IT'S MY WAY! was the 1964 debut recording by Cree singer-songwriter BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE and contains three of her greatest songs -Now That The Buffalo's Gone, Cod'ine (covered by 60s groups The Charlatans and Quicksilver Messenger Service) and The Universal Soldier (made a hit by Donovan). Backed only by her own guitar (Patrick Sky lends a second guitar on He Lived Alone In Town and jazzman Art Davis the bass on Now That The Buffalo's Gone), this is Buffy's least instrumentally cluttered album and her vibrato-laden vocals are focused as nowhere else in her subsequent catalogue. A fine record of her early folk club and festival sound, it is also one of the most powerful topical albums from the early 60s folk protest movement, tackling fearlessly the mistreatment of Native Americans, incest, drugs, disintegrating relationships, alcoholism, adultery and the personal and collective responsibilities of war. Track listing:01 NOW THAT THE BUFFALO'S GONE 02 THE OLD MAN'S LAMENT 03 ANANIAS 04 MAYOO STO HOON 05 COD'INE 06 CRIPPLE CREEK 07 THE UNIVERSAL SOLDIER 08 BABE IN ARMS 09 HE LIVED ALONE IN TOWN 10 YOU'RE GONNA NEED SOMEBODY ON YOUR BOND 11 THE INCEST SONG 12 EYES OF AMBER 13 IT'S MY WAY
