The Edge Of Forever
APPALACHIA
7/10
FIFTY-THREE years ago Jessi Colter released a solo debut titled . She had already made a limited impression as Miriam Eddy, performing throughout the 1960s with her first husband Duane Eddy and writing songs for Don Gibson and Nancy Sinatra among others. But renaming herself after a male ancestor who rode with Jesse James, her first solo album represented a breakout and its title was prescient – a few months later she was nominated for a Grammy as best country performance by a duo or group with her second husband Waylon Jennings for their version of “Suspicious Minds”.
