''Little Wheel Spin and Spin'' is the third

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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 ...

, released in 1966. It was her only album to reach the Top 100 of the ''

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''. Its most famous song is "My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying," which displayed a

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perspective on the colonisation of North America. 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

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by Bruce Langhorne and string arrangements by

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, or feature fellow Native American performer

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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. Buffy Sainte-Marie wrote to reveal the "truth... about indigenous realities" through her music.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Buffy Sainte-Marie; except where noted. #"Little Wheel Spin and Spin" – 2:29 #"

House Carpenter "The Daemon Lover" (Roud 14, Child 243) – also known as "James Harris", "A Warning for Married Women", "The Distressed Ship Carpenter", "James Herries", "The Carpenter’s Wife", "The Banks of Italy", or "The House-Carpenter" – is a popular bal ...

" (Traditional; arranged and new words by Buffy Sainte-Marie) – 3:46 #" Waly Waly" (Traditional) – 3:50 #"Rolling Log Blues" (chorus by

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) – 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 Thinkin'" – 3:37 #"Winter Boy" – 2:11

Personnel

*Buffy Sainte-Marie - vocals, guitar, mouthbow *

Russ Savakus Russell Savakus (May 13, 1925 – June 26, 1984) was an American session bass player (both electric and stand-up), violinist and singer. Savakus recorded with numerous artists in and around the 1960s folk and folk-rock movement in New York. Earl ...

- bass * Bruce Langhorne - electric guitar on "Little Wheel Spin and Spin", "Rolling Log Blues" and "Sometimes When I Get to Thinkin'" *

- rhythm guitar on "Men of the Fields" *

Eric Weissberg Eric Weissberg (August 16, 1939 – March 22, 2020) was an American singer, banjo player, and multi-instrumentalist, whose most commercially successful recording was his banjo solo in " Dueling Banjos," featured as the theme of the film ''Deliv ...

- guitar on "Sometimes When I Get to Thinkin'" *

- arrangement, conductor on "Timeless Love"

Charts

''Billboard'' (North America)

References

{{Authority control 1966 albums Buffy Sainte-Marie albums Albums produced by Maynard Solomon Vanguard Records albums