Bobbie Gentry’s Odes to Mississippi

On August 26, 1967, the Lads of Liverpool (a.k.a. the Beatles) yielded the no. 1 spot on Billboard’s pop chart to an unknown musician. Mississippian Bobbie Gentry’s iconic song, “Ode to Billie Joe,”…

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@newsguyusa you may appreciate this sequel to the song by the brilliant, late Jill Sobule. It was my entry point into Jill Sobule's music.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=099-EfA8DlM

#JillSobule #BobbieGentry #OdeToBillyJoe

Where is Bobbie Gentry?

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@jamesmarshall @newsguyusa Glad to know of Jill Sobule, and its a very good song - but she proposes a definitive answer to the deliberately mysterious #odetobillyjoe not as questioning or politically powerful as the linked-to article