Bobbie Gentry's The Delta Sweete Revisited

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Bobbie Gentry's The Delta Sweete Revisited
Studio album by
Mercury Rev
ReleasedFebruary 8, 2019 (2019-02-08)
Genre Gothic country [1]
Length42:42
Label Partisan
Producer Mercury Rev
Mercury Rev chronology
The Light in You
(2015)		Bobbie Gentry's The Delta Sweete Revisited
(2019)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 73/100 [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
American Songwriter Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Consequence of Sound B- [5]
Drowned in Sound 7/10 [6]
MusicOMH Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]

Bobbie Gentry's The Delta Sweete Revisited is an album by American rock band Mercury Rev. The album, which is a re-imagining of Bobbie Gentry's 1968 album The Delta Sweete , was released on February 8, 2019 through Partisan Records. [8] Song-by-song cover version of the album with "Louisiana Man" replaced by "Ode to Billie Joe".

Contents

Track listing

All tracks are written by Bobbie Gentry, except where noted..

No.TitleWriter(s)Featured artist(s)Length
1."Okolona River Bottom Band"  Norah Jones 4:36
2."Big Boss Man"
 Hope Sandoval 3:24
3."Reunion"  Rachel Goswell 2:21
4."Parchman Farm" Mose Allison Carice van Houten 3:47
5."Mornin' Glory"  Laetitia Sadier 3:22
6."Sermon"  Margo Price 4:31
7."Tobacco Road" John D. Loudermilk Susanne Sundfør 2:51
8."Penduli Pendulum"  Vashti Bunyan and Kaela Sinclair 3:10
9."Jesseye' Lisabeth"  Phoebe Bridgers 3:04
10."Refractions"  Marissa Nadler 2:28
11."Courtyard"  Beth Orton 3:31
12."Ode to Billie Joe"  Lucinda Williams 5:37

Personnel

Mercury Rev

Charts

ChartPeak
position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [9] 51
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [10] 90
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [11] 139
French Albums (SNEP) [12] 184
Scottish Albums (OCC) [13] 9
UK Albums (OCC) [14] 32
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [15] 1
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard) [16] 2
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [17] 13

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