Buffy Sainte-Marie - The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie
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Free Music Notes for The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie
Free Music Review: A voice of America
Hit: 5 Stars
Buffy Sainte=Marie cultural roots are those of her Cree tribal family background. On her Best of album are to be found the thought provoking self-penned songs that have made her the spokesperson of the indigenous tribes of America.
Joy and sadness are found in abundance here. Ground Hog is a celebration of life itself, I'm Gonna be a Country Girl Again says volumes about the sense of nostalgia felt by the exile; at the heart of songs such as these is a sense of felt joy. In contrast are Buffy's ballads, which are songs of 'monumental' sadness; Cod'ine is a grim comment on drug addiction and My Country 'Tis Of Thy People You're Dying is a shocking revelation of the history of America.
Possessing a voice of astonishing vocal range, Buffy has been writing and performing her music for nearly fifty years. This album encapsulates that life.
Free Music Review: If for no other reason- God is Alive Magic's Afoot
Hit: 5 Stars
Every song on this cd is passionately and brilliantly done. However,Buffy Sainte Marie's musical interpretation of a Leonard Cohen poem- God Is Alive Magic's Afoot- is probably a little-known wonder of the world and alone in itself worth every cent paid for it.
Cohen's poem sums up the Gospels movingly and succintly, while Sainte Marie sets the rythm, power, spirit and feeling of his words to perfect original music.
Cohen and Sainte Marie are an unbeatable combination.
Free Music Review: Don't buy it
Hit: 1 Stars
I grew up on Buffy Sainte-Marie. I bought this to hear her again. A lot of the cuts are really second rate and disapointing, for instance this version of Piney Wood Hills is awful compared to what you can hear on her album "Many a Mile". Also, this best of mixes periods which just don't go together at all. Try to get her original recordings. Not all of them are available on Amazon, there is an Italian distributor you can find on Google.Free Music Review: Breathtaking !
Hit: 5 Stars
ALL of Buffy's music is wonderful... old, new, in-between...She is unique and one-of-a-kind...
A master !!!
Free Music Review: i hate giving it a "4", because BUFFY HERSELF is a "5"
Hit: 4 Stars
there are some truly wonderful songs on here, but the compilation also puts on a lot of schloc. almost all of her later work, i feel, is terrible - all her synthetic stuff, ick! and there's a fair amount of it on here. i've owned this album (in record form) for five or six years, and there are just some songs NOT WORTH EVER LISTENING TO.
now, all that said, for the wonderful songs on here, the ones with buffy and a guitar (and sometimes with her bass player), they are just wonderful, truly a powerful musical and emotional experience. universal soldier is up there with the best of em, as in "now that the buffalo's gone" and "my country tis of thy people you're dying" and "many a mile." buffy is raw power, and don't be fooled, she's one hell of a talented musician as well, highly sophisticated both in voice and on guitar.
she's raw woman, raw human, just raw! (but that later stuff, god, what was she thinking?)