Little Wheel Spin and Spin

Little Wheel Spin and Spin
Studio album by Buffy Sainte-Marie
Released	1966
Recorded	1966
Genre	Folk
Length	40:11
Label	Vanguard
Producer	Maynard Solomon
Buffy Sainte-Marie chronology
Many a Mile (1965)Many a Mile1965 Little Wheel Spin and Spin (1966) Fire & Fleet & Candlelight (1967)Fire & Fleet & Candlelight1967

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Little Wheel Spin and Spin is the third album by Buffy Sainte-Marie, released in 1966. It was her only album to reach the Billboard Top 100. Its most famous song is the epic "My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying", which displayed a native 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 electric guitar by Bruce Langhorne and string arrangements by Felix Pappalardi, or feature fellow Native American performer Patrick Sky 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.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Buffy Sainte-Marie; except where indicated

1. "Little Wheel Spin and Spin" - 2:29
2. "House Carpenter" (Traditional) - 3:46
3. "Waly Waly" (Traditional) - 3:50
4. "Rolling Log Blues" (chorus by Lottie Kimbrough) - 3:32
5. "My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying" - 6:48
6. "Men of the Fields" - 2:02
7. "Timeless Love" - 2:46
8. "Sir Patrick Spens" (Traditional) - 5:14
9. "Poor Man's Daughter" - 2:57
10. "Lady Margaret" (Traditional) - 1:43
11. "Sometimes When I Get to Thinking" - 3:37
12. "Winter Boy" - 2:11

Charts

Billboard (North America)

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