Released 1966 Length 40:11 Release date 1966 Label Vanguard Records | Recorded 1966 Artist Buffy Sainte-Marie Producer Maynard Solomon Genre Folk music | |
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Little Wheel Spin and Spin
(1966) Fire & Fleet & Candlelight
(1967) Similar I'm Gonna Be a Country, It's My Way!, The Best of Buffy Sainte‑Marie, Moonshot, Fire & Fleet & Candlelight | ||
Buffy sainte marie little wheel spin and spin
Little Wheel Spin and Spin is the third album by Buffy Sainte-Marie, released in 1966. It was her only album to reach the Billboard Top 100. Its most famous song is the epic "My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying", which displayed a native perspective on the colonisation of North America.
Contents
In contrast to her first two albums which were entirely acoustic with occasional use of her distinctive mouthbow, parts of Little Wheel Spin and Spin added electric guitar by Bruce Langhorne and string arrangements by Felix Pappalardi, or feature fellow Native American performer Patrick Sky on guitar with Sainte-Marie. This served to pave the way for Sainte-Marie's stylistic experiments on her remaining Vanguard albums, where she covered territory ranging from country to rock to experimental music.
Track listing
All tracks composed by Buffy Sainte-Marie; except where indicated
- "Little Wheel Spin and Spin" - 2:29
- "House Carpenter" (Traditional) - 3:46
- "Waly Waly" (Traditional) - 3:50
- "Rolling Log Blues" (chorus by Lottie Kimbrough) - 3:32
- "My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying" - 6:48
- "Men of the Fields" - 2:02
- "Timeless Love" - 2:46
- "Sir Patrick Spens" (Traditional) - 5:14
- "Poor Man's Daughter" - 2:57
- "Lady Margaret" (Traditional) - 1:43
- "Sometimes When I Get to Thinking" - 3:37
- "Winter Boy" - 2:11
Charts
Billboard (North America)
Songs
1Little Wheel Spin and Spin2:29
2House Carpenter3:46
3Waly - Waly3:50