Big oops!!!! The subject of a couple of different emails just got smooshed together on that last response. Hence the indecipherable subject line. Sorry about that! (I swear my email provider is haunted!)
> I just went back and listened to Ellen McIlwaine's > version of Ode to Billy Joe. If you have any doubts > about this song, THIS is the version to listen to. It > 's like she took all the sweetener out of the Bobbie > Gentry version and injected a shot of whiskey. Great, > great version - and it doesn't leave you wondering what > they dropped off the bridge so much as just makes you > feel the desperation of the girl who sings the song. > > lots of love > Anne
