Here's a winner in the "perfect dinner music" category I found in a thrift store in Duluth, Minnesota last week. Its from Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge, who got hitched back in 1973, the same year they released their first album Full Moon which was not surprisingly, a set of love songs. Listening to the first side, Heather asked if it was a KD Lang record, as the two singers have nearly identical voices and styles at times.

Though quite familiar with Kristofferson's work, I knew very little about Rita Coolidge, other than her "Summer Jamz" style hit "Your Love is Lifting me Higher".
Before her marriage to Kristofferson, Coolidge had romantic liaisons with Stephen Stills and Graham Nash; her leaving Stills for Nash has been cited as a contributing factor behind Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's initial breakup in 1970. She began her career as a backing vocalist for artists such as Delaney & Bonnie, Joe Cocker, Eric Clapton, and Leon Russell before becoming a successful solo artist.

The album became a number one country hit. Today's track was The album’s second single, a cover of Tom Jans’ “Loving Arms,” and it made the pop, country, and easy listening charts, while earning the couple a grammy nomination.

Loving Arms