For many country music fans, it's hard to imagine anyone other than Reba McEntire singing "Fancy." The dramatic story song has become so closely associated with McEntire, 71, that it's often ...

In Hamlet, William Shakespeare’s 17th century drama about the tragic Prince of Demark, Polonius utters the memorable line, “To thine own self be true.” Four hundred year later, those words continue to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reba McEntire's 1991 hit became a career-defining anthem, a "rags to riches" tale with a twist that captivated fans. But the story of "Fancy" is more than just a song—it's a portrait of a woman ...

Fifty-one years ago this month, Capitol Records released the debut single by Mississippi-born singer-songwriter Bobbie Gentry. Now, for the first time, all seven of Gentry’s studio albums will be ...

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 ...