Shout Factory
2004
Chickasaw County Child: The Artistry Of Bobbie Gentry
About This Album
The figure of Bobbie Gentry cuts a particularly enigmatic swath across the landscape of American popular music. She has written one of the bona fide archetypes in American folk-blues songs in "Ode to Billie Joe," an eerie, spooky tale whose secret -- who or what was thrown off the Tallahatchie Bridge -- has never been revealed by Gentry. This song is the song for which she is best known, and in the late summer of 1967, it ruled the airwaves and caused more than its share of discussion and speculation. Its resultant album topped the charts for two weeks and went platinum in the same year that Pet Sounds and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band were released. But, unknown to most, Gentry issued eight of her own albums between 1967 and 1972 and one of duets with Glen Campbell; all of them were worthwhile, and revealed a wealth of musical styles, songwriting, song interpretations, and production. Chickasaw County Child is the third major compilation of Gentry's work issued since 2000. First there was EMI's The Capitol Years: Ode to Bobbie Gentry. It contained 21 tracks concentrating for the most part on Gentry's pop offerings for Capitol. In 2002, Australia's venerable Raven label issued An American Quilt: 1967-1974.
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