Running for the Drum
Studio album by
Buffy Sainte-Marie
ReleasedSeptember 2008
Recorded2008
GenreFolk, rock
Length43:31
LabelAppleseed
ProducerChris Birkett, Buffy Sainte-Marie
Buffy Sainte-Marie chronology
Up Where We Belong
(1996) 		Running for the Drum
(2008) 		The Pathfinder: Buried Treasures – The Mid-70's Recordings
(2010)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
The Phoenix[2]
musicOMH[3]
Slant[4]

Running for the Drum is the fourteenth studio album by Buffy Sainte-Marie, released in 2008. One of Sainte-Marie's more successful albums, it spawned one single with "No No Keshagesh". Sainte-Marie also rewrote two verses of "America The Beautiful".

History

The album's title comes from a lyric in the song "Cho Cho Fire". Running for the Drum features the DVD documentary on Buffy Sainte-Marie, A Multimedia Life, which features exclusive interviews with artists such as Joni Mitchell and Taj Mahal and performances by Sainte-Marie.

Sessions for this album began in 2006 until 2007, mostly recorded in Sainte-Marie's home recording studio in Hawaii and part in France. The album opens with two aboriginal influenced songs, "No No Keshagesh" (the album's only single and made as if to sound at a rally) and "Cho Cho Fire". Apart from a reworking on the track "Little Wheel Spin and Spin", all of the tracks here are newly written and unique to this album. Running for the Drum won the prestigious Juno Award for Aboriginal Album of the Year. It features her friend, Taj Mahal on acoustic piano.

Track listing

All tracks written by Buffy Sainte-Marie except where noted.

  1. "No No Keshagesh" – 4:44
  2. "Cho Cho Fire" – 3:05
  3. "Working For The Government" – 3:33
  4. "Little Wheel Spin and Spin" – 3:05
  5. "Too Much Is Never Enough" – 3:58
  6. "To The Ends of the World" – 3:45
  7. "When I Had You" – 4:12
  8. "I Bet My Heart On You" – 3:26
  9. "Blue Sunday" – 2:55
  10. "Easy Like The Snow Falls Down" – 3:52
  11. "America the Beautiful" – 3:01 (Katharine Lee Bates, Samuel A. Ward, Sainte-Marie)
  12. "Still This Love Goes On" – 3:55

Personnel

Production

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ "The Phoenix review". Archived from the original on 2012-10-14. Retrieved 2009-08-30.
  3. ^ "MusicOMH review". Archived from the original on 2011-06-04. Retrieved 2009-08-30.
  4. ^ "Slant Magazine review". Archived from the original on 2009-08-15. Retrieved 2009-08-30.
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