Posted on 04/06/2023 1:41:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway
It’s a tense, often unsympathetic portrait of the lack of choice poor women have in America
Gentry had the pipes to be somebody but if she wrote stupid sophomoric shit like Fancy it’s understandable that I only know her for Ode to Billy Joe.
America is full of women who hit hard economics and didn’t go out and whore themselves. I wish at my age I was as well set up economically as my old aunt who lost her 29 year old husband when their child was an infant; back in 1933 no less.
Amen 🙏🏻!!!!
**What did you throw off that bridge Bobbi**
I’ve trucked over a couple of Tallahatchee bridges. Neither looked very dangerous to jump off of into the river, unless it was bank full from heavy rain. Or, if it was normal or lower, jumping in head first could get you a broken neck, like a kid did back around 75 in a similar river in IL near where I lived.
Ah. The briefcase in pulp fiction.
It never sounded like a song about “women’s lib” to me, either.
Gentry told stories with her music, as did many other artists at that time.
Her political statements only show that she was a product of her time.
I guess that line about “never had a lick of sense” was heartfelt and hard won?
Pass the biscuits please
Despise that quotation you pasted.
Again, “in America” things are so bad. Yeah, right - even in 1969 it was pretty good.
Try making statements like that about seriously bad cruel places! Starting with Moslem locations.
Was that about when Loretta Lynn got the pill?
I can assure everyone that none of the above mentioned clowns had any idea what it was like to see a teenage girl lost to prostitution. If they did they could never condone a song or ideology such as this.
Having raised an adopted son who was the child of a prostitute teenage mother and dealing with those things are the most despicable that can be imagined maybe second only to parents who mutilate their children.
Some people have lost their way.
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