A slower, sadder take

on Bobbie Gentry’s classic…

another “Ode to Billie Joe”

by Margaret Leslie “Molly” Johnson (b. 1959)

…oh my, sweet teen love, no need to hurry…

Molly Johnson calls herself a jazz singer…she’s a lot more than that.

She’s my new fave (OK, I’m a bit late to the party), a while ago I heard her version of “Ode to Billie Joe” and I’m hooked, it’s on her “Lucky” release.

Now, Bobbie Gentry’s original 1967 cut is real good, too, but it has a driving element that rushes your heart to the climax and then leaves you sort of without words…

I think you’ll agree with me that Molly’s offering is slower, wistful, sadder, filled with sweet teen love and the raw silence of a breaking heart, and it fills your mind and heart with words…

…you know the Tallahatchie Bridge is a lonely place.

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Book review: The Snow Goose

…sensual drama, eminently poetic…

by Paul Gallico

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Seeing far: Selected poems with 47 free verse and haiku poems,

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