Sainte-Marie, Buffy - Running for the drum

On her first album in 13 years, folk icon and Native American activist Buffy Sainte-Marie comes out swinging. She takes on corporate greed over the furious tribal beat of No No Keshagesh and makes effective use of audio samples of pow-wows on both the blistering Working for the Government and the dance-floor-ready Cho Cho Fire. With those three cuts followed by a gorgeous, lilting reworking of her own Little Wheel Spin and Spin, Running for the Drum boasts a simply phenomenal opening sequence. Those songs speak to the depth of Sainte-Marie's focused folk-singer outrage and her still-razor-sharp ear for a memorable pop hook.



The lead track Keshagesh means Greedy Guts. It's what you call a little puppy who eats his own and then wants everybody else's.






Tracks:
1. No No Keshagesh
2. Cho Cho Fire
3. Workin' For the Government
4. Little Wheel Spin and Spin
5. Too Much Is Never Enough
6. To the Ends of the World
7. When I Had You
8. I Bet My Heart on You
9. Blue Sunday
10. Easy Like The Snow Falls Down
11. America the Beautiful
12. Still This Love Goes On