Fire & Fleet & Candlelight was the fourth album by Cree

Cree

The Cree are one of the largest groups of First Nations / Native Americans in North America, with 200,000 members living in Canada. In Canada, the major proportion of Cree live north and west of Lake Superior, in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and the Northwest Territories, although...

 singer and songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Buffy Sainte-Marie, OC is a Canadian Cree singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, educator, pacifist, and social activist. Throughout her career in all of these areas, her work has focused on issues of Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Her singing and writing repertoire includes...

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More than its predecessor Little Wheel Spin and Spin

Little Wheel Spin and Spin

Little Wheel Spin and Spin was the third album by Buffy Sainte-Marie, released in 1966. Although it became her only album to reach the Billboard Top 100, it failed to provide any notable standards covered by pop artists...

, it marked a significant departure from the simple folk songs of her first two albums. Following the same path that Joan Baez

Joan Baez

Joan Chandos Baez is an American folk singer, songwriter, musician and a prominent activist in the fields of human rights, peace and environmental justice....

 on Joan)

Joan (album)

Joan was a 1967 album by Joan Baez. Having exhausted the standard voice/guitar folksong format by 1967, Baez collaborated with composer Peter Schickele , on an album of orchestrated covers of mostly then-current pop and rock and roll songs...

and Judy Collins

Judy Collins

Judith Marjorie "Judy" Collins is an American singer and songwriter, known for her eclectic tastes in the material she records ; and for her social activism. She is an alumna of the University of Colorado.-Musical career:Collins was born and raised in Seattle, Washington...

 were taking at the time, Sainte-Marie relies on the orchestration of Peter Schickele

Peter Schickele

Johann Peter Schickele is an American composer, musical educator, and parodist. He is best known for his comedy music albums featuring his music that he presents as music written by the fictional composer P. D. Q...

 on "Summer Boy", "The Carousel" and "Hey Little Bird". In contrast, "The Circle Game" and "97 Men in This Town Would Give a Half a Grand in Silver Just to Follow Me Down" feature for the first time a full rock band consisting of Bruce Langhorne

Bruce Langhorne

Bruce Langhorne is an American folk musician. He was active in the Greenwich Village folk scene in the 1960s, primarily as a session guitarist for folk albums and performances...

 on electric guitar, Alexis Rogers on drums and Russ Savakus

Russ Savakus

Russ Savakus is an American session bass player , violinist and singer. Savakus has recorded with numerous artists in and around the 1960s folk and folk-rock movement in New York...

 on bass. "Song to a Seagull", the other Joni Mitchell song, is a much simpler voice-and-guitar rendition.

Her version of the traditional hymn

Hymn

A hymn is a type of song, usually religious, specifically written for the purpose of praise, adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a deity or deities, or to a prominent figure or personification...

 "Lyke Wake Dirge" predates the version by Pentangle

Pentangle (band)

Pentangle are a British folk rock band with some folk jazz influences. The original band were active in the late 1960s and early 1970s and a later version has been active since the early 1980s...

 by over two years and the album's title is taken from one of the lines in that song's chorus. "T'Es Pas un Autre" is a French language

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 reworking of her well-known composition "Until It's Time for You to Go

Until It's Time for You to Go

"Until It's Time for You to Go" is a song from the 1965 album Many a Mile by Canadian First Nations singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie. It was never released by her as a single, but was a UK Top 20 hit for British group The Four Pennies in 1965, and for Elvis Presley in 1972, and a US Hot 100...

" that she originally recorded on her second album Many a Mile

Many a Mile

Many a Mile is Buffy Sainte-Marie's second album, released in 1965.Though originally released on Vanguard Records, it was never reissued on CD when the rest of Sainte-Marie's catalog for that label came out in the late 1990s...

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Track listing

All tracks composed by Buffy Sainte-Marie; except where indicated

Side 1

1. "The Seeds of Brotherhood" - 1:24
2. "Summer Boy" - 2:39
3. "The Circle Game
   The Circle Game
   The Circle Game is the 1968 album from folk rock musician Tom Rush. He covers three songs from fellow singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, as well as songs by Jackson Browne and James Taylor...
   
   " (Joni Mitchell
   Joni Mitchell
   Joni Mitchell, CC is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Saskatchewan and Western Canada and then busking in the streets and dives of Toronto...
   
   ) - 2:51
4. "Lyke Wake Dirge" (Benjamin Britten
   Benjamin Britten
   Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He showed talent from an early age, and first came to public attention with the a cappella choral work A Boy Was Born in 1934. With the premiere of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945, he leapt to...
   
   /Traditional) - 3:42
5. "Song to a Seagull
   Song to a Seagull
   Song to a Seagull is Joni Mitchell's 1968 debut album. Mitchell would later note that the album is more a result of her love of classical music than of folk, and this is evident through the thick, rich, and often unusual harmonies, and the densely poetic lyrics of the album...
   
   " (Joni Mitchell) - 3:15
6. "Doggett's Gap" (Bascom Lamar Lunsford
   Bascom Lamar Lunsford
   Bascom Lamar Lunsford was a lawyer, folklorist, and performer of traditional music from western North Carolina. He was often known by the nickname "Minstrel of the Appalachians."- Early life :...
   
   ) - 1:36
7. "The Wedding Song" - 2:12

Side 2

1. "97 Men in This Town Would Give a Half a Grand in Silver Just to Follow Me Down" - 3:02
2. "Lord Randall
   Lord Randall
   "Lord Randall", or "Lord Randal", is an Anglo-Scottish border ballad, a traditional ballad consisting of dialogue. The different versions follow the same general lines: the primary character is poisoned, usually by his sweetheart; this is revealed through a conversation where he reports on the...
   
   " (Traditional) - 3:27
3. "The Carousel" - 2:30
4. "T'Es Pas un Autre
   Until It's Time for You to Go
   "Until It's Time for You to Go" is a song from the 1965 album Many a Mile by Canadian First Nations singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie. It was never released by her as a single, but was a UK Top 20 hit for British group The Four Pennies in 1965, and for Elvis Presley in 1972, and a US Hot 100...
   
   " - 2:53
5. "Little Boy Dark Eyes" - 1:35
6. "Reynardine
   Reynardine
   Reynardine is a traditional old English ballad; in versions most commonly sung and recorded today, Reynardine is a werefox who attracts beautiful women to him so that he can take them away to his castle...
   
   " [A Vampire Legend] (Traditional) - 2:55
7. "Hey Little Bird" - 2:10

Charts

Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Peak position
1967	Pop Albums	126