Biography

In 1975, Colter notched a sizable country and pop hit with the self-penned "I'm Not Lisa." That was followed a year later by the success of Wanted! The Outlaws, a collaboration with Jennings, Willie Nelson and Tompall Glaser and the first Nashville album to sell a million copies. Her best-known duets with Jennings are "Suspicious Minds" and her soothing composition "Storms Never Last."

In later years, she let her recording career slip, largely to nurse Jennings through his various substance abuse and medical problems, but she remained part of his stage show. In the '90s, she began writing and performing children's music. She sang on Jennings' live album in 2000, two years before he died. She added a new version of "Storms Never Last" to a Jennings tribute album in 2003. That same year, Capitol Records released the retrospective The Very Best of Jessi Colter: An Outlaw ... A Lady.

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