23 Facts About Jessi Colter

Five years later, Jessi Colter signed with Capitol Records and released "I'm Not Lisa", which topped the country charts and reached the top five on the pop charts.

Jessi Colter's mother was a Pentecostal preacher and her father was a racecar driver.

At age 11, Jessi Colter became the pianist at her church.

Jessi Colter continued to tour with Eddy until divorcing in 1968.

Johnson, now billing herself as "Jessi Colter", resumed her recording career in 1970.

That year, Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter sang duet on two top 40 country chart hits.

Jessi Colter released her debut album, A Country Star is Born, on RCA, with Jennings and Chet Atkins co-producing The album was not successful and did not make an impact on the country music market.

The lead single from her Jessi Colter album, "It's Morning " was a Top 15 country hit in 1976 on the country charts.

At this point, Jessi Colter had established herself as a big-selling "albums artist," rather than a casual honky-tonk hitmaker, given that her talents were far more inclined to soul-rock than to mundane country music.

Jessi Colter then released her next album, That's the Way a Cowboy Rocks and Rolls the following year.

Jessi Colter's success began to decline through the remainder of the decade, with her final two albums of the decade not producing any Top 40 country hits.

The album was certified Gold in sales by the RIAA that year, Jessi Colter's second RIAA-certified album to date.

Also in 1981 Jessi Colter released her final studio album on Capitol records, Ridin' Shotgun, which spawned Jessi Colter's last charting single on the country charts, "Holdin' On".

Jessi Colter released an album in 1984 on the Triad label titled Rock and Roll Lullaby, produced by Chips Moman.

In 2000, Jessi Colter performed on Jennings's live album Never Say Die, released two years before his death in 2002, at age 64.

In 2007 Jessi Colter recorded a duet version of her 1975 hit "I'm Not Lisa" with Deana Carter on her 2007 album, The Chain.

The song, called "We're Still Hangin' In There Ain't We Jessi", references how Seely and Colter are seemingly two of the only women in country music who managed to have a successful marriage.

Jessi Colter produced her first record, and she toured with him.

Jessi Colter pursued a career as a songwriter under her married name, Mirriam Eddy.

Jessi Colter's songs were recorded by Don Gibson, Nancy Sinatra, and Dottie West.

In 1968, Eddy and Jessi Colter separated, divorcing later that year.

Jessi Colter chose the name based on a story her father once told her about an accomplice of Jesse James, Jesse Colter.

Jessi Colter announced on June 19,2023, on her social media pages that she had married Arlin Brower in Rio Verde, Arizona, on February 14,2023.