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 (UK)
EMI (North America)
Producer Chris Birkett
Buffy Sainte-Marie chronology
Sweet America
(1976)Sweet America1976		 Coincidence and Likely Stories
(1992)		 Running for the Drum
(2009)Running for the Drum2009
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Rolling Stone[2]

Coincidence and Likely Stories was the thirteenth studio album by Buffy Sainte-Marie but her first in 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

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

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


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