Singer-songwriter Bobbie Gentry was just 24 years old when she wrote and recorded the iconic Southern Gothic ballad that would become her career-defining hit.  Citing Tara Murtha’s Bobbie Gentry’s Ode ...

Apathy is the common thread that connects all stages of Bobbie Gentry's 1967 Southern Gothic hit, "Ode To Billie Joe".

Psych-pop greats Mercury Rev have recorded an entire tribute album to Bobbie Gentry‘s The Delta Sweete, the 1968 concept album followup to her chart-topping 1967 debut Ode to Billie Joe. Not a ...

That is the opening line of one of music’s most discussed, examined and appreciated songs — “Ode to Billie Joe,” written and performed by Bobbie Gentry, who was born in Mississippi’s Chickasaw County.

Though her birth name was Roberta Lee Streeter, she was known around the world as Bobbie Gentry. Born in Chickasaw County, Mississippi, and raised in the town of Greenwood, Gentry is most known for ...

Country music seems to have nearly forgotten one-time megastar Bobbie Gentry, who rose to mainstream fame in 1967 with pop crossover hit "Ode to Billy Joe," and just as suddenly vanished in the early ...

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Bobbie Gentry became one of country music's most elusive figures after she vanished from the public eye without a trace in the middle of a very successful career. While Gentry has never been seen in ...

Bobbie Gentry is one of the greatest writers and performers of our time. She was the definition of country funk and southern soul. Her songs were well crafted, literary masterpieces. Bobbie produced ...

If you ask Orville Peck, he'll tell you that there are two original versions of "Fancy": one by Reba McEntire; the other by Bobbie Gentry. Both performers, he says, interpreted the song with uncanny ...

Fifty-one years ago this month, Capitol Records released the debut single by Mississippi-born singer-songwriter Bobbie Gentry. Now, for the first time, all seven of Gentry’s studio albums will be ...