Connie Smith
Miss Smith Goes To Nashville
1966
RCA 3530
Produced by Bob Ferguson
**** Recommend
Connie’s third album (and the first of three released in 1966).
Connie Smith
Connie Smith (1965) s/t (LP) RCA 3341
Connie Smith
S/T
1965
RCA 3341
Produced by Bob Ferguson
***** Good Shit
While some of her female contemporaries might be more well known, Connie could easily stand next to any of them, as this debut album surely shows.
Bill Anderson is credited on nearly half of the selections, the other songs credited to a variety of other songwriters: Betty Sue Perry, William B. Morgan, Baker Knight, Hank Cochran, and Willie Nelson. All of the cuts are good, and the majority are great.
Ferguson’s production is a wonderful balance of just enough but not too much, and the same can be said about the band’s contributions. Smith’s beautiful voice is wisely the center of all the songs, but the involvement of others help make this such a classic. She’s the statue, and the others rise her up and provide the lighting to accent her beauty. This is a work of art built to last.
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Any respectable fan of hillbilly music, should give this set a spin. If you’re looking for a place to begin with this artist, you just found it.
— winch (author of Junk Like That and Kalamazoo: Growing Up Sideways in the 1970s)
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