COLTER, JESSI
(*1947)
COLTER, JESSI (b. Miriam Johnson, Phoenix, Ariz., May 25, 1947) The only female SINGER/SONGWRITER associated with the mid-1970s OUTLAW movement (thanks to her marriage to primo outlaw WAYLON JENNINGS), Colter actually was a rather tame mainstream country chanteuse, an outlaw by association rather than by blood. Born Miriam Johnson, she was raised in a strict household by her evangelist mother, who had her playing church piano by the time she reached adolescence. By her teen years she was…