Deluxe Edition 180g Vinyl 2LP Reissue featuring New Stereo Mix Sourced Directly from the Surviving 4-Track and 8-Track Tapes by Producer\/Compiler Andrew Batt Plus 10 Bonus Tracks!
\nBobbie Gentry’s revered 1968 concept album The Delta Sweete gets an expanded reissue! The Deluxe Edition vinyl 2LP-set celebrates the record that was widely considered the finest hour of the enigmatic singer-songwriter and marks its first appearance on the format since 1972. Presented here is a new stereo mix of the album, sourced directly from the surviving four-track and eight-track tapes by producer and compiler Andrew Batt, plus ten bonus tracks, including a previously unreleased original demo of “The Way I Do” and an instrumental version of “Okolona River Bottom Band,” with the great Shorty Rogers on bass trumpet.<\/p>\n
Not even six full months had passed since the release of Gentry’s August 1967 Capitol debut Ode To Billie Joe, which followed its title track to No. 1 in the US, when The Delta Sweete emerged the following February. The atmospheric strings were again orchestrated by Jimmie Haskell, whose arrangement on Ode to Billie Joe won him a Grammy Award. James Burton, the great guitarist who would soon become a key ingredient of Elvis Presley’s TCB Band, was featured alongside the ever-in-demand Hal Blaine on drums.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Delta Sweete (2LP\/Gatefold)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22124,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[3002],"product_cat":[768,713],"product_tag":[810],"class_list":{"0":"post-22123","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_brand-universal-music-group","7":"product_cat-americana-country-folk-singersongwriters","8":"product_cat-pop","9":"product_tag-capitol-records","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"sold-individually","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vinylgrove.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/22123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vinylgrove.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vinylgrove.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vinylgrove.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vinylgrove.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vinylgrove.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=22123"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vinylgrove.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=22123"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vinylgrove.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=22123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}