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Iconic singer-songwriter, activist, educator, visual artist, and multi-award winner Buffy Sainte-Marie will release her new album Power In The Blood next week on May 12th via True North Records. This bold new LP – her first in six years – is a reminder that, five decades on, Sainte-Marie is a voice as vital and significant as ever. NPR Music is now featuring the full album as a First Listen available to stream a week before it’s release.
LISTEN: Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Power In The Blood on NPR Music’s First Listen:
http://www.npr.org/2015/04/30/403277165/first-listen-buffy-sainte-marie-power-in-the-blood
“Too often, elders like Sainte-Marie are venerated without actually earning a serious listen from people not of their generation,” stated writer Ann Powers. “But this woman’s spirit isn’t sitting down yet. Her voice remains relevant, full of spit and vinegar and fun. It could even renew the spirit of some whose blood has grown weak.”
Power in the Blood is a sculpture of an artist ever-evolving and a statement of a life’s work realized – challenging, empowering, and celebrating the listener with each and every song. Recorded in Toronto, Sainte-Marie enlisted three different producers, a first for her, to help shape the album; Michael Phillip Wojewoda (Barenaked Ladies, Rheostatics), Jon Levine (Nelly Furtado, K’NAAN), and Chris Birkett (Sinéad O’Connor, Bob Geldof). Featuring all but two original tracks, the album starts with a re-imagined version of “It’s My Way,” which premiered on NPR Music upon the album’s first announcement. The song originally appeared on her acclaimed debut album and demonstrates how her work can transcend generations while still inspiring individualism and self-expression 50 years after it was written.
Last week, TIME Magazine ran an article premiering the newly re-imagined version of “Not The Lovin’ Kind.” In her interview, Sainte-Marie stated “I wrote it in the mid-1970’s, during what media has re-named the ‘blacklist years,’ when I could get no airplay no matter what I sang about.” Writer Nolan Feeney explained “It wasn’t until decades later that Sainte-Marie learned her outspoken views on the Vietnam War and Native American rights had made her the subject of campaigns by the Johnson and Nixon administrations to keep broadcasters from playing her (and other artists’) music.”
Throughout her incredible half-century career each era has revealed new and distinctive shades of an artist revered for her pioneering and chameleon ways. There was no mold from which Buffy Sainte-Marie emerged; she created her own, ripened from experiences in both her head and her heart. Like so much of Sainte-Marie’s work, it’s universal.
Power In The Blood Track List:
01) It’s My Way
02) Power in the Blood
03) We Are Circling
04) Not the Lovin’ Kind
05) Love Charms (Mojo Bijoux)
06) Ke Sakihitin Awasis
07) Farm In the Middle of Nowhere
08) Generation
09) Sing Our Own Song
10) Orion
11) The Uranium War
12) Carry It On
US Tour Dates:
May 15 – Lincoln, NE @ University of Nebraska Lincoln
May 17 – Chicago, IL @ City Winery
May 18 – Philadelphia, PA @ World Cafe Live
May 19 – Washington, DC @ The Hamilton
May 20 – New York, NY @ Highline Ballroom
May 23 – Schenectady, NY @ The Eighth Step
Jul. 15 – Reno, NV @ Artown Festival
Jul. 16 – Grass Valley, CA @ California Worldfest
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