Running for the Drum | ||||
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Released | September 2008 | |||
Recorded | 2008 | |||
Genre | Folk, rock | |||
Length | 43:31 | |||
Label | Appleseed | |||
Producer | Chris Birkett, Buffy Sainte-Marie | |||
Buffy Sainte-Marie chronology | ||||
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Allmusic | [1] |
The Phoenix | [2] |
musicOMH | [3] |
Slant | [4] |
Running for the Drum is the fourteenth studio album by Buffy Sainte-Marie, released in 2008. One of Sainte-Marie's more successful albums, it spawned one single with "No No Keshagesh". Sainte-Marie also rewrote two verses of "America The Beautiful".
The album's title comes from a lyric in the song "Cho Cho Fire". Running for the Drum features the DVD documentary on Buffy Sainte-Marie, A Multimedia Life, which features exclusive interviews with artists such as Joni Mitchell and Taj Mahal and performances by Sainte-Marie.
Sessions for this album began in 2006 until 2007, mostly recorded in Sainte-Marie's home recording studio in Hawaii and part in France. The album opens with two aboriginal influenced songs, "No No Keshagesh" (the album's only single and made as if to sound at a rally) and "Cho Cho Fire". Apart from a reworking on the track "Little Wheel Spin and Spin", all of the tracks here are newly written and unique to this album. Running for the Drum won the prestigious Juno Award for Aboriginal Album of the Year. It features her friend, Taj Mahal on acoustic piano.
All tracks written by Buffy Sainte-Marie except where noted.
Production
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