BUFFY The Songs of Buffy Sainte-Marie
(release date TBD)

Canada’s eclectic choir boy Reid Jamieson is committed to amplifying women’s voices, and along with his musical partner/producer/wife Carolyn Victoria Mill (CVM) he has been working for over a year now on what appears to be the very first full tribute album to Buffy Sainte-Marie. Longtime fans, and those who admire the icon and activist but are not as familiar with her diverse musical catalog, will find this contemporary snapshot of her incredible body of work something deliciously new to explore. Naturally, Reid cannot sing her many potent indigenous protest songs. He can, however, sing her praises as a singer songwriter. Independent artists working full time while doing everything themselves, makes this very much a labour of love in a dark time. Every artist needs a purpose, and they have found that, and more here. In a world where our heroes regularly let us down, Buffy remains an inspiration, with no signs of stopping.

BUFFY SINGLES

Various Buffy songs released as singles or videos. Full album coming Feb 2024.
Performed, recorded and mixed by Reid Jamieson. Produced by Carolyn Victoria Mill.
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2nd single – FALLEN ANGELS

1st single SUMMER BOY

FALLEN ANGELS (Feb 2023)

Single released Feb 2023

Celebrating Buffy’s 82nd bday on Feb 20 with this upbeat single from her 1992 comeback album Coincidence and Likely Stories. FALLEN ANGELS was a radio hit that spookily sums up where things stand in the world then and today, taking on corruption with her trademark blend of biting assessments and bottomless compassion…this time around with a delightfully danceable beat!

FALLEN ANGELS – Lyrics

Fallen Angels, Fallen Angels
I know a man in the business line, He power hungry, he’s a money mine
Smooth as satin he’s a big time shark -Fallen Angel

I know a brother, oooh he’s mean as sin, He’s got a brother who’s just like him
Livin’ over in Moscow, 2 of a kind.
How come the great power got the junkie mind

Fallen Angels, They never get enough
Fallen Angels oo oo, They got the addictions
Fallen Angels, They litter the skies
Fallen Angels, Don’t you wanna turn ’em around, Turn ’em around?

I know a man in the USA, He runnin’ guns with the CIA
He’s the best that being bad can be, Who’d think he do it all for me?
What’s it matter if you’re green or red, The Yankee dollar or the commie threat
When the real power in the real world, Gonna deny it all anyway

Fallen Angels. They never get enough
Fallen Angels oo oo, They got the addictions
Fallen Angels, They litter the skies
Fallen Angels, Don’t you wanna turn ’em around, Turn ’em around

You believe in the system from the top on down, Potential is a beautiful thing
It’s hard to keep believing in the big time, Now you’re sinking in the wind
Star light, star bright, Somebody going down tonight
Stayed true when it was time to lie, ya got it right

Fallen Angels. Never get enough
Fallen Angels hoo hoo, They got the addictions
Fallen Angels, They litter the skies
Fallen Angels, Don’t you wanna turn ’em around, Turn ’em around

SUMMER BOY (Sep 2022)

Single released Sept 2022

SUMMER BOY written by Buffy Sainte-Marie (from her 1967 release Fire & Fleet & Candlelight), is the first single from Reid Jamieson’s upcoming tribute to Buffy Sainte-Marie. Originally a love song when Buffy sang it, here we find Reid looking back at his younger self with all the longing of summers end. Huge vocals with dark instrumentation fit for a Bond theme, and a fine example of BSM’s incredible catalog.

Naturally, Reid cannot sing her many potent indigenous protest songs. He can, however, sing her praises as a singer songwriter. Many are familiar with the activist and icon, but if you are anything like us, you may not be as familiar with the diverse body of music this living legend has released over the last half century. Such creativity with song structures and adventurous melodies, Reid says he has never felt so inspired to create and be intentional with his art. Lending his voice to amplify hers in hopes of reaching new audiences on both sides, this may very well be the first tribute album of its kind.

A new documentary about BSM ‘Carry It On‘ based on Andrea Warner’s fantastic authorized biography (we read it twice!) just premiered at TIFF, don’t miss it this fall!

Be sure to join the mailing list to find out when the full album comes out!

CREDITS: All vocals and instruments by Reid Jamieson. Recorded at home by Reid. Produced by Carolyn Victoria Mill. Mastered by Michael Holland.

