★★★★★
Connie Smith's debut single "Once a Day" was a No. 1 country hit back in September 1964 and stayed there for eight weeks. Her career has had its ups and downs over the years, but legends such as George Jones, Dolly Parton, and Elvis Presley have sung Smith's praises...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-10-11
★★★★★
If Connie Smith wanted to impress, she'd have hired Jack White. Instead, Smith, who made her name when Nashville, Tenn., queens wore cotton-candy hair and Tammy Wynette headed the pack, teamed with Marty Stuart for pure, rich, no-frills country music in which love and life are played out in three-minute two-steps ("Anymore") and the occasional belly-rubber ("I'm Not Blue").
- www.austinchronicle.com
2011-09-19
★★★★★
There are country singers and then there's Connie Smith. A star of the 1960s and 1970s who once bristled at recording "Nashville sound" recordings because she was a 'country' singer and not a pop singer, Connie has recorded a grand total of two albums in my lifetime (almost 33 years) but the good thing for us is that she's just released Long Line of Heartaches, her first for an indie label, albeit the EMI-distributed giant Sugar Hill Records...
- www.roughstock.com
2011-08-29
★★★★★
I'm well aware that, especially in reviewing country albums, I hand out superlatives like they're Halloween candy, cheapening their value by getting bogged down in needless specifics and qualifiers. So I'll keep this one simple: Connie Smith is the best singer in the history of country music...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2011-08-29
★★★★★
If Long Line of Heartaches tends toward the generic in its approach to country - and it does - Connie Smith has more excuse than most. Her first ever hit, a 1964 reading of 's Once a Day, remains an enduring and reliable country template. The song itself is perfect, a simple and irresistible melody carrying an equally straightforward yet effective lyrical twist, the verses noting that the singer only misses their departed lover once a day, the choruses elaborating that it's once a day, every...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2013-04-23
★★★★★
Thirty-four years after
her chart-topping debut single, ''Once a Day,'' and 20 years since
her last album, 57-year-old Connie Smith returns with this
generation-bridging record entitled Connie Smith. While the transition from
old-fashioned honky-tonk to bluegrass to Celtic to Christian is
jolting, Smith, who cowrote 9 of the 10 cuts, is a joy.
Big-voiced, emotional, and confident, she easily draws upon what
most of the hot country babes lack: experience. B
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Connie Smith's second LP followed much the same path as her first (1965's Connie Smith): tasteful Nashville country-pop, neither too down-home nor too slick, with a few songs by fellow country star Bill Anderson. Indeed, Bill Anderson co-wrote (with Betty Anderson) the big hit on the record, "I Can't Remember," which reached the country Top Ten...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
If any Thomas ever doubted Smith's religious convictions (which are as much a part of her story as her voice is) one listen to this LP's "How Great Thou Art" should take care of that mistrust.
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
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