Sweet America

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Sweet America
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Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 1976
Recorded1975
Genre Folk
Length33:06
Label ABC
Producer Buffy Sainte-Marie, Henry Lewy
Buffy Sainte-Marie chronology
Changing Woman
(1975)
Sweet America
(1976)
Coincidence and Likely Stories
(1992)
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Sweet America was the twelfth studio album by Buffy Sainte-Marie and her last before retiring from music to work on Sesame Street and in education. The album was dedicated to the American Indian Movement [2] and featured some songs with tribal rhythms and vocals that she was later to develop on her 1992 comeback Coincidence and Likely Stories .

Contents

After parting with MCA Records, Sainte-Marie signed with ABC Records, then home of such artists as Steely Dan, the early Pointer Sisters, Isaac Hayes and the James Gang. Although Sweet America received a little more attention from the press than her two MCA albums Buffy and Changing Woman , most reviews were not favorable. [3] When MCA acquired ABC Records in 1979, Sweet America went out of print along with her two MCA albums, and remaining copies were not thereafter circulated. Claims [4] that her retirement was motivated by the collapse of ABC Records are unlikely because she had not been recording for over three years when the label collapsed.

Track listing

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

  1. "Sweet America" (Barry Greenfield) – 3:04
  2. "Wynken, Blynken and Nod" (Eugene Field, Buffy Sainte-Marie) – 3:08
  3. "Where Poets Go" – 2:52
  4. "Free the Lady" (Barry Greenfield) – 3:22
  5. "America My Home" – 2:32
  6. "Look at the Facts" – 2:12
  7. "I Don't Need No City Life" – 3:10
  8. "Sweet January" – 2:49
  9. "Qu'appelle Valley, Saskatchewan" – 3:19
  10. "Honey Can You Hang Around" – 3:15
  11. "I Been Down" – 2:03
  12. "Starwalker" – 2:32
  13. "Ain't No Time for the Worrying Blues" – 1:00

Track notes

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References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. Think About It
  3. See Marsh, Dave with Swenson, John (editors); The Rolling Stone Record Guide : Reviews and Ratings of Almost 10,000 Currently Available Rock, Pop, Soul, Country, Blues, Jazz, and Gospel Albums; ISBN   0394410963
  4. Buffy Sainte-Marie Biography from her UK website
  5. 45 (single) discography for ABC Records