Beth Orton 'Bobby Gentry'

Beth Orton, the comedown queen. I've got bits and bobs by her-Trailor Park because of the Weatherall productions and She Cries Your Name, some songs she did with Johnny Marr, the Two Lone Swordsmen remixes, and The Other Side Of Daybreak, an album of off-cuts, remixes and extras from Daybreak. This was on it and it's stunning. Starts out with lovely acoustic guitar, great husky vocals, and at the first chorus these beautiful swooping strings come in, and stay throughout the next 4 minutes. It also contains a brilliant line in the second verse- 'Collecting dead rainbows from puddles and mires, and taking them home to warm by the fire', which is a bit hippyish but hits me every time. No idea why it's called Bobby Gentry but it adds to the overall brilliance of this track.

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