Connie Smith (1998 album)
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| Studio album by Connie Smith | ||||
| Released | October 6, 1998 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 34:21 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||
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Marty Stuart Justin Neibank |
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Connie Smith is the thirty second studio album by American country music artist, Connie Smith. The album was released October 6, 1998 on Warner Bros. Records and was produced by Marty Stuart and Justin Niebank. It is not to be confused with her debut studio album of the same name, as this release featured most of the songs written by Smith herself. It was her first album in five years and her second in twenty years, since 1978's New Horizons. Despite being her first release in twenty years, it attracted little attention.
Connie Smith was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee and contained ten tracks of previously unrecorded material. Nine out of the ten tracks on the album were co-written by Connie Smith, who had previously never written an entire album. Allmusic album reviewer, Thom Jurek called the album's sound to be "tough traditional honky tonk music with an edge that makes it very attractive as a rock & roll record." The opening track, "How Long" was co-written with Marty Stuart and Harlan Howard. Jurek called the opening of the fourth track, "You Can't Back a Teardrop" (the only song on the album not co-written by Smith) to resemble that of Ray Price's "Crazy Arms," however he went on to say the rest of the song was different from "Crazy Arms" because, "it's on the far honky tonk edge, with Stuart leading the band in a driving, rollicking shuffle where fiddles drive a pedal steel ever toward the center of the pathos in the center of the bridge."
Smith herself called the album's ninth track, "When It Comes You" to resemble that of a Rock and Roll song, stating that she, "yodeled on the end just to be funny, and they kept it in." The ninth track also featured Stuart playing mandolin. The second track, "Lonesome" was also written by Smith and Stuart and was said to resemble, "a bluegrass ghost song about love in the ether," according to Jurek. The closing song on the album, "A Tale from Taharrie" is departure from any of the other tracks on the album, as it resembles a Celtic song, according to Smith, stating, "We wanted to write a song that sounded like the 1700s. It came out sounding Irish. I made up the name "Taharrie" because it fit the sound."
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