The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie Vol. 2 was a compilation

Compilation album

A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

 double album

Album

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 released by 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...

 in 1971 covering a large proportion of the material she had released on her first six albums for the label that was not found on the previous year's The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie

The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie

The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie is a compilation album taken from her first six albums with Vanguard Records. Originally issued as a double-LP set after the financial disaster of Illuminations, the album contains material from all her previous albums but curiously not one track unavailable elsewhere...

.

Unlike her other first compilation, The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie Vol. 2 does contain two tracks that were never released on any album - "Gonna Feel Much Better When You're Gone", which was never otherwise released, and "From the Bottom of My Heart", which was available on the "I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again" single that was charting in the UK

UK Singles Chart

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 at the time.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Buffy Sainte-Marie except where indicated.

1. "It's My Way"¹ - 3:34
2. "He's a Pretty Good Man If You Ask Me"⁵ - 2:28
3. "Hey Little Bird"⁴ - 2:13
4. "Song to a Seagull"⁴ (Joni Mitchell
   Joni Mitchell
   Joni Mitchell, CC is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Saskatchewan and Western Canada and then busking in the streets and dives of Toronto...
   
   ) - 3:22
5. "Adam"⁶ (Richie Havens
   Richie Havens
   Richard P. "Richie" Havens is an African American folk singer and guitarist. He is best known for his intense, rhythmic guitar style , soulful covers of pop and folk songs, and his opening performance at the 1969 Woodstock Festival.-Career:Born in Brooklyn, Havens was the eldest of nine children...
   
   ) - 5:05
6. "Mary"⁶ - 1:32
7. "He Lived Alone in Town"¹ - 4:41
8. "Johnny Be Fair"² - 1:49
9. "Reynardine" [A Vampire Legend]⁴ (Traditional) - 2:59
10. "Gonna Feel Much Better When You're Gone"⁸ - 1:49
11. "Tall Trees in Georgia"⁵ - 3:33
12. "The Carousel"⁴ - 2:33
13. "Poppies"⁶ - 2:51
14. "From the Bottom of My Heart"⁷ - 2:34
15. "Lyke Wake Dirge"⁴ (Benjamin Britten
    Benjamin Britten
    Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He showed talent from an early age, and first came to public attention with the a cappella choral work A Boy Was Born in 1934. With the premiere of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945, he leapt to...
    
    /Traditional) - 3:48
16. "Welcome, Welcome Emigrante"² - 2:16
17. "Eyes of Amber"¹ - 2:20
18. "Babe in Arms"¹ - 2:33
19. "Ananias"¹ - 2:40
20. "97 Men in This Here Town"/"Don't Call Me Honey"⁸ - 3:06
21. "Uncle Joe"⁵ (Traditional) - 2:11
22. "T'Es Pas un Autre" ("Until It's Time for You to Go
    Until It's Time for You to Go
    "Until It's Time for You to Go" is a song from the 1965 album Many a Mile by Canadian First Nations singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie. It was never released by her as a single, but was a UK Top 20 hit for British group The Four Pennies in 1965, and for Elvis Presley in 1972, and a US Hot 100...
    
    ")⁴ - 2:57
23. "The Seeds of Brotherhood"⁴ - 1:29
24. "The Angel"⁶ (Ed Freeman
    Ed Freeman
    Ed W. "Too Tall" Freeman was a United States Army helicopter pilot who received the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in the Battle of Ia Drang during the Vietnam War...
    
    ) - 3:25

• ¹ - From It's My Way!
• ² - From Many a Mile
• ³ - From Little Wheel Spin and Spin
• ⁴ - From Fire & Fleet & Candlelight
• ⁵ - From I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again
• ⁶ - From Illuminations
• ⁷ - Unavailable on album; B-side of single "I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again"
• ⁸ - Previously unreleased