Best Of Sammi Smith

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Looks Like Stormy Weather” includes the best of Sammi’s three early Columbia singles, the Bobbie Gentry-like ‘Brownsville Lumberyard’. As a bonus, it also features a pair of previously unissued songs in ‘Desperados Waiting For A Train’ and ‘Texas 1947’, both written by the great Guy Clark. Share In March 1970, Ray Price placed a bizarrely jaunty version of Help Me Make It Through The Night on his 'For The Good Times' LP, but it had yet to be released when Smith made her recording, so it's unclear where Smith heard it. Kristofferson was in her circle, so it's possible that he pitched it to her. After Smith came to Nashville from her home in California in 1967, Frank Jones signed her to Columbia. One year after Columbia dropped her, Brad McCuen signed her to Mega Records. McCuen had been with RCA since 1948, but when his mentor, Steve Sholes, died, McCuen was let go. Mega had no shortage of money for a start-up. McCuen hired engineer Jim Malloy to produce Sammi Smith's and Mega Records' first LP in May 1970. A year after the release of her debut, Sammi Smith who had married second husband Jody Payne, returned with her sophomore album Lonesome in September 1971. Again, it was produced by Jim Malloy who brought about the best in country music’s rising star.

Sammi Smith CD: Looks Like Stormy Weather 1969 - 1975 (CD Sammi Smith CD: Looks Like Stormy Weather 1969 - 1975 (CD

Filename C:\Rips\Sammi Smith - Looks Like Stormy Weather 1969-1975 (2022) [FLAC]\23 - Desperados Waiting For A Train.wav In 1968, she released Brownville Lumberyard on Columbia Records, and reached sixty-nine on the US Billboard Country charts. This was followed later that year by Why Do You Like Me Like You Do. It reached fifty-three on the US Billboard Country charts and is regarded as the finest single she released on Columbia Records. The followup Sand-Covered Angels failed to chart and shortly after this Sammi Smith left the label. However, she had made one friend who would help launch her career.

On The Go

Désormais signée sur le petit label Mega, elle enregistrera sept albums pour eux entre 1970 et 1975, et les meilleurs d'entre eux constituent le cœur de cette compilation. Parmi les titres les plus marquants, citons l'auto-écriture de " Jimmy's In Georgia ", la sensualité de " I've Got To Have You " de Kristofferson, la complainte de bar " The Toast Of '45 ", que Sammi a décrite comme " une chanson infernale ", et la tragédie quotidienne " This Room's For Rent ". Filename C:\Rips\Sammi Smith - Looks Like Stormy Weather 1969-1975 (2022) [FLAC]\15 - Then You Walk In.wav Filename C:\Rips\Sammi Smith - Looks Like Stormy Weather 1969-1975 (2022) [FLAC]\16 - When Michael Calls.wav Filename C:\Rips\Sammi Smith - Looks Like Stormy Weather 1969-1975 (2022) [FLAC]\07 - Brownville Lumberyard.wav

Sammi SMITH - Looks Like Stormy Weather 1969-1975 CD at Juno Sammi SMITH - Looks Like Stormy Weather 1969-1975 CD at Juno

Sadly, Sammi Smith didn’t enjoy the same commercial success as Dusty Springfield and instead, reminded a major star of country music. Mainstream commercial success eluded her and outside of country music circles many music fans haven’t heard of Sammi Smith. Filename C:\Rips\Sammi Smith - Looks Like Stormy Weather 1969-1975 (2022) [FLAC]\04 - Saunders' Ferry Lane.wav Filename C:\Rips\Sammi Smith - Looks Like Stormy Weather 1969-1975 (2022) [FLAC]\20 - Today I Started Loving You Again.wav The discography of country music singer-songwriter Sammi Smith consists of thirteen studio albums, four compilation albums and forty-three singles.

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