be one with it, it was life-changing. And I probably wouldn’t be here today, still singing and making music, if he hadn’t said that.

I was in my early 30s at the time; it was not long after Kris and I had split.”Coolidge and Kristofferson are friends. She attended his Halloween concert at the San Diego Civic Theatre with Connie Nelson and another longtime friend, Ingrid Croce, and sings the praises of Kristofferson’s wife.“She takes such good care of him,” said Coolidge, who first visited Fallbrook in the 1970s, when Kristofferson’s mother lived there.She went back 20 years ago, at the invitation of Nelson. After spotting an ad for a house for sale in the PennySaver, Coolidge made an offer, bought it, and has lived there ever since.“I love it here,” she said.

“This is the perfect place for me.”Tucked between the two-story home’s living room and kitchen is a baby grand piano. Behind it is a large framed photo of Coolidge and the late Peggy Lee, one of her early singing idols and, later, a good friend. Coloful paintings hang on the walls, Some are by her late father. Others are by Coolidge, who majored in art in college.Asked where she keeps her two Grammy Awards, she motioned to a cabinet, near the front door, filled with three shelves of Native American dolls, many of them antiques.

When her visitor later noted that no Grammys appeared visible, she opened the cabinet doors and looked carefully on each, jam-packed shelf, then grinned. “Well, they used to be there,” Coolidge said, clearly not very concerned about their current location.Happy to support her community, she performs benefit concerts for the Boys & Girls Club of North County and extols Fallbrook at every chance. She belongs to a local book group and usually allots at least an hour to shop at Major Market, the better to chat with her pals.“I am so rich with my friends in this town, more than any place I’ve ever lived.

Fallbrook really is ‘the friendly village’!” Coolidge said, beaming.She chortled as she recounted being the grand marshal in the Fallbrook Christmas parade, about 10 years ago.“My husband and I were in a convertible, and it was dark,” she said. “We were coming down the part of Main Street that didn’t have street lights yet, and we were waving and saying: ‘Merry Christmas!” And people on the side of the street were going: ‘Who are you?’ I was laughing so hard!“Fallbrook is a mall town. It’s so important to be part of a community. When I lived in West Hollywood, I didn’t even know my neighbors. Down here, I know half the town! In Fallbrook, I’m just ‘Rita,’ and I love it.“Of course,” Coolidge added, laughing, “that may change when this book comes out!”.

Contents.Life and career Early life Coolidge is the daughter of Dick and Charlotte Coolidge, a minister and schoolteacher, with sisters Linda and, and brother Raymond. She is of Cherokee and Scottish ancestry. She attended Nashville's and graduated from Andrew Jackson Senior High in. Coolidge is a graduate of.

She is a member of sorority. Phantasy star 2 maps. Early career After singing around (including a stint singing ), she was discovered by, who worked with her in Los Angeles. There, she became a background singer for artists including,.

She was featured in Joe Cocker's tour and album, singing Russell's and 's song '.' Coolidge did not receive songwriting credits for 'Superstar' which later became a hit for.She became known as 'The Delta Lady' and inspired Russell to write a song of the same name for her.

Layla Coolidge didn't receive songwriting credits for the in the 1971 single ' by 's band. In 2016, Coolidge stated that she recorded a demo with her boyfriend, the band's drummer, before they went to England to record with Clapton. Once they met with Clapton, Coolidge played the piece she composed for him and she gave him a cassette. Clapton, impressed by the piece, used it as part of the song in the coda section which she found out by hearing the song over the a year later. She tried to contact Clapton, but was told by his manager, 'What are you gonna do? You’re a girl.

You don't have money to fight this.' She hasn't heard from Clapton himself but believes he is aware of the situation.Though only Gordon has been officially credited with this part, the band's keyboardist claimed:Jim took that piano melody from his ex-girlfriend, Rita Coolidge. I know because in the days, I lived in John Garfield's old house in the and there was a guest house with an upright piano in it. Rita and Jim were up there in the guest house and invited me to join in on writing this song with them called 'Time'. Her sister Priscilla wound up recording it with her husband, Booker T. Jim took the melody from Rita's song and didn't give her credit for writing it. Her boyfriend ripped her off.'

Time' ended up on the 1973 album Chronicles by Booker T. And Priscilla.Kris Kristofferson. Coolidge at 's 4th of July Picnic in 1972.In November 1970, she met at the Los Angeles airport when they were both catching the same flight to. He got off in Memphis with her, rather than continue to his intended destination in. The two married in 1973 and recorded several duet albums, which sold well and earned the duo a in 1974 for 'From the Bottle to the Bottom', and in 1976 for '.' Coolidge's greatest success on the pop charts came during 1977–1978 with four consecutive top 25 hits, remakes of 's ', ' ', ' ', and ' '.' Coolidge also was among the first hosts on, a U.S.

Cable network. In 2006, she recorded a album, And So Is Love.On June 25, 2019, listed Rita Coolidge among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the. Walela In 1997, Coolidge was one of the founding members of, a music trio, that also included her sister Priscilla and her daughter Laura Satterfield.

The trio released studio albums in 1997 ( Walela) and 2000 ( Unbearable Love), a live album and DVD ( Live in Concert) in 2004 and a compilation album ( The Best of Walela) in 2007. Walela means in. Coolidge considered this group important, not only in honoring her Cherokee ancestors but also in bringing their culture to others.

Also as part of her Native American heritage, she performed with, who has ancestry, at the. Songs written about Rita. / Cherokee; the woman from Tennessee. Stephen Stills /;Books Her autobiography, Delta Lady: A Memoir, was published in April 2016. Personal life. Coolidge with at the private party after the premiere of the movie, on the third floor of Dillon's Disco on December 18, 1976. Relationships Coolidge had romantic liaisons with.

Rita leaving Stills for Nash has been cited as a contributing factor behind the initial 1970 breakup of. She was the 'sweet little Indian girl' named 'Raven' in the song 'Cowboy Movie' on 's album.Coolidge was also involved with. During the tour, Coolidge's boyfriend at the time, Jim Gordon, assaulted her resulting in a black eye for the rest of the tour.

Coolidge ended the relationship and never spoke to him again. Gordon was later diagnosed with and convicted of murdering his mother.Coolidge was married to from 1973 to 1980.

Their daughter and her only child, Casey Kristofferson (also a musician), was born in 1974. Their marriage deteriorated after the miscarriage of her second child in 1977. In her memoir, Delta Lady, Coolidge described her marriage to Kristofferson as volatile due to his alcoholism and infidelity. She revealed he was also and would belittle her talent. When they divorced she did not ask him for anything.

However, Coolidge told that she and Kristofferson still share a bond in 2016.Coolidge married Tatsuya Suda, a world leader in research, on June 19, 2004, in the. Suda, a Japanese citizen, retired in 2010 after a long tenure as a professor at the , when allegations of professional misconduct against him surfaced. In 2014, he pleaded guilty to a felony charge of receiving illegal payments. Coolidge had lived in, where she painted and exhibited her work.In 2017, Coolidge rekindled a romantic relationship with a former college lover, Joe Hutto, and moved back to Tallahassee.

Family In October, 2014, Coolidge's sister, Priscilla, was killed by her husband, Michael Siebert, in a murder/suicide. The pain of that loss was exacerbated when the killer's ashes were delivered to Rita's home and she had to dispose of them. Awards and nominations Coolidge was inducted into the Southern Museum of Music Hall of Fame in 2015. Grammy Awards Coolidge has been nominated for three Grammy Awards, and has won two.

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