Delta Lady

Author : Rita Coolidge,Michael Walker
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062372062

Get Book

Delta Lady by Rita Coolidge,Michael Walker Pdf

The two-time Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter bares her heart and soul in this intimate memoir, a story of music, stardom, love, family, heritage, and resilience. She inspired songs—Leon Russell wrote “A Song for You” and “Delta Lady” for her, Stephen Stills wrote “Cherokee.” She co-wrote songs—“Superstar” and the piano coda to “Layla,” uncredited. She sang backup for Eric Clapton, Joe Cocker, and Stills, before finding fame as a solo artist with such hits as “We're All Alone” and “(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher.” Following her story from Lafayette, Tennessee to becoming one of the most sought after rock vocalists in LA in the 1970s, Delta Lady chronicles Rita Coolidge’s fascinating journey throughout the ’60s-’70s pop/rock universe. A muse to some of the twentieth century’s most influential rock musicians, she broke hearts, and broke up bands. Her relationship with drummer Jim Gordon took a violent turn during the legendary 1970 Mad Dogs & Englishmen tour; David Crosby maintained that her triangle with Stills and Graham Nash was the last straw for the group. Her volatile six-year marriage to Kris Kristofferson yielded two Grammys, a daughter, and one of the Baby Boom generation’s epic love stories. Throughout it all, her strength, resilience, and inner and outer beauty—along with her strong sense of heritage and devotion to her family—helped her to not only survive, but thrive. Co-written with best-selling author Michael Walker, Delta Lady is a rich, deeply personal memoir that offers a front row seat to an iconic era, and illuminates the life of an artist whose career has helped shape modern American culture.

Author : Fern Michaels
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743439992

Get Book

The Delta Ladies - Wild Honey by Fern Michaels Pdf

The delta ladies -- Wild honey.

Author : Alysia Burton Steele
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781455562831

Get Book

Delta Jewels by Alysia Burton Steele Pdf

Inspired by memories of her beloved grandmother, photographer and author Alysia Burton Steele -- picture editor on a Pulitzer Prize-winning team -- combines heart-wrenching narrative with poignant photographs of more than 50 female church elders in the Mississippi Delta. These ordinary women lived extraordinary lives under the harshest conditions of the Jim Crow era and during the courageous changes of the Civil Rights Movement. With the help of local pastors, Steele recorded these living witnesses to history and folk ways, and shares the significance of being a Black woman -- child, daughter, sister, wife, mother, and grandmother in Mississippi -- a Jewel of the Delta. From the stand Mrs. Tennie Self took for her marriage to be acknowledged in the phone book, to the life-threatening sacrifice required to vote for the first time, these 50 inspiring portraits are the faces of love and triumph that will teach readers faith and courage in difficult times.

Author : Florence Hartley
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : History
ISBN : HARVARD:32044009635152

Get Book

Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politéness by Florence Hartley Pdf

Do unto others as you would others should do to you. You can never be rude if you bear the rule always in mind, for what lady likes to be treated rudely? True Christian politeness will always be the result of an unselfish regard for the feelings of others, and though you may err in the ceremonious points of etiquette, you will never be im polite. Politeness, founded upon such a rule, becomes the expression, in graceful manner, of social virtues. The spirit of politeness consists in a certain attention to forms and ceremonies, which are meant both to please others and ourselves, and to make others pleased with us ;a still clearer definition may be given by saying that politeness is goodness of heart put into daily practice; the.re can be no true, politeness without kindness, purity, singleness of heart, and sensibility. Many believe that politeness is but a mask worn in the world to conceal bad passions and impulses, and to make a show of possessing virtues not really existing in the heart; thus, that politeness is merely hypocrisy and dissimulation. Do not believe this; be certain that those who profess such a doctrine are practising themselves the deceit they condemn so much.

