ARTIST: Buffy Sainte-Marie
TITLE: Fire & Fleet & Candlelight
LABEL: Vanguard Records
GENRE: Folk
SOURCE: CD
BITRATE: 187 kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 37:09
RELEASE DATE: 2004-00-00
RIP DATE: 2008-07-14
Track List
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1. The Seeds Of Brotherhood 1:28
2. Summer Boy 2:40
3. The Circle Game 3:02
4. Lyke Wake Dirge 3:47
5. Song To A Seagull 3:22
6. Doggett's Gap 1:38
7. The Wedding Song 2:18
8. 97 Men In This Here Town Would 3:07
Give A Half A Grand In Silver
Just To Follow Me Down
9. Lord Randall 3:30
10. The Carousel 2:33
11. T'es Pas Un Autre 2:56
12. Little Boy Dark Eyes 1:38
13. Reynardine - A Vampire Legend 2:57
14. Hey, Little Bird 2:13
Release Notes:
Buffy Sainte-Marie was a graduating college senior in 1962 and hit the ground
running in the early the Sixties, after the beatniks and before the hippies. All
alone she toured North America's colleges, reservations and concert halls,
meeting both huge acclaim and huge misperception from audiences and record
companies who expected Pocahontas in fringes, and instead were both entertained
and educated with their initial dose of Native American reality in the first
person.
By age 24, Buffy Sainte-Marie had appeared all over Europe, Canada, Australia
and Asia, receiving honors, medals and awards which continue to this day. Her
song "Until It's Time for You to Go" was recorded by Elvis and Barbra and Cher,
and her "Universal Soldier" became the anthem of the peace movement. For her
very first album she was voted Billboard's Best New Artist.
She disappeared suddenly from the mainstream American airwaves during the Lyndon
Johnson years. As part of a blacklist which affected Eartha Kitt, Taj Mahal and
a host of other outspoken performers, her name was included on White House
stationery as among those whose music "deserved to be suppressed". In Indian
country and abroad, however, her fame only grew. She continued to appear at
countless grassroots concerts, AIM events and other activist benefits. She made
17 albums of her music, three of her own television specials, spent five years
on Sesame Street, scored movies, helped to found Canada's 'Music of Aboriginal
Canada' JUNO category, raised a son, earned a Ph.D. in Fine Arts, taught Digital
Music as adjunct professor at several colleges, and won an Academy Award Oscar
for the song "Up Where We Belong".
Buffy Sainte-Marie virtually invented the role of Native American international
activist pop star. Her concern for protecting indigenous intellectual property,
and her distaste for the exploitation of Native American artists and performers
has kept her in the forefront of activism in the arts for forty years. Presently
she operates the Nihewan Foundation for Native American Education whose
Cradleboard Teaching Project serves children and teachers in eighteen states.
www.creative-native.com