Questo cd presenta due splendidi album da tempo non disponibili di Carl Smith: “Let’s Live a Little” (1958) e “Smith’s Name” (1957).Prodotti da Don Law, entrambi gli album mostrano Smith all’apice della sua popolarità e mettono in mostra le sue doti di cantante di s western wing, tonk honky e ballate country.Smith è accompagnato dalla sua band, The Tunesmiths, e da un team stellare di musicisti provenienti dalla scene rock & roll di Nashville, come Hank Garland, Velma Smith, Samuel Pruett, Tom Pritchard, Floyd Cramer e Farris Coursey, tra gli altri.
Let’s Live A Little
01. Let’s Live A Little
02. Mr. Moon
03. Night Train To Memphis
04. Slowly
05. Hang Your Head In Shame
06. The Best Years Of Your Life
07. If Teardrops Were Pennies
08. More And More
09. Sweet Little Miss Blue Eyes
10. Honky-Tonk Man
11. I Love You A Thousand Ways
12. I Overlooked An Orchid 2:58
Smith’s The Name
13. San Antonio Rose
14. Time Changes Everything
15. Lovin’ Is Livin’
16. Oh, No!
17. If I Could Hold Back The Dawn
18. That’s What You Think
19.. Live And Let Live
20. If You Want It, I’ve Got It
21. Please Come Back Home
22. Look What Thoughts Done To Me
23. The House That Love Built
24. Come Back To Me
Bonus Tracks
25. Baby I’m Ready
26. Cut Across Shorty
27. I Dreamed Of The Old Rugged Cross
28. Hey Joe!
29. You Are The One
30. Why, Why
