Life, Music and Loss with The Delta Lady, Rita Coolidge, Part 2

[@sgtpep5]

I like this guy. He'll ask Rita a question then stays quiet so she can answer completely. That's rare these days..

[@karlenejohn4904]

Love this woman. I can't believe how many people disliked this. Makes me wonder what kind of people they are. Rita is an amazing woman with class and calming wisdom.

[@maryanngarcia3080]

I love this woman. She has aged gracefully. She looks good. Her face doesn’t look like a mask. She oozes class and confidence. Always loved her voice.

[@jerseymike4135]

She’s pure, unadulterated class and very humble about her own gigantic level of talent.

[@Samantha-wu5vn]

I love when she gets interviewed and the interviewer listens and gives her all the time to answers the questions. That book interview on Delta Girl was awful with the two announcers putting out wrong music on Layla and kept interrupting her and then would finish her sentences. She is such a soft spoken artist and has much to say with such a great memory. Great musician Rita. We love and respect you so much.

[@martymattoon7231]

This lady is awesome. My room mate in college had her album in 1972 and when I heard it I was hooked. Now,I'm 71 yr old and I listen to most all of her albums and will forever put her at the top of the list of my preferanc in music.

[@stregalilith]

I still listen to "Full Moon" the album I love the most that Rita and Kris did. So good to see her still up and around, still kicking when so many are sadly gone.

[@GMKA01]

A beautiful woman, a superb musician, singer and song writer and also an highly advanced intellectual. I am looking forward to read her autobiography.

[@lastnamefirst4035]

Good book

[@Suzi64grad]

What a beautiful spirit she has!! Loved her since the 70's!! Gorgeous voice!! Nothing like the duets of Rita, and Kris..Not surprised they are still close!!

[@nitalay5317]

A lot of that was due to Lisa Kristofferson. She wanted the families to be friends.

[@susiecreamcheese5830]

So beautiful and intelligent. Such a soft comforting voice.

[@benpoverelli5450]

Lovely Rita. The Delta Lady.. Historic insight... God bless her!

[@mikecroly4579]

My dear wonderful Rita Coolidge..I'm 71yrs and a huge fan of you! Thank you! You are so honest/sincere!..Love you!

[@31Alden]

Wonderful interview with a wonderful woman.

[@larryrhindress2972]

I have always loved Rita's music!!! I got to see her at The Stanfest music festival in Nova Scotia and she was superb!! She sings with such passion and grace. Rita you are an excellent example of what class is! We do love you!

[@loromas63]

Such a lovely and respectful interview. I really enjoyed how the interviewer engaged Rita in conversation. Very relaxing!

[@manifestingbeautifullife2187]

Yes!! Agreed!

[@janefriel6895]

He allowed Rita to speak.Watch and learn most other music world interviewers.

[@johnnyjensen6067]

She is still beautiful and one of the best female singers of her generation. Lover her music.

[@topschlager7856]

I like like she speaks old style, slowly and well pronounced! 👍

[@bennyjazzful]

WOW WOW WOW !!!!!! From a mad keen 75yo Aussie fan. What a great interview of an exceptional lady & musician.

[@rellrheeannaRN]

