Coincidence and Likely Stories

Coincidence and Likely Stories
Studio album by Buffy Sainte-Marie
Released January 1992
Recorded 1990
Genre Folk
Length 43:08
Label Chrysalis Records (UK)
EMI Records (North America)
Producer Chris Birkett
Buffy Sainte-Marie chronology
Sweet America
(1976)		 Coincidence and Likely Stories
(1992)		 Running for the Drum
(2009)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Rolling Stone [2]

Coincidence and Likely Stories was the thirteenth studio album by Buffy Sainte-Marie but her first for sixteen years, during which time she had been raising her son and working on the children's television show Sesame Street. The album itself was largely recorded at Sainte-Marie's home before being sent to producer Chris Birkett for the final production and mixing in London.

The album showed her continuing with the electronic music she had first developed on Illuminations and the tribal themes seen on Sweet America, her last pre-retirement album.

Although the album received some very favourable reviews[3] and was often seen as her best work since Illuminations,[4] it failed to make any impression in the United States. Coincidence and Likely Stories became her only album to chart in the UK, and featured two minor hit singles there.

The album title itself comes from the first line of the song "Disinformation":

"Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" was covered by Indigo Girls for their album 1200 Curfews (1995).

Track listing

All songs composed by Buffy Sainte-Marie unless otherwise indicated.

  1. "The Big Ones Get Away" - 3:49
  2. "Fallen Angels" - 3:08
  3. "Bad End" - 4:24
  4. "Emma Lee" - 4:02
  5. "Starwalker" - 3:05
  6. "The Priests of the Golden Bull" - 3:51
  7. "Disinformation" - 3:48
  8. "Getting Started" - 4:31
  9. "I'm Going Home" - 3:24
  10. "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" - 5:16
  11. "Goodnight" (Cliff Eberhardt) - 3:50

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Rolling Stone review
  3. ^ Strong, Martin C.; The Great Rock Discography (first edition); pp. 716-717; ISBN 88-09-21522-2
  4. ^ McGovern, Adam, Kidjo, Angelique and Byrne, David; MusicHound World: The Essential Album Guide (Musichound Essential Album Guides); ISBN 0-8256-7259-7

Charts

Year Chart Peak position
1992 UK Albums Chart 39
Single
Year Single Chart Position
1992 "The Big Ones Get Away" UK Singles Chart 39
1992 "Fallen Angels" UK Singles Chart 57
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Studio albums
It's My Way! (1964)  • Many a Mile (1965) • Little Wheel Spin and Spin (1966) • Fire & Fleet & Candlelight (1967) • I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again (1968) • Illuminations (1969) • She Used to Wanna Be a Ballerina (1971) • Moonshot (1972) • Quiet Places (1973) • Buffy (1974) • Changing Woman (1975) • Sweet America (1976) • Coincidence and Likely Stories (1992) • Running for the Drum (2009)
Compilations
The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie (1970) • The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie Vol. 2 (1971) • Native North American Child: An Odyssey (1974) • The Best of the Vanguard Years (2003)
Songs
"Universal Soldier" • "Now That the Buffalo's Gone"  • "Until It's Time for You to Go" • "Cod'ine" • "My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying" • "Mister Can't You See" • "Up Where We Belong"
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