Back to Chickasaw Land: Bobbie Gentry left Mississippi, but it never left her
by Tara Murtha
The first sound on Bobbie Gentry’s 1968 album The Delta Sweete is a single steel string plucked so hard the vibration buzzes into the microphone like a mosquito zipping too close to an eardrum. Gentry sings, “La la la la la” and then higher, with a