Bobbie Gentry Performs The Delta Sweete (1968 Vinyl LP 1st Press ST 2842 Cleaned

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1ST PRESSING (USA)

STEROPHONIC PRESSING

VPI MACHINE CLEANED & PLAYTESTED

Band/Artist: Bobbie Gentry

Album Title: Bobbie Gentry Performs The Delta Sweete

Featuring: Bobbie Gentry, Dale Anderson, Max Bennett, Hal Blaine, Raymond Brown, Dennie Budimir, James Burton, Michael Casey, George Fields, Clifford A. Hils, Del Kacher, Harry Middlebrooks, Oliver E. Mitchell, Earl Palmer, Chester Ricord

Produced By: Kelly Gordon

Catalogue#: ST 2842

UPC#: no bar code

Year/Record Company: 1968 Capitol

1 LP – Stereophonic - 12 inch vinyl record - 33 1/3

This is the authentic release & not a pirated, bootlegged or copied version. This 1st pressing stereophonic LP record album comes from my personal collection & has been VPI machine cleaned & playtested. It is stored under temperature & humidity regulated, smoke and pet free conditions.

LP Condition: very good

Shine: some

Scratches: several light & several feather

Label Wear: light (completely readable)

Labels: see photos

Spindle Hole Wear: light

LP Sound: very good (no skips or hang-ups, no missing audio)

Surface Noise: light

Jacket Condition: very good+

Shrink Wrap: none

Wear To Seams: very light (no splits, no tape)

Back Ring Wear: very light

Front Ring Wear: minimal

Ink or pencil marks: none

Water Stains: none

Drill Holes: none

Saw Cuts: none

Stamps/Stickers: none

Sleeve: new blank sleeve

The Delta Sweete is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Bobbie Gentry. It was released on February 5, 1968, by Capitol Records. The album was produced by Kelly Gordon. The Delta Sweete is a concept album based on modern life in the Deep South. Gentry wrote eight of the album's 12 tracks, which detail her Mississippi childhood and includes vignettes of home and church life ("Reunion" and "Sermon"), as well as recollections of blues and country hits she heard as a youngster ("Big Boss Man" and "Tobacco Road"). The song "Okolona River Bottom Band", accented by a sophisticated horn chart and breathy strings, used the same basic cadence as "Ode to Billie Joe".

Recording sessions for the album emphasized the unique sound of Gentry's guitar picking and her singing and phrasing styles. The prevailing sound on the album was a swampy, folk-tinged combination of blues and country, with uptown touches like strings and horns seemingly added to reflect the then modern styles of soul music and the Nashville sound.

Cashbox praised the album, saying that Gentry had "survived the storm and her second album is better than her first." They felt that Gentry's songwriting on the album showed her as "an effective ballad writer as well as a skillful portrayer of the life of the Mississippi Delta country."

Stephen Cook from AllMusic gave the album four and a half out of five stars. He praised the album, describing it as "a swampy, folk-tinged combination of blues and country, with uptown touches." (source: Wikipedia)

SIDE 1

Okolona River Bottom Band 2:57

Big Boss Man 2:56

Reunion 2:35

Parchman Farm (Mose Allison cover) 3:00

Mornin’ Glory 2:57

Sermon 2:41

SIDE 2

Tobacco Road (J.D. Loudermilk cover) 2:57

Penduli Pendulum 2:56

Jessye’ Lisabeth 2:35

Refractions 3:00

Louisiana Man (Doug Kershaw cover) 2:57

Courtyard 2:42

Bobbie Lee Gentry (born Roberta Lee Streeter; July 27, 1942) is an American retired singer-songwriter who was one of the first female artists in America to compose and produce her own material.

Gentry rose to international fame in 1967 with her Southern Gothic narrative "Ode to Billie Joe". The track spent four weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was third in the Billboard year-end chart of 1967, earning Gentry Grammy awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1968.

Gentry charted 11 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 and four singles on the United Kingdom Top 40. Her album Fancy brought her a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. After her first albums, she had a successful run of variety shows on the Las Vegas Strip. In the late 1970s Gentry lost interest in performing, and subsequently retired from the music industry. News reports conflict on the subject of where she currently lives. (source: Wikipedia)

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