It's My Way!

It's My Way!

Studio album by

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Released

April 1964^[1]^[2]

Genre

Folk

Length

40:35

Buffy Sainte-Marie chronology

It's My Way!
(1964)

Many a Mile
(1965)

It's My Way! is the first album by folk musician and songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie. It was released in April 1964 through Vanguard Records.^[1]^[2] It was later released in Britain in early 1965 by Fontana Records.^[3]^[4] The album would become influential in the folk community. It is most famous for two widely covered folk standards, "Universal Soldier" and "Cod'ine", as well as "Now That the Buffalo's Gone", a lament about the continued confiscation of Indian lands, as evidenced by the building of the Kinzua Dam. The cover features a mouthbow, which was to be a trademark of her sound on her first three albums.

In 2016, It's My Way! was inducted by the Library of Congress into the National Recording Registry.^[5] In 2020 the album was named as one of two jury vote winners, alongside Main Source's Breaking Atoms, of the Polaris Heritage Prize at the 2020 Polaris Music Prize.^[6]

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Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[7]

Writing for Allmusic, music critic William Ruhlman gave the album 5 of 5 stars and wrote "This is one of the most scathing topical folk albums ever made ... Even decades later, the album's power is moving and disturbing."^[7]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Buffy Sainte-Marie, except where noted

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Now That the Buffalo's Gone"		2:45
2.	"The Old Man's Lament"		3:55
3.	"Ananias"	Adapted by Buffy Sainte-Marie	2:35
4.	"Mayoo Sto Hoon"		1:19
5.	"Cod'ine"		5:01
6.	"Cripple Creek"	Folk song	1:45
7.	"The Universal Soldier"		2:15

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
8.	"Babe in Arms"		2:30
9.	"He Lived Alone in Town"		4:35
10.	"You're Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond"	Traditional	2:45
11.	"The Incest Song"		4:11
12.	"Eyes of Amber"		2:16
13.	"It's My Way"		3:29

Personnel

Buffy Sainte-Marie – vocals, guitar, arrangements
Patrick Sky – second guitar on "He Lived Alone in Town"
Art Davis – bass on "Now That the Buffalo's Gone"

References

^ ^a ^b Zhito, Lee, ed. (April 11, 1964). "New Album Releases". Billboard. Cincinnati: The Billboard Publishing Co. p. 80. Retrieved October 5, 2019.
^ ^a ^b Ostrow, Marty; Howard, Ira, eds. (April 4, 1964). "It's My Way" (PDF). Cash Box. New York: The Cash Box Publishing Co. p. 22. Archived (PDF) from the original on June 29, 2022.
^ Fontana Records (April 1965). "Fontana New Releases (advertisement)". Sing. London: The London Youth Choir.
^ Editorial Staff, Gramophone (May 1965). "It's My Way!". The Gramophone. Compton Mackenzie.
^ "National Recording Registry Recognizes "Mack the Knife," Motown and Mahler". Library of Congress.
^ "2020 Slaight Family Polaris Heritage Prize Winners Named". FYI Music News, November 16, 2020.
^ ^a ^b Allmusic review

v t e Buffy Sainte-Marie
Studio albums	It's My Way! (1964) Many a Mile (1965) Little Wheel Spin and Spin (1966) Fire & Fleet & Candlelight (1967) I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again (1968) Illuminations (1969) She Used to Wanna Be a Ballerina (1971) Moonshot (1972) Quiet Places (1973) Buffy (1974) Changing Woman (1975) Sweet America (1976) Coincidence and Likely Stories (1992) Running for the Drum (2009) Power in the Blood (2015) Medicine Songs (2017)
Compilations	The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie (1970) The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie Vol. 2 (1971) Native North American Child: An Odyssey (1974) The Pathfinder: Buried Treasures – The Mid-70's Recordings (2010)
Songs	"Universal Soldier" "Now That the Buffalo's Gone" "Until It's Time for You to Go" "Cod'ine" "The Circle Game" "Mister Can't You See" "Up Where We Belong"
Related	Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On Buffy Sainte-Marie: Starwalker Soldier Blue Sesame Street Jack Nitzsche Vanguard Records First Nations music

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