Pain, Pleasure, and Everything in Between
In 1977, when Rita Coolidge was 33 and one of the star singers in LA, she was married to Kris Kristofferson and had just finished her sixth solo album. But behind that smile and under those long locks of hippie hair was a woman in pain. Her marriage was on the rocks, and she had just miscarried her second child.
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In her memoir, Delta Lady, Coolidge doesn’t hold back on either the pain or pleasure her life has brought her. Like most stories, hers gets juicy right around the middle, during the 1970s, also known as the decade of decadence.