Sammi Smith sang soulful, melancholy country music. One of the highlights of Ace’s acclaimed “Choctaw Ridge” compilation earlier this year was her ‘Saunders’ Ferry Lane’, an eerie tale of doomed romance in a chilly backwater. Her low, distinctively husky voice was built for sad songs, and she has been described as country music’s Dusty Springfield. Compiled and annotated by Bob Stanley, “Looks Like Stormy Weather” is a collection built for winter nights.

“Looks Like Stormy Weather” includes the best of Sammi’s three early Columbia singles, the Bobbie Gentry-like ‘Brownsville Lumberyard’. As a bonus, it also features a pair of previously unissued songs in ’Desperados Waiting For A Train’ and ‘Texas 1947’, both written by the great Guy Clark.

Kappaleet:
1. I'm in for Stormy Weather
2. Manhattan, Kansas
3. This Room Is for Rent
4. Saunders' Ferry Lane
5. But You Know I Love You
6. I've Got to Have You
7. Brownville Lumberyard
8. The Good-for-something Years
9. I Was Just Fifteen
10. Cover Me
11. Birmingham Mistake
12. Jimmy's in Georgia
13. Long Black Veil
14. He Makes It Hard to Say Goodbye
15. Then You Walk In
16. When Michael Calls
17. The Toast of '45
18. I Miss You Most When You're Right Here
19. Sunshine
20. Today I Started Loving You Again
21. He's Everywhere
22. Help Me Make It Through the Night
23. Desperados Waiting for a Train
24. Texas 1947