The girl from Chickasaw County

"Gentry never envisaged herself as a singer, originally intending to write for other artists. But by the end of her career, she had written and arranged numerous songs, been a huge TV personality, designed her own costumes and sets, choreographed performances, managed her own musical output and shows, and painted the portraits used for the covers of Fancy and Patchwork. What an absolute powerhouse of a woman, and what a wonderful compilation to celebrate that".

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"Delta singer/storyteller's Capitol LPs boxed and generously supplemented ... for the first time in a comprehensive boxset, comprising remastered versions of her seven studio albums for Capitol, supplemented by a cornucopia of deep cuts, including outtakes, demos, rarities and an eighth disc of live performances taken from her late-1960s BBC television series.What emerges is a revelation - at least to those who had pegged her as a straight-up country singer all these years. Gentry was actually no more country than, say Tony Joe White, whom she rivals as a Southern gothic storyteller, or Shelby Lynne, who sometimes sounds like a modern-day Gentry clone".

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