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Sweet America

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Sweet America
Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 1976
Recorded1975
GenreFolk
Length33:06
LabelABC
ProducerBuffy Sainte-Marie, Henry Lewy
Buffy Sainte-Marie chronology
Changing Woman
(1975)
Sweet America
(1976)
Coincidence and Likely Stories
(1992)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

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.

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

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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

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  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