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The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie is a compilation album taken from her first six albums with Vanguard Records, released in 1970. History. Issued as a double-LP set after the financial disaster of Illuminations, the album contains material from all her previous albums but not one track unavailable elsewhere at the time of its release.
No.TitleOriginal AlbumLength1."Soulful Shade of Blue"2:142."Summer Boy"2:393.2:154."Better to Find Out for Yourself"2:12Dec 10, 2020 · Share your videos with friends, family, and the world
- Up Where We Belong
- I’m Gonna Be A Country Girl Again
- God Is Alive, Magic Is Afoot
- Hey Little Rockabye
- Starwalker
- Now That The Buffalo’s Gone
- Cod’Ine
- Winter Boy
- Universal Soldier
- The Vampire
This is the most well-known entry in our list of top 10 Buffy Sainte-Marie songs. She wrote this with Jack Nitzsche and Will Jennings. Recorded as a duet by Joe Coker and Jennifer Warnes, it first appeared on the soundtrack of the hit 1982 movie An Officer and a Gentleman. It earned her an Oscar for Best Original Song. Although a massive hit, hard ...
This is an unusual love song, since Buffy isn’t singing to a lover but to the countryside. It’s very Nashville with steel guitars, background singers on the chorus and references to an old dog. She’s been unfaithful to her beloved countryside by living in the city for a while and going to college, but she’s back and the countryside has forgiven her...
Being Canadian, Buffy was quite active in the Canadian art scene in the 1960s. When she read a poem by then little-known guy named Leonard Cohen, she was inspired to put a tune to the words. She has since said that this was the easiest song she ever wrote. The song mainly consists of just Buffy and her guitar, it’s bookended by vocal distortions fr...
This is also a love song, but it’s about the love between a person and the puppy that she adopts from a shelter. Not only is this a toe-tapping little tune with a classy arrangement, but also features some of the rhythms and “hey hey” calls used in Native American music and some from Buffy’s older tunes based on Native American music. This is argua...
Although best known for quieter songs, Buffy certainly can rock. She does in this song, mixing Native American imagery and traditional vocalizations with a hard-rock arrangement. We get a brief, tantalizing glimpse at a few characters, including Starwalker, who “don’t drink no wine.” This first appeared on her 1992 comeback album, Coincidences and ...
Buffy’s well-known for her songs about the mistreatment of Native Americans. The first track on her very first album was just such a song. Some of those songs meander and some are repetitive. This is her best protest song since it gets to the point without being too heavy-handed. It’s just her and her guitar and a whole history of wrong-doing. Sadl...
This song is known under a variety of spellings, but this is the original. Janis Joplin’s version is better known, but Buffy holds her own in retelling a drug addict’s pain. Although hooked on codeine, she’s still proud that she never became an alcoholic. It’s that little moment of painting a complete character portrait in a few lyrics makes this r...
Both eerie and sweet, this little song is about a lonely woman making friends with a young boy, or adopting a boy. It’s a little vague, which all good poetry is. It’s just her and the guitar and a very powerful set of lyrics set to an unconventional melody without a chorus. The guitar is played as gently as snowfall. Buffy wrote another song called...
Arguably one of the best anti-war songs ever written during an era of jaw-dropping protest songs, Buffy describes just about every type of soldier there is – and then lets us know that it’s not the Universal Soldier’s fault that war happens. Although it’s an indictment of the listener and the singer herself, it also contains a note of hope. If we a...
There is a lot going in on in this little song, just over two minutes long. If it wasn’t for the title, you would think this was about a woman who fell in love with a tall, old and abusive man. There are no vampire stereotypes here, with the sole exception of when she looks into his eyes, “no reflection came.” This is a tight piece of both storytel...
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Enjoy the best of Buffy Sainte-Marie, a folk music legend and activist, with this YouTube playlist of her most popular and influential songs.
The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie by Buffy Sainte-Marie released in 1970. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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Nov 18, 2022 · November 18, 2022 | Chris Wilson. Check out our playlist inspired by American Masters – Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On and learn more about the songs that have defined Sainte-Marie’s...
