Carl Smith

Carl Smith – Sings a Tribute to Roy Acuff (1969/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Throughout the ’50s, Smith was a consistent presence in the country charts, racking up no less than 31 Top Ten singles during the course of the decade. In addition to recording, he began appearing in Western movies, like 1957’s The Badge of Marshal Brennan. As the ’50s ended, Smith was no longer as dominant in the upper reaches of the country charts as he was earlier in the decade, but he never stopped having hits. During the ’60s, he consistently charted in the Top 40, which was indicative of his status as a country music statesman.

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Carl Smith – I Love You Because (1969/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Leon Payne’s country classic “I Love You Because” was one of Carl Smith’s last Top 20 hits in 1969. “Good Deal, Lucille,” the Cajun song popularized by Al Terry, also made the Top 20 for Smith, and both songs are included on the album I Love You Because. The raucous twin-guitar attack of “Good Deal, Lucille” is a little uncharacteristic for Smith, but “I Love You Because” and the rest of the album is exactly in line with his established ’60s sound: hard country music for the honky tonk hardwood floor. The album is practically a tribute to country music’s past, with renditions of well-known songs like “Kaw-Liga,” “This Cold War With You,” and “Please Help Me I’m Falling.” Don Gibson’s “Blue, Blue Day” gets a complete overhaul in Smith’s hands, but the highlight among the album tracks is the funny “Mister, Come and Get Your Wife.” Smith’s term at Columbia was winding down at this point, but he could still fire off a few good ones.

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Carl Smith – Faded Love and Winter Roses (1969/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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“Faded Love and Winter Roses” was one of the last half-dozen Top 30 hits of Carl Smith’s career, reaching number 25 in 1969. Despite that minor distinction, the song is a comparatively bland and predictable Fred Rose ballad that pales beside Smith’s other chart hits of the period. The album of the same name has 11 songs, including new versions of Western swing oldies “One Has My Name, the Other Has My Heart” and “Time Changes Everything,” and the more recent hit “I’m a Lonesome Fugitive.” Smith made it through the Nashville sound era relatively unscathed, and his sound remained constant from the early ’60s through the early ’70s. Producer Don Law took a “traditional” approach with Smith, surrounding him with pedal steel and fiddles, so that his shuffles and weepers remained oases of ’50s-style honky tonk. The album would have benefited from a few livelier tunes, but the album is practically identical to his others of the period. ~ Greg Adams

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Carl Smith – Deep Water (1968/2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Carl was a straight shooter, no nonsense Country Singer,Entertainer and businessman, he led a very conventional life, pretty much void of so many of the trials,tribulations and problems of so many with careers in the entertainment business. He is the type one things of when using the moniker “True Country Gentleman”. Carl Smith’s singing has a truly timeless quality,and his old songs still have true meaning today. These are the songs included on this album.

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Carl Smith – Country On My Mind (1968/2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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With Country on My Mind, Carl Smith finds time to walk in the “California Sunshine” and celebrate womanizing (“Wonderful World of Women”) before settling into the songs of honky tonkin’ and heartache for which he is known. Smith wears Merle Haggard’s “I Threw Away the Rose” like an old boot, and handles “Little Ole Wine Drinker” more capably than Robert Mitchum, for whom it was a hit. Marty Robbins’ “Knee Deep in the Blues” and the Browns’ “I’d Just Be Fool Enough” two songs written by Melvin Endsley are likewise right up Smith’s alley, and he fills them with the kind of weariness and defeat that make you want to reach for a whiskey bottle. Country on My Mind produced no hits and was recorded very quickly, but is yet another fine album from a singer whose way with a honky tonk ballad is unsurpassed. This is music made for crying in your drink, so pull up a barstool and enjoy.

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