Coincidence and Likely Stories

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Coincidence and Likely Stories
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Studio album by
ReleasedJanuary 1992
Recorded1990
Genre Folk
Length43:08
Label Ensign/Chrysalis/EMI
Producer Chris Birkett
Buffy Sainte-Marie chronology
Sweet America
(1976)
Coincidence and Likely Stories
(1992)
Running for the Drum
(2009)
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Coincidence and Likely Stories (1992) is an album by Buffy Sainte-Marie, her first in sixteen years, during which time she had been raising her son and working on the children's television show Sesame Street . The album itself was largely recorded at Sainte-Marie's home before being sent to producer Chris Birkett for the final production and mixing in London.

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The album showed her continuing with the electronic music she had first developed on Illuminations and the tribal themes seen on Sweet America , her last pre-retirement album.


The album received favourable reviews [3] and some saw it as her best work since Illuminations . [4] Although it failed to chart in the United States, it became her only album to chart in the UK, and featured two minor hit singles there. Longtime fans embraced it: in 2016, Andrea Warner ranked it as one of her five essential albums. [5]

The album title itself comes from the first line of the song "Disinformation":

"Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" was covered by Indigo Girls on its album 1200 Curfews (1995).

Track listing

All songs composed by Buffy Sainte-Marie except where noted.

  1. "The Big Ones Get Away" - 3:49
  2. "Fallen Angels" - 3:08
  3. "Bad End" - 4:24
  4. "Emma Lee" - 4:02
  5. "Starwalker" - 3:05
  6. "The Priests of the Golden Bull" - 3:51
  7. "Disinformation" - 3:48
  8. "Getting Started" - 4:31
  9. "I'm Going Home" - 3:24
  10. "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" - 5:16
  11. "Goodnight" (Cliff Eberhardt) - 3:50

Charts

YearChartPeak position
1992 UK Albums Chart 39
Singles
YearSingleChartPosition
1992"The Big Ones Get Away" UK Singles Chart 39
1992"Fallen Angels"UK Singles Chart57

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References

  1. AllMusic review
  2. Rolling Stone review
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  4. McGovern, Adam, Kidjo, Angelique and Byrne, David; MusicHound World: The Essential Album Guide (Musichound Essential Album Guides); ISBN   0-8256-7259-7
  5. https://exclaim.ca/music/article/an_essential_guide_to_buffy_sainte-marie Retrieved 4 April 2023.