Marty Stuart on Meeting Connie Smith

all day long my mother's favorite female country singer was Connie Smith my mama loved the power in Connie's voice and the authenticity of her singing and we had a record at our house called Miss Smith goes to Nashville I'd set it up on the stereo and I pass by it and look at it it was like looking at the monis or something I thought that's the prettiest girl I've ever seen at one day our local announcer announced that miss Connie Smith was going to be the guest star on the Saturday night show at the choc tow Indian fair in Philadelphia Mississippi I went blazing through the house to tell mom so my mother my sister Jennifer and I went to see Connie at the CH to IND there on the football field and when she stepped out on stage she was breathtakingly beautiful wearing a blue Sparkle dress and I got my picture made with her that night man my sister did I got her autograph and she didn't really notice me on the way out of the grand stand I saw her go sit down in a station wagon I said mama can I borrow your camera and Mama loan me her camera so I went over there Miss Smith can I take your picture and I stuck it right up in her face and took a picture she still didn't notice me but on the way home that night I had declared that I was going to marry Connie Smith one day and uh 25 years later I did