Released May 1971 Producer Bobbie Gentry Patchwork
(1971) Sittin' Pretty
(1971) Release date May 1971 Genre Country music | Length 47:18 Bobbie Gentry Portrait
(1970) Patchwork
(1971) Artist Bobbie Gentry Label Parlophone Catalogue | |
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Recorded February 1970
May 19, 1970
April 13, 1971
Hollywood Sound Studios,
Hollywood, CA Similar Fancy, Ode to Billie Joe, Local Gentry, Touch 'Em with Love, The Delta Sweete | ||
Bobbie gentry benjamin 1971
Patchwork is Bobbie Gentry's sixth and final album, released in 1971. The first of four albums released that year, although the only album of new material as the other releases that same year were retitled reissues of earlier albums, Patchwork was also written and produced by her with John Guess engineering. Larry Muhoberac was credited with interlude arrangements; George Tipton arranged "Belinda" and "Your Number One Fan", Jerry Toth arranged "Billy the Kid" and "Miss Clara/Azusa Sue" was arranged by John Cameron.
Contents
Track listing
All tracks composed by Bobbie Gentry
Side one
- "Benjamin"
- "Interlude 1"
- "Marigolds and Tangerines"
- "Interlude 2"
- "Billy the Kid"
- "Interlude 3"
- "Beverly"
- "Interlude 4"
Side two
- "Miss Clara/Azusa Sue"
- "Interlude 5"
- "But I Can't Get Back"
- "Jeremiah"
- "Interlude 6"
- "Belinda"
- "Mean Stepmama Blues"
- "Your Number One Fan"
- "Interlude 7"
- "Somebody Like Me"
- "Lookin' In"
Cover art
The original cover art for the album is an uncredited painting of Gentry. According to the liner notes for the 2004 compilation Chickasaw County Child, the painting, along with the one on the cover of the previous album, Fancy, is believed to have been done by Gentry herself.
Songs
1Benjamin3:44
2Interlude 10:41
3Marigolds And Tangerines2:07