I had a preview copy to play but decided to buy the full set, searched around the net and picked up a copy for a fraction over £40. Now that's what I call a bargain.

kevin J Carden posted:

Santa’s bringing me this on Vinyl..

..pure punt based on Kevin-W’s heartfelt advocacy.

Fingers crossed I share your enthusiasm Kev!

Kevin, for what its worth I fully back and endorse Kevin-W's views on this super album. Your next request to santa might perhaps be her new absolutely wonderful sounding and beautifully presented eight CD box set collection "The Girl From Chickasaw County - The Complete Capitol Masters" 

I’ve just bought this as a download from Qobuz and have spent a couple of hours sorting out the metadata and listening to some of the tracks on the Qb. I replaced the box set cover with the original albums. The Bobbie Gentry website has really nice versions in the supporting material for the box set, just the right size and much better than you will find using Google. 

And of course I meant to say that it’s a wonderful set. Some of the extra material, demos and so on, is just brilliant. 

On February 8th next year, Bella Union Records are going to release a new album by Mercury Rev,  Bobbie Gentry's The Delta Sweete Revisited which is "a reimagining of Bobbie Gentry’s forgotten masterpiece and features an incredible cast list of guest vocalists including Norah Jones, Hope Sandoval, Beth Orton, Lucinda Williams, Rachel Goswell, Vashti Bunyan, Marissa Nadler, Susanne Sundfør, Phoebe Bridgers, Margo Price, Kaela Sinclair, Carice Van Houten and Laetitia Sadier"

Earlier today the band posted a vid for "Sermon", with Margo Price on vocals. Pretty good.

Full details here:

http://bellaunion.com/2018/11/...ta-sweete-revisited/

Kevin-W posted:

On February 8th next year, Bella Union Records are going to release a new album by Mercury Rev,  Bobbie Gentry's The Delta Sweete Revisited which is "a reimagining of Bobbie Gentry’s forgotten masterpiece and features an incredible cast list of guest vocalists including Norah Jones, Hope Sandoval, Beth Orton, Lucinda Williams, Rachel Goswell, Vashti Bunyan, Marissa Nadler, Susanne Sundfør, Phoebe Bridgers, Margo Price, Kaela Sinclair, Carice Van Houten and Laetitia Sadier"

Earlier today the band posted a vid for "Sermon", with Margo Price on vocals. Pretty good.

 

Full details here:

http://bellaunion.com/2018/11/...ta-sweete-revisited/

That's a good heads up thanks, Kev. 

I'm just working through the Bobbie Gentry box set and Delta Sweete is a masterpiece not only in terms of BG's songwriting (Mornin' Glory is a classic) but the original production and the superb reproduction of the album and extras by Andrew Batt. If everything was this good in 16bit we wouldn't need Hi-Res.

Just a stunning set, beautifully packaged and presented. Plus the wonderful news above of Mercurey Rev's Revisit with a great bunch of vocalists.

It is strange that Bobbie Gentry is not up there with singer songwriters like Joni Mitchel and Carole King, maybe the fact that she trod a country path or the slip into prosaic covers on the later albums.

@Kevin-W if you bump into Andrew then please tell him he has worked wonders with this set, given the plethora of box sets around at the moment this stands out as a great example of how an artist should be respected. I'll watch with interest what he does next.

Oh and I just love that 'mini' Martin 5-18 guitar she plays.

I notice that this set got the Reissue of the Year gong in Mojo magazine. Well deserved, too - it beats even the White Album deluxe box