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Mercury Rev
- Record Label: PTKF
- Release Date: Feb 8, 2019
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Feb 15, 2019The new recording is by turns lovely, haunting, exciting, and emotive.
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Feb 11, 2019The standout performance comes from country singer Margo Price, who depicts living a life in fear of a vengeful God on the powerful Sermon (“God almighty’s gonna cut you down”). But Williams deserves credit too, for her impassioned take on Ode to Billie Joe, a 1967 US No 1 single drafted in here to replace the original album’s inessential Louisiana Man.
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Feb 8, 2019The arrangements may be cleaner and songs embellished with alternative focuses but it would be hard to claim they don’t have the interests of the originals at heart. Seen as a sensitive collective tribute it’s hard to view it as anything else than a success.
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Feb 8, 2019With its lavish arrangement and Williams' gritty performance, the band find new ways of celebrating one of the great underappreciated artists of the '60s and '70s--something that's true of Bobbie Gentry's the Delta Sweete Revisited as a whole.
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Feb 5, 2019Rev’s somewhat radical interpretation will alert Americana fans to Gentry’s unfairly neglected gem, now ready for a belated rediscovery.
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MojoFeb 4, 2019Rebooted with tender opulence, affectionate awe, and full commitment o a widescreen, almost transcendental experience. [Mar 2019, p.94]
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Feb 4, 2019The album does not aim to recreate arrangements from a half-century prior; the emphasis is on radical reinterpretation, and that mission succeeds.
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Classic Rock MagazineMar 11, 2019Sweete, and then, deliciously soured. [Apr 2019, p.86]
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Feb 12, 2019The Delta Sweete Revisited probably isn’t destined to be anything more than an interesting footnote in the career of anybody involved. But it certainly has something to it: a mood, an ambience, an ethereal sultriness, chilly northern mists turning to hot southern steam.
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UncutFeb 4, 2019Lucinda Williams' version of Gentry's iconic "Ode To Billie Joe" leaves much to be desired but. ... Overall, this one's worth it. [Mar 2019, p.30]
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Feb 11, 2019Some fresh attention on Gentry’s short but blazing career with the help of Mercury Rev and their co-conspirators here is a welcome development. That notion alone helps ease the minor disappointments that this well-meaning tribute serves up and elevates the best work on Delta Sweete Revisited even higher.
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Feb 8, 2019Interesting, often fun, but never essential.
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Q MagazineFeb 4, 2019They carefully remodel Gentry's Southern storytelling. [Mar 2019, p.116]
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Feb 8, 2019Affectionate but misguided tribute that’s nowhere close to satisfying.