I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again was the fifth album by Cree

Cree

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 singer/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...

. As its title suggested, it saw her, again following Joan Baez

Joan Baez

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, embrace Nashville

Nashville, Tennessee

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 country music

Country music

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 with the help of session veterans such as the Jordanaires

The Jordanaires

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, Grady Martin

Grady Martin

Thomas Grady Martin was one of the most renowned, inventive and historically significant American session musicians in country music and rockabilly....

, Roy M. Huskey, Jr.

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 and Floyd Cramer

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. The album included re-recordings of "Now That the Buffalo's Gone" and "The Piney Wood Hills" from her first and second

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...

 albums respectively. "Tall Trees in Georgia", in contrast to most of the material, showed Sainte-Marie performing in a style reminiscent of her earliest work.

I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again was not as well received critically or even commercially as her previous four albums, and relatively few of the songs unique to it have notable cover versions (Neko Case

Neko Case

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's cover of "Soulful Shade of Blue" may be considered an exception). The title tune, however, was to become a minor UK hit

UK Singles Chart

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 after she reached the Top Ten there with the title tune to the movie Soldier Blue

Soldier Blue

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(from her album She Used to Wanna Be a Ballerina

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She Used to Wanna Be a Ballerina was the seventh album by Buffy Sainte-Marie, released in 1971.Her previous album Illuminations having sold so poorly as to lose Vanguard a considerable sum of money, the label placed considerable pressure on Sainte-Marie to come up with something that would sell in...

).

Track listing

All songs composed by Buffy Sainte-Marie unless otherwise indicated.

1. "I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again – 2:59
2. "He's a Pretty Good Man If You Ask Me – 2:29
3. "Uncle Joe" (Traditional) – 2:10
4. "A Soulful Shade of Blue" – 2:18
5. "From the Bottom of My Heart" (I Love You) – 2:34
6. "Sometimes When I Get to Thinkin'" – 3:01
7. "The Piney Wood Hills" – 3:08
8. "Now That the Buffalo's Gone" – 2:56
9. "They Gotta Quit Kickin' My Dawg" (Traditional) – 1:39
10. "Tall Trees in Georgia" – 3:33
11. "The Love of a Good Man" – 2:54
12. "Take My Hand for a While" – 2:34
13. "Gonna Feel Much Better – 1:46

Charts

Album

Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Peak position
1968	Pop Albums	171

Single

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1971	"I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again"	Billboard Pop Singles	98
1971	"I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again"	UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...	34