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

Buffy Sainte-Marie - Moonshot (1972) | Zero G Sounds + 'Longing and Belonging' the cultural fascism facing today’s Ethnic Americans

Buffy Sainte-Marie - Moonshot (1972)

Zero G says: For her seventh album, 1971's "She Used to Wanna Be a Ballerina", Buffy Sainte-Marie and her producer, Jack Nitzsche, worked in five recording studios in New York, Los Angeles, and London, and came up with a varied collection ranging from her characteristic folk protest to rock featuring Neil Young and Crazy Horse as a backup band. 

For her eighth album, 1972's "Moon Shot", she stuck to one city, Nashville, working with producer/arranger/bassist Norbert Putnam and some of the same studio musicians who appeared on Young's then-recently released country-rock LP "Harvest". But as the advance single of Mickey Newbury and Townes Van Zandt's "Mister Can't You See" (which was well on its way to becoming Sainte-Marie's first Top 40 hit when the LP appeared) indicated, "Moon Shot" is, for the most part, a collection of pop/rock arrangements. 

Sainte-Marie has not abandoned her primary political concern, the interests of Indians, but when she brings it up on this album, she has softened the message. "He's an Indian Cowboy in the Rodeo" is an upbeat love song that happens to involve Indians. "Native North American Child" is a celebration of Indian culture. And "Moonshot" is a playful reflection on the supposed wonders of Western science and technology that suggests "primitive" peoples actually may be far more advanced. Elsewhere, Sainte-Marie comes up with some appealing pop love songs, such as "You Know How to Turn On Those Lights" and the string-filled ballad "I Wanna Hold Your Hand Forever," worthy additions to the catalog of the songwriter who previously wrote "Until It's Time for You to Go." Sainte-Marie sings them in a gentle voice without the stridency and vibrato she sometimes uses, and Putnam and fellow arrangers Glen Spreen and Bill Pursell create lush settings for them. This is not the Buffy Sainte-Marie of her early political period, but the album demonstrates her versatility, and it works as an appealing pop effort.     

Tracklist:                                                        

A1	Not The Lovin' Kind
A2	You Know How To Turn On Those Lights
A3	I Wanna Hold Your Hand Forever
A4	He's An Indian Cowboy In The Rodeo
A5	Lay It Down
A6	Moonshot
B1	Native North American Child
B2	My Baby Left Me
B3	Sweet Memories
B4	Jeremiah
B5	Mister Can't You See

Now we have had this before . (sometime back as far as 2015 I think) and I wondered why Zero G had posted it again but Buffy has always fascinated me and there has been much fuss about her ethnicity in recent years and Canada taking back awards for her contributions to culture which largely I have found petty and in essence racist. From a birth certificate from Massachusetts dated in the late 2020s (2022?) which in itself is of interest in that it points to malice and preemptive argument explored more fully here: https://beforewewerewhite.com/2024/03/20/longing-and-belonging/

I think the over riding thing that struck me is the response from the indigenous peoples who adopted her. The Mic Mac so called and the tribe who have adopted her as their own and duly rightly (sic) recognise her great contributions to their shared (sic) ethnicity and not least it is their statements about who they CHOOSE to acknowledge as their own that so encourages me. That the folks trying to expose her under this kind of false flag bullshit are white and right wing comes as no surprise to this reader and I side with the Mic Mac in that if she is good enough for them then heck she is good enough for me!

Buffy Sainte-Marie - Moonshot (1972) Seventh album! | Zero G Sounds

Buffy Sainte-Marie - Moonshot (1972)

Zero G het gesagt: For her seventh album, 1971's "She Used to Wanna Be a Ballerina", Buffy Sainte-Marie and her producer, Jack Nitzsche, worked in five recording studios in New York, Los Angeles, and London, and came up with a varied collection ranging from her characteristic folk protest to rock featuring Neil Young and Crazy Horse as a backup band. 

For her eighth album, 1972's "Moon Shot", she stuck to one city, Nashville, working with producer/arranger/bassist Norbert Putnam and some of the same studio musicians who appeared on Young's then-recently released country-rock LP "Harvest". But as the advance single of Mickey Newbury and Townes Van Zandt's "Mister Can't You See" (which was well on its way to becoming Sainte-Marie's first Top 40 hit when the LP appeared) indicated, "Moon Shot" is, for the most part, a collection of pop/rock arrangements. 

Sainte-Marie has not abandoned her primary political concern, the interests of Indians, but when she brings it up on this album, she has softened the message. "He's an Indian Cowboy in the Rodeo" is an upbeat love song that happens to involve Indians. "Native North American Child" is a celebration of Indian culture. And "Moonshot" is a playful reflection on the supposed wonders of Western science and technology that suggests "primitive" peoples actually may be far more advanced. Elsewhere, Sainte-Marie comes up with some appealing pop love songs, such as "You Know How to Turn On Those Lights" and the string-filled ballad "I Wanna Hold Your Hand Forever," worthy additions to the catalog of the songwriter who previously wrote "Until It's Time for You to Go." Sainte-Marie sings them in a gentle voice without the stridency and vibrato she sometimes uses, and Putnam and fellow arrangers Glen Spreen and Bill Pursell create lush settings for them. This is not the Buffy Sainte-Marie of her early political period, but the album demonstrates her versatility, and it works as an appealing pop effort.     

Tracklist:                                                        

A1	Not The Lovin' Kind
A2	You Know How To Turn On Those Lights
A3	I Wanna Hold Your Hand Forever
A4	He's An Indian Cowboy In The Rodeo
A5	Lay It Down
A6	Moonshot
B1	Native North American Child
B2	My Baby Left Me
B3	Sweet Memories
B4	Jeremiah
B5	Mister Can't You See