Country music legend Connie Smith has released her 54th album. NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with her about forging timeless relationships and how she understands the genre after all these years.

Connie Smith shares why public television stations, like NPT, are important. In this vintage clip from Nashville Public Television’s archives, Connie Smith shares the importance of public ...

No woman in the history of country has cried as eloquently as Smith has. The album title, The Cry from the Heart, is the answer she's given over the years when asked to define country music.

On New Year’s Day 1964, Connie Smith — then still an aspiring singer — met Grand Ole Opry star Bill Anderson at a concert in Canton, Ohio. It was actually their second meeting: The first ...

New Country Music Hall of Fame inductee Connie Smith says she hopes each new artist in country music will take time to find their own individual voice. "I hear so many of the young people today ...

Country Music Hall of Fame member Connie Smith will release her new album The Cry of the Heart via Fat Possum Records in 2021. The album’s first single, the rollicking “Look Out Heart,” is ...

On October 21, 2012, Smith became the 12th solo female vocalist and 19th woman to be elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame. She continues to tour and record, often with her husband and ...

The Boot counts down Connie Smith's Top 5 songs. ... from a less-than-ideal childhood came from hours spent listening to the Grand Ole Opry and other favorite country music programs. In 1963, ...

The Cry of the Heart was produced by Smith’s husband of 24 years, fellow Country Music Hall of Famer Marty Stuart, and she admits he’s encouraged her to record more frequently. “I just ...

The country artist, 80, is releasing her first secular recording in about a decade. Her husband, Marty Stuart, calls her “the ultimate outlaw” for doing things her way.

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In 2011, 'I Run to You,' a Connie-Marty duet earned Mrs. Marty Stuart her 11th Grammy nomination. Connie has been a fixture on her husband's RFD-TV series 'The Marty Stuart Show' since its 2008 debut.