Sweet America
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| Sweet America | ||||
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| Released | February 1976 | |||
| Recorded | 1975 | |||
| Genre | Folk | |||
| Length | 33:06 | |||
| Label | ABC | |||
| Producer | Buffy Sainte-Marie, Henry Lewy | |||
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Sweet America was the twelfth studio album by Buffy Sainte-Marie and her last before retiring from music to work on Sesame Street and in education. The album was dedicated to the American Indian Movement[2] and featured some songs with tribal rhythms and vocals that she was later to develop on her 1992 comeback Coincidence and Likely Stories.
After parting with MCA Records, Sainte-Marie signed with ABC Records, then home of such artists as Steely Dan, the early Pointer Sisters, Isaac Hayes and the James Gang. Although Sweet America received a little more attention from the press than her two MCA albums Buffy and Changing Woman, most reviews were not favorable.[3] When MCA acquired ABC Records in 1979, Sweet America went out of print along with her two MCA albums, and remaining copies were not thereafter circulated. Claims[4] that her retirement was motivated by the collapse of ABC Records are unlikely because she had not been recording for over three years when the label collapsed.
