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Buffy Sainte-Marie

Buffy Sainte-Marie: Running for the Drum (Review)
2 months ago

She’s not content to be a Native American artist, protest singer, sensitive songwriter, jazz chanteuse, rock and roller, etc. She wants to do it all.

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Quests . . . sales & returns
over 2 years ago

Sometimes buying music becomes like big game hunting. You know what you want, you know roughly where you'll find it, you just have to track it down and catch it. 2 years I've been chasing this album and yesterday I finally stumbled across it. It all came from being put on hold by a bank a couple of years back, aside from the usual selection of Enya & South American nose flute music they kept pl...

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A CELEBRATION OF SORTS................Down At The Y On Saturday Nights
about 1 month ago

...The tale is often told of Christopher Columbus,. We learned as Children that he discovered America. Hmmmmmmmmmm.......Its become trendy of late to shed a tear for the "indian people".

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SHOUTING THE BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM
4 months ago

....We here in the U. S. of A. begin our celebration of Freedom today. We make a very big thing out of The Fourth Of July, with parades & Fireworks & Barb-b-ques & cookouts & what-not. We here in Rhode Island we have whats said to be the oldest fourth of july parade in the country. I've never seen it. Never had the desire. Even as a child, when the family went (if they did) i didn't, there...

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OH SOLDIER BLUE, CAN'T YOU SEE THAT THERE'S ANOTHER WAY TO LOVE HER
about 1 year ago
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I have posted this song before, perhaps last Columbus Day. Whatever. This song touches us all, I think. That line..... Oh, soldier Blue, Soldier Blue, Can't you see that there's another way to love her?" Says so very much. The cavalry, the burned villages, the rapes, the desctruction, the tired sick souls of all involved.

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Goin' Up To Cripple Creek.
10 months ago

(goin' up to) Cripple Creek is another song with roots that get lost in the fog of antiquity. Recorded versions of this song date to the early twenties, usually as a string band arrangement. Indeed its a staple of bluegrass music to this day. Here Buffy Sainte Marie sings it accompanied by what may be the second oldest known musical instrument. Across the world across the millenia various c...

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A LITTLE SONG FOR CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
over 2 years ago

This this is my countryYoung and growingFree and flowing sea to sea.Yes this is my countryRipe and bearing miraclesIn every pond and tree.Her spirit walks the high countryGiving free wild samplesAnd setting examples how to liveYes this is my country Retching and turningshe's like a baby learning how to live.Soldier Blue can't you see her life has just begun?Its beating inside usTelling us she's...

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