SUMMER BOY – LYRICS

Face of joy, covering all your fears
Summer boy, give me your tears
Hands of gold, playing a prayer
Heart and soul, praying a song

Clowns can smile, and gardeners grow their flowers
Summer boy, give me your hours
Give me your glance, like the wing of a dove
Summer boy, give me your love

Suns can set, and willows can weep their tears
Summer boy, give me your years
Give me your hand, before autumn starts
Summer boy, give me your heart

LOVE CHARMS (Mar 2023)

Love Charms (from her 2015 album Power in the Blood)

CVM’s bday on March 14 with another sneak peek from the Buffy record. LOVE CHARMS is a tune that caught CVM’s ear and heart from Buffy Sainte-Marie’s spectacular 2015 album Power In The Blood …so much so that birthday girl be singing it! Pairs well with getting on a plane – something that terrifies us still. As always, just glad we are doing it together. All CVM wants for her bday is for y’all to share the tunes and/or come to a show k? (only available streaming on youtube/our site for now)

CREDITS: Written by Buffy Sainte-Marie /Featuring CVM on vocals / performed, mixed and recorded by Reid Jamieson / produced by Carolyn Victoria Mill.

TAKE MY HAND FOR A WHILE (Feb 2024)

Take My Hand For A While (from her 1968 release I’m Gonna Be a Country Girl Again)
As many of you know, we have been working (over the last couple of YEARS) on the first ever tribute album to Buffy Sainte-Marie. We planned to release it this month for her birthday on Feb 20th 2024. If you had asked us a year ago if folks would so quickly cancel Buffy based on an expose that depended in large part on the words of her alleged abuser’s family…and colonial blood quantum…and that she would not be given the benefit of the doubt for her decades of humanitarian service…well…we just wouldn’t have believed it. There is more to this story than meets the eye, hoping time will tell. We will postpone our release until a less intense moment. In the meantime, we stand with this unique and talented human being, and will share a wee taste of the record with one of the more delicate ditties in her vast catalog – ‘Take My Hand For A While‘. It seems to fit this moment. Happy birthday Buffy, we love you.

CREDITS: Written by Buffy Sainte-Marie /Featuring Reid Jamieson on vocals / performed, mixed and recorded by Reid Jamieson / produced by Carolyn Victoria Mill.

Take my hand for a while
Explain it to me once again
Just for the sake of my broken heart

Look into my eyes
and maybe I will understand
How love I counted on
was never there

You see, I thought
that you might love me

So you caught me it seems
off balance with a heart that’s full
of love and pretty dreams
that two should share

And so I know
but please before you go

Take my hand for a while
Explain it to me once again
Just for the sake of my broken heart

TAKE MY HAND FOR A WHILE

MORE BUFFY…

HEY LITTLE ROCKABYE

HEY LITTLE ROCKABYE A wee lullaby for rescue animals written by Buffy Sainte-Marie. Performed by Reid Jamieson, produced by CVM and starring Porkchop (aka Red Dog from HI). Adopt don’t shop! from the new album Trouble Sleeping ~ lullabies for all ages.

Hey Hey little rockabye Hey Hey little darling
Hey Hey little rockabye You got somebody loves you
Were you born on a cold winter day? Are you a poor little orphan?
Did somebody throw you away? Well now you got somebody loves you

Hey Hey little rockabye, Hey Hey little darling
Hey Hey little rockabye, You got somebody loves you
You didn’t get no choice and you didn’t get no vote
when they dropped you off at the shelter, all you had was your little fur coat
and now you got somebody loves you, now you got somebody loves you
Hey Hey little rockabye, Hey Hey little darling
Hey Hey little rockabye, You got somebody loves you
Now you got somebody loves you, Now you got somebody loves you

UNTIL IT’S TIME FOR YOU TO GO

Written by Buffy Sainte Marie, from the 1965 album Many a Mile. Performed live by Reid Jamieson & Carolyn Victoria Mill from their LOVESTREAM livestream Feb 14, 2021. Happy 80th to the most inspiring artist we know. Long may you run! https://www.reidjamieson.com/lovestream

GOODNIGHT (Cliff Eberhardt)

We came upon this song while researching tunes for our Buffy Sainte-Marie tribute. It was the only song we chose that she didn’t write herself, so we put it on our lullabye collection Trouble Sleeping instead. Not technichally a Buffy tune, she introduced us to this beautiful lullaby when she covered it on her 1992 comeback record Coincidences and Likely Stories. Written by Cliff Eberhardt (from his 1990 album The Long Road). She states on her website that is is her favourite song (Cliff himself said she made it so completely her own, the first time someone ever covered him ). Seldom have we been so charmed by a cover tune…take this one to bed soon.