Classic Album Review —‘The Carl Smith Anniversary Album: 20 Years of Hits’

During the late 1960s-early 1970s, Columbia Records tried to mine their back catalog of songs by releasing two album sets with gatefold covers. These typically took three different directions: A) Mixed artists compilations of singles, album tracks (often Columbia artists covering hits of artists on other labels). B) Compilations of an artists’ miscellaneous older singles […]