''Buffy'' is the tenth

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Buffy Sainte-Marie Buffy Sainte-Marie, (born Beverly Sainte-Marie, February 20, 1941) is an Indigenous Canadian-American (Piapot Cree Nation) singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, educator, pacifist, and social activist. While working in these are ...

and her first after leaving

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, with whom her relationship had been strained for several albums. Despite being on a different label from its predecessor '' Quiet Places'', ''Buffy'' was recorded with essentially the same personnel in Norbert Putnam on bass, David Briggs on keyboards,

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on drums and the

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. Together, these gave a sound far removed from her initial folk roots and much closer to ordinary

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. Indeed, ''Buffy'' was recorded at much the same time and place as ''Quiet Places'' and no label took it up until her last Vanguard recordings had been released. Despite ''Buffy'' commanding a high price tag upon completion, MCA did little to promote it. Very few music magazines ever bothered to review it and ''Buffy'' was

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as early as 1978. The album cover caused MCA a public relations problem. Buffy posed with an exposed breast and refused to have it covered or censored. This caused some retailers in the United States, particularly in the Midwestern states, refusing to carry the album. MCA arranged to have a price sticker placed over it which concealed the breast until the album's shrink wrap was removed. It has never been reissued independently since then and was only rereleased in 2008 with '' Changing Woman'' and '' Sweet America'' on the compilation album '' The Pathfinder: Buried Treasures - The Mid-70's Recordings''.

Track listing

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

References

Buffy (album) ''Buffy'' is the tenth album by Buffy Sainte-Marie and her first after leaving Vanguard Records, with whom her relationship had been strained for several albums. Despite being on a different label from its predecessor '' Quiet Places'', ''Buffy'' ...

Albums produced by Norbert Putnam

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