Bobbie Gentry

Bobbie Gentry was born in 1944, in Mississippi, as Roberta Streeter... She won fame in the country genre, as one of the first women to write much of her own material…It was a step forward for a woman to be a song writer… She was raised on her grandparents’ farm in Chickasaw county, after her parents got divorced. At 13 she moved to live with her mother in California. But she returned to her country Southern roots. In 1960, she graduated High school and began to sing in small country clubs. She went to university and found temporary clerical jobs, but her heart was in singing and song writing. She was a very lovely girl, who also found some work as a model….which helped her eke out a living..She used the stage name Gentry, from a film called Ruby Gentry… In 1967, she wrote her most famous song, “Ode to Billy Joe”, which is a Southern Gothic tale about a girl mourning the death of Billy Joe... who “jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge”. The song is a mystery... we never know why Billy committed suicide, or what he and the girl were doing. It’s about grief and non-communication. It was a chart-topper, but her second album didn’t do so well. However in the late 60’s she had success in the UK and had a TV show. She also performed in Las Vegas… In the 70s, Max Baer directed a film based on Ode to Billy Joe. However in the later 70s, after a successful career and 3 short lived marriages, Bobbie decided to retire from performing. She has business interests, but now lives a private life in Memphis…

Rough Music, story on Amazon

It is the story of a country rock band and its 2 lead singers and how they cope with life on the road.  It’s not a conventional love story, but more a  life story, about marriage, life in the music world and life in the later 1970’s.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rough-Music-Nadine-Sutton-ebook/dp/B01AEQS0G0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1452977780&sr=8-1&keywords=nadine+sutton

Story on Amazon

Beds and Blue Jeans –a  realistic romance about a young man and woman who find they have to get to know each other, after they have got together.   Tey come to learn that love is about learning to compromise, working out the best way to do things and growing to love each other.

http://www.amazon.com/Beds-Blue-Jeans-everyday-mayhem-ebook/dp/B01370SMFO/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1443265304&sr=8-2&keywords=nadine+sutton