Ode To Billy Joe
Free lyrics (Free subscription) | 01/06/2009
Words and Music by Bobbie Gentry It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delt
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Another 50 best songs
The Plummet Onions (Free subscription) | 01/01/2009
A little while ago my brother Dan posted his list of his 50 favourite songs of all time. Last week I posted my list. Our dad heard about our list-making and the gauntlet was thrown. He stayed up nights thinking about what his top 50 songs would be. Here they are. Band . “The Weight” Barra Macneils . [...]
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My Dad’s top 50 songs
Skirl | Dan Dickinson (Free subscription) | 12/29/2008
A little over a week ago I blogged about my 50 favourite songs of all time. A few days later my brother Tim did the same. When I showed my father our lists he immediately felt a compulsion to make his own list, to the point where he’d wake up in the middle of the [...]
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The Christmas mystery
AM, Then FM (Free subscription) | 12/25/2008
It was 30 years ago tonight — Christmas night 1978 — that Bobbie Gentry performed on “The Tonight Show” and vanished into legend. The dark-haired, sultry-voiced Mississippi native once was one of America’s hottest singers. At home in country, pop and Southern soul, she topped the charts with “Ode to Billie Joe” in 1967 (originally a [...]
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AllMusic’s Favorite Country Albums of 2008
The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 12/15/2008
From the 8th through the 19th, the AllMusic Blog will be publishing our editors’ favorite albums of 2008. We’ll be covering well over a dozen genres and styles, from rap to reggae, R&B to electronic, country to Latin, blues to metal, folk to soundtracks, and several points in-between, culminating in a Whole Note feature that [...]
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Here's Your One Chance Fancy (Don't Let me Down)
Read:My:Back (Free subscription) | 12/04/2008
Here's a cranial corkscrew for your late afternoon: While eyeballing the offerings at the corner bodega earlier today, a somewhat jarring iPod segue set off a wild fantasy in which Killdozer covered the song "Fancy" by Bobbie Gentry. Observe the...
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Jody Reynolds dies at 75; rockabilly singer's 'Endless Sleep' made Top 10
LA Times (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
Jody Reynolds, the 1950s rockabilly singer and songwriter whose one and only Top 10 hit, "Endless Sleep," was the first of a wave of melodramatic "teen tragedy" tales, died of liver cancer Nov. 7 in Palm Desert. He was 75.
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Daily Downloads (EELS, My Morning Jacket, and more)
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: EELS: free and legal Manchester 2005 EP [mp3] (through October 28th) other EELS posts at Largehearted Boy Get Help: "Temporary Speed Zone" [mp3] Get Help: "Fall-in-Love-to-Song" [mp3] other Get Help posts at Largehearted Boy...
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Greene: “The bailout money shouldn’t go to any of them”
Political Ticker (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
Jim and Peggy Vinson ABOARD THE ELECTION EXPRESS BATESVILLE, Mississippi (CNN)– Whatever they end up doing in Washington about bailing out the Wall Street financial giants– and whatever John McCain and Barack Obama may say about it if it should come up in the debate Friday night– there’s only one word that concisely sums up what people [...]
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FRINGE PICKS: Delta Dawn
Phawker (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Another Sleepy Dusty Delta Day Troubleyn/Jan Fabre Fabre’s rider specifies ten male canaries (the males sing) and one and a half tons of coal for the American premiere Another Sleepy Dusty Delta Day. The only U.S. appearance will be right here in Philly at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre (480 South Broad Street). In its recent [...]
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Satin Shoes and a Feather Bed
The Driftwood Singers Present (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
I Saw an Angel Die - Bobbie Gentry Hurry, Tuesday Child - Bobbie Gentry From the 1967 debut, Ode to Billie Joe . Line notes. Commenatry on vinyl LPs. Pop, rock, folk, prog, indie, so much more. Love.
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The New Yorker Article Focuses On Strawberry Festival Queen
Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
A Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and Plant City native has written a lengthy article for The New Yorker magazine on the Florida Strawberry Festival queen's pageant. Headlined "The Strawberry Girls," the article by Anne Hull hit the newsstands Monday.
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July 27th — Knocking on holiday’s door
NewMexiKen (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008
Today is the birthday … of television producer Norman Lear. He’s 86. Lear brought a revolution to TV when he introduced All in the Family in 1971. Sanford and Son, Good Times, The Jeffersons, Maude, One Day At a Time and other shows were also his. … of Jerry Van Dyke, 77. … of Bugs [...]
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Maverick - The brilliant 100 page monthly country and roots music magazine
Used, but not abused (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
May issue of Maverick: Suzy Bogguss is our cover feature plus Wine, Women & Song Tour buddies Gretchen Petera and Matraca Berg, plus Martina McBride, Joe Ely, Beth Navaro, Laura Vecchione, Justin Rutledge, Eliza Gilkyson, Diana Jones; Henson Cargill obituary; Live Reviews of Belfast Songwriters Festival, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Peg Simone, Bone-Box, Dolly Parton, the Expatriate [...]
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5 Live: Concerts for the weekend of July 11-13
NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Beth Orton's wan voice has the smoky mystery of Bobbie Gentry but with its own sad core. She'll be performing at the Prospect Park band shell this weekend.
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