Author : Rick Barba
Publisher : Simon Spotlight
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1442412410

Get Book

The Delta Anomaly by Rick Barba Pdf

A new Starfleet Academy series for teens--filled with romance and adventure!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2152 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Merchant marine
ISBN : IND:30000099548160

Get Book

Merchant Vessels of the United States by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Coast Guard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Merchant marine
ISBN : UCSD:31822009619289

Get Book

Merchant Vessels of the United States by United States. Coast Guard Pdf

Author : Michelle Visage
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781452146850

Get Book

The Diva Rules by Michelle Visage Pdf

Michelle Visage is not your average diva. Powerful, positive, and polished, this diva's not only glamorous, she's a savvy businesswoman with serious credentials who works her tail off. From her days vogueing in the downtown Manhattan clubs in the '90s to her successful career in radio and her ultimate cult status as a judge on RuPaul's Drag Race, Michelle has achieved her dreams and then some! In The Diva Rules, Visage shares her rules and advice for living life to the fullest and finding success no matter the hand you're dealt. With her no-nonsense style and super sassy voice, Michelle tells readers to Keep Your Shit Together

Author : Mark Bego
Publisher : Cooper Square Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781461635277

Get Book

Bette Midler by Mark Bego Pdf

This biography of the Grammy-winning, Oscar-nominated redhead covers Bette's life and career from her childhood on Hawaii, her New York nightclub years, and her current career in Hollywood.

Author : Gayden Metcalfe,Charlotte Hays
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781401305741

Get Book

Being Dead Is No Excuse by Gayden Metcalfe,Charlotte Hays Pdf

A hilarious guide to the intricate rituals, customs, and etiquette surrounding death in the South-and a practical collection of recipes for the final send-off. As author Gayden Metcalfe asserts, people in the Delta have a strong sense of community, and being dead is no impediment to belonging to it. Down south, they don't forget you when you've up and died-they may even like you better and visit you more often! But just as there is an appropriate way to live your life in the South, there is an equally essentially tasteful way of departing it-and the funeral is the final social event of your existence so it must be handled flawlessly. Metcalfe portrays this slice of American culture from the manners, customs, and the tomato aspic with mayonnaise that characterize the Delta way of death. Southerners love to swap tales, and Gayden Metcalfe, native of Greenville, MS, founder of the Greenville Arts Council and chairman of the St. James Episcopal Church Bazaar, is steeped in the stories and traditions of this rich region. She reminisces about the prominent family that drank too much and got the munchies the night before the big event-and left not a crumb for the funeral (Naturally some early rising, quick-witted ladies from the church saved the day, so the story demonstrates some solutions to potential entertaining disasters!). Then there was the lady who allocated money to have "Home on the Range" sung at the service, and the family that insisted on a portrait of their mother in her casket, only to refuse to pay for it on the grounds that "Mama looks so sad." Each chapter ends with an authentic southern recipe that will come in handy if you "plan to die tastefully", including Boiled Bourbon Custard; Aunt Hebe's Coconut Cake; Pickled Shrimp; Homemade Mayonnaise; and Homemade Rolls.

Author : Michael Walker
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781429932936

Get Book

Laurel Canyon by Michael Walker Pdf

Michael Walker’s Laurel Canyon presents the inside story of the once hottest rock and roll neighborhood in LA. In the late sixties and early seventies, an impromptu collection of musicians colonized a eucalyptus-scented canyon deep in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles and melded folk, rock, and savvy American pop into a sound that conquered the world as thoroughly as the songs of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones had before them. Thirty years later, the music made in Laurel Canyon continues to pour from radios, iPods, and concert stages around the world. During the canyon's golden era, the musicians who lived and worked there scored dozens of landmark hits, from "California Dreamin'" to "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" to "It's Too Late," selling tens of millions of records and resetting the thermostat of pop culture. In Laurel Canyon, veteran journalist Michael Walker tells the inside story of this unprecedented gathering of some of the baby boomer's leading musical lights—including Joni Mitchell; Jim Morrison; Crosby, Stills, and Nash; John Mayall; the Mamas and the Papas; Carole King; the Eagles; and Frank Zappa, to name just a few—who turned Los Angeles into the music capital of the world and forever changed the way popular music is recorded, marketed, and consumed.

Author : Jody Wilson-Raybould
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781443465373

