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Bookmark or Share- Bobbie Gentry: whatever happened to the trailblazing queen of country?Music. This article is more than 5 years old. Bobbie Gentry: whatever happened to the trailblazing queen of country? The 60s star – who didn’t just write her own songs but had her own TV show,...
- Bobbie Gentry - WikipediaBobbie Gentry (born Roberta Lee Streeter; July 27, 1942) is a retired American singer-songwriter. She was one of the first female artists in America to compose and produce her own material. Gentry rose to international fame in 1967 with her Southern Gothic narrative "Ode to Billie Joe".
- Bobbie Gentry: the elusive star, her forgotten gem and its rediscoveryBobbie Gentry: the elusive star, her forgotten gem and its rediscovery. Why Mercury Rev have given the singer’s neglected album ‘The Delta Sweete’ a new lease of life 50 years after its...
- Whatever happened to Bobbie Gentry? In search of country music’s great ...Written and sung by an unknown young woman from Mississippi named Bobbie Gentry, it was an eerie, minor-key mystery about an unnamed young woman and her family sitting around a farm dinner...
- The Story Behind Bobbie Gentry's "Ode to Billie Joe"The mystery created by Bobbie Gentry in her debut single “Ode To Billie Joe” cast a spell over the entire country. Set to a backing of spare acoustic guitar chords and atmospheric strings, Gentry’s sensual, Southern-fried voice relates the story of two Mississippi teenage lovers who share a dark secret that eventually leads to the boy’s ...
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