Name: The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie, Vol. 2
Brand: Vanguard Records
SKU: 59910
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The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie, Vol. 2

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Album: The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie, Vol. 2
#	Song Title	Time
1)	It's My Way
2)	He's a Pretty Good Man If You Ask Me
3)	Hey Little Bird
4)	Song to a Seagull
5)	Adam
6)	Mary
7)	He Lived Alone in Town
8)	Johnny Be Fair
9)	Reynardine - A Vampire Legend
10)	Gonna Feel Much Better When You're Gone
11)	Tall Trees in Georgia
12)	Carousel, The
13)	Poppies
14)	From the Bottom of My Heart
15)	Lyke Wake Dirge
16)	Welcome, Welcome Emigrante
17)	Eyes of Amber
18)	Babe in Arms
19)	Ananias
20)	97 Men in This Here Town - Don't Call Me Honey
21)	Uncle Joe
22)	T'es Pas un Autre
23)	Seeds of Brotherhood, The
24)	Angel, The

Album: The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie, Vol. 2
#	Song Title	Time
1)	It's My Way
2)	He's a Pretty Good Man If You Ask Me
3)	Hey Little Bird
4)	Song to a Seagull
5)	Adam
6)	Mary
7)	He Lived Alone in Town
8)	Johnny Be Fair
9)	Reynardine - A Vampire Legend
10)	Gonna Feel Much Better When You're Gone
11)	Tall Trees in Georgia
12)	Carousel, The
13)	Poppies
14)	From the Bottom of My Heart
15)	Lyke Wake Dirge
16)	Welcome, Welcome Emigrante
17)	Eyes of Amber
18)	Babe in Arms
19)	Ananias
20)	97 Men in This Here Town - Don't Call Me Honey
21)	Uncle Joe
22)	T'es Pas un Autre
23)	Seeds of Brotherhood, The
24)	Angel, The

Performer Notes

Personnel: Buffy Sainte-Marie (vocals, guitar, mouth bow); Patrick Sky, Bruce Langhorne (guitar); Grady Martin (electric guitar); Harold Rugg, Lloyd Green (steel guitar); Bob Siggins, Sonny Osborne (banjo); Monte Dunn (mandolin); Grover Lavender (fiddle); Floyd Cramer (piano); Wayne Moss, Jerry Shook (bass guitar); Bill Ackerman, Al Rogers, Buddy Harman (drums).
Photographer: Francis Ing.
Translator: Claude Gauthier.
Unknown Contributor Roles: Elmer Gordon; The Jordanaires.
Arrangers: P.D.Q. Bach; Buffy Sainte-Marie.
Buffy Sainte-Marie's best-known and best songs were used on Vanguard's Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie. This 24-song set features mostly original material, along with some traditional tunes and the odd cover, like Joni Mitchell's "Song to a Seagull." While not all of the songs are good, Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie, Vol. 2 does illustrate the considerable range of her early recordings: from traditional folk accompanied only by mouth bow to country & western to a truly odd version of "Lyke Wake Dirge," a psychedelic rock cover of Richie Havens' "Adam," a French pop remake of "Until It's Time for You to Go," and more. There was a lot more to Sainte-Marie than the early acoustic folk recordings, although those are what she's most famous for (and justly so). Like several of Vanguard's anthologies, however, this is sequenced poorly, jumping all over the place chronologically. It makes for a far more uneven experience than would be the case if the sides were arranged more or less in the order in which they were recorded. ~ Richie Unterberger