Thursday, November 26, 2009 : In a Democracy Now! special, an hour of conversation and music with Cree Indian singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie. In the turbulent 1960s, she was just out of college but already famous for her beautiful voice and moving lyrics in songs like "Universal Soldier" and "Now that the Buffalo's Gone." Over the years, Buffy Sainte-Marie has worked with...
Ghost Dancers Cree Indian folksinger Buffy Sainte-Marie has a new album, Running for the Drum . She has not stopped singing for justice. Here is "No No Keshagesh." As I read at Meteor Blades' post : The lead song is called "No No Keshagesh." In her native tongue, Keshagesh means "greedy guts." "It's what you call a little puppy who eats his own and then wants everybody...
The Cree Indian folksinger Buffy Sainte-Marie has often complained that too many people saw her as Pocahontas with a guitar. She's anything but. Her career, which began in the early 1960s at beatnik coffeehouses in Canada and the United States, has been marked by political controversy, drug addiction and numerous hiatuses. This year she broke her most recent 13-year-long pause with a new album, her...
Interesting interview with the singer-songwriter. Excerpt from link: AMY GOODMAN: And when did you discover music as a way to express yourself? BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE: I think I was about three. I mean, it’s my earliest memory of music. And I saw a piano. And I didn’t play Barbies, and I didn’t play sports. I played art. I made pictures, and I danced, and I listened to music, and I played...
Here’s the latest batch of Music Musings and Miscellany’s unapologetically subjective selection of the twentieth century’s best 1000 singles. THE BYRDS – So You Want to Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star / Everybody’s Been Burned (Columbia 43987 1967) They had a bit of a nerve poking fun at the Monkees when just a couple of [...]
Courtesy of the always excellent No Conclusion blog. The theme is "music that inspires my solo music by process and intent. This is the kind of stuff I listen to when my inspiration well is...
I will make playlists for you! Here’s the first, just click the picture or here. Song list for those who don’t use spotify. 1. Buy Nothing Day – Chumbawamba 2. Big Yellow Taxi – Joni Mitchell 3. Cash – Patti Smith 4. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee – Buffy Sainte Marie 5. Black Boys on Mopeds – Sinead O’Connor 6. Laughter [...]
Little Wheel Spin and Spin, Big Wheel Turn Around and Around I adored this voice when I first heard her version of the magnificent Lyke Wake Dirge. But she's not doing it on YouTube so this is the next best thing. It sends shivers up my spine. * Back from London. Father in hospital, thin, unshaven, wild looking, and talking a blue streak for almost an hour. One doctor reckons they poisoned him with...
A little Sesame Street old school love for you today. Here’s Buffy Sainte-Marie (and Fred the Wonder Horse) with “Cripple Creek.” Sesame Street – Cripple Creek
WORLD music superstars will rub shoulders with some of Scotland's best-known singers and songwriters when Glasgow hosts the annual Celtic Connections festival in January.
Monday, October 12, 2009 : In Democracy Now! special, an hour of conversation and music with Cree Indian singer-singwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie. In the turbulent 1960s, she was just out of college, but already famous for her beautiful voice and moving lyrics in songs like "Universal Soldier" and "Now that the Buffalo's Gone." We speak with the folk icon about her life, her music,...
Headlines for October 12, 2009; Democracy Now! Special: An Hour of Music and Conversation With Legendary Native-American Singer-Songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie
This year's Pop Montreal seems to have been a big success , with overall reviews popping up all over, plus specific reviews and particular attention to Sufjan Stevens , Os Mutantes , Fever Ray and Buffy Sainte-Marie .
Buffy Sainte-Marie has been raising her voice for social and environmental issues since she shared the coffeehouse stage with the likes of Bob Dylan in the 60’s, and now the musician activist has received four nominations for the upcoming Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards. I’ve been a big fan of the protest songs of the 60’s and while sadly there are only a handful of musicians who...
Videos
