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Bobbie Gentry: The Delta Sweete/Local Gentry (Raven/EMI)

Gentry is the US country singer best -- and probably only known by many -- for her 1967 hit Ode to Billie Joe, that song about Billie Joe McAllister tossing something off the Tallahatchie Bridge. In t

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America, driving across the country (April-May 2004)

...Joe mysteriously threw something off in the Bobbie Gentry hit -- as the river of that name appears.When...

Travels in Elsewhere: travelstories/273/america-driving-across-the-country-april-may-2004/

FAME STUDIOS: Where the good bizness got done

...and held Allman Brothers Band auditions there, Bobbie Gentry (right), Candi Staton, Little Richard . . ....

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NORAH JONES INTERVIEWED (2002 and 2003) AND ALBUM REVIEWS: Great Expectations -- and then some

...Memphis years or the Tennessee soul style of Bobbie Gentry.With an excellent five-piece band she opened... ...and Jones sings like she's been listening to Bobbie Gentry before letting go a slinky jazz-funk solo on...

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THE BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2011: History repeats in box sets

...Aretha and Little Richard to Wilson Pickett, Bobbie Gentry and Duane Allman recorded) got a...

Absolute Elsewhere: absoluteelsewhere/4646/the-best-of-elsewhere-2011-history-repeats-in-box-sets/

Various Artists: Country Funk 1969-1975 (Light in the Attic)

...OC Smith's Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp and Bobbie Gentry through Tony Joe White to JJ Grey and Mofro --...

Music at Elsewhere: music/5101/various-artists-country-funk-1969-1975-light-in-the-attic/

Jackie Bristow: Freedom (Ode)

...a way, but rocks urgently like a disillusioned Bobbie Gentry with Lee Clayton in the band, and the story is...

Music at Elsewhere: music/2906/jackie-bristow-freedom-ode/

Various Artists: Delta Swamp Rock Vol 2 (Soul Jazz)

...But, wonderful though she is, two songs by Bobbie Gentry, and another piece from both Area Code 615...

Music at Elsewhere: music/5382/various-artists-delta-swamp-rock-vol-2-soul-jazz/

KARIN KROG CONSIDERED (2015): A rare voice from the north

...with Dexter Gordon (they did a version of Bobbie Gentry's Ode to Billy Joe together in the early...

Absolute Elsewhere: absoluteelsewhere/7115/karin-krog-considered-2015-a-rare-voice-from-the-north/

REMASTERS, REISSUES AND CREDIT CARD-KILLING SETS COMING UP (2018): Living in a box (set)

...double vinyl (pink, of course). Out now. Bobbie Gentry: The Girl from Chickasaw County Great though...

Something Elsewhere: somethingelsewhere/8600/remasters-reissues-and-credit-card-killing-sets-coming-up-2018-living-in-a-box-set/

LEON RUSSELL by BILL JANOVITZ

...George Benson, Ray Charles, Helen Reddy and Bobbie Gentry among others. And many of them have become...

Writing at Elsewhere: writingelsewhere/10744/leon-russell-by-bill-janovitz/

Kris Kristofferson: Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends (Light in the Attic/Rhythmethod)

...which he acclaims Dylan, Johnny Cash, Waylon, Bobbie Gentry, the Beatles et al.) Kristofferson has...

Music at Elsewhere: music/3284/kris-kristofferson-please-dont-tell-me-how-the-story-ends-light-in-the-attic-rhythmethod/

Helen Reddy: Angie Baby (1974)

...in late '74. As with Ode to Billie Joe by Bobbie Gentry and Richard Harris' MacArthur Park (written by...

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THE JB HI-FI GUIDE TO ESSENTIAL VINYL, VOLUME 2 (2021): Another 101, and more, records in any serious collection

.... For more at Elsewhere on Blue Cheer, Bobbie Gentry, Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones. . . For...

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RECOMMENDED RECORD: Tami Neilson: Kingmaker (Neilson/digital outlets)

...with her brother Jay invokes a sophisticated Bobbie Gentry narrative about the sexual harassment of a...

Music at Elsewhere: music/10374/recommended-record-tami-neilson-kingmaker-neilson-digital-outlets/

Various Artists: Delta Swamp Rock (2011)

...Gris/New Orleans voodoo. Killer cut. As is Bobbie Gentry's husky Mississippi Delta. (Persist with this...

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THE GREAT JB HI-FI VINYL MARKDOWN (2021): Darling, can I borrow your credit card?

...(double vinyl, $20) Donald Fagen: The Nightfly Bobbie Gentry: Live at the BBC ($15) Screaming Jay Hawkins:...

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Helen Van Der Linden: Helen Van Der Linden EP (HVDL)

This EP arrived from the winnner of last year's Gold Guitar award at the annual Gore country music festival and she has already taken herself to Tamworth in Australia to further her career. And you'd

Music at Elsewhere: music/3018/helen-van-der-linden-helen-van-der-linden-ep-hvdl/

Joe South: A Look Inside/So The Seeds Are Growing (Raven/EMI)

Joe South wrote some classic songs which others took to great heights: Hush (Deep Purple); I Never Promised You A Rose Garden (Lynn Anderson); Down in the Boon Docks (Billy Joe Royal) and others. Of h

Music at Elsewhere: music/3203/joe-south-a-look-inside-so-the-seeds-are-growing-raven-emi/

Dale Hawkins: Oh! Suzy-Q; The Definitive and Remastered Edition (Hoodoo)

If he'd done nothing else other than his tough-edged swamp-rockabilly hit Suzy-Q, Dale Hawkins out of Louisiana would still have made the rock'n'roll history books: Suzy-Q was co-written with guitaris

Music at Elsewhere: music/3813/dale-hawkins-oh-suzy-q-the-definitive-and-remastered-edition-hoodoo/

THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: Lauren Thomson

Auckland-based singer-songwriter Lauren Thomson released her excellent debut EP Our Love is Due in the closing days of 2007 and on the back of it toured frequently, often with Canadian Tami Neilson an

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Lauren Thomson: Chanteuses and Shotguns (Ode)

Auckland singer-songwriter Thomson deservedly struck lucky when she went to Canada with Tami Neilson to assist on Neilson's follow-up to The Kitchen Sessions Vol 1 . . . Thomson got this new album at

Music at Elsewhere: music/3859/lauren-thomson-chanteuses-and-shotguns-ode/

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