Connie Smith: Latest Shade Of Blue - Columbia Recordings 1973 - 1976 (4-CD Deluxe Box Set)
Limited and numbered edition of 1,000 copies!
4-CD box set (LP-size) with 96-page hardcover book, 96 tracks. Playing time c. 5 hrs
No one in the world does a better job of protecting, loving, and preserving music than Bear Family Records. I believe we have over one hundred of their albums, CDs, and boxed sets in our library. Each and every one a treasure. Latest Shade of Blue, The Columbia Recordings 1973-1976 is the third boxed set of my work to be offered by Bear Family. It's a an honor, and just as much an honor to share it with you!
Please enjoy, Connie Smith
Connie Smith is one of the touchstone figures in Country Music.
Her complete COLUMBIA recordings from 1973 to 1976.
9 albums on 4 CDs – from gospel and Christmas songs to classic country and pop.
The accompanying 96-page book includes dozens of previously unpublished photos, a detailed discography, session-by-session discussion of the making of the records, and an overview of Connie Smith’s life as she balanced session scheduling and Grand Ole Opry and touring performances while being, by this time, an actively involved, dedicated mother of five.
Introduction by Connie’s husband and musical collaborator Marty Stuart, who has now joined her as an inducted member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Includes all of the tracks from the second chapter in Connie Smith’s epochal recording career, as she moved to the Columbia Records label from RCA Victor in 1973—and the first reissue of the majority of them.
Classic, infectious 1970s honky tonk singles such as “Ain’t Love a Good Thing,” her own co-write “You’ve Got Me Right Where You Want Me” and her hit takes on the Everly Brothers’ “(Till) I Kissed You” and “So Sad.”
Dozens of out-of-print and long hard-to-find recordings, including her, unforgettable Christmas album “Joy to the World,” shaped by her own arrangements of sacred holiday songs, and the singular, history-making “Connie Smith Sings Hank Williams Gospel.”
Connie Smith’s riveting interpretations of prime era country songs from the pens of Dallas Frazier, Don Gibson, Bill Anderson, Doug Kershaw, Tom T. Hall, Lefty Frizzell, Harlan Howard, Eddie Raven and Jessi Colter.
Connie’s deep grounding in country gospel music applied to introduction of new songs in the genre by Kris Kristofferson, Dolly Parton, Porter Wagoner, Larry Gatlin and Dottie Rambo, in addition to that full album of eleven Hank Williams gospel songs.
New exploration of the steel guitar foregrounding “Connie Smith sound” as she performs virtual vocal-guitar duets with steel heroes Weldon Myrick, Lloyd Green, John Hughey, Jimmy Day, Buddy Emmons and Hal Rugg.
Detailed stories of Connie Smith’s close work with Columbia producers Ray Baker and George Richey, as they arrived at the song choices and up-to-date, yet traditionalist sounds that brought her through the pop-centric John Denver-Olivia Newton John county era with her core classic country attack intact. Based on extensive new interviews with Connie herself and with producer Baker by the book’s author Barry Mazor.
‘Connie Smith- The Latest Shade of Blue,” is the third in Bear Family’s chronicle of one of country music’s most masterful vocalists in the years that cemented her reputation and renown, following on the two sets covering her previous years at RCA Victor, “Born to Sing” (1964-1967) and “Just For What I Am” (1968-1972).
