Bobby Gentry has got a distinctive country voice - at the time she was like a more commercially successful female version of Tony Joe White. Her songs covered similar territory of backwoods Louisiana or Southern Alabama. Great storytelling with interesting and sometimes eccentric characters and never straight forward.Ode to Billy Joe will always remain her peak but songs from Mississippi Delta to Fancy and a series of duets with Glen Campbell are all worth checking out.
This was in the same bin as Joe South, Fats Domino and Eddie Cochran so I reckon someone with pretty good taste had either died, shifted or traded down to CD. The cover has a rip across it but the vinyl is excellent.
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