Buffy (album)
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Buffy was the tenth album by Buffy Sainte-Marie
and her first after leaving Vanguard Records
, with whom her relationship had been strained for several albums.
Despite being on a different label from its predecessor Quiet Places
, Buffy was recorded with essentially the same personnel in Norbert Putnam on bass
, David Briggs
on keyboards, Kenny Malone
on drums and the Memphis Horns. Together, these gave a sound far removed from her initial folk roots and much closer to ordinary rock
. Indeed, Buffy was recorded at much the same time and place as Quiet Places and no label took it up until her last Vanguard recordings had been released.
Despite Buffy commanding a high price tag upon completion, MCA did little to promote it. Very few music magazines ever bothered to review it and Buffy was out of print
as early as 1978. It has never been reissued independently since then and was only rereleased in 2008 with Changing Woman
and Sweet America
.
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Buffy Sainte-Marie, OC is a Canadian Cree singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, educator, pacifist, and social activist. Throughout her career in all of these areas, her work has focused on issues of Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Her singing and writing repertoire includes...
and her first after leaving Vanguard Records
Vanguard Records
Vanguard Records is a record label set up in 1950 by brothers Maynard and Seymour Solomon in New York. It started as a classical label, but is perhaps best known for its catalogue of recordings by a number of pivotal folk and blues artists from the 1960s; the Bach Guild was a subsidiary...
, with whom her relationship had been strained for several albums.
Despite being on a different label from its predecessor Quiet Places
Quiet Places
Quiet Places was Buffy Sainte-Marie's ninth album and her last for Vanguard Records, with whom she had had a very strained relationship ever since the financial disaster of the experimental Illuminations...
, Buffy was recorded with essentially the same personnel in Norbert Putnam on bass
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, David Briggs
David Briggs (American musician)
David Briggs is an American keyboardist, record producer, arranger, composer and studio owner....
on keyboards, Kenny Malone
Kenny Malone
Kenny Malone is an American drummer/percussionist from Nashville, Tennessee. He has been, since the 1970s, and continues to be a prominent session musician in folk, country and many other acoustic-based genres.-References:...
on drums and the Memphis Horns. Together, these gave a sound far removed from her initial folk roots and much closer to ordinary rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
. Indeed, Buffy was recorded at much the same time and place as Quiet Places and no label took it up until her last Vanguard recordings had been released.
Despite Buffy commanding a high price tag upon completion, MCA did little to promote it. Very few music magazines ever bothered to review it and Buffy was out of print
Out of print
Out of print refers to an item, typically a book , but can include any print or visual media or sound recording, that is in the state of no longer being published....
as early as 1978. It has never been reissued independently since then and was only rereleased in 2008 with Changing Woman
Changing Woman
Changing Woman was Buffy Sainte-Marie's eleventh studio album and her second and last for MCA Records.Whereas her other MCA album, Buffy had been a continuation of the style of her last Vanguard albums, She Used to Wanna Be a Ballerina, Moonshot and Quiet Places, Changing Woman was a return to...
and Sweet America
Sweet America
Sweet America was the twelfth studio album by Buffy Sainte-Marie and her last before retiring from music to work on Sesame Street and in education...
.
Track listing
All songs written by Buffy Sainte-Marie unless otherwise noted.- "Can't Believe the Feeling When You're Gone" - 3:05
- "I've Really Fallen for You" - 3:01
- "Sweet Little Vera" - 4:53
- "Star Boy" - 5:21
- "Sweet, Fast Hooker Blues" - 2:08
- "Generation" - 3:00
- "Hey! Baby Howdja Do Me This Way?" - 3:44
- "I Can't Take It No More" (Norbert PutnamNorbert PutnamNorbert Putnam is an American record producer and musician. He grew up near Florence, Alabama and was part of the Muscle Shoals musicians brought to Nashville to play for Elvis Presley in 1965. Putnam worked there as a bassist on recording sessions with Presley, Roy Orbison, Al Hirt, Henry...
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) - 3:06 - "Waves" - 3:21
- "That's the Way You Fall in Love" - 2:51