Another sleepy, dusty Delta day.....
Pass the biscuits please
by Anonymous | reply 1 | June 3, 2022 6:16 PM |
Her voice reminds me of my southern family. I like how people talked back then. There's something distinctive about their articulation. They don't miss mash words or have vocal fry.
It's hard to describe but there's something also in their focus. I see it in movies of the past. Maybe it's a timing thing but they allow words to settle, mean something. It's like people are in a race to conclude nowadays. Hard to explain.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | June 3, 2022 6:24 PM |
Listening to the song I wonder if he confessed her love and she rejected him. They had been hanging out together on the bridge.
Supposedly it's not supposed to matter what was thrown off the bridge. The family's cold indifference was the point but being poor folk, that's probably how they maintained resilience. Shut it out.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | June 3, 2022 6:34 PM |
She aged like money. Lady made a mint and bowed out.
She was beautiful. That song is Southern Gothic at its finest.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | June 3, 2022 6:40 PM |
Bobbie turns 80 in July!
by Anonymous | reply 5 | June 3, 2022 6:43 PM |
Great ballad- one of the best of its kind.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | June 3, 2022 6:50 PM |
They threw their aborted or premature child off the bridge- the family is blind to the daughter’s grief and she will say nothing. The ballad captures the pain of love and life going by along with the mundane perfectly.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | June 3, 2022 6:59 PM |
Then when they did the movie they changed up the plot and said Billy Joe was one of them there ho-mo-secktuals!
by Anonymous | reply 8 | June 3, 2022 8:20 PM |
"Pass the biscuits please."
And speaking of, I always did enjoy eating Billy Joe out - that boy had one fine biscuit!
by Anonymous | reply 9 | June 3, 2022 9:59 PM |
Billie Joe is still singing "16 Going on 17".
by Anonymous | reply 10 | June 3, 2022 10:39 PM |
SUCH a good song. I listened to the whole album off youtube and it's great! Thanks, OP!
by Anonymous | reply 11 | June 3, 2022 11:52 PM |
Bobbie is great - I love most of her stuff though as with many LPs from that era there's a filler song or two.
But she wrote some great music.....and lucky her, she's been living off those proceeds! She wrote a big chunk of her first few albums - I'm sure the money she made from "Ode" and "Fancy" made her, as Fancy herself become, an independently wealthy woman.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | June 4, 2022 4:02 AM |
In Love With The Night Mysterious.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | June 4, 2022 4:12 AM |
I wish the video quality was better but this is terrific.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | June 4, 2022 5:41 AM |
I love her music, but I have such a respect for her that she knew when it was time to get off the stage.
She became famous near the age of 30, and had varying degrees of success for about 15 years. Whether it was changing tastes or a changing record business, she realized her time was coming to an end and she wanted to retire, to leave on her own terms and at her own time.
And she was smart enough to live within her means, invest, etc. in a way she never had to work another day in her life. She seemed to have a good business head and/or good advisors and never lost money to bad advice/handlers or a greedy ex.
For that alone, I give the bitch a standing ovation.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | June 4, 2022 7:42 PM |
How did she parlay her money into so much wealth?
Being a singer back then wasn't that lucrative, was it?
by Anonymous | reply 18 | June 5, 2022 3:30 AM |
She wrote a lot of her songs, R18, including "Billie Joe." Her songs have been played and sold for decades now.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | June 5, 2022 4:36 AM |
It’s that day, again.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | June 3, 2023 11:26 AM |
[quote]There was a virus going 'round; papa caught it, and he died last spring
Fucking hick was probably too dumb to get vaccinated.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | June 3, 2023 11:41 AM |
Bernice and Bobbie are forever linked in my mind.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | June 3, 2023 12:06 PM |
Loved the beautiful jew Robby playing that southern boy MacAllister. I was a pre-gay kid but I knew what the story was about.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | June 3, 2023 12:34 PM |
Such a brilliant recording of a fine song. It's still a unique piece - done as a country art song and unlike anything else released.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | June 3, 2023 12:34 PM |
It’s the orchestration that makes the song memorable
by Anonymous | reply 26 | June 3, 2023 2:30 PM |
r26 I think the same applies to the titular finale song in Patsy Cline's biopic "Sweet Dreams."
by Anonymous | reply 27 | June 3, 2023 3:10 PM |
R4 Wow, she is gorgeous!
by Anonymous | reply 29 | June 3, 2023 3:48 PM |
I’ve listened to the song twice so far today.
Before I go to bed tonight, I’ll watch the movie
Maybe I’ll pretend I’m at the Carroll County picture show
by Anonymous | reply 30 | June 3, 2023 4:03 PM |
What Billy Jo threw of the bridge.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | June 3, 2023 4:37 PM |
This was supposedly her in 2014, and she looked good then.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | June 3, 2023 9:46 PM |
She's worth $100 million net.
No wonder she is taking life easy.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | June 4, 2023 11:04 PM |
She was married for a hot minute to Jim Stafford.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | June 5, 2023 12:15 AM |