Rita Coolidge

. He also guested on Mambo Sons debut CD (1999) and Damon Fowler's Riverview Drive (2000). In 2004, Rita released a huge anthology of her complete career entitled, DELTA LADY The Rita Coolidge Anthology. Recent releases include Tend The Fire (1997), DBA-Derringer, Bogert & Appice (2001) and Free Ride Smooth Jazz (2002). Walela includes her sister Priscilla and Priscilla's daughter Laura Satterfield, following their participation in Robbie Robertson's Music for the Native Americans project The group released a self-titled album in 1997 and an album entitled Unbearable Love in 2000. Derringer has played various styles of music and is a master of the electric guitar. Rita is member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. In the 1980s, Derringer expanded his producing skills, discovering "Weird Al" Yankovic as well as Mason Ruffner.

In 1997, Rita was one of the founding members of a Native American music focused trio, named Walela--the word for hummingbird in Cherokee. Derringer also had a successful solo career, and his solo version of "Rock 'n Roll Hoochie Koo" was a hit single. Her marriage to Kristofferson ended in 1980. One of his best solos can be found on "Tobacco Road" from the Edgar Winter live album Roadwork. She scored her last hit in 1983, with All Time High from the James Bond film Octopussy. Derringer also recorded and played on a studio album and a live album with Johnny Winter in the Johnny Winter Band, and also with Edgar Winter in the mid-1970s after guitarist Ronnie Montrose left the Edgar Winter Band. Other hits were We're All Alone (originally recorded by Boz Scaggs), I Don't Want To Talk About It (Rod Stewart), The Way You Do The Things You Do (The Temptations), You (Marcia Hines) and I'd Rather Leave While I'm In Love (Carole Bayer Sager). 1 hit "Hang On Sloopy" in the summer of 1965, knocking "Yesterday" by The Beatles out of the top spot.

Her first hit, (Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher And Higher (originally recorded by Jackie Wilson), was also her highest seller, reaching number two on the US charts in 1977. When he was just 17, his band "The McCoys" recorded the No. She had several solo hit singles during the late 1970s with cover versions. Rick Derringer (Rick Zehringer) is an American guitarist, vocalist, and entertainer born at Fort Recovery, Ohio. With him she recorded several duet albums which sold well, and earned them a Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal in 1974 for From The Bottle To The Bottom, and in 1976 for Lover Please. It was during this time that she met Kris Kristofferson and they married in 1973.

She became known as "The Delta Lady" and inspired Leon Russell to write a song of the same name for her. Coolidge's early career was as a backing vocalist, for artists such as Joe Cocker, Eric Clapton and Leon Russell. Rita Coolidge (born May 1, 1944 in Nashville, Tennessee) is a American singer.