There Stands the Glass

AMG Review of There Stands the Glass

Greg Adams
All Music Guide

Although it isn't billed as such, There Stands the Glass is a tribute album to Webb Pierce; all but one of the songs were hits for Pierce, and the remaining one ("So Used to Loving You") was the B-side of "That Heart Belongs to Me" (which is also included). It might seem redundant to have one major star of hard honky tonk music cover the material of another, but Carl Smith's sound and phrasing is so different from Pierce, the results are entirely dissimilar. The no-nonsense production and lack of original material points to the fact that There Stands the Glass was purely an album effort, but Smith re-recorded the title track for single release on Hickory Records in 1977.