Changing Woman (album)

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Changing Woman
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Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 1975
Recorded1974
Genre Folk
Length30:39
Label MCA
Producer Norbert Putnam [1]
Buffy Sainte-Marie chronology
Buffy
(1974)
Changing Woman
(1975)
Sweet America
(1976)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
MusicHound Folk: The Essential Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]

Changing Woman is an album by Buffy Sainte-Marie, released in 1975 via MCA Records. [4] It was her second, and last, album for the label. [5]

Contents

Critical reception

Record Collector wrote that the album recalled Sainte-Marie's Vanguard years, and praised Norbert Putnam's "more adventurous arrangements and production." [1]

Track listing

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

  1. "Eagle Man/Changing Woman" – 3:08
  2. "Can't You See The Way I Love You" – 3:00
  3. "Love's Got to Breathe and Fly" – 2:50
  4. "You Take Me Away" – 3:14
  5. "'Til I See You Again" – 3:08
  6. "Mongrel Pup" – 3:19
  7. "The Beauty Way" – 2:15
  8. "Nobody Will Ever Know It's Real But You" (Norbert Putnam, Buffy Sainte-Marie) – 3:01
  9. "All Around The World" – 3:46
  10. "A Man" – 2:58

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References

  1. 1 2 "Buffy/Changing Woman/ Sweet America - Record Collector Magazine".
  2. Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 7. MUZE. p. 227.
  3. MusicHound Folk: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1998. p. 697.
  4. Warner, Andrea (September 25, 2018). Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography. Greystone Books Ltd. ISBN   9781771643597 via Google Books.
  5. Wright-McLeod, Brian (January 30, 2018). The Encyclopedia of Native Music: More Than a Century of Recordings from Wax Cylinder to the Internet. University of Arizona Press. ISBN   9780816538645 via Google Books.