Mercury Rev – Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweete Revisited (Bella Union) LP

Product Description

‘Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweete Revisited’ is Mercury Rev’s committed and affectionate resurrection of an album that anticipated by three decades their own pivotal expedition through
transcendental America, 1998’s ‘Deserter’s Songs’.

From their recording lair in New York’s Catskill Mountains, the founding core of Jonathan
Donahue and Grasshopper with Jesse Chandler (previously in the Texas group Midlake) honour Gentry’s foresight and creative triumph with spacious invention and hallucinatory flair.

Gentry’s stories and original resolve are brought to new vocal life and empowerment by a vocal cast from across modern rock and its alternative paths: among them, Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval; Laetitia Sadier, formerly of Stereolab; Marissa Nadler; Margo Price, the fiery new country star with a punk rock heart; and Norway’s Susanne Sundfør, who cuts through ‘Tobacco Road’ with arctic-Nico poise. Phoebe Bridgers, whose first record was a softly stunning 2015 single for Ryan Adams’ PAX AM label, hovers through the acid-western suspense of Gentry’s ‘Jessye Lisabeth’ with floating calm, like a comforting angel.

FORMAT: 180g vinyl format includes digital download coupon.

Tracklist:

Okolona River Bottom Band ft. Norah Jones
Big Boss Man ft. Hope Sandoval
Reunion ft. Rachel Goswell
Parchman Farm ft. Carice van Houten
Mornin’ Glory ft. Laetitia Sadier
Sermon ft. Margo Price
Tobacco Road ft. Susanne Sundfør
Penduli Pendulum ft. Vashti Bunyan with Kaela Sinclair
Jessye Lisabeth ft. Phoebe Bridgers
Refractions ft. Marissa Nadler
Courtyard ft. Beth Orton
Ode To Billie Joe ft. Lucinda Williams

Bella Union BELLA852V