Hi my dear Rita I'm about your age I loved Joe Cocker Mad dog and the Englishmen butt I had most of my music via vinyl or 8 tracks.... I adored your voice and history as if I felt you a part of my life .,,. I lost my sister recently as you.... 2 years and I still cry to easily. It was a great time of which you speak eithbjoe... I only recently learned of Leon through my other love on vinyl Elton Zjohn as he sobbed over inducting Leon t Leon. To R and R hall of fame as Elton sobbed I sobbed. I truly adored Joe he was purrrrfection every single your power your voice. Held strength above all else. I'm glad they both had you. Leon im infatuated with catching up thrn saw a few later videos where he was either Willlie and a few other C&W Singers I as a mom 3 during 76-82. Joe ruled my heart Leon I was slapping my head saying where was I.... I know I would have adored him its almost as if he was blocked from bringing awareness Leon existed the c and w show times Leon was gone I noticed a button down shirt open showed some billly swelling. As a RN most of my life the next words Zleon spoke in the video was "so what I drink we all do" Spider senses went off ( liver failure) my hesrt broke) k was a New outlet until the past few years my daughter pm going to college turned me into c&W music when Tim McGraw Faith ... and more as NY was without a country station.. Dang they even turned off CD 101.9 smooth jazz great for 25/7 relaxing ... my daughter got the exposure from her yea Ts in north Zny hours north of along Island - and NYC. My daughter insisted on stopping at Nashville when she took my 4 wheeler to go camping with a friend. She had to lose an appendix out in the Tetons... I flew out to drive her and a friend home.,.. mandatory to Rachel my daughter was stop at Nashville. It was a blast as we toured familiar singers or lyricists. The zoo and a dinner cruise on the outskirts it became indignant fav places add New Orleans and it's my heaven when im off a horse. I'm so grateful you were with Leon as he crossed the veil such a beautiful journeys. His wife "... last or second stated he passed in his sleep in. Their bed.,,, your truth filled heart with joy. Watching Kenny Ligginds "Celebrate me home" done from the Church which if I'm correct Leon established. This song meant everything for me as I had been marrisge of nightmares I left all I had.... as I drifted through life working smd serving in. ER. Medicine I had loved my ability to love my work to heal or help guide souls that were lost. As Cherokee you hold contrasts of the gifted Irish of which is my heritage. I've seen across the veils. And even as a child saw far beyond this realm. I took Shsmanic healing from Ann indigenous American I'm not sure what tribe but I learned of journeys beyond as Leon beyond time and space. I will get your book as well as encourage others to to read or pass it down, if I had a motto I knew to be true we all hold deep sorrow, but need not dwell there. I'm the last one alive in my family and it's not a big family tree I've been blessed to see beyond if I allow it and work with guides and Indian medicine man is o ne.... as I draw those that come to me. My dad my very best friend of all passed ofvkeujemia I was 15...... he channeled words of comfort snd great wisdom through me at his wake, my first I truly hate that custom. I spent time in Ireland and the correct people came to reach me of banshees as well as the wee people that appeared as I ride a horse through the single rings and of Kerry ..... laying my head back I let horses lead and speak to me ..... I honor how far you have come. I wish I could find a few minutes to talk or enclose you in arms if love the messages I received in writing you are for you not anyone else you know who itvis and the confirt I'm sure has reached you. As my head feels the love, my heart knows the love namaste dear one thank you for the leadings " never question yourself - you are being divinely lead - Rell Rheeanna here in life Rell or Maryellen " when you October's Francisco be sure to wear so3. Flowers in your hair .....

[@steveygunstyn705]

I was a teenager when "My crew" was released, my cousins and I sung that song so often... it became an anthem to us...40 years later I've yet to reconnect with the cuzzies to revive the music of that era...something to look forward to.

[@moanahughes3593]

Awesome interview 👏 thank you both so much. 💗

[@stevehughes1510]

A very good interview with this lovely lady.

[@douglasgrossman6200]

Wow! How beautiful! Such a beautiful Spirit/Soul! Rita has made the earth a better place!!!

[@jebbrown8469]

Makes me love this album even more ! Keon Russel one of Americas finest singer song writer RIP to Joe and leon

[@howardmanley3388]

Life has a way of beating us up , I’m in my late seventies now and as the Apostle paul says our outer bodies are wasting away but our inner bodies are being renewed daily . It’s quite a journey this thing called life , However as a believer I’m looking forward to a new life because I received Christ into my life and looking forward to being in heaven...🙏

[@thirskA19]

Amen brother!! While it’s good to look back at these memorable people, it doesn’t compare to looking forward to heaven. The rapture couldn’t come too soon for me!!

[@jingosantana5813]

Love her tone of voice,,she's really a good artist

[@lesleymaclennan7899]

Loved her and Kris together they looked and sounded BeAUtiFuL 💞🌸💞🌸🎵🎶🎤

[@JoePiervincentiWorld]

The greatest moment I have as a singer is when someome tells me I made their day or hhat no one ever sings to them. It's love.

