Comments on: Girl Hero: Sammi Smith

by: AlexD

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:07:29 +0000

David,

I tried emailing you at livinginstereo.com but mail was returned. Is there another way I can reach you? I read your piece in the DeCapo book - it was great. Especially interesting is her memory of how her mother “moved on” and forgot to take her. Her son, Waylon, who she left in the care of a sister in Dallas, has the same memory of Sammi.

How extensive was your interview with Sammi? Was anything left out? I’m interested in knowing about her life, understanding the struggles, that informed so much of her music.

by: DuaneD

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:03:35 +0000

I personally new Sammi for a short time, while befriending her daughter. At the time she was living outside Tuttle, Oklahoma. Sammi was a very down to earth person. She loved to laugh and joke around. At that time, the year that I had interaction with her, she was very private with her memories. The Sammi that I knew was an incredible woman… I will always have fond memories of her and Snow her daughter…

by: David Cantwell

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:56:33 +0000

Alex, the “Help Me Make It through the Night” piece I mention up top, the one eventually reprinted in the DaCapo best of…, includes quite a bit of biographical information I learned when interviewing her. I don’t think there’s much of anything else.

by: AlexD

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:45:15 +0000

Does anyone know details of Sammi’s life? There are no biographies.

by: doug hogan

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:31:25 +0000

this is a wonderful remembrance of Sammi Smith. Thank you for writing it.
i was lucky to hear her perform live in San Jose around 1971. it was an amazing experience. she was able to project feelings out into the audience in a way that few singers could.

by: Peggy

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:27:54 +0000

My aunt Dorothy bought me a Sammi Smith album in the 70’s, and I loved it…every song! I just recalled the album tonight as I was surfing the itunes site and remembered her name as Patti Smith! Needless to say….didn’t find what I was looking for under Patti Smith! This site is a wonderful tribute to an amazing singer and I was sorry to find that she had passed. I now have some of my favorite Sammi Smith songs again. And as I listened to them tonight….I was again a young teen visiting my aunt who I miss dearly!

by: hope

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 06:12:34 +0000

The album I have of Sammi Smith Help Me Make It Through the Night is different than the others I’ve seen. On my sleeve she is sitting on a cement ledge with a yellow shirt and has one leg bent. Probably in a park because there is trees behing her. It is Mega Stereo M31-1000. Can anyone comment on the different covers. She was a terrific singer and I’m sorry she’s gone.
Thanks

by: chippewabear

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:24:34 +0000

I remember the Sammi Smith songs and one of my all time favorite songs is Saunders Ferry Lane, I have sang, hummed and thought about the lyrics of this song since I first heard it on her album years ago when It first came out. I had lost the song, the lyrics not complete in my mind anymore, I turned to Google search and was sent here, I am so glad to find my favorite Sammi Smith song again, but very sorry to see that she passed away in 2005. It was truly the loss of a great female singer. She Was one of the Great Country singers of all time, and she never got the accolades she deserved.

by: Lost & Sound

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:02:35 +0000

Remembering Sammi Smith: A Great Country Voice…

“If winters were just three days long
And all the rest were springs
I might feel up to writing songs
As sweet as Sammi sings.”

I said that.

Kris Kristofferson*
Three years ago, on February 12th, the great country singer Sammi Smith died…

by: Joseph O'Donnell

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:02:04 +0000

I’ve only recently gotten this computer,and i think Sammi Smith and her music was away ahead of her time.I would love to be able to get more of her music.
I’m wondering what her grand father or was it her great grandfather
‘Geronimo” would have to say about all of this.