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Connie Smith

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Connie Smith is a Country and Folk act. Their catalogue also touches Gospel. Their sound grew out of That's the Way Love Goes, Jeannie Seely, Liz Anderson, Connie Francis and Jean Shepard. Those roots explain a lot about how Connie Smith arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Dottie West, Jeannie C. Riley, Tammy Wynette, Bill Anderson and Barbara Mandrell, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Old Crow Medicine Show, Reba McEntire, Martina McBride, Trisha Yearwood and Taylor Swift, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 26 connections around Connie Smith, reaching back through That's the Way Love Goes and forward to Old Crow Medicine Show. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Connie SmithThat's the Way Love …Jeannie SeelyLiz AndersonConnie FrancisJean ShepardBill AndersonErnest TubbLoretta LynnOld Crow Medicine ShowReba McEntireMartina McBrideTrisha YearwoodTaylor SwiftDottie WestJeannie C. RileyTammy WynetteBill AndersonBarbara MandrellConway TwittyTanya TuckerThe Statler Brothers

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Connie Smith connections

Connie Smith grew out of That's the Way Love Goes, Jeannie Seely, Liz Anderson and Connie Francis, shares an orbit with Dottie West, Jeannie C. Riley, Tammy Wynette and Bill Anderson, went on to shape Old Crow Medicine Show, Reba McEntire, Martina McBride and Trisha Yearwood. 26 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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