Monroe Jones on Instagram: "In the summer of 1967, as pop chased psychedelia, Bobbie Gentry quietly dropped a five-minute Southern ghost story that stopped America cold. “Ode to Billie Joe” crept in like a rumor, carried on a spare acoustic guitar and a voice that sounded like it had lived every mile of Mississippi dirt road it described. Gentry, raised in rural Mississippi, landed in Palm Springs when her mother divorced, then UCLA, where she was classically trained. Scraping by in L.A., she’d