The quality of Bobbie’s song writing remained exceptional on her third album; from the sinister eroticism of ‘Sweete Peony’, and the chilled out high of ‘Sittin’ Pretty’ to the comic small-town intrigue of ‘Ace Insurance Man’. However, the album’s highlights are three songs about death: the poignant ‘Recollection’ the black humoured ‘Casket Vignette’ and her cover of the Beatles ‘Eleanor Rigby’. In addition, Bobbie’s reading of Kenny Rankin’s ‘Peaceful’ is surely definitive. The disc contains further previously unreleased outtakes including a powerful ‘Conspiracy of Homer Jones’ by Dallas Frazier, Kenny Rankin’s charming ‘Cotton Candy Sandman’ and a mesmeric demo of her single ‘Hushabye Mountain’.
Disc 3 – Local Gentry
Bobbie Gentry
Record Tracklist
- Sweete Peony
- Casket Vignette
- Come Away Melinda
- The Fool on the Hill
- Papa’s Medicine Show
- Ace Insurance Man
- Recollection
- Sittin’ Pretty
- Eleanor Rigby
- Peaceful
- Here, There and Everywhere
- Hushabye Mountain
- Skip A Long Sam
- Conspiracy of Homer Jones
- Sweete Peony [Alternate Version]
- Cotton Candy Sandman [Demo]
- Hushabye Mountain [Demo]