Released September 2008 Length 43:31 | Recorded 2008 Release date September 2008 | |
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Buffy sainte marie s running for the drum
Running for the Drum is the fourteenth studio album by Buffy Sainte-Marie, released in 2008. One of Sainte-Marie's more successful albums, it spawned one single with "No No Keshagesh". Sainte-Marie also rewrote two verses of "America The Beautiful".
Contents
- Buffy sainte marie s running for the drum
- Buffy sainte marie no no keshagesh
- History
- Track listing
- Personnel
- Production
- Songs
- References
Buffy sainte marie no no keshagesh
History
The album's title comes from a lyric in the song "Cho Cho Fire". Running for the Drum features the DVD documentary on Buffy Sainte-Marie, A Multimedia Life, which features exclusive interviews with artists such as Joni Mitchell and Taj Mahal and performances by Sainte-Marie.
Sessions for this album began in 2006 until 2007, mostly recorded in Sainte-Marie's home recording studio in Hawaii and part in France. The album opens with two aboriginal influenced songs, "No No Keshagesh" (the album's only single and made as if to sound at a rally) and "Cho Cho Fire". Apart from a reworking on the track "Little Wheel Spin and Spin", all of the tracks here are newly written and unique to this album. Running for the Drum won the prestigious Juno Award for best aboriginal album. It features her friend, Taj Mahal on acoustic piano.
Track listing
All tracks written by Buffy Sainte-Marie unless otherwise noted
- "No No Keshagesh" - 4:44
- "Cho Cho Fire" - 3:05
- "Working For The Government" - 3:33
- "Little Wheel Spin and Spin" - 3:05
- "Too Much Is Never Enough" - 3:58
- "To The Ends of the World" - 3:45
- "When I Had You" - 4:12
- "I Bet My Heart On You" - 3:26
- "Blue Sunday" - 2:55
- "Easy Like The Snow Falls Down" - 3:52
- "America the Beautiful" - 3:01 (Katharine Lee Bates, Samuel A. Ward & Sainte-Marie)
- "Still This Love Goes On" - 3:55
Personnel
Production
Songs
1No No Keshagesh4:44
2Cho Cho Fire3:06
3Working for the Government3:34