Get Book

"Indian" in the Cabinet by Jody Wilson-Raybould Pdf

THE #1 BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE WRITERS' TRUST BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICY A compelling political memoir of leadership and speaking truth to power by one of the most inspiring women of her generation Jody Wilson-Raybould was raised to be a leader. Inspired by the example of her grandmother, who persevered throughout her life to keep alive the governing traditions of her people, and raised as the daughter of a hereditary chief and Indigenous leader, Wilson-Raybould always knew she would take on leadership roles and responsibilities. She never anticipated, however, that those roles would lead to a journey from her home community of We Wai Kai in British Columbia to Ottawa as Canada’s first Indigenous Minister of Justice and Attorney General in the Cabinet of then newly elected prime minister, Justin Trudeau. Wilson-Raybould’s experience in Trudeau’s Cabinet reveals important lessons about how we must continue to strengthen our political institutions and culture, and the changes we must make to meet challenges such as racial justice and climate change. As her initial optimism about the possibilities of enacting change while in Cabinet shifted to struggles over inclusivity, deficiencies of political will, and concerns about adherence to core principles of our democracy, Wilson-Raybould stood on principle and, ultimately, resigned. In standing her personal and professional ground and telling the truth in front of the nation, Wilson-Raybould demonstrated the need for greater independence and less partisanship in how we govern. “Indian” in the Cabinet: Speaking Truth to Power is the story of why Wilson-Raybould got into federal politics, her experience as an Indigenous leader sitting around the Cabinet table, her proudest achievements, the very public SNC-Lavalin affair, and how she got out and moved forward. Now sitting as an Independent Member in Parliament, Wilson-Raybould believes there is a better way to govern and a better way for politics—one that will make a better country for all.

Author : Wise Publications
Publisher : Wise Publications
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781783233144

Get Book

The Original Little Black Songbook by Wise Publications Pdf

The Original Little Black Songbook, from the best-selling series of chord songbooks, is here to teach you how to play 70 of the very best songs of all time from some of the best artists of all time. This handy chord songbook is perfect for any aspiring guitarist, ideal for group singalongs or a spot of busking. This little book includes: - Alone Again Or [Love] - Baby Let's Play House [Elvis Presley] - Bring Me Sunshine [Morecambe & Wise] - Buffalo Soldier [Bob Marley & The Wailers] - Catch A Falling Star [Perry Como] - Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend [Marilyn Monroe] - Down On The Farm [Guns N’ Roses] - The End Of The World [Skeeter Davis] - Georgia On My Mind [Charles] - Goodnight Sweetheart [Vaughan, Sarah] - Je T'aime… Moi Non Plus [Serge Gainsbourg] - La Vie En Rose [Louis Armstrong] - The London Boys [David Bowie] - Lovin' You [Minnie Riperton] - Memories Are Made Of This [Dean Martin] - My Sharona [The Knack] - Smile [Lily Allen] - Somethin' Stupid [Frank & Nancy Sinatra] - SOS [Rihanna] - Strange Fruit [Billie Holiday] - Tainted Love [Marilyn Manson] - Take the 'A' Train [Ella Fitzgerald] - Try A Little Tenderness [Otis Redding] - Two Tickets To Paradise [Eddie Money] And many more!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433075981807

Get Book

Crescent by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sally Palmer Thomason
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496806659

Get Book

Delta Rainbow by Sally Palmer Thomason Pdf

Betty Bobo Pearson (b. 1922), a seventh-generation, plantation-born Mississippian, defied her cultural heritage--and caused great personal pain for her parents and herself--when she became an activist in the civil rights movement. Never fearing to break the mold in her search for the "best," in her nineties she remains a strong, effective leader with a fun-loving, generous spirit. When Betty was eighteen months old, a train smashed into the car her mother was driving, killing Betty's beloved grandfather and severely injuring her grandmother. Thrown onto the engine's cow catcher, Betty lived and did not remember the accident. She did, however, grow up to fulfill her grandmother's prediction: "Betty, God reached down and plucked you from in front of that train because he has something very special he wants you to do with your life." In 1943, twenty-one-year-old Betty, soon to graduate from the University of Mississippi, received a full tuition scholarship to Columbia Graduate School in New York City. Ecstatic, she rushed home to tell her parents. "ABSOLUTELY NOT. There is no way I'll allow my daughter to live in Yankee Land," her father replied. After fierce argument and much door slamming, Betty could not defy her father. But she had to show him she was her own person. Her nation was at war--so Betty joined the Marines. After the war, Betty married Bill Pearson and became mistress of Rainbow Plantation in the Delta. In 1955, she attended the Emmett Till trial (accompanied by her close friend and budding civil rights activist Florence Mars) and was shocked by the virulent degree of racism she witnessed there. Seeing her world in a new way, she became a courageous and dedicated supporter of the civil rights movement. Her activities severely fractured her close relationship with her parents. Yet, as a warm friend and bold, persuasive leader, Betty made an indelible mark in her church, in the Delta communities, in the lives of the people she employed, and in her beautiful garden at Rainbow.