'I'm one of the long-haulers': Connie Smith (realconniesmith) on a 50-year career in country, overcoming Covid, and her new album 'The Cry of the Heart':
In classic Music Row parlance, a “long-hauler” might once have designated a lonesome, sleep-deprived truck driver, doggedly driving cross-country with nothing in his cab for comfort but Red Sovine on the 8-track. Not any longer. “I’m one of the long-haulers,” sighs Connie Smith, one of country’s reigning queens, who—along with her equally royal tunesmith husband Marty Stuart—somehow contracted the dreaded coronavirus in January of this year.
To begin with, at 80, this Country Music Hall of Famer’s brassy powerhouse of a voice—first heard on her forlorn 1964 “Once a Day” debut single, and one of the most unique in Nashville—remains undiminished on. With youthful zeal, she storms through retro-clever co-writes with her husband and covers of twangy cuts by Mel Tillis , Merle Haggard and Dallas Frazier .
So I came down and did the Record Shop that night, and then in May of ‘64, Bill called me and said, “I’ve written some songs—would you come down and do the demo session?” He’d written one for Patsy Cline and one for Skeeter Davis, and one that Ernest and Loretta cut called “A Heart for Holding Hands.
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