Critical Essay by Irving Kolodin
For all that [Sainte-Marie] is college educated and the possessor of a degree in Oriental philosophy, her performances are rooted in a deep assimilation of folkways wh...
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Critical Essay by Milton Okun
[Buffy Sainte-Marie's] first public appearances were made while she was a college senior and it did not take long before a near cult was forming around her. Everyt...
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Critical Essay by Gary Von Tersch
The folk days are gone and Buffy in a way is a ghost from its halycon—but as poetess Denise Levertov has matured with her contact with the Amerika she is livin...
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Critical Essay by Janet Maslin
The two most unusual and ambitious cuts [on Moonshot are] "Moonshot" and "You Know How To Turn On Those Lights."… With an air of malev...
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Critical Essay by Stephen Holden
Though [Buffy Sainte-Marie's] own material [on Quiet Places] is, as usual, tightly crafted and melodic with well-turned lyric phrases, there is no single song a...
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Critical Essay by Noel Coppage
Buffy Sainte-Marie is singing well and writing nice melodies, and I think her idea [in Changing Woman] was to simplify, simplify. But her lyrics are starting to remind m...
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Critical Essay by Jacques Vassal
[The] opening track of Buffy's first record, "Now That the Buffalo's Gone," is at the same time revealing and symbolic. She sings to the av...
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Critical Essay by Aida Pavletich
In any group of Buffy songs there are decorous waltzes, lyrical efflorescences weighted with imagery which does not exclude an occasional glimpse of a steel mind. Her ...
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