If you ask Orville Peck, he'll tell you that there are two original versions of "Fancy": one by Reba McEntire; the other by Bobbie Gentry. Both performers, he says, interpreted the song with uncanny ...

“Fancy” was also one of Gentry’s most political songs, describing it in the mid-1970s as her “strongest statement for women’s lib, if you really listen to it. I agree wholeheartedly with that movement ...

Actor and country music superstar Reba McEntire didn’t realize what a hit she had when she released a cover of Bobbie Gentry’s “Fancy” in 1990. But more than 30 years later, it’s still one of her most ...

Bobbie Gentry doesn't owe Reba McEntire a thing, but it sure would be swell if she let her know she sees her. When McEntire recorded "Fancy" for her Rumor Has It album in 1990, she recorded what would ...

Written by Bobbie Gentry in 1969, “Fancy” is one of those genius songs you run into once in a while and just shake your head, like, wow, another human being composed that. The song, which is about a ...

Bobbie Gentry is one of the great legends of 1960s popular music, an artist who debuted with an enigmatic, enduring smash hit who then cultivated an idiosyncratic country-pop crossover sound for a few ...