In a few instances, her professional relationships turned romantic. 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. 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. 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. No matter what you go through, no matter how tough times are, you don’t dwell on it you just get back up. She comes from really good, good parents and a good family, and she has that survival instinct. “Everything matters so deeply to Rita, and it always has. She threw herself into it, and I’m so proud of her. This is not about any other thing except telling your story, and that’s how I reassured her. “I told her: ‘The truth is the truth, and you can’t argue with it’. “Rita absolutely did call me,” Connie Nelson said, speaking from her home in Austin. 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. One of the friends Coolidge called is Connie Nelson. You’re fine.’ It’s just a choice that I made (not to hold back).
I called some friends, and said: ‘Oh, my God! What have I done?’ They said: ‘It’s OK. “After Michael and I finished the book, I read through it one more time, and I almost had a panic attack. The veteran singer will discuss “Delta Lady” and sign copies April 13 at Warwick’s in La Jolla. “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.
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!” Pointing out the living room window of the mountainside home to the steep valley below, Coolidge smiled. The view from three of the four sides of her home offer a stunning panorama. She moved there from Los Angeles in 1996. In 2004, she married now-retired UC Irvine computer science professor Tatsuya Suda, with whom she quietly lives in Fallbrook. 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.” While their relationship reached heady highs, Kristofferson also cheated on her, she writes, including with French actress Isabelle Huppert. She was on Valium during the ceremony, because of her nerves. 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. He won’t be be eligible for parole until 2018. In 1983, Gordon stabbed his mother to death. 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. 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. “I cried for an hour when I finished reading it for the first time,” Coolidge said. Seating can be reserved with purchase of book from Warwick’s, but book purchase is not required to attend. Where: Warwick’s, 7812 Girard Ave., La JollaĪdmission: Free. “Delta Lady: A Memoir” book discussion and signing by Rita Coolidge
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