Bobbie Gentry – The Girl From Chickasaw County (Highlights From The Capitol Masters) (Vinyl)

Now presented for the first time, remastered versions of highlights from her seven studio albums for Capitol, supplemented by a cornucopia of deep cuts, including outtakes, demos, rarities and an eighth disc of live performances taken from her late-1960s BBC television series. What emerges is a revelation – at least to those who had pegged her as a straight-up country singer all these years.

Ode To Billie Joe – which ended Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’s 15-week reign at the top of the US charts – is a neglected masterpiece that spans country, folk, soul, pop, jazz and swamp rock. She followed with 1968’s The Delta Sweete, a dozen songs conceived as a concept about Mississippi life, combining original compositions with covers of “Tobacco Road”, “Big Boss Man” and “Parchman Farm”. The result is an Americana classic.

Patchwork, her 1971 swansong, finds her seizing back control from the label, and is another masterpiece. With the singer writing all 12 of its songs, which are interspersed with instrumental interludes. It’s brilliance leaves you lamenting what she might have gone on to achieve if she hadn’t abandoned songwriting and the studio'.

Bobbie Gentry– Ode To Billy Joe 
Bobbie Gentry– I Saw An Angel Die
Bobbie Gentry– Chickasaw County Child
Bobbie Gentry– Sunday Best (Alternate Take)
Bobbie Gentry– Hurry, Tuesday Child (Demo)
Bobbie Gentry– Niki Hokey / Barefootin' (Live At The BBC)
Bobbie Gentry– Mississippi Delta (Alternate Version)
Bobbie Gentry– The Seventh Son (Band Version)
Bobbie Gentry– Mornin' Glory
Bobbie Gentry– Jessye' Lisabeth
Bobbie Gentry– Refractions
Bobbie Gentry– Courtyard
Bobbie Gentry– Feelin' Good (Demo)
Bobbie Gentry– Sweete Peony (Alternate Version)
Bobbie Gentry– Casket Vignette
Bobbie Gentry– Recollection
Bobbie Gentry– Eleanor Rigby
Bobbie Gentry– Sittin’ Pretty
Bobbie Gentry– Hushabye Mountain
Bobbie Gentry– The Conspiracy Of Homer Jones
Bobbie Gentry– Sunday Mornin’ (Alternative Version)
Bobbie Gentry With Glen Campbell– Let It Be Me (Duet With Glen Campbell)
Bobbie Gentry– Supper Time
Bobbie Gentry– God Bless The Child
Bobbie Gentry– This Girl’s In Love With You
Bobbie Gentry– Touch ‘Em With Love (Stereo Version)
Bobbie Gentry– Greyhound Goin' Somewhere
Bobbie Gentry– Seasons Come, Seasons Go (Demo)
Bobbie Gentry– Glory Halleluja, How They’ll Sing (Alternate Take)
Bobbie Gentry– Fancy Bobbie Gentry– Find 'Em, Fool 'Em, And Forget 'Em
Bobbie Gentry– He Made A Woman Out Of Me
Bobbie Gentry– Rainmaker
Bobbie Gentry– Circle ‘Round The Sun
Bobbie Gentry– Apartment 21 (Stereo 21)
Bobbie Gentry– Billy The Kid (Live At The BBC)
|Bobbie Gentry– Benjamin |
Bobbie Gentry– But I Can’t Get Back
|Bobbie Gentry– Belinda (Acoustic Version)
|Bobbie Gentry– Mean Stepmama Blues
Bobbie Gentry– Lookin’ In
Bobbie Gentry– Smoke
Bobbie Gentry– Joanne
Bobbie Gentry– You And Me Together
Bobbie Gentry– The Girl From Cincinnati