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Buffy Sainte-Marie: Running for the Drum (Cooking Vinyl)

Andy Gill, The Independent, 3 July 2009

BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE'S first album in 17 years finds her spirit as undiluted as her charm, still making persuasive, engaging arguments for Native American attitudes, and using the establishment's devices against itself – as in a version of 'America the Beautiful' that features the rarely performed line, "Till selfish gain no longer stain the banner of the free."

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