If it'd been up to me, though, this disc would not be so lopsided towards the goopy Nashville Sound songs, and would have included way more of the fun, upbeat material which made her so unique, way back when.Ĭonnie Smith & Nat Stuckey "God Will" (Music Row Talent, 2001)Ī highly welcome CD reissue of her classic gospel duets recorded with Nat Stuckey in the late 1960s. If you've never heard Connie Smith before, and you're curious - yes, this is pretty much the place to start. Yeah, it's got a few of the good ones on it, but not enough. But even as I was queueing up the Connie Smith reissues cheerleading squad, I had to shake my head in disbelief that they put out such a tepid retrospective. I was (and am) thrilled that RCA put this out as part of their Essentials series. Highly, highly recommended.Ĭonnie Smith "The Essential Connie Smith" (RCA-Nashville, 1996) Of course, first I have to win the lottery, so I can afford it, but it's going to sound pretty sweet when I do. I'm a big fan of Smith's work, and the prospect of hearing it (finally!) on CD, along with a dozen previously unreleased tracks as well as Bear Family's trademark fine sound quality and a bunch of archival photos and whatnot. This 5-CD box set picks up where the Born To Sing box left off, gathering all of Smith's work for the RCA label from 1968-72, a trove of some of the best countrypolitan music ever recorded. and then some!Ĭonnie Smith "Just For What I Am" (Box Set) (Bear Family Records, 2012) (Gee, just imagine!) Well, anyway, her work on RCA is her best, so this collection should just about cover it. I would call this the ultimate Connie Smith box set, except now that Sony and BMG have merged, they can actually combine all the material from her RCA, Columbia and Monument releases. It's jaw-droppingly great, though like many Bear Family boxes, also a bit overwhelming.
if you want to get all of Smith's early material in one nice, shiny new package, then this might be just the thing for you. A yummy, 4-CD box set of her early work on RCA, with a generously informative booklet to boot. For the first page, which reviews all her original albums, click here.Ĭonnie Smith "Born To Sing" (Bear Family Records, 2001) This is the second page of Slipcue's Connie Smith profile, looking at her various "best-of" collections. From then on, her life was a string of #1 hit records, until she gradually dropped out of the Music City limelight, choosing to concentrate on her family and her religion. Her super-stardom in the 1960s was a storybook tale: a housewife from Ohio, she performed only as an amateur until she was discovered by Nashville songwriter Bill Anderson, and was quickly signed to RCA in 1964.
"Cute 'N' Country" was what they called Connie Smith, and the description certainly fit. Connie Smith Discography, - Best-Ofs & Links (Joe Sixpack's Guide To Hick Music)
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