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It was 10 years after Jessi Colter married Waylon Jennings that they were on stage at Cain's Ballroom and announced for the first time publicly that they were going to ...

Colter told about when Waylon was playing at Cain’s once in the late ‘70s, when they announced that Colter was pregnant with Shooter. “He stood over here on this stage,” she said.

In 1995, Colter’s husband, Waylon Jennings, was working at home on his memoir with Lenny Kaye, the Patti Smith guitarist and author. After dinner one night, Colter drifted into their living room.

Jessi Colter wasn’t sure she had a book in her. Sure, she knew her life was interesting. The Phoenix native wrote and recorded “I’m Not Lisa,” a country smash that crossed over to the pop ...

Mirriam remains her legal name, whereas Jessi Colter is a stage name chosen at producer Chet Atkins’ urging while working on her first studio album, A Country Star Is Born, in 1970.