The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie

The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie is a compilation album taken from her first six albums with Vanguard Records, released in 1970.

The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie
Greatest hits album by
Released1970
Recorded1964 to 1969
GenreFolk
Length75:31
LabelVanguard
ProducerMaynard Solomon
Professional ratings
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AllMusic[1]

History

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Issued as a double-LP set after the financial disaster of Illuminations, the album contains material from all her previous albums but not one track unavailable elsewhere at the time of its release. The compilation was a very modest chart success, returning her to the Top 200 after the failure of Illuminations, from which it does however extract five tracks.

Because Many a Mile has been issued on compact disc only in Italy, and Illuminations and Fire & Fleet & Candlelight were not issued on CD until many years after The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie became her first-ever release on CD in 1990, the compilation has always been of considerable value despite containing no hits except the extremely minor #98 "I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again" (which actually only reached even that position after being re-released after "Soldier Blue"). An abbreviated single-LP version was also released in 1972 with the catalogue number Vanguard 73113.

Track list

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All tracks are written by Buffy Sainte-Marie except where noted

No.TitleOriginal albumLength
1."Soulful Shade of Blue"I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again2:14
2."Summer Boy"Fire & Fleet & Candlelight2:39
3."Universal Soldier"It's My Way!2:15
4."Better to Find Out for Yourself"Illuminations2:12
5."Cod'ine"It's My Way!5:01
6."He's a Keeper of the Fire"Illuminations2:58
7."Take My Hand for a While"I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again2:30
8."Ground Hog" (traditional)Many a Mile2:13
9."The Circle Game" (Joni Mitchell)Fire & Fleet & Candlelight2:51
10."My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying"Little Wheel Spin and Spin6:49
11."Many a Mile" (Patrick Sky)Many a Mile2:42
12."Until It's Time for You to Go"Many a Mile2:27
13."Rolling Log Blues"Little Wheel Spin and Spin3:28
14."God Is Alive, Magic Is Afoot" (poem by Leonard Cohen / music by Buffy Sainte-Marie)Illuminations4:46
15."Guess Who I Saw in Paris"Illuminations2:25
16."Piney Wood Hills"I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again3:04
17."Now That the Buffalo's Gone"It's My Way!2:45
18."Cripple Creek"It's My Way!1:45
19."I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again"I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again2:57
20."The Vampire"Illuminations2:05
21."Little Wheel Spin and Spin"Little Wheel Spin and Spin2:26
22."Winter Boy"Little Wheel Spin and Spin2:10
23."Los Pescadores"Many a Mile2:01
24."Sometimes When I Get to Thinking"Little Wheel Spin and Spin2:59

Charts

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Billboard (North America)

Year Chart Peak Position
1970 Pop Albums 142

References

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