Next to today's Neko Case, I'd have to say Bobby Gentry has be the sexiest voice in the Country section (Alternative or otherwise). Massively underated, she's much more than an "Ode To Billie Joe"
Song "Mississippi Delta"
M I double-S I double-S I double-P I
M I double-S I double-S I double-P I

Right in the middle of the cotton belt
Down in the Mississippi Delta
Wearin' last years possum belt
Smack dab in the Mississippi Delta

Have me a little that Johnny cake
A little bit of that apple pan dowdy
Pickin' them scuppernongs off that vine
Chigger bite, it's goin' to beat howdy

Ate me a bucket of Muscadine
Sit on the riverbank after dark
Droppin' my line down a crawdad hole
Do him in with a scaly bark

One-ree-o-ree-ee-ree-ann
Fidderliss-farce-nickory-john-queery-kwan

M I double-S I double-S I double-P I
M I double-S I double-S I double-P I

Right in the middle of the cotton belt
Down in the Mississippi Delta
Wearin' last years possum belt
Smack dab in the Mississippi Delta

Sittin and scratchin' mosquito bites
Old fox done give him the slip
Watchin' the mornin' glories grow
In Biloxi on an overnight trip

I bet five dollars to win two bits
Eat a peppermint stick on Sunday
Ain't no use in a hurrying up
Can't leave till a week from Monday

One-ree-o-ree-ee-ree-ann
Fidderliss-farce-nickory-john-queery-kwan

In the Mississippi Delta
Miss-siss-siss-s-sippi Delta ....


b-side of 'Ode To Billie Joe'