Thursday, November 26, 2009 : In a Democracy Now! special, an hour of conversation and music with Cree Indian singer-songwriter BuffySainte-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...
Ghost Dancers Cree Indian folksinger BuffySainte-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...
Interesting interview with the singer-songwriter. Excerpt from link: AMY GOODMAN: And when did you discover music as a way to express yourself? BUFFYSAINTE-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...
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...
The Cree Indian folksinger BuffySainte-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...
... satire. The flip is one of the best things the Byrds ever did, a dark but hopeful Crosby ballad. BUFFYSAINTE-MARIE – Soldier Blue / Moratorium (RCA 2081 1971) Ralph Nelson’s 1970 western Soldier Blue was unlike any other before it. Shockingly violent and, for once, the good guys were definitely not the US Cavalry. Based on a true massacre that happened in 1864, it was also...
... a thing than an thing. Although the two sort of unite right between Underworld (track three) and BuffySainte-Marie (track six). Download it . Name:Email:URL: Remember personal info? Comments (you may use HTML tags for style): Comments may not show up immediately after submission. Please wait a minute after posting a comment for it to appear.All reader comments are subject...
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 – BuffySainteMarie 5. Black Boys on Mopeds – Sinead O’Connor 6. Laughter [...]
A little Sesame Street old school love for you today. Here’s BuffySainte-Marie (and Fred the Wonder Horse) with “Cripple Creek.” Sesame Street – Cripple Creek
