Bobbie Gentry's the Delta Sweete RevisitedMercury Rev · 2019

loudandquiet

8.0

“In 1967, at the height of the Summer of Love, Bobbie Gentry topped the American charts with her debut single, the notably un-psychedelic ‘Ode To Billie Joe’, which briefly transported pop fans from Pepperland or Brian Wilson’s sandpit to rural Mississippi and a dinner-table psychodrama. Six months later, Gentry returned with her second album, ‘The Delta Sweete’, picking up where her quietly revolu”

pastemagazine

7.2

“If the critical cliché “forgotten masterpiece” didn’t exist, Bobbie Gentry would have had to invent it. The pioneering country singer from Mississippi was just 25 when her sweeping, Gothic-tinged 1967 hit “Ode to Billie Joe” knocked the goddamn Beatles out of the No. 1 slot and made her a star—and just 36 when she retired from the limelight for good. In between, Gentry released seven studio album”

pitchfork

4.5

“A half-century after the release of Bobbie Gentry’s imaginative second album, the art-rock band revisits it as if in a daze but with the help of over a dozen brilliant singers.”