Both Smith and Stuart will be part of the Grand Ole Opry’s upcoming star-studded celebration, honoring its 5000th Saturday night broadcast.
Smith became a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 1965, 27 years before Stuart joined the Opry. Connie Smith, 1683 Shazams, featuring on Marty Stuart Essentials, and Inspired by Johnny Cash Apple Music. “She says, ‘Well, five minutes of the right thing’s a whole lot better than 50 years of the wrong thing,'” Stuart remembers. Listen to I Run To You by Marty Stuart Feat. It was Stuart’s mom who, not surprisingly, gave him the advice he needed to pursue a relationship with Smith. But I finally did what I ultimately have done many times in my life: gone to my greatest consultant who’s my mama Hilda Stuart. “I wrote down the pros and cons on a piece of paper,” Stuart recounts. Stuart knew he was falling for Smith, but was intimidated by their significant age difference. “We started writing songs and here comes these love songs and hearing Connie Smith sing them was like, ‘Oh my God.’ My heart started flipping out and I couldn’t believe it.” Stuart and Smith did indeed ultimately meet years later, in a writing session, where they wrote with songwriting legend Harlan Howard, and sparks instantly flew.
I got her autograph, I met some of the guys in the band and all the way home I told my mom I was going to marry Connie Smith some day.” Their musical friendship would turn romantic, leading. “I went tearing through the house, ‘Connie Smith is coming to town.’ At the end of the concert, my sister, Jennifer and I, we got our picture made with Connie. However, it was not until her collaboration with Marty Stuart in the 1990s that she returned permanently. “Connie was the act of 1970, and she was my mom’s favorite singer,” Stuart shares. Stuart was a fan of Smith’s long before he fell in love with her, predicting even back then that she would one day be his wife. And that’s what I remember in meeting him.” “I thought, ‘He’s talking like an adult, like he’s been in the business for years.’ That really surprised me. “I remember this kid coming up on stage talking … about his steel and different things,” she continues. “I met him when he was 11,” Smith recalls to Apple Music Country’s Southern Accents Radio with Dave Cobb, adding that they met at a Choctaw Indian fair in Stuart’s hometown of Philadelphia, Mississippi. The two singers first met when Stuart was just a child, but even then he left an impression on Smith, in spite of their 17-year age gap. Marty Stuart and Connie Smith have been married 24 years, a perhaps unlikely pairing that has stood the test of time. Smith: Well, we did six years of The Marty Stuart Show, and I was on all of ‘em but twoI had a little bug, and we did two a day, so I missed one day out of all that six years.
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