American Songwriter

The Graham Nash Song That Helped Rita Coolidge Make Another Album After 13 Years

In 1971, Coolidge also showed up on Graham Nash’s solo debut, Songs for Beginners, singing harmony on “Simple Man,” “There’s Only One,” “Chicago,” “We Can Change the World” “Military Madness,” and ...
WUSA

In new book, singer Rita Coolidge says she co-wrote 'Layla' coda

In late 1970, singer Rita Coolidge, who had graduated from Florida State University three years earlier, was having her promotional photos taken for her upcoming, self-titled debut album on A&M ...
The Washington Post

Rita Coolidge at Rams Head: The Easiest Listening

Rita Coolidge's show at the Rams Head Tavern on Thursday was a sort of survey course in the easy-listening music of the last half of the 20th century, and a reminder of why that "listening" is called ...
American Songwriter

On This Day in 1973, Kris Kristofferson’s First Collaborative Album With Wife Rita Coolidge Knocked His Previous Album off the Top of the Chart

[RELATED: On This Day in 1973, Kris Kristofferson Landed His First and Only Solo No. 1 on the Country Albums Chart] She was right, the pair said “I do” in August 1973. They released Full Moon the next ...
The Spokesman-Review

50 years ago in Expo history: Sonny and Cher could never, one S-R music critic argued in his rave review of the fair’s Rita Coolidge and Kris Kristofferson performance

Spokesman-Review music critic Les Blumenthal raved about the Kris Kristofferson-Rita Coolidge concert at Expo ’74. He said they performed “the type of music that doesn’t fit into any neat, little ...