Buffy Saint-Marie - BBC In Concert, Hammersmith Odeon, London UK 1992 | ALBUMS THAT SHOULD EXIST

 

Buffy Saint-Marie - BBC In Concert, Hammersmith Odeon, London, Britain, 11-11-1992

Paul says "Here's a BBC concert by American singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie. 

I've already discussed Sainte-Marie some when I posted a "Songwriters' Circle" album that she was involved in. You can read more about her there, including a Wikipedia link to even more:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/01/donovan-buffy-sainte-marie-roger-cook.html

I'll just add some more information relevant to this album. Sainte-Marie had a successful career in the 1960s and early 1970s. But then she went 16 years without releasing an album of new music. That changed in 1992, with her album "Coincidence and Likely Stories." It was mostly ignored in the U.S., failing to make the charts. But it got a better reception in Britain, even resulting in two minor hit singles there. "The Big Ones Get Away" in particular made the Top Forty. So the songs here are about an even split between those from her most recent album at the time and her best known songs from earlier in her career.

This concert has been pretty much impossible to find on the Internet, as far as I could tell. But musical associate Progsprog had a copy and passed it on to me. So a big thanks to him. 

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 56 minutes long. 

01 talk 
02 Getting Started 
03 talk 
04 The Piney Wood Hills 
05 talk 
06 The Big Ones Get Away
07 I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again 
08 talk 
09 Disinformation 
10 talk 
11 Universal Soldier
12 talk 
13 Fallen Angels 
14 Until It's Time for You to Go 
15 talk 
16 Bad End 
17 Soldier Blue 
18 talk 
19 The Priests of the Golden Bull
20 talk
21 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee 
22 talk 
23 Starwalker 

It should perhaps be mentioned, or reminded perhaps, that there was a particularly heinous disgusting attack on Buffy’s ancestry and ethnicity by alt-right sources about her being adopted (she was) and not authentic native American, the most beautiful response coming from her Mic-Mac ‘adopted’ family who claimed her as their OWN!

Follow links to see my previous posts on the matter

I will always mention this in the light of how wonderful and illuminating a force of nature Buffy was to me

read on here about the cultural fascism facing indigenous peoples of America and Buffy’s experience