Downtown Country / Connie In The Country

Possibly the best female country singer of all time, Connie Smith burst upon the country music charts in 1964 and was rarely out of the charts over the next ten years. Downtown Country and Connie In The Country were both released in 1967 and this is the first time that they have been reissued on CD in this special '2 on 1' package. Connie, a young wife and mother, was at her commercial peak when she recorded The Hurtin's All Over, her eighth consecutive top 10 hit, just two years after making her debut in 1964 with the chart-topping Once A Day. Dolly Parton once said: 'You know, there's really only three female singers in the world: Barbra Streisand, Linda Ronstadt, and Connie Smith. The rest of us are only pretending.'