Rita Coolidge – Play Something Sweet (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 54:29 minutes | 591 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Time-Life Music
Coolidge has won numerous Grammy awards, provided a hit single for James Bond movie and promoted Native American music and heritage during her lengthy career. But this is the first time that she’s gathered together an incredible band, brought in the famous Waters family for background vocal support and produced a collection of tracks that is both full of hits and adds some great Southern funk to her repertoire. On an early June afternoon in 2010, AIX Records captured the amazing talents of Rita Coolidge in full HD-Audio and 3D video. If you’ve got the right equipment, Rita and the band are in your living room.
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Rita Coolidge – The Lady’s Not For Sale (1972/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:37 minutes | 878 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © A&M
Rita Coolidge’s third album is a fine mixture of covers and originals that manages to showcase her fine vocal abilities as well as show off an impressive array of friends. Booker T. Jones contributes not only his fine flute skills, but also two songs. Noted guitarist and songwriter Marc Benno also lends his impressive, laid-back guitar work all throughout the album. His “Donut Man” adds an air of lazy funk to the proceedings. Bob Dylan’s “I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight” probably gets the most soulful reading, with Coolidge’s take on Leonard Cohen’s “Bird on a Wire” following close behind. Kris Kristofferson is represented at the tail end of the album with the title track. She may not have had the most distinctive of voices, but Coolidge definitely captured the sort of laid-back energy and approach associated with early-’70s country-rock. If Rita Coolidge’s voice and stellar class of backing musicians aren’t enough to sway you, consider the cover that shows her bedecked in what looks to be several pounds of turquoise, or the gatefold in which she appears pensive, with Stonehenge not too far in the background. – Jon Pruett
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Rita Coolidge – Anytime… Anywhere (1977/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:42 minutes | 735 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © A&M
Anytime…Anywhere is the sixth album by Rita Coolidge released in 1977 on the A&M Records label. The album is her most successful, reaching #6 on the Billboard 200 and having been certified platinum (over 1 million U.S. copies sold). The album spawned three Billboard top twenty hits; a cover of Boz Scaggs’ “We’re All Alone” (#7), a cover of The Temptations’ “The Way You Do The Things You Do” (#20), and the album’s biggest hit, “(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher” (#2), a remake of Jackie Wilson’s “(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher”.
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