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Phases & Stages

Third Acts

By Margaret Moser, Fri., Sept. 16, 2011

Phases & Stages

Connie Smith

Long Line of Heartaches (Sugar Hill)

If Connie Smith wanted to impress, she'd have hired Jack White. Instead, Smith, who made her name when Nashville, Tenn., queens wore cotton-candy hair and Tammy Wynette headed the pack, teamed with Marty Stuart for pure, rich, no-frills country music in which love and life are played out in three-minute two-steps ("Anymore") and the occasional belly-rubber ("I'm Not Blue"). ***

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