Filename C:\Rips\Sammi Smith - Looks Like Stormy Weather 1969-1975 (2022) [FLAC]\17 - The Toast Of '45.wav Filename C:\Rips\Sammi Smith - Looks Like Stormy Weather 1969-1975 (2022) [FLAC]\24 - Texas 1947.wav There was a compelling warmth to her voice that should have taken her out of country and into the Hot 100 – or even the UK charts – more than once, but her only real crossover moment came in 1971 when she scored the original hit version of ‘Help Me Make It Through The Night’. DJ Ralph Emery recalled being in a motel room with Sammi one night in 1970 where she had sat and played him a whole bunch of Kris Kristofferson songs. At that point, neither the DJ nor Sammi had a clue what was around the corner for her, or for her friend Kristofferson, who was then just the janitor at Columbia Records. 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 ".

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In November 1970, Help Me Make It Through The Night was released as the second single. It topped the US Billboard Country charts and reached number eight on the US Billboard 100. This led to the album being retitled Help Me Make It Through The Night. Filename C:\Rips\Sammi Smith - Looks Like Stormy Weather 1969-1975 (2022) [FLAC]\18 - I Miss You Most When You're Right Here.wav

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This must have come as a huge disappointment to Sammi Smith and everyone at Mega Records. Especially given songs of the quality of I’ve Got To Have You which features a vocal that’s a mixture of sadness and longing. Just like in so many of her songs, the lyrics come to life and have a cinematic quality. Sadly, the wider record buying public had yet to discover Sammi Smith whose career seemed to have stalled and mainstream success seemed even further away. Filename C:\Rips\Sammi Smith - Looks Like Stormy Weather 1969-1975 (2022) [FLAC]\12 - Jimmy's In Georgia.wav

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recorded May 25, 1970 (online discography shows May 6, 1970) (18:00-21:00) Monument Recording Studio, 114 17th Ave South, Nashville, Tennessee; Producer: Jim Malloy; Arranger: Bill Walker The future Sammi Smith was born Jewel Faye Smith on August the ‘5th 1943, in Orange County, California. Her father was a serviceman and the family lived a nomadic life moving between Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona and Colorado. Aged just eleven, Sammi Smith dropped out of school and started singing professionally in nightclubs. This was her introduction to a career in music that would span twenty-five years. A year later, in 1967, Sammi Smith was booked to sing in the Someplace Else Night Club in Oklahoma City. In the audience that night was Marshall Grant who was Johnny Cash’s bassist. He was so impressed by the talented twenty-four year old singer that he told Johnny Cash, who having heard her sing helped her to get signed by Columbia Records. This was the start of a recording career that lasted just twelve years. Filename C:\Rips\Sammi Smith - Looks Like Stormy Weather 1969-1975 (2022) [FLAC]\14 - He Makes It Hard To Say Goodbye.wavLooks 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

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Filename C:\Rips\Sammi Smith - Looks Like Stormy Weather 1969-1975 (2022) [FLAC]\09 - I Was Just Fifteen.wav 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. By the times she was fifteen, Sammi Smith had married steel guitar player nightclub owner Bobby White. The couple had three children but divorced in 1966.

Filename C:\Rips\Sammi Smith - Looks Like Stormy Weather 1969-1975 (2022) [FLAC]\06 - I've Got To Have You.wav Sadly, Sammi Smith never crossed over into the mainstream and her music wasn’t heard by the wider audience it deserves. However, belatedly music fans are starting to discover the delights of her music, especially the seven albums she recorded for Mega Records between 1970 and 1975. They’re a reminder of Sammi Smith at the peak of her powers when she looked like she was going to become one of the giants of country music and go on to forge a career in mainstream music. Sadly, that remained tantalisingly out of reach for the late Sammi Smith who died on February the ’12th’ 2005 aged just sixty-one. Ace Records new compilation It Looks Like Stormy Weather 1969-1975 is a fitting tribute to a truly talented and much loved singer who effortlessly breathed life, meaning and emotion into soul-baring confessionals as she brought the powerful and poignant lyrics to life.

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It wasn’t long before Sammi Smith’s debut album had topped the US Billboard Country charts, reached thirty-three in the US Billboard 200 and fifty-one in Canada. Great things were forecast for Mega Records latest signing including mainstream success. Filename C:\Rips\Sammi Smith - Looks Like Stormy Weather 1969-1975 (2022) [FLAC]\15 - Then You Walk In.wav Without doubt, country singer singer-songwriter Sammi Smith had a voice, the talent and potential to crossover and become a huge, mainstream star. Her records were cinematic, soul-baring confessionals where her inimitable husky voice veered between melancholy and full of hurt and heartache to sensuous. It sounded as if Sammi Smith had lived the lyrics she delivered which were poignant and powerful. It was no wonder she was dubbed the: “South’s own Dusty Springfield.”Just seven months after the release of Lonesome, Sammi Smith returned with Something Old, Something New, Something Blue. It was released in April 1972 and reached seventeen in the US Billboard Country charts but failed to trouble the US Billboard 200.