Line Out - Comments on Ode to "Ode to Billie Joe" http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/09/ode_to_ode_to_billy_joe Bobbie Gentry’s 1967 “Ode to Billie Joe” tells the story of a man who apparently commits suicide by jumping off the Tallahatchie Bridge. Gentry’s delivery is stern and haunting. There are chills.I think it is one of the greatest songs... Copyright 2008 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:53:46 -0800 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:56:22 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by terry miller i thought it was becasue he was gay.

]]> terry miller http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/09/ode_to_ode_to_billy_joe#c812438 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/09/ode_to_ode_to_billy_joe#c812438 Sound Check Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:50:17 -0800 Comment by trent moorman Hey Terry!

in 1976, Warner Bros. got someone to adapt it into a novel and screenplay, Ode to Billy Joe. Notice different spelling.

It's in the novel and screenplay where Billy Joe is gay, and kills himself after a drunken homosexual experience, and the object thrown from the bridge is the narrator's ragdoll.

]]> trent moorman http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/09/ode_to_ode_to_billy_joe#c812545 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/09/ode_to_ode_to_billy_joe#c812545 Sound Check Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:54:31 -0800 Comment by McGraw I'm scared of those people sitting at the table in the video. The thing I like about this song is the dialogue. It sounds just like a real conversation around a country dinner table.

]]> McGraw http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/09/ode_to_ode_to_billy_joe#c812680 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/09/ode_to_ode_to_billy_joe#c812680 Sound Check Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:42:58 -0800 Comment by bosch It is an amazing song. T, had no idea you liked it too. I've wanted to cover it in some way for a long time, but it's one of those tunes that
would be hard/impossible to do justice to. It's so unique to bobbie gentry and her voice. maybe it's a southern thang.

]]> bosch http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/09/ode_to_ode_to_billy_joe#c812761 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/09/ode_to_ode_to_billy_joe#c812761 Sound Check Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:15:10 -0800 Comment by Tante Country music is amazing. Jerry Garcie was really a country and western band with love, life and heart break spilling out across the mic. Crossover American idol country is pop gone layered bad, but Billie Joe and and the bluegrass now folkgrass and catch Laura Love's newCD called Negrass....you can update the bridge tossing expereince as much as you want.....from the Banjo picking blue ridge,
Tante

]]> Tante http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/09/ode_to_ode_to_billy_joe#c812911 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/09/ode_to_ode_to_billy_joe#c812911 Sound Check Thu, 27 Sep 2007 06:22:07 -0800 Comment by Chris Spine-tingling tune. Always has been. Always will be. Today's bands should think more about performing something that people will listen to forever, like OTBJ.

]]> Chris http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/09/ode_to_ode_to_billy_joe#c812917 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/09/ode_to_ode_to_billy_joe#c812917 Sound Check Thu, 27 Sep 2007 06:59:52 -0800 Comment by nipper I've liked her LPs in general, three on Capitol, not sure how many more she did, better than her claim to fame OtBJ...they're not so country as well written late '60s pop.

]]> nipper http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/09/ode_to_ode_to_billy_joe#c813345 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/09/ode_to_ode_to_billy_joe#c813345 Sound Check Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:56:22 -0800