Medicine Songs
by Buffy Sainte-Marie
Description:
Description (True North Records, 2017):
Medicine Songs is a studio album by Buffy Sainte-Marie, released November 10, 2017 on True North Records. The album includes both new material and contemporary re-recordings of some of her older songs.
Author biography (Buffy Sainte-Marie Website):
Over the course of her sixty year career, Buffy Sainte-Marie has inspired multiple generations of musicians, artists and activists. Since her groundbreaking debut album It’s My Way! in 1964, this powerful, natural singer/songwriter has steadfastly maintained her unique style and path, often ahead of the times in her use of subject matter and new technology.
As a child, Buffy had taught herself to play the piano by ear and made up songs for fun. The gift of a guitar for her sixteenth birthday made her music portable. She invented new tunings which would influence both her own unique sound and that of other future musicians.
Resource format: Music Album
Age recommendation: University
Keywords: resistance, oppression, inequity, violence, bullying, positibity, romance, equity, enthusiasm, empowerment, conflict, politics, human experience, war, Residential Schools, Canada history, history, colonialism, genocide, earth, woman
Year of publication: 2017
Publisher information: True North Records
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