![]() ![]() So before Marty Stuart had even seen Connie Smith, he’d already developed a crush, and a magical connection to her to the point when she was booked to perform at the annual Choctaw Fair in Stuart’s hometown of Philadelphia, Mississippi in the summer of 1970, Marty was counting down the days. She had that power in her voice to reach out and touch your heart.” But her music, her songs, her singing was so powerful as well. “There was a lot of people that had crushes on Connie Smith. I think Connie Smith is beautiful,'” Marty Stuart recalls about the album. ![]() ![]() “I sat it up on our stereo in the living room and walk by it and just look at it and think, ‘She’s really pretty. Stuart’s mother had a copy of Connie Smith’s 1966 album Miss Smith Goes to Nashville, with a portrait of Connie Smith on the front. Connie Smith happened to be Marty Stuart’s mother’s favorite singer, right behind Marty Robbins, who she named her young son after. It all started when Marty Stuart was just 11-years-old, in the summer of 1970, when Connie Smith-17 years Marty Stuart’s senior-was already an established star, and had landed over a dozen Top 10 hits. But perhaps no love story is more improbable, more magical, and more poetic and prophetic than the love affair that transpired between Country Music Hall of Famers Marty Stuart and Connie Smith. It’s all fed into the narrative of country music itself and unfolded like a country song: Johnny and June, George and Tammy, Waylon and Jessi just to name a few. There are also an ample amount of divorces. There are many love stories throughout the history of country music. ![]()
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