Bobbie Gentry

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Fantastic album and sadly Bobbie's final full length release. We were unlucky not to have more albums (in 1977 she recorded songs for an album for Warner Bros sadly not released, in 1969 Capitol had shelved some tracks recorded for a vocal jazz album and her fanclub newsletter alludes to recordings made in 1972 which have not been released). Also check out the stunning studio outtake from these sessions, 'Smoke'.

Safe now to say Bobbie was pretty much self-produced all along but this is the ... read more