[@joantucker1388]

Love Rita . Love her music.

[@varoonshekhar4023]

Nice interview. Her song "All time high" is one of my all time favourites. And the fact that it was almost incongruously featured in the James Bond movie "Octopussy" makes it all that more attractive. It's the combination of memories from the 80s, and the intersection of worlds in the movie( Indian locales plus European) makes her song evocative and memorable.

[@RoxxHoffner]

Awesome woman. Musical Icon.

[@larryitsbloat995]

Rita, an all around class act.

[@zackf1089]

Great interview! Some of the best questions.

[@kcsunshine6122]

Unusual but nice to see a female celebrity letting herself age naturally. Unlike Cher, Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton, Stevie Nicks, etc.

[@pabloperez4063]

Perhaps her gens let her not to worry... Unlike the other s

[@carlwilliams6977]

You don't think Cher has aged naturally? 🤣 I agree, Rita seems like a very down to earth person. She's still lovely!

[@susanclark6987]

Yes she looks great!

[@janparish8055]

Pure class, I’ve loved RC for years!

[@rellrheeannaRN]

True beauty is in no need of. Being in bathing suit or sequins sadly evil is openly and happily destroying Mother Earth you know of who I speak he must not assume power his writings of 2025 states a potus can not face trials after 7 or more were ordered killing ....use your heart seek the great spirit that. The life. Women don't need to ereoybon full body exposure as Meghan Markle and a once innocent. Tay tay now appears in scantily dressed nothing

[@TrailToughTrailers]

WOW... great interview(er) with an awesome lady.

[@SFolkes97]

Higher and Higher. Sounds like her love is lifting lots of people too.

[@michaeldmusiccanada]

What a special blessing to share ❤❤❤✌️✌️✌️🙏🙏🙏

[@mousejustmouse]

Late to the party…heading to get the book. She’s incredible.

[@okiepita50t-town28]

What a classy lady.

[@jeffreyadams8435]

OMG I HAD NO IDEA THAT RITA&CHRIS HAD AN OFFSPRING, ALWAYS LOVED THEM BOTH, ( AND A DAUGHTER AT THAT, A MASTERPIECE FOR SURE)

[@Thadmotor1044]

what a treasure . I loved it so when Rita , Nicholette ,, Claudia and others would sing powerful back up vocals

[@thequintanashow5058]

She really could have made a MINT by reading for audiobooks. That voice would keep me 100% engaged!

[@brettthebad]

I had been wondering about her. Thanks!

[@kevinbrislawn5918]

she's such a drastic opposite than Madonna..Rita is sober and interesting not Madonna or Katy Perry and Britney Stupid Spears

[@LBNLDC1]

She is more attractive now than ever. Some people age well.

[@JoeGiammarco]

Words can't describe this beautiful woman alot of class

[@cosmicdrifter287]

excellent interviewer!

[@brucewofford628]

She and the rest of the ladies on the song Space Captain where absolutely awesome as a young man I was star struck. Love her so much and her heritage A'ho. Being 1/6th Comanche.

[@rvegas81]

Just discovered her and bought her first album.

[@carlostoro-ev7mj]

I love Rita dont forget yuo music from Chile .

[@rellrheeannaRN]

Shes so divinely protected as if sn old soul any dislike as the man who lies makes faces as a cat eats a canary .... Mother Earth monlongerciscruledcby live but hate appears to be winning. Anyone who can't see through a murderer with lies flowing like a snake that Curls its way seducing with hate and lies.... hear the groans of mother earth we are doomed if the lies of one very evil man who ascended from the fires we don't belong too. If you beleive in a higher power there is the opposite and legion, Beelzebub .... Satsn, Hitler and more are residing in a. Possession of a msn who is not a man demon yes msn no.... as God and the great spirits and every angel are here to be called on .... too many bhave surrendered to legion that even jJesusxabdxEldersccast out only to return as we near destruction. @ if you aren't part of the solution you. Are part of the problem the trials

[@rellrheeannaRN]

I not against you butcaxwsrningvtibthosexinfestedcwithvebil as evil thy name is Trump. A friend of mine was doing truck transport cross country.... she had to leave as near reservations young beautiful Indian ancestors would throw themselves beneath the trucks ..... it occured quickly the sound of impact a fast and sad death .... Evil is rising and Evil residescunnlegion Belzebub Satsn snd morning a man D Rump I abbreviate that truth be given make a choice to live in freedom and live from the hdeartv

[@dyskover]

Kris and Rita sounded so soothing and soulful.

