Buffy Sainte-Marie - Medicine Songs

For National Album Day, celebrating women in music! Buffy Sainte Marie's Medicine Songs has been re-issued red coloured vinyl.

One of the most original and important voices of our time.Equal parts activist, educator, songwriter, performer and visual artist, Buffy Sainte�Marie is a champion for indigenous people and the environment through her music, art, education projects and by taking direct political action. One of the most enduring and popular Native American performers, her music has touched millions of people around the world. From her start in New York City's Greenwich Village in the early 1960s alongside Leonard Cohen, NeilYoung and Joni Mitchell, Buffy made a name for herself as a gifted songwriter, writing hits for Janis Joplin, Elvis Presley, Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond. Her most well�known song is the Academy Award�winning Up Where We Belong from the film An Officer And A Gentlemen, but her most acclaimed song is Universal Soldier, one of the first anti�Viet Nam war anthems to inspire a generation of activists.