 | This article relies largely or entirely on a single source .(March 2020) |
| The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie | |
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| Greatest hits album by | |
| Released | 1970 |
| Recorded | 1964–1969 |
| Genre | Folk |
| Length | 75:31 |
| Label | Vanguard |
| Producer | Maynard Solomon |
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie is a compilation album taken from her first six albums with Vanguard Records, released in 1970.
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.
All tracks are written by Buffy Sainte-Marie except where noted.
| No. | Title | Original album | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Soulful Shade of Blue" | I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again | 2:14 |
| 2. | "Summer Boy" | Fire & Fleet & Candlelight | 2:39 |
| 3. | "Universal Soldier" | It's My Way! | 2:15 |
| 4. | "Better to Find Out for Yourself" | Illuminations | 2:12 |
| 5. | "Cod'ine" | It's My Way! | 5:01 |
| 6. | "He's a Keeper of the Fire" | Illuminations | 2:58 |
| 7. | "Take My Hand for a While" | I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again | 2:30 |
| 8. | "Ground Hog" (traditional) | Many a Mile | 2:13 |
| 9. | "The Circle Game" (Joni Mitchell) | Fire & Fleet & Candlelight | 2:51 |
| 10. | "My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying" | Little Wheel Spin and Spin | 6:49 |
| 11. | "Many a Mile" (Patrick Sky) | Many a Mile | 2:42 |
| 12. | "Until It's Time for You to Go" | Many a Mile | 2:27 |
| 13. | "Rolling Log Blues" | Little Wheel Spin and Spin | 3:28 |
| 14. | "God Is Alive, Magic Is Afoot" (poem by Leonard Cohen / music by Buffy Sainte-Marie) | Illuminations | 4:46 |
| 15. | "Guess Who I Saw in Paris" | Illuminations | 2:25 |
| 16. | "Piney Wood Hills" | I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again | 3:04 |
| 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 Again | 2:57 |
| 20. | "The Vampire" | Illuminations | 2:05 |
| 21. | "Little Wheel Spin and Spin" | Little Wheel Spin and Spin | 2:26 |
| 22. | "Winter Boy" | Little Wheel Spin and Spin | 2:10 |
| 23. | "Los Pescadores" | Many a Mile | 2:01 |
| 24. | "Sometimes When I Get to Thinking" | Little Wheel Spin and Spin | 2:59 |
Billboard (North America)
| Year | Chart | Peak position |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Pop Albums | 142 |
