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Sweet America was the twelfth studio album by Buffy Sainte-Marie and her last before retiring from music to work on Sesame Street and in education. The album was dedicated to the American Indian Movement and featured some songs with tribal rhythms and vocals that she was later to develop on her 1992 comeback Coincidence and Likely Stories.
After parting with MCA Records, Sainte-Marie signed with ABC Records, then home of such artists as Steely Dan, the early Pointer Sisters, Isaac Hayes and the James Gang. Although Sweet America received a little more attention from the press than her two MCA albums Buffy and Changing Woman, most reviews were not favorable. When MCA acquired ABC Records in 1979, Sweet America went out of print along with her two MCA albums, and remaining copies were not thereafter circulated. Claims that her retirement was motivated by the collapse of ABC Records are unlikely because she had not been recording for over three years when the label collapsed.
Track listing
All songs written by Buffy Sainte-Marie except where noted.
"Sweet America" and the album's first single "Free The Lady" were both recorded originally on writer Barry Greenfield's 1973 RCA album titled Blue Sky.
"Look at the Facts" was re-recorded (with some lyric changes) and retitled as "Carry It On," on her 2015 album Power in the Blood.
"Qu'appelle Valley, Saskatchewan" was later covered by British New Wave band Red Box, who released it in 1984 as their second single. It later appeared on their 1985 album The Circle & the Square.
See Marsh, Dave with Swenson, John (editors); The Rolling Stone Record Guide : Reviews and Ratings of Almost 10,000 Currently Available Rock, Pop, Soul, Country, Blues, Jazz, and Gospel Albums; ISBN0394410963
