Features Song Lyrics for Bobbie Gentry's The Delta Sweete album.

The Delta Sweete is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Bobbie Gentry.

Bobbie Gentry had a huge hit in 1967 with "Ode to Billie Joe," the haunting single that introduced her strong, sultry voice and flair for combining Southern Gothic drama with details so vivid that it feels like listeners are living her stories with her. She expanded on the world she built with that song on 1968's full-length The Delta Sweete, but unlike "Ode to Billie Joe," it was not a huge hit; its pioneering lk-pop didn't even crack the top 100 of Billboard's Top LPs chart

By: Bobbie Gentry (1968, Folk, World, & Country). More albums from Bobbie Gentry: Fancy by Bobbie Gentry. Touch ‘Em With Love by Bobbie Gentry. Ode To Billy Joe (Sound Track From Max Baer’s Film Of) by Bobbie Gentry. Patchwork by Bobbie Gentry. Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell by Bobbie Gentry. Ode To Billie Joe by Bobbie Gentry. Local Gentry by Bobbie Gentry. View all albums . The Delta Sweete. By: Bobbie Gentry (1968, Folk, World, & Country). 1. Okolona River Bottom Band.

The Delta Sweete Revisited is the first Mercury Rev album since 1993 not to center around Donahue’s endearingly odd voice. That’s the correct decision for Gentry’s material, given both its feminist spirit and the caliber of talent on display here. Hope Sandoval is at her dreamy best lazing up the tempo of Big Boss Man, Slowdive’s Rachel Goswell utterly transforms the squabbling Reunion into dreampop incantation-the album’s least faithful rendition by far, which is not a qualm-and Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier goes full croon on the record’s romantic centerpiece, Mornin’ Glory.

No one bought it, Bobbie Gentry once said of The Delta Sweete, but I didn’t lose any sleep over it. I’ve never tried to pre-judge public taste. Within only a few months of her 1967 hit, ‘Ode To Billie Joe’, the restless Bobbie Gentry was moving beyond the kind of lyrical storytelling that had made her famous. She was becoming more interested in the possibilities of musical arrangement and this, along with a more abstract approach to songwriting, underpinned her exceptional second album. There are 13 vocal guests over Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweete Revisited’s 12 tracks. This makes sense, because Gentry continually plays with character and perspective on the album. The opener, ‘Okolona River Bottom Band’, in Gentry’s original vision, embodies The Delta Sweete’s paradoxical nature: it is both energetic and languid.

Bobbie Gentry performs The Delta Sweete Stereo, playable on stereo & mono phonographs Stereo auch Mono abspielbar Printed in Germany, Imprimé en Allemagne, Impresso en Alemania. C. Inc. Super Darlin’ Productions Cedarwood Publishing C. Acuff Rose Publ. -- Tracks A5 and A6 are a gapless medley. Promo copies may contain a sticker Unverkäufliche Musterpressung on labels.

The Delta Sweete is Bobbie Gentry’s second album, coming on the heels of the tremendous success of one of the most memorable, if bizarre, hits of the 1960s, Ode to Billy Joe. A loosely-formed concept album of sorts, Delta further explores the vagaries of the Mississippi Delta country of Ode to Billy Joe. Here, Gentry evokes the county fairs and family reunions that would have been events during Gentry’s girlhood, along with the small, everyday moments that made Ode to Billy Joe such a classic