[@RobertSalvo-l8u]

Man she is beautiful inside and outside .

[@joezed3578]

Still a beautiful human.

[@depaola63]

Class all the way !!!

[@bigmamou]

Rita is a staggering talent and a major mover & shaker of 70's rock. A year after this interview she did another interview in which she talked about more of her career and about how she was ripped off for her part in the writing of "Layla". She actually wrote the music for that song and her then (and abusive) boyfriend took her music to the Layla sessions in Miami and wound up using it for the title song, a song that is now acknowledged as one of the anthems of rock and roll. Even if she will never be paid she should be acknowledged for her contribution to that famous song! And BTW, Duane Allman devised the guitar parts and taught them to clapton and even gave him a Strat to play them on....that guitar later became famous as clapton's "Blackie" which he had not returned to Duane due to Duane's passing. Such are the intricacies of the music biz. a

[@surfallday6583]

You're referring to Jim Gordon who got sole credit for the piano part?

[@renatajustkowski3282]

I read somewhere that Leon was on piano for the original studio version, Derek & the Dominoes. Is that right?

[@renatajustkowski3282]

Yeah, I hear that also. I wasn't there, can't find pics . . .

[@renatajustkowski3282]

Are you from Nawlins? I had a good friend, long time friend, who was big on the music scene there in the 80's, punk. Michael Pastor. Do you know him, or of him?

[@bigmamou]

No. It was Gordon.

[@doraflores6684]

She's very down-to-Earth.

[@SuperBSmeter]

She is is my spirit animal...

[@StevenOsburnHollywood]

She's a ᎦᏰᎪᎩ ᏲᏁᎦ. White liar. Armenian like Cher and not a Cherokee. Her monring song is pure bullshit and not a word of it is Cherokee.

[@dougfielding8215]

@@StevenOsburnHollywoodNot a put down, but how do you know?

[@rtoma1974]

@@StevenOsburnHollywood I took one look at her and knew she was Native American. And why are you so heavily invested in this idea? Go check your eyes.

[@psychoticnick5140]

shes a gem

[@StevenOsburnHollywood]

Everyone says "look at their cheekbones" lol. Well, look at Rita's cheeks. She has no prominent cheekbones, huh? Flat as can be. She has a long white woman's face. She's not a ᏣᎳᎩ and never was. ᎠᏂᏣᎳᎩ

[@rtoma1974]

@@StevenOsburnHollywood She is OBVIOUSLY Native American. She looks just like the Comanches/Kiowas (I know she's Cherokee.) You need your eyes checked.

[@donwyates]

Love Rita!

[@michaeld8090]

How VERY Special !

[@Bebewhite88]

RITA FAYE I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU...THANK YOU❤️

[@stanleycates1972]

Lovely heart....

[@aaabeverages7152]

Holy shiet , Cher is no where near Rita's beauty and takent.

[@OjibwayDreams]

That is unkind and a low blow. Rita is beautiful and talented to be sure, but Cher is beautiful and talented in her own right. You don't have to slag someone off to praise another.

[@Newspirit1111]

Sigue siendo hermosa, la amo.Es muy dulce. Me gustaría que lo supiera.

[@markweatherly6782]

Jim Gordon did Rita wrong on multiple levels, physically, mentally, and stole her song Time which was used as the beautiful coda at the end of Eric Clapton’s Layla. Such a graceful lady.