LATEST SHADE OF BLUE: THE COLUMBIA RECORDINGS 1973 - Connie Smith
16 Them Ole Rainy Lovesick Songs (Are Hittin' Home)
17 I Never Knew (What That Song Meant Before)
18 Is This All You Hear (When a Heart Breaks)
19 I Just Had You on My Mind
20 I Wish We'd All Been Ready
21 Because of Yesterday
22 I've Got My Baby on My Mind
23 Searching (For Someone Like You)
24 Back in the Country
25 I Got a Lot of Hurtin' Done Today
26 Loving You (Has Changed My Whole Life)
- Disc 3 -
1 A House of Gold
2 I'm Gonna Sing
3 How Can You Refuse Him Now
4 I Saw the Light
5 Are You Walking and A-Talking for the Lord
6 When the Book of Life Is Read
7 Jesus Is Calling
8 Jesus Died for Me
9 Calling You
10 A Home in Heaven
11 Jesus Remembered Me
12 Why Don't You Love Me
13 Ain't It Good to Be in Love Again
14 You'll See Jesus
15 Praying Hands
16 One Little Reason
17 Because I Love You That's Why
18 Viva la Love
19 Nothing in This World
20 The Song We Fell in Love to
21 ('Till) I Kissed You
22 Jesus Hears, He Cares, He Can
23 Once a Day
24 Ridin' on a Rainbow
25 When I Need Jesus, He's There
- Disc 4 -
1 I Don't Wanna Talk It Over Anymore
2 Storms Never Last
3 You Crossed My Mind a Thousand Times Today
4 Love Don't Care (Where It Grows)
5 Constantly
6 I Wonder If the Angels Could Use Another Singer
7 I'm in the Middle of a Losin' Streak
8 Come on Down
9 The Latest Shade of Blue
10 So Sad (To Watch a Good Love Go Bad)
11 I'm All Wrapped Up in You
12 Go Tell It on the Mountain
13 O Come All Ye Faithful
14 While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks
15 Away in a Manger / Silent Night
16 Sweet Little Jesus Boy
17 Little Drummer Boy
18 O Holy Night
19 The First Noel
20 What Child Is This
21 Joy to the World
Connie Smith: Latest Shade Of Blue - Columbia Recordings 1973 - 1976 (4-CD Deluxe Box Set)
Limited and numbered edition of 1,000 copies!
4-CD box set (LP-size) with 96-page hardcover book, 96 tracks. Playing time c. 5 hrs
No one in the world does a better job of protecting, loving, and preserving music than Bear Family Records. I believe we have over one hundred of their albums, CDs, and boxed sets in our library. Each and every one a treasure. Latest Shade of Blue, The Columbia Recordings 1973-1976 is the third boxed set of my work to be offered by Bear Family. It's a an honor, and just as much an honor to share it with you!
Please enjoy, Connie Smith
Connie Smith is one of the touchstone figures in Country Music.
Her complete COLUMBIA recordings from 1973 to 1976.
9 albums on 4 CDs – from gospel and Christmas songs to classic country and pop.
The accompanying 96-page book includes dozens of previously unpublished photos, a detailed discography, session-by-session discussion of the making of the records, and an overview of Connie Smith’s life as she balanced session scheduling and Grand Ole Opry and touring performances while being, by this time, an actively involved, dedicated mother of five.
Introduction by Connie’s husband and musical collaborator Marty Stuart, who has now joined her as an inducted member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Includes all of the tracks from the second chapter in Connie Smith’s epochal recording career, as she moved to the Columbia Records label from RCA Victor in 1973—and the first reissue of the majority of them.
Classic, infectious 1970s honky tonk singles such as “Ain’t Love a Good Thing,” her own co-write “You’ve Got Me Right Where You Want Me” and her hit takes on the Everly Brothers’ “(Till) I Kissed You” and “So Sad.”
Dozens of out-of-print and long hard-to-find recordings, including her, unforgettable Christmas album “Joy to the World,” shaped by her own arrangements of sacred holiday songs, and the singular, history-making “Connie Smith Sings Hank Williams Gospel.”
Connie Smith’s riveting interpretations of prime era country songs from the pens of Dallas Frazier, Don Gibson, Bill Anderson, Doug Kershaw, Tom T. Hall, Lefty Frizzell, Harlan Howard, Eddie Raven and Jessi Colter.
Connie’s deep grounding in country gospel music applied to introduction of new songs in the genre by Kris Kristofferson, Dolly Parton, Porter Wagoner, Larry Gatlin and Dottie Rambo, in addition to that full album of eleven Hank Williams gospel songs.
New exploration of the steel guitar foregrounding “Connie Smith sound” as she performs virtual vocal-guitar duets with steel heroes Weldon Myrick, Lloyd Green, John Hughey, Jimmy Day, Buddy Emmons and Hal Rugg.
Detailed stories of Connie Smith’s close work with Columbia producers Ray Baker and George Richey, as they arrived at the song choices and up-to-date, yet traditionalist sounds that brought her through the pop-centric John Denver-Olivia Newton John county era with her core classic country attack intact. Based on extensive new interviews with Connie herself and with producer Baker by the book’s author Barry Mazor.
‘Connie Smith- The Latest Shade of Blue,” is the third in Bear Family’s chronicle of one of country music’s most masterful vocalists in the years that cemented her reputation and renown, following on the two sets covering her previous years at RCA Victor, “Born to Sing” (1964-1967) and “Just For What I Am” (1968-1972).
LATEST SHADE OF BLUE: THE COLUMBIA RECORDINGS 1973 - Connie Smith