Soul of Country Music is the ninth studio album by American country artist, Connie Smith. The album was released in December 1967 on RCA Victor Records and was produced by Bob Ferguson. With no singles spawned from the album, Soul of Country Music contained cover versions of popular country music songs.
Soul of Country Music consisted of twelve tracks, all of which were cover versions of country music songs. The album begins with Melba Montgomery's "Don't Keep Me Too Long." Other songs included on the album are, Wynn Stewart's "It's Such a Pretty World Today," Jack Greene's "There Goes My Everything" and Jean Shepard's "If the Teardrops Were Silver." The album was reviewed by Allmusic critic, Dan Cooper, who gave it three out of five stars, claiming the album has, "More of the same unearthly sound, but this has Smith covering -- at times burying -- other singers' hits." He also called her version of Rex Griffin's "The Last Letter," "to die for."[2] Upon its release in 1967, Soul of Country Music reached a peak position on the Billboard chart. The album reached #7 on Billboard Magazine's Top Country Albums chart that year, becoming Smith's last album to peak in the Top 10.[3]
