Marty Stuart And Connie Smith
Marty Stuart and Connie Smith have a rather unorthodox love story, but it’s one with a very happy ending. He married Connie Smith in 1997 and he was 17 years younger than her. His mom introduced them, she took Stuart to see Smith live in concert in Mississippi but it was unbeknownst to her what would happen in the next few decades.
Stuart also says his wife has taught him some important lessons:
“With Connie, I have learned about balancing love and music. She puts a whole lot more emphasis on family life than I ever did, and she’s been a great sense of balance to me.”
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Connie Smith Marriages, Who is Connie Smith Husband?
Connie has been married four times, in 1961, Smith married Jerry Smith, a ferroanalyst at the Inter-Lake Iron Corporation in Beverly, Ohio. She had one child together with Jerry on March 9, 1963, named Darren Justin. In the mid-1960s, the couple annulled their union and Smith married her guitarist, Jack Watkins, he was in her touring band. They had a son named Kerry Watkins, before separating approximately a year after marrying.
Shortly after, Smith married a third-time to telephone repairman Marshall Haynes. The couple had three beautiful daughters: Jeanne, Julie, and Jodi Haynes. Haynes frequently toured with Connie on her roadshow in the early 1970s. After her divorce with Haynes in the early 1990s, Smith stated that she had no plans of ever getting married again, but on July 8, 1997, Smith married country artist Marty Stuart.
