<div>The two-time Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter bares her heart and soul in this intimate memoir, a story of music, stardom, love, family, heritage, and resilience.She inspired songs&#8212;Leon Russell wrote &#8220;A Song for You&#8221; and &#8220;Delta Lady&#8221; for her, Stephen Stills wrote &#8220;Cherokee.&#8221; She co-wrote songs&#8212;&#8220;Superstar&#8221; and the piano coda to &#8220;Layla,&#8221; uncredited. She sang backup for Eric Clapton, Joe Cocker, and Stills, before finding fame as a solo artist with such hits as &#8220;We&#39;re All Alone&#8221; and &#8220;(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher.&#8221; Following her story from Lafayette, Tennessee to becoming one of the most sought after rock vocalists in LA in the 1970s, Delta Lady chronicles Rita Coolidge&#8217;s fascinating journey throughout the &#8217;60s-&#8217;70s pop/rock universe.A muse to some of the twentieth century&#8217;s most influential rock musicians, she broke hearts, and broke up bands. Her relationship with drummer Jim Gordon took a violent turn during the legendary 1970 Mad Dogs &#38; Englishmen tour; David Crosby maintained that her triangle with Stills and Graham Nash was the last straw for the group. Her volatile six-year marriage to Kris Kristofferson yielded two Grammys, a daughter, and one of the Baby Boom generation&#8217;s epic love stories. Throughout it all, her strength, resilience, and inner and outer beauty&#8212;along with her strong sense of heritage and devotion to her family&#8212;helped her to not only survive, but thrive. Co-written with best-selling author Michael Walker, Delta Lady is a rich, deeply personal memoir that offers a front row seat to an iconic era, and illuminates the life of an artist whose career has helped shape modern American culture.</div>

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