The musical score was composed by a legendary three-time Oscar winner.

It’s been 50 years since the movie Ode to Billy Joe was released. The drama film directed by Max Baer Jr. made its nationwide ...

The lyric is clean and iconic, especially in the Deep South and, most of all, in Mississippi. For those of a certain ...

Bobbie Gentry released “Ode To Billie Joe” in 1967. The song is a chilling evocation of the darker corners of small-town life, brought to vivid life by Gentry’s lived-in performance. It deserved its ...

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TUPELO • Bobbie Gentry was the darling of the 1967 Grammys, winning three awards behind the strength of her breakthrough single, “Ode to Billie Joe.” Gentry, the singer/songwriter from Chickasaw ...

The lyric is clean and iconic, especially in the Deep South and, most of all, in Mississippi. For those of a certain generation, it instantly evokes a time, a place ...