Author: Andrew Batt
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R.I.P Burt Bacharach
The celebrated composer and bandleader whose elegant melodies dominated pop radio for several decades, has died at the age of 94. Bacharach gave Bobbie one of her biggest hits when she topped the UK singles chart in August 1969 with her recording of ‘I’ll Never Fall In Love Again’. Bobbie’s recording was the most popular…
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Udiscover article puts together a fun ‘alternative’ Revolver
Following the remastered, expanded editions of The Beatles’ 1966 landmark Revolver U-discover have compiled an affectionate companion to the reissue in their article by Paul Sexton here. The multi-artist tribute follows the same song sequence as the original and underlines just how many times and in how many different styles the 14 songs on the record…
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Reviews for ‘The Girl From Chickasaw County’ highlights
The reviews are in folks! critics are loving the new highlights edition of The Girl From Chickasaw County : Shindig! ***** – An essential best of, Bobbie Gentry remains impossible to resist American Songwriter ***** – A classy, indispensable portrait of Bobbie Gentry’s short but influential career MOJO **** – A concentrated shot of singer…
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Bobbie’s The Girl From Chickasaw County, Highlights is compilation of the week on the BBC 6 Music
We are super excited to hear Bobbie’s The Girl From Chickasaw County, Highlights From the Capitol Masters is compilation of the week on the BBC 6 Music Laura Laverne Breakfast Show tomorrow, listen in from 10.00am The compilation is pitched as the ultimate ‘best of’ featuring a mix of singles and album tracks and the…
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Vinyl repress of U.K. ‘Fancy’ album ‘I’ll Never Fall in Love Again’ out now
It’s been a long wait, but Bobbie’s 1970 U.K. album ‘I’ll Never Fall in Love Again’ gets it’s first vinyl repress for HMV as part of their centenary celebrations. Released in the U.S. as ‘Fancy’, EMI, (who owned Capitol and distributed them in the UK) renamed the album ‘I’ll Never Fall In Love Again’, to…
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New highlights edition of the boxset coming 05/08/22
Following on from the huge success of 2018’s now sold-out The Girl From Chickasaw County Box Set, comes The Girl From Chickasaw County Highlights From The Capitol Masters which aims to be the ultimate ‘all killer, no filler’ Bobbie Gentry 2 LP & 2 CD compilation. It features treasures from the Grammy nominated Box Set including selections…
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Bobbie boxset a cultural highlight for The Eels frontman E
The Eels frontman Mark Oliver Everett also known by the stage name E picked the Bobbie boxet as one of his cultural highlights in the Guardian column On My Radar. He says: “Bobbie Gentry is an amazing, somewhat unsung artist. This box set has all seven of her albums – the last one was in…
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RSD2021 LP ‘The Windows of the World’ out now
Bobbie’s lost Jazz album The Windows Of The World is out now. Getting its first stand-alone release on vinyl for Record Store Day 2021, The Windows of the World also features a previously unreleased version of ‘Hushabye Mountain’. **** Shindig! “Cut between her joint album with Glen Campbell and the pop-soul of Touch’em With Love, this…
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‘Choctaw Ridge’, a new compilation inspired by Bobbie’s ‘Ode’
New compilation Choctaw Ridge – New Fables of The American South 1968-1973 explores a new country sound, one that emerged at the end of the 60s in the wake of Bobbie’s ‘Ode To Billie Joe’, a surprise number one hit in 1967. When singers like Bobbie, Jimmy Webb, Michael Nesmith and Lee Hazlewood moved from the…
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Record Store Day 2021 exclusive: ‘The Windows of the World’ LP
Bobbie’s lost Jazz album gets its first stand-alone release on vinyl for Record Store Day 2021. At some point in the autumn of 1968 Bobbie decided to re-cast herself as a sort of Mississippi Julie London and in a series of sessions beginning at the end of the year and running through to March 1969, she…