Rita Coolidge

We're All Alone
$0.99

The Lady's Not for Sale
$52.98
This CD has great personal value to me so I, so painfully, paid the price. It's worth it from that standpoint. Songs that still stand up well today include My Crew, Fever, Bird on a Wire, I'll Be Your Baby Tonight, and Whiskey, Whiskey. This is a young Coolidge, with a strong, deep voice and great range. It's easy to forget just how talented she is. Few CDs have 5 songs that are this strong. Order it and be patient - it will take a while.

The Best of Rita Coolidge: 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection
$11.98
I first became acquainted with Rita Coolidge a long,long time ago when we were listening to vinyl and I went to something called a record store and purchased Joe Cocker, Mad Dogs and Englishman. It was a wonderful compilation album featuring some new and explosive artists like Rita, who Joe in his inimitable style kept referring to as the Delta Lady, a moniker that would stick forever. Just think of Dionne Warwick, Donna Summer, Gladys Knight, Natalie Cole, Karen Carpenter,Anne Murray and Rita Coolidge as representing what I think is an outstanding decade of recording artists. When I turn my cable channels way up to musical genres I sometimes spend a couple of hours on 70's music. The following Rita Coolidge songs are veritable classics offered by one of the more soothing and vocally adept singers I have ever heard, One Fine Day, I'd Rather Leave When I'm In Love, Higher and Higher. They are all featured on this CD which incidentally I recommend completely for anyone who loves and appreciates fine music. I will also tell you something that I vividly remember about Rita Coolidge. Aside from my remembrances of her as being a full blooded Cherokee American Indian her fans and friends surely noticed rather starkly a woman of immeasurable beauty and innate sensuality. I understand that today Rita is doing very well and enjoying the pursuits of someone who has made enormous and world wide accomplishments in her cherished and admired career. I hear her all over the media today on those providers that separate musical eras in such a grand style.
Jay Adler

Anytime... Anywhere
$2.98
This accomplished 1977 album has long been difficult to find. It opens with the soaring (Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher And Higher, which is followed by the swinging and swaying The Way You Do The Things You Do. The slow and melancholy Boz Scaggs composition We're All Alone was a hit, I think, and she elegantly covers I Don't Want To Talk About It.

One of my favorites is her version of Words by the Gibb brothers, and she renders Sam Cooke's Good Times in an appealing way. The Kris Kristofferson song Who's To Bless And Who's To Blame gets a rousing treatment over some really funky music.

All the tracks are enjoyable, including the powerful rock ballad Southern Lady and the closing track, a cover of Neil Sedaka's The Hungry Years, a yearning ballad. All in all, Anytime Anywhere is an appealing pop album with many a soulful moment.