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| | Subject: Re: Bobbie Gentry - Ode to Billie Joe (1967). Tue Jun 14, 2022 7:02 pm | |
| I've known the name Bobbie Gentry for years but only really became aware of her and I think this album when there was a documentray on BBC Four a while back. |
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| | Subject: Re: Bobbie Gentry - Ode to Billie Joe (1967). Tue Jun 14, 2022 7:02 pm | |
| I could imagine Tina doing a cover of this one. _________________  |
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| | Subject: Re: Bobbie Gentry - Ode to Billie Joe (1967). Tue Jun 14, 2022 7:02 pm | |
| It's proper Southern blues-rock.
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| | Subject: Re: Bobbie Gentry - Ode to Billie Joe (1967). Tue Jun 14, 2022 7:02 pm | |
| It's pretty good is what I have been trying to say.
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| | Subject: Re: Bobbie Gentry - Ode to Billie Joe (1967). Tue Jun 14, 2022 7:03 pm | |
| Those are lowest notes in musical history. |
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| | Subject: Re: Bobbie Gentry - Ode to Billie Joe (1967). Tue Jun 14, 2022 7:03 pm | |
| Track 2 - Saw an Angel Die. _________________ |
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| | Subject: Re: Bobbie Gentry - Ode to Billie Joe (1967). Tue Jun 14, 2022 7:03 pm | |
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| | Subject: Re: Bobbie Gentry - Ode to Billie Joe (1967). Tue Jun 14, 2022 7:03 pm | |
| Glenn Campbell-esque intro.
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| | Subject: Re: Bobbie Gentry - Ode to Billie Joe (1967). Tue Jun 14, 2022 7:03 pm | |
| Possibly trying to be Nina Simone. _________________ |
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| | Subject: Re: Bobbie Gentry - Ode to Billie Joe (1967). Tue Jun 14, 2022 7:04 pm | |
| - Nightjar wrote:
- Glenn Campbell-esque intro.
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| | Subject: Re: Bobbie Gentry - Ode to Billie Joe (1967). Tue Jun 14, 2022 7:05 pm | |
| Reminds me a bit of...
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| Hints of On Broadway. _________________ |
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| | Subject: Re: Bobbie Gentry - Ode to Billie Joe (1967). Tue Jun 14, 2022 7:05 pm | |
| I could imagine Roger Waters doing this one. 
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| | Subject: Re: Bobbie Gentry - Ode to Billie Joe (1967). Tue Jun 14, 2022 7:06 pm | |
| Track 3 - Chickasaw County Child. _________________ |
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| | Subject: Re: Bobbie Gentry - Ode to Billie Joe (1967). Tue Jun 14, 2022 7:06 pm | |
| Has she sung about the Chattahoochee bridge yet? I remember them talking about that endlessly on the documentary I saw. |
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| | Subject: Re: Bobbie Gentry - Ode to Billie Joe (1967). Tue Jun 14, 2022 7:06 pm | |
| Darkly dreamy that one.
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