★★★★★
Rita Coolidge has an excellent track record when it comes to cover material. She's made a career out of putting her own sensitive spin on songs either written by or closely associated with other major artists. Her past chart-toppers include such borrowed tunes as "Fever," "(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher" and "The Way You Do the Things You Do...
- www.soundspike.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Despite sage advice from my female advisers, I cherished hopes that Coolidge's thick voice--which is grainy rather than gritty, like the Bramlett voice without the bravura--would grow on me the way Tracy Nelson's did. She does get more out of "Seven Bridges Road" than Tracy does by underplaying the overstatement just a little, and it's nice to hear "The Happy Song" as praise for a househusband. But in the end this is so solid that it never sparkles once.
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
This was gonna be her annual sultry cornpone, unobjectionable except for the Neil Sedaka tune and not without its soulful moments, when A&M prexy Jerry Moss told Rita how to become worthy of Kris. You'll get more sales, Jerry opined, if people Recognize Your Material. Try a Motown revival, one of Boz's lesser songs, a Bee Gees number, maybe that wonderful Sam Cooke classic the Stones did once--and who can lose with "Higher and Higher"...
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
Rita Coolidge successfully returns to the American Jazz Songbook with her memorable debut on Concord Records in this classic CD collection. There is also a special appearance by Herb Alpert.For those who have forgotten, Rita Coolidge recorded her first major jazz album with "Out Of The Blues" with Barbara Carroll during the 1970s. She was good friends with Peggy Lee and Ray Charles, and honors them with two of her songs.There are twelve exceptional songs in this CD collection...
- www.jazzreview.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Cute title, but my best information is that you're still expected to pay for this in stores. And even if you weren't it would just clutter the house--from a great female hope she's developed into someone who sings "Fever" with all of the heat (and none of the charm) of Keith doin "98.6."
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-02-26
★★★★★
With Steve Cropper recording Mitch Ryder and Yvonne Elliman, the great Booker T. Jones and A&M; exec David Anderle counter with a shimmering production for Rita Coolidge, emerging from her underground status with Mad Dogs & Englishmen to unleash her fifth Top 40 hit here: Peter Allen and Carole Bayer Sager's "I'd Rather Leave While I'm in Love...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
Fans aware of Rita Coolidge's past credentials might have been expecting, or at least hoping, for something more soulful than Anytime...Anywhere, given her achievements as backing singer for Joe Cocker, Eric Clapton, Stephen Stills, and Kris Kristofferson. Still, the record had something going for it commercially that her past records lacked, which was being totally in tune with what the soft rock audience wanted in the late '70s...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
It seems increasingly common for once-popular artists to resurface years after their heyday. What's so interesting is how they resurface. Who would've imagined Rita Coolidge, like other popular '70s singers, re-emerging 30 years down the line as a singer of jazz classics? But Coolidge, like Debby Boone before her, has done exactly that, releasing a collection of classic songs on Concord Records...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
Even though the duo-tone cover looks new and jazzy, most of this cozy set was recorded over twenty years ago. Primarily working with bass, drum and piano, the smoky-voiced chanteuse delivers these eleven songs with her own inimitably laidback vigor, performing best on moody ballads such as "Am I Blue," "Mean To Me" and "The Man I Love." Some of these tracks have appeared on Rita's albums during her A&M; Records tenure in the 1970s, but most of them remained in the vault until now...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
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