VOL № CW032 — October 2023
Billie Joe'ya Ode
Bobbie Gentry
Few artists can say they knocked the Beatles off their pedestal, but Bobbie Gentry is one of them. The Mississippi-born singer-songwriter with the one-of-a-kind voice and similarly singular songwriting perspective scored a No. 1 album with her debut Ode to Billie Joe in 1967, temporarily ousting the Fab Four’s seminal Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band from a weeks-long stint atop the Billboard 200.
Topping the Beatles is a remarkable feat on its own, but especially so for a debut artist who approached music stardom with a skeptical curiosity before suddenly tapping out, and eventually vanishing, while at the top of her game. Ode to Billie Joe itself is both a time capsule of its era — the turbulent and transformative late ’60s — as well as a primer for Gentry’s chameleonic artistry.
LP 1 / Side A
1 \Mississippi Deltası\ \\ |
2 \Bir meleğin öldüğünü gördüm\ \\ |
3 \Chickasaw County Çocuğu\ \\ |
4 \Pazarın En İyisi\ \\ |
5 \Niki Hoeky\ \\ |
LP 1 / Side B
1 Baba |
2 Bugs |
3 Acelen var mı |
4 Tembel Willie |
5 Billie Joe'ya Ode |