[@ragman069]

Six years later, the Mad Dogs and Englishmen reunion documentary is out LONG LIVE LEON

[@Wolfsky9]

I so remember her from " Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid " . And, from " Midnight Special " , 1975. ---------------------WolfSky9, 73 y/o

[@michelesimko7541]

Rita Coolidge played in Greenville NC. Fairly small renovated church building. Came out late, due to lost shoe!

[@manifestingbeautifullife2187]

WOW, NO wonder "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" was my favorite, all time favorite best band, music, of all time!

[@StanTheObserver-lo8rx]

Getting older does suck. I could say more,but wont. It was just yesterday she was singing her big song played all day here in the bay area. Right there with KC and the Eagles ....

[@davidoran123]

check out Intro To Rita: Asylum Choir 2

[@johnhickman6064]

Iloveritacoolidgegreattoseeherspeakingilovehermusic

[@cowboysfan782008]

To me she's just pure class, and always seems so level headed. For male artists Robert Plant is kind of the same way. Totally interesting to listen to and like Rita very grounded for everything they have been through. I think if you are an entertainer and you start having serious fame that if you are smart you really need to set some rules and boundaries, at least for the things that you can control, because if you don't there's just so many bad things and ppl that will bring you down. Put another way The other Stones have probably hated Jagger at different times but without his mostly level head and his mind for business I doubt they would have stayed together all this time.

[@johnmetcalfe2482]

I whole heartedly agree in regard to Rita...Leon Russel and Kris Kristofferson would be her counterparts.

[@chironmentor]

Hi, again, girlfriend, from Frank Green in Jacksonville

[@Mrm_Mario]

Love Rita Coolidge you can hear the 45rpm record "Mary Lou by The Creative Force " on utube

[@brucewillis7463]

Mario Saldana k

[@thomaswoodman5139]

great soft rock artists are more difficult too find now on radio.

[@joebloggs8636]

Soft rock? Better check out Delta Lady!

[@stwads]

I think she means the Moore brothers, Daniel & Matthew, rather than the Matthews brothers.

[@BobTex01]

The Delta Lady.....the "Grand Dame".

[@kcsunshine6122]

The interviewer seems clueless about what she's talking about. He probaby wasn't even born yet during Mad Dogs

[@teresabelardes7210]

Love that she's a fan of Taylor Swift! LOL! Me too!

[@danielmesery2904]

💐🌷

[@sjd5750]

Such a beautiful woman...And when is Eric Clapton going to give her credit for the "Layla" piano coda that he STOLE from her song, "Time"?!..I look at him in such a different light since I heard about that...Be a man, and do the right thing by her, ERIC!

[@frankiebutler2894]

Yes, he should do the right thing by Rita. Rita has told everyone who would listen of the theft of her music, but CLAPTON has done NOTHING. Tells us fans a lot about the man. Remember that, and spread the word, so that we can hit him where it hurts - $$$$. Don’t pay for his music!!!

[@ruthsturgeon4979]

@@frankiebutler2894 Eric Clapton is loaded you won't hurt him it's kind of late now

[@sulevisydanmaa9981]

Clapton got slapped by the covid spike proteinzzzzz ...good, or bad karma

[@cisum1111]

Was it Joe or Leon????? Same story

[@moss8448]

the host needs to drop by a shoe shine stand on the way to the studio..

[@everythingmatters6308]

She looks a lot like Stevie Nicks here.

[@marcstewart8730]

Nope Stevie can’t hold a candle to her

[@everythingmatters6308]

@@marcstewart8730 Rita has a much lovelier personality than Stevie.

[@hereigns1935]

Its all natural with Rita. She looks & sounds great!

[@a.larkin3090]

P0

[@justafanintexas7913]

I thought Rita was going to add more claims of songs she wrote that she had nothing to do with.

[@SuperEmmitt1]

She should wear scarves.

[@pennypane1736]

Why?

[@allanbriggs807]

Why would she wear a scarf in a studio????

[@rhondaparmenter7266]

Jerk

[@lindseycliff1999]

...and perhaps you should wear a muzzle...🤐

[@joebloggs8636]

Wtf is wrong with you ,are you inbred or what?