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BEV BEVAN'S CD PICKS NOVEMBER 2018


Marianne Faithfull – Rich Kid Blues (Edsel)


Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull was born on December 29th 1946 in Hampstead, London. Produced by Mike Leander, who had produced many of Marianne Faithfull’s records for the Decca label, Rich Kid Blues is an unusual and seriously minded collection of songs, most of which are acoustic versions of compositions by the likes of Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Cat Stevens, Sandy Denny, Tim Hardin, James Taylor and George Harrison.


The following is a quote from Marianne Faithfull when the album was originally released in 1971: “The record itself is very strange and ghostly. It’s the voice of someone incredibly high, probably on the edge of death. They always sound like that. Johnny Thunders sounds like that. Anybody who heard that record would have said, “We’ll never hear from her again.”


Now rereleased on a budget-priced CD, the dozen tracks comprise of: Long Black Veil; Sad Lisa; It’s All Over Now Baby Blue; Southern Butterfly; Chords Of Fame; Visions Of Johanna; It Takes A Lot To Laugh It Takes A Train To Cry; Beware Of Darkness; Corrine Corrina; Mud Slide Slim; Crazy Lady Blues; and the title track Rich Kid Blues.


Bobbie Gentry – The Girl From Chickasaw County (UMC)


Bobbie Gentry was born Roberta Lee Streeter On July 27th 1942 in Woodland, Mississippi. In 1967, the year that my old band The Move’s Flowers In The Rain launched BBC Radio One, an extraordinary single called Ode To Billie Joe was released, sung by its writer, Bobbie Gentry.


It was an unconventional, beguiling song with sparse production and no discernible chorus. Bobbie Gentry was one of the first female musicians who wrote, produced and even published her own music. She went on to become one of the most iconic and influential artists of the 1960s and ‘70s, only to disappear from the public eye completely in 1982, never to return.


This beautifully presented, career-spanning, deluxe eight-CD box set features seven remastered studio albums, plus a wealth of rarities. It includes a whopping 75 never before released recordings and live tracks taken from her BBC television series, plus an 84-page booklet, rare and unseen photos, postcards and a facsimile of her original handwritten lyrics for Ode To Billie Joe.


However, the question remains, “Whatever happened to Bobbie Gentry?” Her disappearance intrigues us as much as what was thrown from that Tallahatchie Bridge.


DON’T MISS BEV BEVAN LIVE With Quill - Friday November 9th at Kidderminster


Town Hall; Saturday / Sunday December 15th/16th at Admaston Village Hall, Staffordshire.


With “B’ham Rock History” on Saturday November 24th at Dorridge Cricket Club


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