Connie Smith - Latest Shade Of Blue: The Columbia Recordings 1973-1976 (CD)

Bear Family Records® proudly announces the release of the third and final CD box set in our retrospective of Connie Smith's RCA and Columbia recordings.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 Just One Time, 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 country 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.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Pass Me By (If You're Only Passing Through)
2. Never Love Again
3. Ain't Love a Good Thing
4. When You Hurt Me More Than I Love You
5. Love Held on to Me
6. A Picture of Me (Without You)
7. Let's All Go Down to the River
8. Too Soon to Know
9. You've Got Me (Right Where You Want Me)
10. In the House Where Love Shines
11. Soul Song
12. Jesus
13. Remind Me Dear Lord
14. Why Me
15. The Wonders You Perform
16. The Golden Street of Glory
17. When I Sing for Him
18. God Is Abundant
19. Help Me
20. The Well of His Mercy
21. The Baptism of Jesse Taylor
22. You Can Move That Mountain
23. At the Foot of the Cross
24. He Did It All for Me

Disc: 2

1. I Still Feel the Same About You
2. Be All Right in Arkansas
3. Did We Have to Come This Far (To Say Goodbye)
4. Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree
5. We're Gonna Hold on
6. My Uncle Abel
7. Teddy Bear Song
8. Thanks a Lot for Trying Anyway
9. That's the Way Love Goes
10. Dallas
11. Never Having You
12. Letting Go
13. Sunshine Blue
14. The Key's in the Mailbox
15. I'll Still Be Missing You
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