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Connie Smith: Long Line of Heartaches

Andrew Mueller, bbc.co.uk, 2011

If Long Line of Heartaches tends toward the generic in its approach to country - and it does — Connie Smith has more excuse than most. Her first ever hit, a 1964 reading of Bill Anderson's 'Once a Day', remains an enduring and reliable country template.

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